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Roger Ailes: “I don’t have any problem with a path to citizenship”
“The president likes to divide people into groups,” Ailes told The New Republic. “He’s too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other.”
To counter those tactics, conservatives need to reach out to Latinos — and Ailes indicated that Fox plans to help with that effort.
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What does the one thing have to do with the other?
Nice to know, though, that Fox News is now Fox Advocacy.
Dusty on February 11, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Given his channel’s coverage of illegal immigration, that’s no surprise.
Stoic Patriot on February 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM
So even the pretense of “fair and balanced” is out the window now? Fox is going to choose specific positions and advocate for them? Nice to know…
Shump on February 11, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Duh, your viewers have noticed the change. How are FNC ratings these days?
sauldalinsky on February 11, 2013 at 4:14 PM
…as long as it starts at the BACK of the line of legal immigrants.
mojo on February 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Hispandering never gets old!!!
trs on February 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Sarah knew it was time to get out. according to joe scarborough, ailes is the defacto head of the repulican party. must be true for once. how else to explain rove permanence?
renalin on February 11, 2013 at 4:15 PM
So are conservatives going to finally bail on Fox now?
joekenha on February 11, 2013 at 4:20 PM
We’ve noticed!
FloatingRock on February 11, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Now?
lester on February 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Well, speaking as a conservative, no. Because where else am I supposed to go for the news? CNN? MSNBC? The New York Times? Not likely. Even though I am disappointed to see Fox so openly turning itself into a GOP establishment advocacy organization, I can find no better alternative in the arena of televised news. And they still have some people I do respect, such as Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.
Shump on February 11, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Yeah. Now. At least Ailes is honest about it, unlike the heads of your news organizations who continue to bitterly cling to their ‘were not biased’ marketing campaigns.
Dusty on February 11, 2013 at 4:35 PM
haha, good point.
Sachiko on February 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM
Well, the MSM gets away with it all the time, why shouldn’t FOX? At least now they don’t have plausible deniability that they favor amnesty anymore.
Don’t know if she really left of her own accord or not, but even if she was “pushed,” FOX may have unintentionally done her a favor. I’ve noticed in the last 2-3 years that conservative trust in FOX has been plunging.
Doomberg on February 11, 2013 at 4:43 PM
No hsit.
xblade on February 11, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Good example as to why one should not get their news from these “news channels”.
Joey24007 on February 11, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Next thing you know the WSJ will be telling us that they favor amnesty too! /rolls eyes
FloatingRock on February 11, 2013 at 4:56 PM
I started watching FNC in the late 90′s, stopped watching the other news channels in the early 2000′s, boycotting them almost entirely starting with the amnesty push in ’07, and finally stopped watching/listening to FNC, Rush and Mark Levin during the ’12 primaries. I get all of my news online now. It would be nice if there was a conservative/libertarian news channel that is not based in the DC/NY axis of evil.
FloatingRock on February 11, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Where have you been? the “push” to get rid of Beck, the toning down of the TEA party. The attacks on conserivites by FOx over the last 5 years. People like COD, Palin, angle. the drive to include more and more liberals under the banner of fair and balanced…. All of these actions have said FOX news and Ailes are moderates at the least more likely progressives. Hell thanks to Ailes we got the worse nominee in history called Mitt Romney.
The TEa party scared the crap out of people like Ailes. They didn’t know how pis#ed off the people were at the establishment and thought they were just creating a force to go against Obama. Once 2010 hit and many of their “friends” were pushed from office by real conservatives like West, Haley etc there was a major attempt by Ailes to do damage control and stop the TEa party before it completed what Reagan started. they turned many of the fresh faces like Rubio and those that didn’t fall in line like West and Palin were blacklisted.
Why anyone would watch Foxnews is beyond me. they are just Right of CNN. they aren’t your friends they don’t believe inReaganism. They are nothing but quislings helping the left.
unseen on February 11, 2013 at 5:17 PM
she was offered a contract and turned them down. they made sure her voice was silenced during the convention and kept her off the air after the election so that the GOP remained leaderless during the lame duck of congress. Palin understood what was going on and left the station. It remains to be seen if that will be in conservatives favor ove the next year…..
I do have a feeling that conservatives are going to have to make a lot of choices in the coming months and decide which side they are on. This is a interparty war and only one side will win.
unseen on February 11, 2013 at 5:21 PM
Useful article from WND Is Fox News really different?
One thing for sure, FOX is reinventing itself. Still like Varney, but even his show I hate the weird tit for tat shouters
entagor on February 11, 2013 at 5:30 PM
no not surprised. I’ve seen a major chang ein FOx news over the last 5 years or maybe My eyes were just opened.
unseen on February 11, 2013 at 5:38 PM