Boycott Fox News. It was the conservative viewer's that made their ratings soar and it is the conservative viewer that will cause their ratings to plumment. Fox is turning into another dime a dozen left wing news station.
Posted on 04/13/2012 11:41:17 PM PDT by Mozilla
Unless he’s being misquoted and there’s no reason to believe he is based on his track record when it comes to the Governor, Ailes isn’t even publicly hiding it anymore:
Roger Ailes says “Sarah Palin had no chance to be President.”
Ailes, on Sarah Palin: “Anyone think she had a chance to be president?” Says she, others are picked solely for ratings.
It’s tough to conclude from these public assertions from Ailes that he has any respect for Governor Palin. From my vantage point, the Governor appeared to be alluding to Ailes and his “news” network at times in her interview with Levin yesterday.
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Correction: Meant siding not citing.
I’m doing my part. Haven’t watch Fox in months.
Maybe she should leave Fox, and Mr. Ailes is doing whatever he can to impel her to leave.
His statement doesn’t make sense, the one about hiring her only for ratings, if in fact she really has high negatives. It may very well be that in reality he is still a conservative who realizes there is nothing she can do for the nation at FNC, and she must go politically rogue.
She is very popular with the Conservatives and the Tea Party. I suspect the attack against Mr.Murdock’s news empire is what has resulted in an about face on the part of Fox News Channel. Mr. Ailes has been conservative for a very long time and I suspect he really hasn’t changed politically, just that the environment at FNC has altered considerably.
You’ll notice that Fox News canned Fox Business’s Judge Napolitano show where at one point he talked about the failure of the two party system.
Then you’ll note Glenn beck left and he was upset at the GOP. Said at CPAC that republican progressives run the party in 2010.
Then Eric Bolling lost his Fox Buisness show and you’ll note if you see the Five that he goes off GOP script a bunch and argues with Dana Perino.
Then you will note that Hannity was silenced on the birther issue and sent home from a 2010 tea party event he was to cover.
So obviously, Fox News is starting to mess up. I wonder if being in New York City is the wrong place to be for a “conservative” network.
Only Cavuto and maybe Megyn Kelly and Fox and Friends are left at Fox News that I don’t feel has yet been 100% rooting for Slick Willard.
But even Megyn Kelly jumped the shark with recent comments thrashing C-Span as boring compared to Fox News when C-Span covers some conservative events like CPAC and Fox News don’t.
They hired Sarah to keep her out of the race. They knew she would energize the conservatives and the independents. Look at the past events with her. 20,000/40,000 crowds. They are fearful she will still make a leap into either helping Newt or by having an opening at a brokered convention. Sure wish her and Newt would team up to take on the media and the ruling empires. The American people would be so motivated in knowing reforms were possible. I think they fear this still can happen since Romney does not have this tied up. Something could come out on Romney still. They must be nervous. Romney has not been winning majorities. A conservative surge would crush Romney. They had to stop Reagan but they could not because of all of us. If they think Romney is strong, we know Palin or Newt could beat Obama(w/ reforms alone)
No, they'll be worse, and for the same reason Willard will lose badly in November: real Progs beat fake conservatives, every time.
Does Ailes really think Progs are going to boost Fox News’ ratings by pandering to them? He's a fool if he does - they have far too many options that they can trust to look after their interests.
It feel like Fox news altered the same way CNN did in 07-08 when they were trying to get Obama elected. Not much different between what they did and Fox News is doing now trying to get Willard elected. Shilling out all credibility to get their stooge elected.
Good posts and comments.
You sure got that right-it looks like everyone in the media and of the political sphere are doing this -the true conservatives are the only ones who seem to understand what is happening.
Sarah Palin must get her priorities straight.
If her number one priority is her family, then quit FNC and go home, period.
The big money isn’t worth working with people who intensely dislike and disparage you, particularly your values. She must do what is right and I suspect she is dithering, though I hope not.
As for Romney, he is a fascist (a progressive) with money who is trying to buy the Presidency. He has bought people, which I find disgusting, as loyalty cannot be truly bought.
So we are left with BHO2 the communist and Romney the fascist being pushed by competeing news channels. I see the perfect opportunity for a sneak assault by the Tea Party, under the radar, with Palin and Gingrich.
A lot can be done when the big guys are only watching one another.
Someone in powerful position, needs to talk to both Newt and Palin and persuade them to do this for their country. Like Reagan, once it begins, no one could stop them. The powers to be realize this. If only the conservatives would fight together, we could keep him from getting his 1144. At least, we would have a chance to get a new person who has a better chance to beat Obama.
We don’t watch Fox nearly as much as we used to. I liked them better when they were reporting and I was deciding. This so called fair and balanced crap is so wishy washy. I mean they hired the daughter of Jesse Jerkson!
I live in Chicago. Now I have to watch these left wing nut jobs not only on local news but also on FNC? Nope, I won’t watch FNC anymore.
Progressives have always run the Republican Party. Starting with Lincoln it was always controlled by Progressives, even before the term was coined.
I don’t watch it either.
I am tired of the Left choosing everything for us. Quit listening to their BS and start fighting them with their own ways. You don’t have to lie.
Translation: "We would have seen to it that she didn't win the Presidency."
-PJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaCemmsnNk
Judge Napolitano.How to get fired in under 5 mins
Roger Ailes’ bosses will ask for your political opinion after they’ve given it to you plebe.
That was also said about Sarah before she ran for mayor. And governor.
She has a contract. I recall Roger was pissed when she went on Levines show to say she wasn’t running and was going to sit on her 1,000,000 contract
Well, chalk one up for Media Matters and the Obama Administration. It didn’t take them long to destroy the only half-way decent news channel we had. RIP FNC.
