Posted on 02/27/2016 10:16:35 PM PST by MichelleWSC3
A few weeks after Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 79% joined a bipartisan push for an immigration overhaul in 2013, he arrived alongside Senator Chuck Schumer at the executive dining room of News Corporation’s Manhattan headquarters for dinner.
Their mission was to persuade Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the media empire, and Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of its Fox News division, to keep the network’s on-air personalities from savaging the legislation and give it a fighting chance at survival.
Mr. Murdoch, an advocate of immigration reform, and Mr. Ailes, his top lieutenant and the most powerful man in conservative television, agreed at the Jan. 17, 2013, meeting to give the senators some breathing room.
But the media executives, highly attuned to the intensifying anger in the Republican grass roots, warned that the senators also needed to make their case to Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, who held enormous sway with the party’s largely anti-immigrant base.
The dinner at News Corporation headquarters — which has not been previously reported — and the subsequent outreach to Mr. Limbaugh illustrate the degree to which Mr. Rubio served as the chief envoy to the conservative media for the group supporting the legislation. The bill would have provided a pathway to American citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants along with measures to secure the borders and ensure that foreigners left the United States upon the expiration of their visas.
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Sen. Marco Rubio is finished, as the borders is a BIG issue this year.
I couldn’t finish it. Saying that “clearly, Rubio isn’t establishment?” How can he tell us a shoe is a Ferrari?
At least he admitted that the establishment WILL go after him if elected... Damn straight they will, and they’ve got him to rights. I’m sure they have other photos of his foam party days, if you get my drift, or even maybe an intimate witness... They will own him on the off chance they don’t already. Like Hillary. She just wants to be President. She doesn’t care what she has to do once there because the powers that be know where all her skeletons are. Clearly she will be their puppet in a pantsuit. Rubio not much different.
Trump is arrayed against the entire GOP power structure and the mainstream media, including our own pundits that we once thought trustworthy.
They would all sell out our country for 30 pieces of silver.
To hell with them—game on.
That bears repeating. Those radio heads, been using us all along.... Tossing us the red meat of understanding our position, then using it against us to collide with our enemies!!! I hope we can dent their careers.
I didn’t know that Brit Hume quoted us. Good he gave us credit. Sorry he couldn’t resist the nasty little Me-gynecology.
That is a really sad pic.
I agree wih its sentiment tho
And even so, why would Rush bow to such pressure? We are his audience, his bread and butter. Why sell us out? Doesn’t he know sooner or later this would come out?
If he went to that one dinner at Mortons, then he went to many. If he was willing to sell our values and OUR COUNTRY out for Schumer, believe me, it wasn’t his first time. Or his last. That was such a scummy act that it had to come from his true character. The person I believed him to be would not have done it.
So now what? Millions of outraged listeners call in and accuse them of being tools of the globalist free immigration gang. They can either say the story is a lie and hope the source has no proof, or they can show they weren’t influenced by accepting the nominee....Trump.
It’s what Bugs Bunny used to call strategery.
It wasn’t Bugs, it was someone playing Bugs on SNL. ;)
If Rush comes out supporting Trump at 9:06 Tomorrow morning PST, it still wouldn’t take away the truth that he did Schumer’s bidding and hid it from us. Chuck U. Schumer? Limbaugh is a liar.
I can tell they are pushing Rubio when I talk to my mom with Alzheimer’s each day! She watches Fox News and she will be watching and saying “Rubio’s a good guy.” My mom was a brilliant historian but she doesn’t have much brain left, so she just takes her thoughts from the screen, poor thing. Sometimes I tell her to take the remote and turn to CNN. (Don’t worry, Mom won’t be voting.)
Fox News skated for years... they didn’t have to put money into foreign correspondents or major city news bureaus BECAUSE they got away with making a slight bow to the people in flyover. We watched them and their barebones offerings because FOX wasn’t giving us the finger every 20 minutes.
But Limbaugh??? That hurts to find out he’s been lying to us for decades. That one really hurts. Et tu, Rushé?
Amen.
YW!
El Rushbo too? I’m not surprised one damn bit.
Think about this.
What happened in the late 80s, 90s etc, when literally millions were entering illegally as government rolled out the red carpet for them? What was Limbaugh discussing during the time the southwest U.S. was being completely overrun by this violent lawlessness?
El Rushbo spent his time going on and on about Feminazis, football, sleepovers at the Bush White House, Lincoln bedroom, and cheer-leading Bush’s BS mideast wars.
Limbaugh is nothing but an insider fraud playing conservative.
IF Murdoch and other ‘elites’ REALLY thought diversity and illegals were good - they would fill their own neighborhods will them.
They don’t.
Murdoch’s big push is for CHEAP LABOR for his friends. Period. Well, and it allows him to express his hated for the middle class...
Thanks - no I had not been pinged but I dead read the article and FR
Guess what - I was not surprised!
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Big deal . As far as I’m aware , these “ secret “ meetings didn’t change anybody’s mind . So why does everybody have their panties in a wad ?
I did....amazing.
Nice to see again ma’am hope all is well..
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