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.
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so they are on to Romney now?
Hannity also had some very good interviews with Senator Cruz.
Fox Business is far superior to Fox News. Varney and Dobbs are terrific and Maria and Cavuto ain’t bad either.
Now that’s a question that we can wrap our minds around. Marco : pitcher or catcher?
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.
You must not have recieved the memo, the new Faux News motto is, “We decieve, you believe.”
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
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.
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.
It has been replaced with we distort,we deride.
I hope so. Cavuto always struck me as an unbiased, antiseptic news kinda guy, and enjoyed his reporting.
I bet that’s it as well. Trump will have a field day with the loser. I cant wait.
Just curious, has NY Magazine EVER referred to any media outlet as the “Democrats’ media arm”? Thought not - the truth is not in them!
I have to watch on Yiptv.
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.
I don't necessarily believe anything Carl Bernstein says.
But I posted this in early January because I thought it was a possibility.
Boycott Fox, send Murdoch and his two rectum sons, packing back to Oz, where he came from! Murdoch take MGYN with you to Oz.
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