Dick Morris exits Fox News: Even he might have predicted this correctly
I would be more forgiving of Morris if he had just said he was wrong, provided a real reason for his forecasts, and promised to be better in the future. After all, none of us is perfect or even close to it (see my mea culpa for slips in 2012). Instead, Morris blamed the usual “Hurricane Sandy allowed Obama to win” hypothesis, and then said he knew he had been wrong, yet he’d wanted to raise the spirit of Republicans. This sort of action from a person who is supposed to inform the public simply isn’t acceptable.
Analysts and pundits must be held accountable for their misses. They should not just be able to appear on television or in print the next day and say “oops!”, without consequences. Which is why I was glad that Fox News actually acted on Morris’ embarrassingly poor performance. It suggests that Fox executives do actually care, at least at some level, about the accuracy of the electoral analysis being broadcast.
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rove should have been another one on Fox to go also!
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letget on February 6, 2013 at 1:22 PM
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steebo77 on February 6, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Or they wanted an excuse to cut him loose and took the opportunity.
Props anyways for not editing audio/video recordings. Seems to be something that is becoming a rarity.
kim roy on February 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM
They need to get rid of Rove and several others, too.
FloatingRock on February 6, 2013 at 1:28 PM
I’m not a Dick Morris fan but he’s better than Rove.
FloatingRock on February 6, 2013 at 1:29 PM
My theory is he was a progressive plant designed to make us complacent and say “I don`t need to go vote, we got this!”
ThePrez on February 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM
He’s all about his own bank account getting bigger, a bullsh*tter extraordinaire.
Too bad that Fox hired commie Kucinich, the fools.
Schadenfreude on February 6, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Rove is a hired hand — he will quickly migrate to CNN or MSNBC – or another network.
jake-the-goose on February 6, 2013 at 1:35 PM
The list is long. I no longer turn them on.
Schadenfreude on February 6, 2013 at 1:36 PM
They’d dump Rove if everyone changed the channel when he comes on.
I know that’s what I do. I can’t stand him. He’s the most direct cause of the decline of the GOP during and since the Bush years. He’s not a conservative put pretends to be one. And as far as I’m concerned, he ought to be political enemy #1 for conservatives.
Nessuno on February 6, 2013 at 1:36 PM
Oh good someone else we can rage over and blame all our troubles on.
rhombus on February 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM
True. So I never want to see the ugly mugs of Schmidt, Murphy, Wallace and Rove ever again.
ddrintn on February 6, 2013 at 1:37 PM
Do we really have to choose between the two?
Doughboy on February 6, 2013 at 1:39 PM
“Get the inside scoop from my new book “How Hillary Clinton and Hurricane Sandy Got Me Fired” – order at my website DickMorris do…”
forest on February 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Heh.
Here’s a choice for you:
You’re on a deserted island, no hope for rescue. A magic bottle washes up on the beach. Inside is a note which says, “Rub this bottle and a woman will appear on the island with you. You get only two choices, Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters.”
What do you do?
BacaDog on February 6, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Co-written, of course, by Eileen McGann.
steebo77 on February 6, 2013 at 1:53 PM
Morris had to go, he had become a one-trick pony once insight into the Clinton clan wasn’t necessary.
Rove will be treated nicely, and will be allowed to have his appearances on Fox become more “selective” as he builds his new super pac
phreshone on February 6, 2013 at 1:54 PM
I have chosen other channels or the “off” button.
kim roy on February 6, 2013 at 1:56 PM
It was Morris’s prediction that the Super Bowl would match the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs that was really unaccpetable.
radjah shelduck on February 6, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Is tossing the bottle back an option? Burying it?
kim roy on February 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Since Dick Morris made up the winning prediction, he now qualifies for a job at MSNBC where information is made up on an hourly basis.
jediwebdude on February 6, 2013 at 2:01 PM
No! No! Not the clam, coolly rational *A*R*C*H*I*T*E*C*T*, for pity’s sake, you soulless monster — !!!
Kent18 on February 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Pee in the bottle.
Kent18 on February 6, 2013 at 2:11 PM
Rove and Hannity deserve each other, and they both deserve the boot. Give the hour to Michelle Malkin. She’s conservative, but she’s an equal-opportunity basher.
BuckeyeSam on February 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Can we please get rid of Alan Colmes.
vityas on February 6, 2013 at 3:08 PM
Dear Dick:
Go suck a toe.
Sincerely,
Conservatives/Conservatism
Kent18 on February 6, 2013 at 3:10 PM
@BacaDog Nancy Pelosi. And then proceed to use her as a boat to escape the wretched island.
tommy71 on February 6, 2013 at 3:16 PM
You’d actually be willing to climb into that — ?!?
[::shudders::]
Kent18 on February 6, 2013 at 3:19 PM