Posted on 11/22/2020 10:57:19 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
For some inexplicable reason, conservatives rush towards fratricide with the same kind of urgency that drives lemmings over the cliff. It’s what they do, even when it’s counterproductive and costly.
Conservatism wasn’t made better off by the four-year campaign waged against Speaker Newt Gingrich by some House conservatives who considered him ideologically unreliable. It wasn’t helped by John Boehner’s premature departure from Congress, brought about by political headaches caused by House Republicans on his right flank.
A small group of so-called purists on the right even crossed swords with President Ronald Reagan, without whom modern conservatism would have emerged stillborn after the Barry Goldwater’s 1964 thumping at Lyndon Johnson’s hands. Yes, the purists even scourged Reagan, who launched a revolution the left is still trying to roll back.
In the light of what appears to be President Trump’s defeat in his re-election bid, conservatives are now turning on Fox News, a channel where I once appeared with some frequency back in the 1990s, over its supposed ideological apostasy.
What nonsense. Fox was never an explicitly conservative organization, but, as conceived by Rupert Murdoch and brought to life by Roger Ailes, it was successfully positioned as the counterpunch to the overtly liberal networks that dominated the media: CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN.
It was a necessary addition to the nation’s information stream. The opinion side of the network leans heavily to the right, but the news-gathering operation plays it mostly down the middle, remembering the need for balance, because every story has at least two sides.
As a programming strategy, it works. The network is a financial and ratings juggernaut embraced by conservatives, because Fox News gave their agenda and personalities a fair hearing.
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RINO
Fixed it.
FOX has lost what made it great and it won’t be coming back EVER! (Hint: It’s loyal conservative viewers)
FUPR
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NY Post is same parent company.
Brett Baier and Chris Wallace have the power and will always redirect coverage and guests six weeks before every election.
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Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis? Conservatives LOVED Newt Gingrich. If anything, it was RINOs who drove him from office. Or at least didn't come to his defense when he came under attack.
Peter Roff, from US News and World Report?
If he keeps this up, will he still be able to go back on OAN?
Hey Peter, explain the extreme bags under Howard Kurtz eyes.
Fox has forced him to go on air and tell the nation LaGuardia Airport is the best in the world.
Dumbasses
People who use the lemming analogy are as ignorant as people who use the nazi analogy.
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Fox was always pretending.
They take up the oxygen starving a real network with Conservative views.
Fox has to go.
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Roff appears to be another one who can’t tell a conservative from a RINO.
Note how he fails to name the alleged “small group of so-called purists on the right” who “crossed swords with” Reagan, too.
Peter Roff has things backwards. FOX doesn’t get to tell us how to think. We want FOX to report and we’ll decide. It has strayed and we don’t owe it a damn thing, it owes us. If it continues down it’s current path, its demise will not be our fault, but we’ll be glad to participate in bringing it about.
Now go make me a sammich, Peter.
To quote your golden boy, Tucker Carlson, where's the evidence?
Conservatives LOVED Reagan. If anything, it was RINOs and Never-Reaganers who attempted to thwart his agenda.
bttt
To paraphrase George Carlin, Roff’s the new guy who has absolutely no idea “where to stick it” . . . and there are those lying in wait to show him just where . . .
Duly noted. His little attempt at a Jedi mind trick failed miserably.
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