Posted on 08/04/2022 10:05:46 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former presidential adviser Dick Morris told Newsmax on Monday that Fox News is doing everything it can to create a GOP primary fight opposing Donald Trump — from ignoring the former president to promoting a candidacy for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Morris, who outlines the strategy in his newly released book, "The Return: Trump's Big 2024 Comeback," said it's part of a larger strategy by the Democrats to sully Trump and change Fox News from conservative-leaning to liberal-oriented.
"They've censored, they switched Fox News from Republican to Democrat, and they are now basically … Newsmax is the only organ that's covering Trump," Morris said on "John Bachman Now."
"And in the meantime, Fox is doing everything it can to promote DeSantis. He's on the air all the time. They say nice things about him. Trump hasn't been on for three-and-a-half months, and this is because the … Democrats are scared to death of Trump, and they know they have to try to beat him in the primary."
Morris likened the circumstances to the 1980 Democratic Party primary, when then-Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
The bitter campaign resulted in a 51%-41% victory for Ronald Reagan in the general election and a 489-49 win in the Electoral College, one of the most lopsided in history.
"And that's what they want to do to Trump," Morris said. "As to why Fox News is playing ball with them, that's more complicated."
Morris suggested a personal motivation for Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch and his sons, James and Lachlan.
"I think it relates to a desire for social acceptance," Morris said. "I think that they want to go to the cocktail parties. I think they're tired of being ostracized as the odd man out in the news industry.
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God bless America land that I love !!!
Toe sucker is NOT on our side regardless of Trump or DeSantis.....
Take anything he says with a grain of salt.... his motivations are in question...
And he has been wrong too many times.
Selling a book now. He needs the air time.
He’s just now figuring that out?
Morris isn't right about Fox?
His assessment about Fox seems pretty reasonable.
> his motivations are in question... <
Dick Morris is driven by two things:
1. Selling books.
2. Getting air time so he can sell more books.
That’s about it.
Nobody is shifting anything
Nothing
Until the stealing gets fixed.
I don’t hate Dick Morris, but he did blame Rush Limbaugh when he got fired from Fox for predicting a landslide victory for Romney. He said that Rush was causing Hispanics to vote Democrat with his rhetoric and he is losing elections for us.
As it should be!
And he seems to understand the Clintons better than most others observers and pundits.
And Hispanics are shifting to the new GOP.
Nobody believes Dick Morris - the guy never gets anything right.
And yet, he was one of the few pundits who correctly forecasted President Trump’s win in 2016.
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