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Ailes: Palin Was a ‘Branding Issue’
DailyBeast ^ | 09/26/11 | staff

Posted on 09/26/2011 11:12:27 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

Could Fox News be moving away from the right? As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering, Fox News chief Roger Ailes is making what he calls a “course correction.” Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin “became a bit of a branding issue for us,” he tells Howard Kurtz in Newsweek. Republican candidates still consult Ailes: when Rick Perry was still weighing a presidential bid, he stopped by Ailes's office and confided he was worried about being able to raise money, and Mitt Romney took Ailes out for a pasta dinner. But Ailes also engineered the Republican primary debate for maximum reality-television conflict, aiming tough questions geared toward the weaknesses of each candidate and prompting them to tear into each other.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ailes4mcginnis; ailes4mcginniss; ailes4romney; ailesvsamerica; ailesvsconservatives; biasedfoxnews; dailybeast; enemedia; fox4anyrino; fox4backstabber; fox4obama; fox4rino; howardkurtz; newsweek; palin; rogerailes; romney; sarahpalin; stenchofmitt
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To: iowamark

Ahh sorry kristinn did not tag it Palin, so it did not come up in the search....

Thanks for the ping!


21 posted on 09/26/2011 11:29:35 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Linda Frances

Ailes didn’t say any of the things you suckers are braying about. Howard Kurtz said those things. Fall for leftist spin much? You could read the Newsweek piece for yourself and see what Ailes did and didn’t say, but that would be a hassle I guess.


22 posted on 09/26/2011 11:30:40 AM PDT by Huck (But the glass IS half-empty!)
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To: piytar

Fox can find out how fast they can become has been’s. I don’t know any conservative who really relies on the Networks or Cable for their news. When and if we watch we watch Fox,,but it can go zero with no impact on us.


23 posted on 09/26/2011 11:30:54 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Diogenesis
Conclusion: SMELLS LIKE MITT AGAIN

Euwww, it's dog mitt.


24 posted on 09/26/2011 11:30:55 AM PDT by USS Alaska
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To: winoneforthegipper

I think Beck pulled out of Fox at the right time. I think Beck was seeing the shift of fax before a lot of have.


25 posted on 09/26/2011 11:32:53 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Politics4US

The question really is . . .

Is Fox leaving the “Conservative” Republican Party, or is the “Conservative” Republican [Tea] Party leaving Fox.


26 posted on 09/26/2011 11:32:54 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: Castigar
I thought so too




27 posted on 09/26/2011 11:33:54 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (A lie told over and over again is still just a lie and the one telling it a liar.)
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To: winoneforthegipper
As the Tea Party's popularity fades

Who just won the Florida Straw Poll?

28 posted on 09/26/2011 11:38:09 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: MichaelCorleone

“The better question is: ‘Have they ever been there in the first place?”

No. It’s all about “positioning.” Fox is labeled as “right wing” by the left because to acknowledge they have a much more even keel coverage would be akin to admitting the extreme leftist bias of the alphabet soup stations.

In order to protect their propaganda arm the left will label anyone that isn’t in the bag for the left as right wing extremists........whether that is the case or not. In FOX’s case NOT.


29 posted on 09/26/2011 11:39:34 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (Ursus Arctos Horribilis......got my GRRRRR on!)
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To: winoneforthegipper
As the Tea Party's popularity fades...

Nothing like telegraphing your punches, or it's literary equivalent: Poisoning the Well.

30 posted on 09/26/2011 11:40:48 AM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Exactly. I saw Bill Maher the other day ripping into Megyn Kelly from the debate; saying she was a right wing air head. Too funny. I guess he hasn't watched Megyn much.
31 posted on 09/26/2011 11:43:00 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: winoneforthegipper
As the Tea Party's popularity fades and the country grows increasingly tired of partisan bickering...

That's hilarious!

32 posted on 09/26/2011 11:43:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Has Palin tendered her resignation to run for President or .....?


33 posted on 09/26/2011 11:48:49 AM PDT by deport
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To: winoneforthegipper

If Ailes thinks he’s going to succeed as just another liberal news station, spewing the same gunk as CNN, ABC, See-BS, etc, he’s wrong.

He will loose to those stations in the ratings because the bulk of FOX’ supporters will abandon him.

I smell a Romney/Chris Christie conspiracy stinking up what was once a “fair and balanced” network.

The frequency of appearnces by those two shmoos Dana Perrino and Karl Rove as well as the rhetoric of people like Kraphammer and Crystal and Hume point to this.


34 posted on 09/26/2011 11:50:03 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP Obama in 2012)
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To: Rational Thought; kara2008; Immerito; Students4Palin; Ladysmith; EnglishCon; thouworm; ...

(((((PING)))))


35 posted on 09/26/2011 11:50:15 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Why would any conservative politician seek candidacy advice from anyone in the media? Fox News might have more conservative talking heads (and I stress, might!) than the other outlets, but to seek out advice from anyone in the media seems a death nell to a candidate’s chances for victory IMO.


36 posted on 09/26/2011 11:50:15 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: An American!
...this is positioning for her departure so they can be “fair and balanced” in both attacking and promoting her.

That was my first thought, too.

37 posted on 09/26/2011 11:53:17 AM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Diogenesis; winoneforthegipper

Ailes is trying to play some sort of kingmaker game. I think that Sarah Palin caught on to him very early on and refused to be manipulated by him, and that’s why Fox has behaved like it has since Tucson.


38 posted on 09/26/2011 11:53:20 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: jessduntno
Could The Daily Bestiality be moving away from the right?

Weren't they the people who bought Newsweek for $1?

39 posted on 09/26/2011 11:55:29 AM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com--GAME ON!!!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I rarely watch Fox. I rarely watch the news.


Run Sarah, run!

40 posted on 09/26/2011 11:56:56 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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