http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3404331/posts?page=26
More Bad News for Marco Rubio: He Just Lost the Support of Fox News
NY Magazine ^
In his role as the donor class’s darling, Marco Rubio has enjoyed support from the Republicans’ media arm, Fox News. Throughout the primary, Fox provided Rubio with friendly interviews and key bookings, including the first prime-time response to Barack Obama’s Oval Office address on ISIS. Many of the network’s top pundits, including Stephen Hayes and Charles Krauthammer, have been enthusiastic boosters. Bill Sammon, Fox’s Washington managing editor, is the father of Rubio’s communications director, Brooke Sammon.
But this alliance now seems to be over. According to three Fox sources, Fox chief Roger Ailes has told people he’s lost confidence in Rubio’s ability to win. “We’re finished with Rubio,” Ailes recently told a Fox host. “We can’t do the Rubio thing anymore.”
Ailes was already concerned about Rubio’s lackluster performance in GOP primaries and caucuses, winning only one contest among the 15 that have been held. But the more proximate cause for the flip was an embarrassing New York Times article revealing that Rubio and Ailes had a secret dinner meeting in 2013 during which the Florida senator successfully lobbied the Fox News chief to throw his support behind the “Gang of 8” comprehensive immigration-reform bill. “Roger hates seeing his name in print,” a longtime Ailes associate told me. “He was appalled the dinner was reported,” the source said.
They're slowly getting to that final stage of grief.
He was appalled the dinner was reported
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I bet he was. He did not want his treachery against the citizens to get out.
Faux News has taken a big hit because of their brazen advocacy of The Cheap Labor Express and its candidates.
Don’t think for a second that Murdoch has changed his mind about flooding our country with foreigners, he’s just responding to the reality that the citizens are really ticked off about it.