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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I listened to Hannity after the 2012 election and he said he had evolved on immigration and the election showed we had to evolve. I’ve never listened to him since.
It even has a Facebook page! LOL
I was driving to Millington yesterday for the rally, so missed that. Thanks so much!
btt
things that make one wonder....
Mark Levin received an unprecedented nine year contract with Westwood One, announced Feb. 11, 2016.
Who gets a nine year contract in media nowdays? A lifetime extension.
Yes.
I don’t do Facebook.
And yes, there are some things and some people he just doesn’t talk about or to.
If you don’t like him for that, it’s fine and legit.
....been while since I’ve been in Killington. Always made sure I stopped at the station for a cup off coffee
I agree with you about FNC , but why all the vitriol for conservative talk radio ?
Looks like the only news resource we can trust at this point in the campaign is freerepublic.com/ and what we can find out ourselves.
Ignorance was never bliss; we just thought it was.
"FreeRepublic is the last place on earth/internet"
If Trump does not survive this, I very much hope he starts a real conservative network.
Be damned, Teddy Kennedy:
Thhat was just his Inner Lawyer coming out. I don't feel the least bit sorry for him. He is a sellout to his donors. He had the right idea at the beginning to hitch his wagon to the front-runner for this election, become better known in a visible post from 2017-2021, and run again for president in 2020 or 2024, when he would still be a young man. But no; he took a lot of money and they wanted to force him to take this route of trashing his competition, while sneering at Trump for doing so; he ended up dancing to their tune.
Stupid git.
Looks like the only news resource we can trust at this point in the campaign is freerepublic.com/ and what we can find out ourselves.
Amen.
FReeper’s usually know things first, anyway ;-)
T or F ?
bump
**NY Times Bombshell Scoop: Fox News Colluded with Rubio to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens**
Figures.....does this wipe Rubio off the election map?
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