If Al Gore can own a TV Network - why not Newt’s conservatives (& benefactor Adelson) be encouraged to support and finance a Constitutional Cable Channel???????
It’s way past time for true capitalists to advertise their products and services on a TV channel that advocates for free enterprise, individual freedom and less Government rules & regulations.
Think FCC!!!!!!!!!!!
She had none of it, and ever since then, he's been doing everything he can to undermine her, especially after Tucson, when he and the GOP-E threw her to the wolves. She was obviously aware of his game and started thumbing her nose right back at him, albeit in a fairly low-key manner to avoid any accusations of insubordination to protect her Fox contract.
Remember that little meeting that took place about two years ago between Ailes and the administration. My sense is they cut a deal...Fox would trend to the left and the administration would not push its FCC agenda which was a threat to only FOX. Memo to Ailes: I don’t care about “fair and balanced”, this is war and we don’t need another Chamberlain.
I have given up on watching anything on FOX these days except perhaps Greta only because she does a decent interview show. It was interesting watching her argue with Rover the other night over Rosen and her comments about stay at home wives albeit I did not agree with her position that she was not as bad as being protrayed by Rover because Greta knows her personally.
Being that everything Sarah does receives instant publicity and scrutiny, I wish she’d go out and stump for Newt just a couple times. It would change the whole spectrum of the 2012 primary, and national election.
Do it for our country, Sarah!
She has a contract with them. My guess is that she has increased her appearances lately to fulfill it and then get out of there ASAP.
Sarah Palin jumped the shark when she didn’t run for the Alaska Senate in ‘10 against that (rhymes with punt). That was hers’ for the taking.
He also didn’t like her One Nation tour last summer. In fact she had to cut her Gettysburg stop way short to make a fast run to NY for a hastily called meeting with the fat bastard.
Sarah should do this, Sarah should do that. Sarah should go here, Sarah should go there. Sarah should say this, Sarah should say that.
blah blah blah!!!
Little bitter today or was it the coffee?
Ailes backtracks...sort of.
“When I hired most of the Republican contributors, none of them had any immediate prospects of becoming President —I wasn’t referring to any of their long-term prospects, including Governor Palin. I hired all of them because they made for good television at the time. Sarah Palin is young and nobody can predict the future.”
He was of course correct. Sarah did not have a chance at the nomination.
The proof is that she knew it as well and chose not to spend the time money and energy on a certain loss.
To make such a statement is not to discredit nor demean her outstanding conservative political philosophy.
If her number one priority is her family, then quit FNC and go home, period.
FYI. Palin has a studio room in her house. Many of her segments are done there. Considering the time differential (4 hours behind EST), most of her commentary is done in the afternoon when the kinds are in school or right before dinner.
It’s one thing be a commentator on Fox News, another to run for POTUS when it comes to family commitments.
Didn’t you know that you are not allowed to have an opinion. No different than saying my beloved Mets will not make the playoffs.
Boycott Fox News. It was the conservative viewer's that made their ratings soar and it is the conservative viewer that will cause their ratings to plumment. Fox is turning into another dime a dozen left wing news station.
Nature abhors a vacuum. If Fox is turning Left, then there should be an opportunity for another right-leaning news network of some type. And I don't see why it can't be located somewhere other than NYC. Heck, why does it even have to be a TV network at this point? Although I think the concept of centering a "network" around one personality is a mistake, I think Glenn Beck is onto something as far as starting a video-based Internet news channel is concerned. The Internet is becoming TV, so why not start a news station via the Internet?
Stopped watching FOX last year when their coverage started to mimic everyone else’s...
And I am soooo dissapointed in Sarah Palin; she really led me on with the bus trip etc.
I know she never said she would run, but her actions said otherwise-at least to me.
I have lost faith in her; yes, she says all the right things, but we need actions, not just words.
She took the job at FOX and that was ok,she’s got to pay the bills, but when she did the Today Show (?) or whatever show that was, I couldn’t even watch.
I don’t know who she is anymore. She’s confused me...
Sarah and Newt together would be like a dream come true; why can’t Conservatives put their egos in a drawer and work together to save our country just like all the progressives work together to destroy it?
Mrs CT Hillbilly
Success, just like familiarity breds contempt.
Regretably Ailes, FNC “personalities” and GOPe look upon “us” as peons, they being the Patrons.
Sarah knew who she was dealing with and was sharp enough to releive them of some of their money.
The Mitt bias has been so obvious on FNC that we turn on FNC a LOT less and it sounds like we are not the only ones. Fox and Ailes have made enough to likely not give a damn.
>>>I wonder if being in New York City is the wrong place to be for a “conservative” network.
Fox never has been a “conservative” network. Ever. It’s always only been not as overtly liberal as the rest of them - which made it look conservative by comparison.
Don't forget their more recent hires of lesbian activist, Sally Kohn, and Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita Jackson.
Now that Ailes has also apparently said that Newt Gingrich will never be on Fox News again, the network barely has a pulse.
Whatever his motivation (more like a Ferengi than anything else), she has a platform for her views, so that’s win-win.
Mr. Ailes, complete this sentence: Sarah Palin brings Fox News high ratings because ________________________________.
The problem with Foxney News is that its just not conservative. So after bashing Newt throughout the campaign and snarking Palin they probably wonder why Newt blasted them and Sarah is snarking back. We have watched CNN a couple of nights and they were more neutral on Newt than Fox. Ailes’ idea of a conservative is Krauthammer.
I haven’t watched Fox news in quite awhile. Too liberal for me.
Just DON'T turn it on and you won't have to watch it.
FNC seems to be getting more like the LSM. There are only 4 shows that we sometimes watch and we used to watch almost constantly when home.
For anyone needing a refresher course, THE UNDEFEATED is now free-streaming for Netflix viewers.
Good, good stuff.
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