Fox News is trying to make America forget their totally wrong predictions of a Romney landslide by temporarily yanking Karl Rove and Dick Morris off the air.
New York Magazine reported, “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.”
As far as Rove is concerned, it is said that Ailes is furious with the former Bush’s Brain’s on air election night tantrum over the calling of Ohio for Obama.
Let’s talk about the real reason Ailes put them both on ice. Fox News is trying to make America forget about their open, non-stop, and wildly inaccurate campaigning for Romney. The network is hoping that if they take the faces of some of the most inaccurate predictions in the history of punditry off the air, everyone will forget that 2012 ever happened.
They may be able to bench Rove and Morris, but there is an almost endless supply of video showing high profile Fox News hosts and guests predicting a huge Romney win.
What Ailes doesn’t seem to comprehend is that much like Romney’s 47% video, his network’s behavior during the 2012 campaign served as a confirmation for many people that Fox News puts partisan politics ahead of facts. This isn’t a problem that can be solved by hiding Rove and Morris in secure and undisclosed location and letting it blow over.
Ailes is worried that viewers who have isolated themselves inside the Fox News terror dome will start to ask questions. And viewers who ask questions are dangerous to the long term health of Fox. If the folks at home start to wonder why their trusted source for news got it all wrong, Roger will have a big problem on his hands.
Out of sight out of mind is what Roger Ailes is hoping for, but being so wrong about Romney was a epic body blow that could hurt Fox News for years to come.
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bluerose
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 10:34 am
finally
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Sandra
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Someone should tell Ailes that this play won’t work. There are enough vides in archives all around the world that will be a reminder of Fcuk News complete failure. Hopefully the eegits who watch their channel will eventually realise FCUK News is exactly is just hot air noise. All lies all the time.
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 10:55 am
Well, somebody had to be the falls guys and they’re obvious targets (and made themselves such). Typical of the Republicans to attack the symptoms, however, rather than the cause. I mean, these guys were only saying what everybody on the right wanted to hear. If they wanted to hear something else – like, say, facts – they might find people to tell them something else.
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JustNosy
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 11:41 am
They’ve hid Bush 8 years and it seems to have worked rather well for them. Ailes problem is that MSNBC ratings are going up while FOX News are dropping. Reality shows are still popular, it seems.
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the bob.bob
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Rove thought that they had the election “fixed”. When the “re-calibration” of the voting machines in Ohio failed, he was caught looking like the gas-bag he is. America hate losers!
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mathazar
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Apparently Palin and Trump will restore fox’s credibility.
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djchefron
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Credibility?What credibilty?Surely you must be joking.I know, please don’t call you Shirley.
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djchefron
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
There is something more to this story.I mean come on Roger Ailes you built that trash on lies and propaganda.Could this be the reason and Dick Morris was just a sacrificial lamb?
I wonder if turdblossom leaked this news?
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Brandt Hardin
Dec. 5th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
The talking heads guarding the inhabitants of Bullsh*t Mountain from rejoining the world of the sane just won’t budge an inch will they? Fox News is a propaganda machine which dumbs down America by the day through disinformation and their slanted agendas. See their anchors spewing forth feces from their mouths in my visual homage to the network on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-fox-news-scylla-guardian-of-bullsht.html
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Anne
Dec. 6th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
They already have the stench of hateful rabble-rousing that they can’t wash off, whether or not Karl Rove is in the picture. The fact is that they saw what they wanted to see and not what the facts outside their bubble clearly suggested. While Rove is being scape-goated, he could not have done anything he did without the active encouragement and support of the GOP and its propoganda machine AKA FOX Noise. I have no sympathy for any of them, because they have been horribly destructive for this country.
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