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Fox Dumps Rubio

calamity said:
No longer will Fox be trying to promote Marco. It looks like they have given up on the boy wonder. Speaking of wonder...who will the Republican National TV Network promote in his stead? Kasich?

Wow! They don't even try to hide the fact that they are the propaganda network anymore. :shock:

Fox viewers are such suckers.
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Yeah, because the other news sources are totally not compromised /sarcasm.
 
Why dump him when Cruz is going to get thrashed by the 15th while Rubio is making serious dents?
 
calamity said:
No longer will Fox be trying to promote Marco. It looks like they have given up on the boy wonder. Speaking of wonder...who will the Republican National TV Network promote in his stead? Kasich?



Wow! They don't even try to hide the fact that they are the propaganda network anymore. :shock:

Fox viewers are such suckers.
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So what we find is that it's not about Fair and Balanced News with Fox, it's about agenda.
 
calamity said:
I'll give ya this---Megyn Kelly is a hell of a lot softer on the eyes.
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She is. But, I must admit, politics aside, I've always found Maddow to be attractive. One of those things, just something about her.
 
jet57 said:
So what we find is that it's not about Fair and Balanced News with Fox, it's about agenda.
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Well, they are in it for the money. And, one way to keep making it is to turn your viewers into zombies who then believe everything you tell them, including what is being sold by your advertisers. Big business loves Fox News.
 
Captain America said:
I agree 100% that Rachel Maddow is a shill for the leftwing/liberal type viewers. But I have to strongly disagree that she is far from reality. In fact, RM has one of the most talented research staffs on television in my opinion and her facts are straighter than just about any other cable pundit I can think of. She is spot-on accurate in her reporting.

Her problem, in my opinion, is that she ONLY spends her time digging up the facts that discredit the GOP/Conservative/Rightwing side of things. If she spent an equal amount of effort reporting the dirt from the left side of things, instead of only focusing on the right, she would get a lot more respect from me. But, if Rachel Maddow says it, you can pretty much take it to the bank. The truth does hurt. I understand that. But RM is only reporting half of the truth. She does not report on the other half.
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The thing I found about the show I watched was that she kept harping on and on about something insignificant (don't even remember what it was) all show long, giggling and laughing about it as if it was the most outrageous thing ever. Like the person would certainly have to resign if it was anything like she made it out to be. I was laughing that she was stuck on this and thought it was so important.
 
calamity said:
Well, they are in it for the money. And, one way to keep making it is to turn your viewers into zombies who then believe everything you tell them, including what is being sold by your advertisers. Big business loves Fox News.
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To me, it looks like Fox, at least certain parts of Fox, has decided, this time around, that they should try and help certain candidates with their campaigns. They seemed to start with Bush, and move to Rubio, while being anti Cruz the entire time. Not something they should be doing.
 
WCH said:
They're the #1 cable news channel by far. If they aren't a news channel then no one is.
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Bret Baier is excellent. It's good to listen to what republicans/conservatives think.

BTW: Rubio cancelled two big rallies scheduled for later this week. He could be done.
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As the Miami Herald and NM Gov. Susana Martinez are endorsing Sen. Rubio .
 
Anthony60 said:
To me, it looks like Fox, at least certain parts of Fox, has decided, this time around, that they should try and help certain candidates with their campaigns. They seemed to start with Bush, and move to Rubio, while being anti Cruz the entire time. Not something they should be doing.
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Well ever since that first debate Ailes and Trump have butted heads over the Megyn Kelly thing.
Per that article a couple years ago Rubio was getting Ailes to back the Gang of 8 guys.
Well looking at who was in the Gang of 8.....
Lindsay Graham - couldn't even get 1% support in the polls while he was trying , and failing, to run in the primary.
John McCain - has already failed once at a primary and then when he got the nomination lost miserably to Obama.
Jeff Flake - McCains counterpart senator in Arizona. pretty much a McCain junior they have similar positions.
And Rubio.
So it was the soft on immigration guys. the same guys more or less that failed in 2006-2007 and then again in 2013.

Besides now they have drug Romney back out to make some noise.
 
SocialD said:
Well ever since that first debate Ailes and Trump have butted heads over the Megyn Kelly thing.
Per that article a couple years ago Rubio was getting Ailes to back the Gang of 8 guys.
Well looking at who was in the Gang of 8.....
Lindsay Graham - couldn't even get 1% support in the polls while he was trying , and failing, to run in the primary.
John McCain - has already failed once at a primary and then when he got the nomination lost miserably to Obama.
Jeff Flake - McCains counterpart senator in Arizona. pretty much a McCain junior they have similar positions.
And Rubio.
So it was the soft on immigration guys. the same guys more or less that failed in 2006-2007 and then again in 2013.

