Marco Rubio Just Lost the Support of Fox News (Roger Ailes)
Source: New York Magazine March 2, 2016 5:01 p.m.
In his role as the donor class's darling, Marco Rubio has enjoyed support from the Republicans' media arm, Fox News. Throughout the primary, Fox provided Rubio with friendly interviews and key bookings, including the first prime-time response to Barack Obama's Oval Office address on ISIS. Many of the network's top pundits, including Stephen Hayes and Charles Krauthammer, have been enthusiastic boosters. Bill Sammon, Fox's Washington managing editor, is the father of Rubio's communications director, Brooke Sammon.
But this alliance now seems to be over. According to three Fox sources, Fox chief Roger Ailes has told people he's lost confidence in Rubio's ability to win. "We're finished with Rubio," Ailes recently told a Fox host. "We can't do the Rubio thing anymore."
Ailes was already concerned about Rubio's lackluster performance in GOP primaries and caucuses, winning only one contest among the 15 that have been held. But the more proximate cause for the flip was an embarrassing New York Times article revealing that Rubio and Ailes had a secret dinner meeting in 2013 during which the Florida senator successfully lobbied the Fox News chief to throw his support behind the "Gang of 8" comprehensive immigration-reform bill. "Roger hates seeing his name in print," a longtime Ailes associate told me. "He was appalled the dinner was reported," the source said.
Fox's corporate support of Rubio has also been a growing source of tension with the network's more conservative talent. Sean Hannity was furious that the Times article reported how he went along with Rubio's immigration proposal. During an interview with Trump on Monday, Hannity barely defended Fox while Trump trashed Rubio backers like Hayes. "He shouldn't be on the air," Trump said. The best Hannity could muster was to change the subject. "Have you ever watched MSNBC?" he said.
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ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)They are blowing up in Republican world. Fun to watch.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)pimping the next Richard Nixon can't be a fun job
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)by the same intestinal parasite...
Sgent
(5,857 posts)compared to Cruz.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)voting vor if Hillary got it. mostly because he comes from my roots... and sure enough MN loved him. als that was just about it..
certainot
(9,090 posts)you're on the wrong blog
NCjack
(10,279 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)but we already knew that.
goldent
(1,582 posts)nearly every night. How will I notice if they no longer support Rubio?
big_dog
(4,144 posts)cruz is gonna finish him off in florida