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More Bad News for Marco Rubio: He Just Lost the Support of Fox News
NY Magazine ^

Posted on 03/02/2016 2:18:42 PM PST by springwater13

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; fauxnews; florida; fnc; foamboy; foamparties; foxnews; marcorubio; megynkelly; newyork; rogerailes; rubio; rupertmurdoch; trump
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To: AdaGray
About Marco's wife..."Silvio declares, "In my business, I'm around a lot of women, and that one ain't getting laid."

101 posted on 03/02/2016 3:00:11 PM PST by moehoward
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To: springwater13

so they are on to Romney now?


102 posted on 03/02/2016 3:01:22 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: springwater13
Hannity has been really good throughout the Rubio push by FOX. He had Trump on and they had some very good interviews.

Hannity also had some very good interviews with Senator Cruz.

103 posted on 03/02/2016 3:01:27 PM PST by detective
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To: dandiegirl

Fox Business is far superior to Fox News. Varney and Dobbs are terrific and Maria and Cavuto ain’t bad either.


104 posted on 03/02/2016 3:02:35 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Cobra64

Now that’s a question that we can wrap our minds around. Marco : pitcher or catcher?


105 posted on 03/02/2016 3:03:20 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Primary Teddy 2018)
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To: bill1952

One of brilliant things about Trump’s campaign is that they are being exceptionally frugal.

Why is that important?
He’s bragging on it as a demonstration of his fiscal capacity. Showing everyone he can spend less and do more.
Also, he’s heading off, in advance, any potential criticism that he is ‘buying’ the presidency. He’s going to point to the bought and paid for campaigns, then remind them how much less he has spent.


106 posted on 03/02/2016 3:04:21 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: New Jersey Realist

You must not have recieved the memo, the new Faux News motto is, “We decieve, you believe.”


107 posted on 03/02/2016 3:06:18 PM PST by stockpirate (UNLEASH THE TRUMPIAN!!!)
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To: springwater13
"Marco, I think the jig is up. They're onto you."


108 posted on 03/02/2016 3:06:35 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: fingers_crossed
Not such good news for FNC either...besides who watches them anyway...they’ve shown their true colors

Path to the draft is on NFL Network. I would normally be watching Fox. Not surprisingly they have the Browns picking a quarterback, Wentz. Screw Bret Retard

109 posted on 03/02/2016 3:08:33 PM PST by Stentor (Oh Teddy Cruz, Canadian that you be. Oh Teddy Cruz, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: drewh

Quote:

“close guys, Carl Bernstein said on CNN that GOPe wants Paul Ryan by acclimation at a potential brokered convention instead of Romney”

You’ve gotta be kidding. Ryan would be lucky to win ONE state against Hillary. Assuming the Republican voters didn’t tar and feather him and exile him to Guatemala first.

Not even the dumb-as-post GOPe can be THAT stupid.


110 posted on 03/02/2016 3:09:15 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Great suggestion. Maybe even for FOX Rubio’s absurd antic, potential scandals, and vulgarities proved too much. Rubio with Cruze’s help managed to make the last debate an embarrassment.


111 posted on 03/02/2016 3:09:53 PM PST by Jane Austen (Marco Rubio, the White Obama)
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To: New Jersey Realist

It has been replaced with we distort,we deride.


112 posted on 03/02/2016 3:10:02 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: jneesy

I hope so. Cavuto always struck me as an unbiased, antiseptic news kinda guy, and enjoyed his reporting.


113 posted on 03/02/2016 3:11:48 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Ticonderoga34

I bet that’s it as well. Trump will have a field day with the loser. I cant wait.


114 posted on 03/02/2016 3:12:11 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: springwater13

Just curious, has NY Magazine EVER referred to any media outlet as the “Democrats’ media arm”? Thought not - the truth is not in them!


115 posted on 03/02/2016 3:16:27 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Blue Highway
One America News has totally replaced Fox News for me. I don’t miss Fox at all.

I have to watch on Yiptv.

116 posted on 03/02/2016 3:18:41 PM PST by Stentor (Oh Teddy Cruz, Canadian that you be. Oh Teddy Cruz, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

BECAUSE THE PRESS IS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE NEUTRAL AND UN-BIASED.

They dont even try to hide their damnable interference in our voting process.


117 posted on 03/02/2016 3:20:34 PM PST by Gasshog (Fed-Up America & Donald Trump vs. Career Politicans - Guess who Wins?)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
Hey Roger here’s an idea, how about not doing anything for any of them and just report what happens?

You mean like, "We Report, You Decide"?

Nah, that format would NEVER gain him the largest audience in cable television
118 posted on 03/02/2016 3:24:21 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: drewh
“Carl Bernstein said on CNN that GOPe wants Paul Ryan by acclimation at a potential brokered convention”

I don't necessarily believe anything Carl Bernstein says.

But I posted this in early January because I thought it was a possibility.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3380916/posts

119 posted on 03/02/2016 3:24:42 PM PST by detective
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To: springwater13
"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."

Boycott Fox, send Murdoch and his two rectum sons, packing back to Oz, where he came from! Murdoch take MGYN with you to Oz.


120 posted on 03/02/2016 3:25:24 PM PST by Grampa Dave (, Voting to elect Trump as president is the only known cure for chronic TDS!))
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