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Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench
New York Magazine ^ | 12/4/2012 | Gabriel Sherman

Posted on 12/04/2012 3:41:00 PM PST by nickcarraway

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters. According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris. Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line. At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

A Fox spokesperson confirmed the new booking rules for Rove and Morris, and explained that Shine’s message was “the election’s over.”

Multiple sources say that Ailes was angry at Rove’s election-night tantrum when he disputed the network’s call for Obama. While the moment made for riveting television — it was Ailes’s decision to have Kelly confront the statisticians on air — in the end, it provided another data point for Fox’s critics. A spokesperson for Ailes denied any rift between Ailes and Rove, and said the two plan to meet this week.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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1 posted on 12/04/2012 3:41:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Roves good buddy, Hannity will be upset.


2 posted on 12/04/2012 3:44:51 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: nickcarraway

They read Free Republic.

Karl, shut up.


3 posted on 12/04/2012 3:47:26 PM PST by DManA
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To: nickcarraway

Sometimes FR needs a “Like” button


4 posted on 12/04/2012 3:48:11 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: nickcarraway

It will be a welcome relief on my part to not see either one of them for a while.


5 posted on 12/04/2012 3:48:29 PM PST by TXLady
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To: nickcarraway

Dick Morris is likable but usually wrong. Rove is a snake who only cares about Rove!


6 posted on 12/04/2012 3:48:38 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: nickcarraway

I have not watched FOX News or any TV news for that matter since November 7th. Can’t stomach the word Obama and it is all propanda including FOX News.


7 posted on 12/04/2012 3:49:15 PM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: nickcarraway
'bout time.


8 posted on 12/04/2012 3:51:56 PM PST by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: WellyP

Rove is a GOP-e Triangulator.


9 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:02 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: WellyP

My feelings exactly. Rove is slimey and arrogant. Morris doesn’t bother me as much, just that he is always wrong.


10 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:21 PM PST by TXLady
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To: tennmountainman
Hannity's the only person to still refer to Rove as The Architect.

I never got that nickname. Architect of what - the 2000 squeaker?

11 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:21 PM PST by skeeter
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To: nickcarraway

At least Morris apologized for being wrong, and explained where he was off: he didn’t think the Obama turnout would mirror 08, but it did.


12 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:41 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Be positive: America is greater than Obama.)
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To: nickcarraway

Neither has contributed, or have been worth watching for years. Of two Morris is more interesting. If he did indeed guide Clinton, the insight is valuable. Clinton’s era makes Bush 2 look dismal.


13 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:43 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: TXLady

You split an infinitive.


14 posted on 12/04/2012 3:53:48 PM PST by oldbill
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To: mosaicwolf

My household agrees. They are all about ratings, truth be damned. We report you decide, well we decided to pull the plug!


15 posted on 12/04/2012 3:56:13 PM PST by marygam (I have extra ducktape for anyone who needs to wrap their head.)
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To: nickcarraway

In 2-3 years Fox should hire the architect of Obama’s campaign. Rove and Morris are clueless.


16 posted on 12/04/2012 3:57:05 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: TXLady

I know exactly what you mean.

Morris is just this goofy guy trying to make his way in a stupid world.

Rove is put on this ridiculous pedestal as someone we need to listen to.


17 posted on 12/04/2012 3:57:44 PM PST by DManA
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To: skeeter

I never got that nickname. Architect of what - the 2000 squeaker?

He was able to prevent a single conservative win with the White House, the Senate, and the House all in GOP hands. He also helped sell (the tenth amendment is dead)Roberts to conservatives.


18 posted on 12/04/2012 3:58:00 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: South40

Yep...and flush all the Bushes down the toiley with Tokyo Rove. Good Riddance!


19 posted on 12/04/2012 3:58:59 PM PST by Jane Long (Philippians 2:11)
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To: skeeter

Rove also turned a 2004 race against a buffoonish diletante that should have been a landslide into a near loss.


20 posted on 12/04/2012 3:59:22 PM PST by oldbill
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