Posted on 09/03/2016 7:16:13 AM PDT by drewh
In an extensive article within New York Magazine, mostly outlining the rather sordid details of Roger Ailes, readers may also note specific confirmation of something we outlined in August of last year (2015). Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch instructed Fox News executives to take down Donald Trump.
(NY MAG) […] Murdoch was not a fan of Trump’s and especially did not like his stance on immigration. (The antipathy was mutual: “Murdoch’s been very bad to me,” Trump told me in March.) A few days before the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015, Murdoch called Ailes at home. “This has gone on long enough,” Murdoch said, according to a person briefed on the conversation.
Murdoch told Ailes he wanted Fox’s debate moderators — Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace — to hammer Trump on a variety of issues. Ailes, understanding the GOP electorate better than most at that point, likely thought it was a bad idea. “Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee,” Ailes told a colleague around this time. But he didn’t fight Murdoch on the debate directive.
On the night of August 6, in front of 24 million people, the Fox moderators peppered Trump with harder-hitting questions. But it was Kelly’s question regarding Trump’s history of crude comments about women that created a media sensation. He seemed personally wounded by her suggestion that this spoke to a temperament that might not be suited for the presidency. “I’ve been very nice to you, though I could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me,” he said pointedly. (read more)
This is interesting on many levels, but more importantly for a few very specific confirmational aspects.
Last year many people were struggling to understand what was going on within Fox News. Many people saw the bias; even more people grew outraged at what they were witnessing; but unfortunately many people would not (or could not) accept what was brutally obvious.
Additionally, when CTH outlined the specifics of the factional alignment that was coming from this directive, multiple entities within the “conservative blog-o-sphere” claimed we were advancing some form of ridiculous conspiratorial analysis.
The last third of an earlier CTH outline, during this event timeline (July/August ’15), specifically warned Trump –in advance of the first debate– that Fox News had this intention. (Scroll down to the part of Megyn Kelly HERE).
Additionally, within the cited New York Magazine article you’ll note that Lachlan Murdoch personally instructed Harper Collins Publications, another Murdoch business, to give Megyn Kelly a $6,000,000 advance on a $10 million book deal. In 2015 when we found out who Kelly’s publisher was, we presented that specific prediction – again, in the face of much antagonism. However, we were correct.
Why is this confirmation important?
If you go through the timeline, and look at the confirmation in the NY Mag, you’ll note the specific group within Fox News who formed the internal Pro-Murdoch/Anti-Trump Fox coalition. They are: Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
Not coincidentally these key Fox hosts were the ones specifically directed to take down Trump –AND– the three anti-Trump amigos on the Fox Debate Panel.
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Wallace, Baier, Kelly and (circled) Fox News VP Political Executive Bill Sammon – during debate preparations. Bill Sammon is the father of Marco Rubio’s National Campaign Spox, Brooke Sammon. Senator Marco Rubio was also the preferred candidate of Rupert Murdoch because of his immigration position.
Secondly, if you think about Baier, Kelly and Wallace beyond the scope of the debate itself, you might also begin to remind yourself –and cross reference in your mind– which Fox shows consistently highlight (what later became known as) ‘the #NeverTrump punditry‘.
Thinking specifically about Fox News and Brett Baier, Megyn Kelly and Chris Wallace. Now think about which shows give continual voice to: Brit Hume, Stephen Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, George Will, Jonah Goldberg, Ben Shapiro, Rich Lowry, Glenn Beck, Dana Loesch, Katie Pavlich, Chris Stirewalt and Guy Benson.
Never trump crowd
What you realize is the 2015 #NeverTrumper’s (pictured above) were/are almost exclusively booked for appearances on Rupert’s Three Amigo’s: Bret Baier (Special Report), Megyn Kelly (Kelly File), and Chris Wallace (Fox News Sunday and Special Report).
These three Fox Hosts are the primary voices behind the Rupert Murdoch anti-Trump faction within Fox News. Remember when Donald Trump pulled out of the second Fox News debate:
Megyn Kelly tweet Stirewalt
Another key aspect to keep in mind is that Rupert Murdoch doesn’t operate alone. There are other media entities, not as big but still influential, that follow the exact same set of directives. The Salem Media Communications group is one example (Hot Air, Human Events, Twitchy, Red State, Hugh Hewitt et al), and iHeart Radio is another.
Just like Murdoch at Fox News, Salem Media Communications and iHeart Radio hold the same ideological objectives. Every entity within those enterprises is part of the same synergistic networking group. Politically, Club 4 Growth and a host of other PAC’s and political enterprises are funding mechanisms aligned in ideology and providing financial support to the aforementioned political media sales force.
As more and more people awaken to the reality they become increasingly self-aware. With that awareness comes a realization that conspiracy theories are quite often not just theory.
patriot
ps. Do you still think Chris Wallace should moderate the third presidential debate? …Knowing full well that the person who determines his income, Rupert Murdoch, has been specifically identified as giving instructions to Chris Wallace to take down Donald Trump?