Besides now they have drug Romney back out to make some noise.
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Zero conservatives in that group. And although McCain lost, that is no problem. He maintained the status quo, and that is much more important to them than winning or preserving the Constitution and our personal liberties.
 
calamity said:
No longer will Fox be trying to promote Marco. It looks like they have given up on the boy wonder. Speaking of wonder...who will the Republican National TV Network promote in his stead? Kasich?



Wow! They don't even try to hide the fact that they are the propaganda network anymore. :shock:

Fox viewers are such suckers.
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You just referred to the majority of 24 hour cable news viewers as "suckers". Fox consistently beats all the other networks in the ratings. In any case, what's the problem? All the networks biased for or against given candidates. The other networks do anything they can to prevent any republican from getting elected. And from all appearances Fox seems as if they are angling more to get Trump elected then Rubio and they are nearly ignoring Cruz, who is the only candidate with a shot at beating Trump.
 
X Factor said:
This has been, without a doubt, the most entertaining election season I've ever seen (not that I've just seen so many). I heard Mark Levin bashing Fox last night and I've heard Glenn Beck criticizing other talk show hosts by name for not endorsing a candidate. I guess I'm supposed to be worried about a "fractured" Republican party but I'm honestly not. I think it's good it's being shaken up and the old understanding of the way things have to be done is being challenged. I'm not a Trump supporter at all, but his campaign has been valuable just for that.
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Agreed. I cannot stand Trump and will sit out the 2016 general election if he gets the nomination. However the one good thing coming out of his run is that it is breaking up the oligarchy that has existed in the republican party for decades. The democrats are in much worse shape. They have a super delegate system that turns the democrat primaries into a comical joke. Before the first primary was held, Hillary already had hundreds of delegates. The first primary she alledgedly won was only by six dubious coin tosses. And one of the primaries she lost, she ended up getting more delegates then Bernie Sanders. If I were a democrat, I would not bother voting in the primaries.
 
calamity said:
No longer will Fox be trying to promote Marco. It looks like they have given up on the boy wonder. Speaking of wonder...who will the Republican National TV Network promote in his stead? Kasich?



Wow! They don't even try to hide the fact that they are the propaganda network anymore. :shock:

Fox viewers are such suckers.
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Here's what Fox News had to say about that article:

“Consistent with the golden standard of Shermanonymous’ ‘reporting’ on FOX News and Roger Ailes, there is no credence to this narrative or the many other works of fiction he’s repeatedly been proven wrong on. Lacking any on-the-record sources, and desperate for attention, his stories are full of made-up quotes, but New York magazine doesn’t seem to care about his overwhelming lack of credibility, journalistic integrity and deeply partisan agenda.”

Michael Clemente

Executive Vice President, News

FOX News
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Here's what Mediaite wrote back in January about the author of that article, Gabriel Sherman, including a list of some of the claims he's made recently that have ended up being complete bullpucky:

The sustained credibility afforded to New York Magazine‘s Gabriel Sherman is one of the industry’s great mysteries. Not since Eddie Mush in A Bronx Tale has one person been so consistently wrong so often. But because some believe what they want to believe, especially when it comes to Fox News, Sherman’s exclusive reporting, courtesy of a cadre of invisible friends inside the walls of News Corporation, somehow continues to carry weight in media circles.

The question is… how?
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Remember his article claiming as fact that Joe Biden was running for president?
Outcome: Didn't happen.

Remember him claiming Howard Stern called Trump with dirt on Megyn Kelly?
Outcome: Stern responded: “I’d offer [Sherman] a million dollars if he could prove that this is true, because it’s not true… I thought Megyn Kelly was a total lady when she was here. Yeah, I asked her about her bra size. Big deal. There’s no smoking gun there. Again, I don’t know who these people are that write these articles.”

Remember last June when Sherman reported there was a power shift at Fox News and Ailes was being demoted?
Outcome: Roger Ailes Signs New Contract to Head Fox News and Stations



The author of the piece is a partisan hack who uses fictitious sources to create fictitious stories... but like the article at Mediaite said, "...some believe what they want to believe, especially when it comes to Fox News"

aka, FDS infects millions of liberals and so far, there is no cure.

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The idea that a tv network can hijack our democracy by declaring itself ruler over 50% of the candidates only demonstrates to me that we should either not have a democracy, or not have tv networks. Time for voters to shape up and become informed on their own or we are truly descending into "idiocracy". What disturbs me about this is the rest of us who don't watch "faux news" or partake in the primary fiasco have to be dragged down with them
 
chromium said:
The idea that a tv network can hijack our democracy by declaring itself ruler over 50% of the candidates only demonstrates to me that we should either not have a democracy, or not have tv networks. Time for voters to shape up and become informed on their own or we are truly descending into "idiocracy". What disturbs me about this is the rest of us who don't watch "faux news" or partake in the primary fiasco have to be dragged down with them
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You really should read the previous post. You've been misinformed.
 
Fox is quite conservative...perhaps to conservative for a man like Rubio. A man right-wing, but not crazed right-wing:doh
 
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