Posted on 01/27/2016 10:48:55 AM PST by Enlightened1
As the war between Fox News and Donald Trump ratchets up, Roger Ailes is fighting off criticism from his senior executives over his handling of the crisis. According to one highly placed source, last night, Ailes sent out the now-famous statement mocking Trump as being scared to meet with the "Ayatollah" and "Putin" if he became president. "That was Roger 100 percent," the source explained. "A lot of people on the second floor" -- where top Fox executives work -- "didn't think it was a good idea."
Fox executives are also troubled that Ailes's principal adviser right now is his longtime personal lawyer and Fox & Friends contributor Peter Johnson Jr. "He wrote the statement with Peter," the source explained. "Peter is running the war room," another Ailes friend told me. Fox executives are worried that Ailes is relying on an attorney with scant communications experience as the network is reeling from the biggest PR crisis in recent memory. Historically, during a crisis like this Ailes would have huddled with his veteran communications guru Brian Lewis. But Ailes fired Lewis in 2013 over his concerns that Lewis had been a source for my 2014 Ailes biography. Since Lewis's ouster, Johnson has taken on the role of media counselor.
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Definitely going to need MORE POPCORN!! ;-)
I’m sorry, but whether you like or dislike Trump, watching FOX squirm publicly, along with the MSM, is well deserved and and highly entertaining.
I’m glad I tuned into Rush today. Basically he says Trump is not playing the game the way the establishment monopoly has has always played. Anyone who thinks/says Trump is afraid is drinking the Koolaid or trying to serve it.
Someone’s head is going to role over this screw up. It’s all about ratings folks and don’t let anyone tell you any different. Fox set a trap for Trump but stepped into it themselves. This will not fare well with the powers that be. Trump is going to benefit more than Fox will on this one.
Crisis? War room?
Is it a news organization or not? I understand the press enjoys king making, but so silly. And with every organization being against the GOP, the one that pretends to be or claims to be unbiased is going to take a hit like this with Megan’s personal and petty attack v Trump
Trump is running the entire game.
It borders on unreal. How can such a force as the AMSM be shaking from one man?
It’s just shocking is all if you take a step back.
They must know.
No, I believe the author of that statement was Sen Cruz.
Don’t you just love all these “highly placed sources”????*LOL*
OK...I have information from a highly placed source that Obama has decided to resign and enter the priesthood...
Whether you like him or not, there's only one man that could give us this entertainment - Trump.
Rush said decades ago that whichever GOP candidate summoned up the balls to take on the Drive-By media head on would OWN the field.
He was prophetic.
The MSM doesn’t know how to take Trump...They have dealt with professional politicians so long that they just try the same old thing with Trump and get slapped in the face...They are clueless and dumbstruck on what to do...
Ailes jumped the shark.
It’s high time someone defined MSM as what they are - phonies.
Rupert Murdoch....fire Roger Ailes and Megyn Kelly, the evil witch that adores lunatic, ego-manic, nutcase, Glenn Beck and “Fat Boy”, slob and degenerate, Michael Moore!!! Boy....that Megyn Kelly sure knows how to pick her men!!! waht a low life female!!! A true embarassment to all women!!!
I rest my case to you FR naysayers. Trump has Ailes testicles in a box on his desk, and Ailes sent them! And now O’Reilly is going out to give Kelly one big fat hump, and Rupert is looking at his stock price. This is delicious!
Roger Ailes is toast!
The press needs to be more like North Korea’s press when it comes to the Donald. If you cannot say sycophantic things, than don’t say anything at all.
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