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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?
I tell you one thing
Ailes departure love him or hate him will drive Fox left
There is a battle at Fox now this very moment between The Murdoch boys who are liberals unlike dad who is establishment like GOPe and the staff heirs of Ailes
It ain’t purty and it’s why OReilly is MIA
OREILLY AINT MY CUP OF TEA EITHER BUT IF HES OUT AND MEGYN STAYS THEN FOX AS WE KNEW IT IS OVER
it’s a an effing mess
You can tell the pure newsreaders there are being ear fed and TelePrompTer fed anti Trump shit all day
On the balance Anderson Cooper treats Trump better or certainly no worse
There’s definitely an issue with the choice of moderators. These never Trumpers were working hard for Cruz. But, now that Cruz is out and the Republican nominee is Trump, their bias no longer makes sense nor is helpful to the Republican Party. They certainly can not want anything to do with Hillary!
So, at this point is it resentment that their tactics did not work to get Cruz as the nominee and they want to make Trumps life miserable for that reason?
You and the disgusting site you linked to are smarmy, idiotic, and foul!
And FWIW.....I can't stand Murdoch and also loathe his lefty sons.
This all illustrates how important the immigration issue truly is.
Our future depends on getting that issue under control.
Law & Order or Bust
No comparison.
By the time Reagan ran for president in 1980 he'd been a Republican for decades, had worked tirelessly for conservative causes and had served two terms as the Republican governor of California (imagine that).
Trump has nothing remotely equivalent in his own background.
Jane Long: "Want to talk about cutting taxes, cutting spending, cutting..."
You may remember Texas Governor Perry got into big trouble last time, when he couldn't name the third Federal department he wanted to abolish?
I've never heard Trump name even one.
How conservative is that?
Jane Long: "Reagan Revolution meet the Trump Revolution.
No excuses for the tone. None needed."
Agreed.
I support Trump, but I don't delude myself into thinking he is the most conservative candidate to ever run.
So far as I can tell, none of their early show or Fox & Friends hosts are, nor are any of the daytime shows outside Shepherd Smith.
At noon their "Outnumbered" show normally features one liberal among three other conservative women.
By my count, so far, that's a dozen Republican & Trump-friendly hosts versus two anti-Trumpers.
In the afternoon & evenings, Cavuto is certainly conservative and did balk a bit at Trump, but would never suggest anyone vote for Hillary or a third party.
The Five except for Juan Williams are all conservative and Trump-friendly.
On this thread Bret Baier has been condemned as anti-Trump, but I think he is seriously and determinedly Fair & Balanced.
Greta is not a raging conservative, but has certainly been friendly to Trump on many occasions, as has O'Reilly.
Megan we could say is anti-Trump, but Hannity is now solidly pro-Trump.
So by my count, afternoons & evenings have, at most, three anti-Trumpers to eight others who are at worst neutral, and at best on the Trump team.
Of course there are many others who provide commentary & color including some on the Hillary team.
But that's what "Fair & Balanced" is all about, and without it Fox would lose far more viewers than it could afford.
Bottom line: I'd put it at three obviously pro-Trump or friendly-neutral for every one clearly anti-Trump at Fox News.
Like most of talk radio you voice your support for trump and spend most of your time denigrating him to others.
Trump will win this, in spite of your efforts and in spite of talk radio,
Nonsense, just trying to correct a heaping crock of lies being repeated here as if true.
You guys are disparaging Fox News far beyond what it deserves.
Again, the bottom line is: there is no other similar network even remotely as Trump-friendly as Fox.
So that's not "one leg", it's two and they are powerful running legs, regardless of they nonsense you spread about them.
I certainly hope you're right.
And I hope I'm proved wrong in saying Trump is not as conservative as we would wish.
Sorry, but that's just insane crazy-talk.
Go take a shower, clean yourself up, get some exercise and clear out your head.
Then you'll be fit company for normal human beings again, FRiend.
battle of the biggies, like Trumps fortitude regardless of perfection, none of us are, but if he prays before making decisions in Jesus name to the God of Israel God will hear and direct us for his way..the most imminent danger the country is in now is from God Almighty, if we abandon Israel, we know longer have a charter with God.
History shows what that means...what we have and much worse..
koch boys have their place, but blind to the level of correction needed to right the ship..
Then you're watching a different Fox.
In fact it has very few obviously anti-Trump hosts.
The real problem with Fox, from my perspective, is that so much of its time gets devoted to stories of little or no interest to me -- i.e., so-called human interest stories, they're fine up to a point but for me that point is, at most, one block an hour, not two or three.
If you consider hosts like Levin & Hannity, at least half their criticisms are directed at weak Republicans who bow & scrape before Democrats instead of asserting their principles & authority.
If Trump ever falls into the same category, they will blast him too.
Depend on it.
Balding_Eagle: "Trump will win this, in spite of your efforts and in spite of talk radio,"
Hopefully Trump will win, but the rest is just rubbish & nonsense.
The truth is that Trump has received and is receiving billions of dollars worth of "earned media" coverage from conservative radio and television outlets.
So your idea that nobody beside Balding_Eagle is out there beating the Trump drums is just nonsense.
In my fondest dreams it's a Trump blow-out along the lines of Reagan in 1980, but there are still 90% of "mainstream media" opposed, so as of today pretty much anything can happen.
You’re just trolling.
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twitchy? That’s michelle malkin. So she’s compromised too? Not terribly surprising.
Nothing is anymore when it comes to these things. It’s much quicker and easier to identify the people that ARE patriots than the rest of the cowardly herd.
You must not have fueled up with your Bowl of Stupid for breakfast this morning. That was unusually weak, even for you.
So here's some classic eye candy while you wait.
Its the content of the news they are covering...not the folks who make up the 5 or gutfeld or any of the other entertainment panels.
The straight news shows content is anti trump and moved hard that way as soon as Ailes was out
Info on “Red”:
http://communismbythebackdoor.tv/portfolio/part-17/
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