Total rubbish.
I come from the reddest of the red part of this amazingly red state:
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.
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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?
At this point, nasty treatment and bullying against TRUMP is practically becoming a “plus” for him.
It hurts the media hounds, pundits and moderators AND the *neverTrump crowd worse than TRUMP, who seems to rise like the Phoenix above it and overcomes their brutal attempts to collapse his candidacy.
I have not watched Baier, Kelly or Wallace since that first FOX debate. It’s even a disappointment to me that others still do. That debate was the line in the sand for me that our country was lost and we must resist, reject and rebel on behalf of the traditional USA.
“Today I have no problems with any of the analyses from 90% of Fox’s conservative personalities. Sure, Megyn & Chris do nothing for me, but most of the others seem fine.”
The only commentators at Fox who seem to be fair are Hannity, Bolling and KG. I use to listen to Brett Baier and company at 5, but after listening to them for a day or so, I realized that MSNBC is no better but at least they have some personality.
Speaking of Kelly & Wallace, sure.
But Fox does try to be "Fair & Balanced", so I don't begrudge them some obviously liberal voices, like Juan Williams & Alan Colmes, or any number of Hillary spokes-critters they bring on from time-to-time.
And if Trump shoots himself in the foot, they'll all report on it, even such cheer-leaders as Hannity & Judge Jeanine, though from clearly different perspectives.
I can't think of any Fox conservatives who seem to celebrate a Trump misstep the way they do at, say, PMSNBC or the Clinton News Network.
I don’t trust Bolling. He is a finger-in-the-wind kind of guy, if you know what I mean.
With all due respect to you BroJoek, Cruz may be a social conservative as am I, and he was my first choice. But as I learned about his globalism, Dominionism, Corporatism and duplicity, I had to conclude that he was not good on the Conservative basics of this country which sees as part of the Natural Law the Principle of Subsidiarity e.g. that patriotism, loyalty to faith, family and country first rather than huge give aways with trade deals ultimately resulting in a Union of the Americas was the antithesis of Conservatism. Read Kirk.
There is a huge swath of Christians who do not see the danger of power in Globalist hands. I am not one. I hope many social Conservaties begin to understand that. It will ultimately destroy Christianity itself as a facet of influence in the public square
Or rather they don’t intend to let us change a situation where laws are enforced stringently against the middle class and ignored among the illegal subclass.
I’m speaking of hosts. I expect drivel from Williams and Colmes. (Which is sad, because Williams is actually a very smart guy. If he were truly balanced, he’d be a force in the black community. But, they know pandering for a dollar when they see it.)
“...somebody more genuinely conservative, like Ted Cruz...”
Why do some people still regurgitate this debunked fiction?
Ted Cruz has proved beyond a shadow of doubt that he is neither genuine, nor conservative. Please don’t make me explain the evidence for the umpteenth time.
Total rubbish.
I come from the reddest of the red part of this amazingly red state:
“But the real fact is that Fox News is almost uniformly pro-Trump, certainly in any Trump v. Hillary contest.”
I am not sure that I agree with that. Most of Fox has at the least a RINO bend to it if not more to the left.
What is Murdock’s role now? (I have not followed Fox internals at all.)
There is nothing in this report that contradicts what we saw happening in public since May!
The attacks on Trump at the debates backfired. Faux News was hoisted with their own petard. Trump will throw their snide questions back at them.
In the United States, unlike other countries where "conservative" can mean d*mn near anything, here "conservative" is summarized by two words, "Constitution" and "Bible", not necessarily in that order.
Today many speak of "fiscal conservatives", "social conservatives" and "national defense conservatives" with the idea that it takes at least all three to form a governing majority of voters.
But many of those are only "conservative" relatively speaking compared to the Left's Big Government insanities.
Genuine conservatives who seriously support both the Bible and Constitution are sadly quite few, and far between.
So we can only govern in loose alliances with those other "fiscal", "social" and "national defense" "conservatives".
Trump is beginning to look like the only billionaire I don’t want to puke on. And eff the Koch brothers too.Trump and the billionaires who back him.
Carl Icahn
Andrew Beal
John Paulson
Woody Johnson (owner of NY Jets)
Peter Thiel
Steven Mnuchin (hedge fund manager and Trump's chief fundraiser)
Tom Barrack
...and the other billionaire supporters.
http://fortune.com/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-list/
ALL of the moderators are anti-Trumpers... I am looking forward to the vp debate to see how Pence handles sugar Kaine.
I certainly know nothing -- zero, zip, nada -- about Fox internal corporate politics or who is up, who is down & who is heading out the door.
But you've added Guilfoyle, Tucker and Crowley to previous posters' mentions of Hannity and Judge Jeanine.
I could list any number of others who are obviously anti-Hillary and at least Trump-friendly.
That list would begin with the ladies of 5:00 AM Fox & Friends First all of the Fox & Friends hosts and most of the day-time shows.
It clearly does not include Shephard Smith, but even someone like Greta van Susteren, who you might think a bit squishy has been very friendly to Trump on many occasions.
Sure, Fox reports both good & bad and that's good, because what I really, really don't like is having to switch to some other outlet to learn any bad news (and watch them gloat!) about my guys & gals.
Part of the cover.
“The “conservative blog-o-sphere” seems to be part of the problem. A lot of so-called “conservatives” are part of the problem IMO. What is a “conservative” anyway? What is a “liberal”? Well, a liberal is a Leftist, so quit calling Leftists something that has to do with liberty, because they stand opposed to liberty.
What is a “conservative”? Well, that’s a tougher question. There are a lot of “conservatives” who are just what the term implies - lovers and keepers of the status quo - the “establishment” - exactly what the problem is these days. Then you have others, maybe more like myself, who love liberty, hate the status quo, and want to see the status quo and the establishment blown up. That has nothing to do with the meaning of the word “conservative” but has everything to do with the word “freedom.” So I’ve quit calling myself a conservative and I’ve replaced “liberal” with “Leftist”.
So in this case, the so-called “conservative blog-o-sphere” is part of the problem because a lot of so-called “conservatives” are actually establishment hacks who have little interest in liberty and the Constitutional rule of law that demands 80+% of the federal government be dismantled.”
You absolutely nailed it and I agree with you 100%!
I copied and pasted your entire comment because it was worth seeing again in it’s entirety.
Yes it is.
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Its fair to remember that while the listed people are never-trumpsters, much of the rest of fox news is very pro trump. So at least fox has some balance which none of the other networks have.
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