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Roger Ailes Unsurprisingly Jumps The Shark
C4P ^ | 4-13-12 | Ian Lazaran

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at conservatives4palin.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: foxnews; gop; palin; rogerailes; sarahpalin
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To: Mozilla

>>>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.


41 posted on 04/14/2012 8:25:40 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: katiedidit1; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters
Fox picked Alan Colmes, Beckle, Geraldo, Juan Williams for their ratings? American people loved Fox News in the beginning because it was an alternative to the same ole left wing cheap news stations...now Fox is joining forces with them. Fox's ratings will sink like the Titantic

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.

42 posted on 04/14/2012 8:47:01 AM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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To: Mozilla

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 ________________________________.


43 posted on 04/14/2012 8:59:43 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (I'm a constitutionalist, not a libertarian. Huge difference.)
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To: Christie at the beach

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.


44 posted on 04/14/2012 9:46:50 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Mozilla
Question....does any one think this may open a door for beck gbtv to go cable?....he has built a base of programing it seem on his Internet channel....i didn't think so but thing do seem the fox is moving away from a big part of their market share...it money left on the table to any one in the position to move in and take some of it
45 posted on 04/14/2012 9:47:47 AM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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To: Mozilla; b9; bboop; Berlin_Freeper; Bikkuri; Brent Calvert 03969-030; BuckeyeTexan; bushpilot1; ...
Sarah Palin's New Ping List

"We'll keep our God, our guns and our Constitution."

46 posted on 04/14/2012 11:02:43 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: lonevoice

I haven’t watched Fox news in quite awhile. Too liberal for me.


47 posted on 04/14/2012 11:12:36 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: Mozilla
It's pretty easy to stop watching FOX News.

Just DON'T turn it on and you won't have to watch it.

48 posted on 04/14/2012 11:38:37 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: onyx; Mozilla

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.


49 posted on 04/14/2012 1:57:14 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: onyx

For anyone needing a refresher course, THE UNDEFEATED is now free-streaming for Netflix viewers.

Good, good stuff.


50 posted on 04/14/2012 2:38:59 PM PDT by b9 (Newt is substance. The others are talking points.)
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To: Mozilla
Seems Fox News is citing with the GOP establishment over the tea party and conservatives.

That was clear when they tried to "take out" Newt early on in 2011 by trumping up and taking out of context his comments about the Paul Ryan budget. That was clearly a huge, coordinated effort between the GOP elites, FOX News and RINO radio hosts like Bill Bennett, done to try and cut the legs out from under Romney's #1 primary threat, Newt Gingrich.

51 posted on 04/14/2012 2:49:23 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: bert
He was of course correct. Sarah did not have a chance at the nomination.

Totally absurd. Didn't you notice the way the primary turned out? Palin most likely would've won it. She would have become the obvious choice for conservatives to coalesce around by February...having enough so-con bonafides for the Santorum people and enough pragmatism and populism for the Newt people. If Romney tried to nail her with attack ads, they probably would've backfired badly, because he would've looked even more obviously like a progressive leftist, them having just got done doing the same to Palin recently.

52 posted on 04/14/2012 3:10:03 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: Mozilla

Ailes runs FNC

Rupert is hands off

Ailes has always been GOPE


53 posted on 04/14/2012 11:22:03 PM PDT by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: lonevoice

TV worth watching has been reduced to THE FOOD NETWORK and THE SHOPPING CHANNEL!


54 posted on 04/15/2012 4:23:08 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Mozilla

>> “Seems Fox News is citing with the GOP establishment over the tea party and conservatives” <<

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Fox is siding with the globalist cabal that owns them. Surprise? I hope not.


55 posted on 04/15/2012 1:45:38 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Christie at the beach

They hired Sarah to keep her out of the race

Yep, that is true. I agree with that. Ditto for the Today show hiring her for that one time.


56 posted on 04/15/2012 11:15:13 PM PDT by rurgan (Make all laws have an expiration date of 3 years. too many laws is the problem)
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