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NY Times Bombshell Scoop: Fox News Colluded with Rubio to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens
Breitbart News ^ | Feb 27 2016 | Breitbart News

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; fox; foxnews; illegalaliens; illegals; jedijonestrolling; limbaugh; rubio; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; trump; trumpwasright
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To: MichelleWSC3

From the NYTIMES Article:

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“As early as March 9, 2011, Mr. Schumer joined Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and another eventual member of the Gang of Eight, at the Palm restaurant in Manhattan, where they made their case to Mr. Murdoch, Mr. Ailes and Mr. Limbaugh in a private room. The senators argued how damaging the word ‘amnesty’ was to their efforts, and walked Mr. Limbaugh through their vision for an immigration overhaul.”

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No wonder Rush was whitewashing Rubio being a member of the “Gang of Eight” and calling him a “full-throated conservative.”

I just cannot believe it! Thanks Rush...FOR NOTHING!!


61 posted on 02/27/2016 11:36:09 PM PST by Artcore
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To: PA Engineer
It sure does!

The utterly disgusting incestuous nature nature of all of this STINKS ON ICE! It's now way past time to stop watching FNC and listening to Rush, for those who have stopped yet.

62 posted on 02/27/2016 11:42:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: abigkahuna

wow.


63 posted on 02/27/2016 11:43:34 PM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Yaelle

SPOT ON!


64 posted on 02/27/2016 11:43:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: MichelleWSC3

I recall after Rubio got elected to the senate, the big three radio hosts, Rush, Levin and Hannity all kept referring to Rubio as their friend.

I thought that was odd, why would these three people be friends with some guy from the Florida government.

And what do they mean by friends? Do their families get together on holidays, do their kids spend the night at each others houses, in Rush’s case his cats, do they go fishing on the weekends or maybe camping or motorcycle riding or other things friends do together?

Don’t think so.

So it definitely seemed to me that all three of them seemed to be trying to warm their audiences to the Rube for some reason.

Guess this was it ;/


65 posted on 02/27/2016 11:46:12 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: MichelleWSC3

66 posted on 02/27/2016 11:46:31 PM PST by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: hoosiermama; Amntn; PJBankard; nikos1121

I just started typing names from memory!
NO List at all!
Had no idea who would be up and awake at this hour.
:)


67 posted on 02/27/2016 11:47:40 PM PST by onyx (YOU'RE POSTING HERE, HOPE YOU'RE A DONOR! FReepLoaders are RUDE)
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To: onyx

An election like no other. My head is spinning. I’ll give Rush until Monday to react to this. One nagging question I have is..this is like the 2nd or 3rd bombshell coming from the New York Times, if which I maintain a healthy skepticism of. All before Super Tuesday. Did they just grow a conscience or?..... inquiring minds really want to know.


68 posted on 02/27/2016 11:48:08 PM PST by SueRae (An election like no other..)
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To: MichelleWSC3

Just when we thought it couldn’t get worse

Et tu Laura?

I know Catholic loves Catholics and good works

Levin is too quick on the you’re a bigot button if folks disagree with him

Rush I’m not surprised

Sean same crap....

Laura surprises me

We need a new nationalist front and channel


69 posted on 02/27/2016 11:48:47 PM PST by wardaddy (its over ..... Trump won....nothing wrong with Cruz either)
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To: MichelleWSC3

Smelled out Lame-Baugh from the beginning. Fake all the way. Big-mouth attention getter.
How do I know? He’s got a terrible golfswing, non-athlete.


70 posted on 02/27/2016 11:48:56 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp)
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To: onyx

Trump needs to ride this pony hard next few days and call them all out


71 posted on 02/27/2016 11:50:04 PM PST by wardaddy (its over ..... Trump won....nothing wrong with Cruz either)
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To: Artcore

I just emailed Rush with my disgust at his lies all these years, pretending he was loyal and trustworthy. Of all people... He who used to squeal over media talking points WAS TAKING THE MEMOS HIMSELF. What a liar. I feel like he cheated on me, on all of us. I prayed for him, loved him. What did he even get out of this? Was cash exchanged, or did he just like being with the cool kids (slimy senators)?


72 posted on 02/27/2016 11:50:27 PM PST by Yaelle (We finally have a strong, courageous leader who likes US, the People!)
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To: MichelleWSC3

Bump


73 posted on 02/27/2016 11:51:46 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: SteveSCH

Trump should boycott another Fux debate. He wants to build a wall and send them back, Murdoch hates America and wants cheap labor and no borders


74 posted on 02/27/2016 11:53:44 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (A)
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To: NoLibZone

I’m sorry but I most certainly noticed

a) FOX SUPPORTED GO8

b) Rush was muted and supports Rubio

c) Sean backed off on GO8

Levin and Laura harder to remember....but I don’t trust Levin anymore


75 posted on 02/27/2016 11:53:54 PM PST by wardaddy (its over ..... Trump won....nothing wrong with Cruz either)
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To: chris37

In their defense, Rubio was the TEA Party candidate who defeated a sitting GOPe governor. Levin was the first to support this upstart. He snowed a lot of people, and has disappointed many others..

Levin is very outspoken in his outrage against this poseur. The others? Not so much.

I was listening to Rush when he called Rubio a “full throated conservative” and, frankly, I thought he was in the mid stages of dementia!


76 posted on 02/27/2016 11:55:17 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (Crazy, wacko bird hobbit, and STILL proud of it!)
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To: wardaddy

A fair and balanced assessment.


77 posted on 02/27/2016 11:55:23 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SteveSCH
Why not?

Rush is a PHONY, a FRAUD, a CONMAN who hasn't been worth listening to for a while now. And before you call me out on this, I've been listening to him since '89, but stopped listening more than a month ago, because he is a blithering idiot with NOTHING of value to say.

In the late '90s, he used to quote a lot of posters here ( me included ) without attribution!

For many years, he has been a day to a week late with "news", which I knew about already.

78 posted on 02/27/2016 11:56:38 PM PST by nopardons
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Buddy it’s far more anti Trump than Cruz

It’s a drumbeat

Yesterday Bret Baier let Rubio have a no contested ad hominum tirade against Trump

And Cruz sideways endorsed Rubio

Politicians first in the lifeboat....Ted included

And it pleases me none to acknowledge that


79 posted on 02/27/2016 11:58:16 PM PST by wardaddy (Ted Cruz endorser of Rubio is off my Christmas list......)
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To: wardaddy

Why don’t you trust Levin? He is ranting all of the time against what is going on, and supports Cruz, though he can’t endorse anybody.


80 posted on 02/27/2016 11:58:21 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (Crazy, wacko bird hobbit, and STILL proud of it!)
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