Thanks :)
Internal bickering? You mean like you defending the very people that are trying to bury Trump?
So much for we shouldn't be bickering among ourselves. A compliment followed by an insult is an insult period.
So much for we shouldn’t be bickering among ourselves. A compliment followed by an insult is an insult period.
Amen, itsahoot!
Take your Trump smears elsewhere, brojoe. Not true, not helpful and certainly not wanted, here.
Fox News is dead. It is now Murdoch News, a network devoted to defeating Trump. It will not hurt Trump, because he will fight back against biased moderators (unlike Mittens). I hope at least one of the moderators tries to pull a Candy Crowley, because Trump would make that moderator pay and would look great doing it.
lol lot of good that did.
I want loony Jill Stein on the stage to show the whole world just how loony she is.
What about Megyn Kelly, Shep Smith or Bret Baier? They’re not pro-Trump.
But that's just insane nonsense.
Even such self-avowedly anti-Trumpers like Glen Beck and Mark Levin will never, ever vote for Hillary.
Yes, Beck is super-insane enough to vote for a third or fourth party, but I don't believe Levin is.
At Fox News, the vast majority of hosts & important commentators will certainly not vote for Hillary, or some other party.
Neither will they sit out the election.
Sure, if they are serious conservatives they may be disappointed that one of ours didn't make it.
But nobody with an ounce of rational thought left in them would sit back and let Hillary win.
On this thread we've already seen several obviously pro-Trump Fox people mentioned.
I easy could list a dozen more.
And here's the bottom line: you absolutely cannot name one similar news outlet which has been more favorable to Trump than Fox.
So S.T.F.U.
Ivanka and Wendy Murdoch are close
Of course it's true, deny it all you wish:
Trump is a New Yorker, nothing wrong with that, but he can embarrass himself when he reaches out too far to genuine conservatives.
Need I remind you of those two Corinthians Trump met on his road to Damascus?
Hey look! Trump is our man, period.
But he's not super-man, he's not a god and we're not going to worship him, not here, not now, not ever.
But we will vote for him and support him as best we can.
Right?
Totally agreed, and there are others already mentioned including Alan Colmes and Juan Williams.
But the Fox News I watch is chock full of Trump supporters with very few who seem actively opposed.
“Most of the rest of that might be argued pro v. con...”
Au contraire, mon freep.
Cruz’s perfidy and parliamentarian trickery on the TPA/TPP issue, proved beyond any doubt that he’s a pawn of the globalist elite.
No person who even remotely supports the TPP can honestly claim the ‘conservative’ mantle, yet Cruz and his remaining blinkered supporters do just that.
And just how conservative is it to stubbornly remain non-committal about what should be done with the tens of millions of illegals present in our country, for six long months of a presidential primary, when that issue is Number One among primary voters??
Cruz couldn’t have telegraphed his real stance on illegal immigration any more clearly if he’d plastered it in bold caps on the top of his campaign website.
Those, and the other points I listed, are why Lyin’ Ted fell from grace among conservative voters. He fooled us for a time, and wound up paying a steep political price for it.
I don’t watch it, I just read about it. I
Whoops. My mistake. I should have read your post more carefully.
Note to self: refrain from replying to FR posts until after the second cup of coffee :-)
FAIL!
If you will recall, Reagan was a former Dem, too.
As far as Trump’s conservative *creds*, I’ll just let the boss himself explain it to you...since you’ve somehow managed to overlook Trump’s conservative policies....and posted that mean smear about him....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3366604/posts?page=26#26
Trump wants to secure the borders, enforce the law, end anchor babies, end sanctuary cities, build a wall, deport them all, secure the borders, secure the nation, including sending the refugees back!
No one is better at border security, national security than Trump.
Sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to talk about cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting regulations, cutting government, cutting cronyism, cutting corruption, growing the economy, putting our people back to work, making America great again?
Trump does. And he sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to defend God, family, guns, country? Want to build the greatest military ever so no one dares mess with us?
Trump does. And he sounds pretty damn conservative to me.
Want to build a coalition including conservatives, capitalists, blue collar workers, veterans, gun owners, religious people, minorities, freedom-loving Americans of every stripe?
Trump does. And he’s doing it. And that sounds pretty damn conservative to me!
Reagan Revolution meet the Trump Revolution.
No excuses for the tone. None needed.
Thanks for that tweet reminder.
What a wee-otch that bee-otch is.
Murdock is an aging trash peddler and always has been, since day one in Melbourne, Australia more than 60 years ago, where he gained notoriety for his page 3 full frontal nudes. Nothing has changed, except now they continuously cross and uncross their legs for the the TV camera.
Some harbor the fantasy the FOX is a conservative network. Horse manure. W/few exceptions it is 99.9% establishment republican.
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