The GOP frontrunner stopped by FNC after meeting Megyn Kelly

Fox News host Megyn Kelly kept Donald Trump in the news yesterday simply by meeting to chat about an eventual interview. But it was the GOP frontrunner’s lunch with Fox News boss Roger Ailes that could end up being the most significant meeting of the day.

The New York Times reported Ailes and Trump ate lunch at the network’s NYC headquarters on Avenue of the Americas following the GOP presidential candidate’s meeting with Kelly.

The significant luncheon could be the first step in repairing a relationship that has been strained since Ailes defended Kelly when Trump repeatedly attacked her on Twitter. The drama has led to everything from an out-of-character, snarky statement from Ailes to Trump skipping a Fox News debate.

http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-roger-ailes-dine-fox-news-megyn-kelly-gop-republican/

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is right: the 'system is 'rigged'. The media barrage against the billionaire demonstrates irrefutably how the power establishment, not the people, decides who sits in the White House.

Trump is increasingly assailed in the US media with alleged character flaws. The latest blast paints Trump as a total loose cannon who would launch World War III. In short, a “nuke nut”.

In the Pentagon-aligned Defense One journal, the property magnate is described as someone who cannot be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. Trump would order nuclear strikes equivalent to 20,000 Hiroshima bombings as “easy as ordering a pizza”, claimed the opinion piece.

If that’s not an example of “project fear” then what is?

The mainstream US news media have never liked the brash billionaire Trump. He makes good circulation figures for sure, but the large coverage the Republican contender has received from the outset is preponderantly negative.

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American politics has long been derided as a “dog and pony show”, whereby powerful lobbies buy the pageant outcome. Trump’s own participation in the election is only possible because he is a multi-billionaire who is able to fund a political campaign.

That said, however, the New York businessman has garnered a sizable popular following from his maverick attacks on the rotten Washington establishment.

But what we are witnessing is a brazen display of how the powers-that-be (Wall Street, media, Pentagon, Washington, etc) are audaciously intervening in this electoral cycle to disenfranchise the voting population.

Clinton has emerged as the candidate-of-choice for the establishment, and the race to the White House is being nobbled – like never before.

US democracy a race? More like a knacker’s yard.

 

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The point here is that the empire powers do not what to be friends with Russia. Donald wants to be friend with Russia. So the empire powers invent him as a mad man (they did not have to work hard — he is nutso) compared to the "rational" psychopaths such as Obama and Clinton. 

We are on the war path...

 

meanwhile at the ABC gladatorial arena called Q&A...

 

And when she suggested that Price might have a rather different perspective on the hilarity of the joke from his position as one of the blokes compared with her, as one of the potential victims, Price took mighty umbrage.

"Just because you're a woman doesn't mean you're the only person who can get upset about this," he interrupted, speaking over her to audible "oooooh!" from the audience. "Men can be just as upset about these things."

"Steve, you're proving my point very excellently, about the attitudes that create this kind of problem," she blasted back, to thunderous applause. "I don't think I'm proving anything," Price sulkily responded. "I think you're just being hysterical."

Badham paused, as the audience processed that they'd just watched a grown man dismiss a woman as being "hysterical" literally while she was explaining how dismissive attitudes to women feed into a culture of gender-violence. And then Badham delivered the coup de grace.

"It's probably my ovaries making me do it, Steve."

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And I am sure there are a lot of dicks out there whose dick are making them do it...

Rupert Murdoch has reportedly told the Fox News chairman and chief executive, Roger Ailes, to resign or he will be fired following fresh allegations that he sexually harassed another of the channel’s star anchors.

Murdoch, whose family owns the news channel as part of 21st Century Fox, is said to have given his long-standing friend, and one of the most powerful executives in news media, his marching orders on Monday after Megyn Kelly, 45, told investigator that Ailes, 76, sexually propositioned her early on in her career.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/19/roger-ailes-megyn-kelly-alleges-sexual-harrassment

 

The most dramatic bursting of the conservative bubble came on Fox itself. After the Fox News decision desk (along with the other networks) finally called the election for Obama, Karl Rove insisted on air, his voice growing increasingly desperate, that the election wasn’t over because Romney could still win Ohio. A camera then followed Megyn Kelly through the halls at Fox to where their data nerds were crunching numbers, so they could explain to the audience that it really was over. Rove refused to believe it, even as the words “Barack Obama re-elected president” remained on the screen (you can watch the whole thing here).

But somehow, neither Fox nor conservatives more generally seemed to learn their lesson. It isn’t that there’s never a dissenting voice on the network, because there is. But even as they struggled to figure out how to deal with the rise of Donald Trump, who obviously threatened the well-being of the Republican Party, they couldn’t admit the degree to which they helped create the Trump phenomenon. Trump’s voters are Fox’s target demographic, after all. Fox has the oldest audience in cable news, with a median age of 68. Some of their shows skew even older; the median viewer of Bill O’Reilly’s show is 72. So the average Fox viewer is an old white guy somewhere in middle America, who sits down every night to shake his fist at the screen while O’Reilly and Hannity tell him that Barack Obama hates America, immigrants are destroying our way of life, Muslims are coming to kill us, and the white man can’t catch a break. And then you wonder why Trump rampaged through the primaries, after Republican voters have been marinating in this toxic stew of resentment and anger for so long?

Roger Ailes’ departure marks the end of an era, a period when conservative talk radio exploded, cable news came into its own, and the GOP was transformed from a governing party to one that can win in areas where conservatives dominate, whether in Congress or at the state and local level, but can’t assemble a national majority to take the White House. The Republican Party, like Fox News, has its ardent fans but can’t expand past its base. And even conservatives are beginning to realize it — at least those “establishment” ones the party’s voters despise so furiously.

So now there’s a chance to remake not only Fox but the entire conservative media. As lucrative as the current model has been as a business proposition, it’s showing strain (Rush Limbaugh has been dropped recently from some of his biggest stations and is having trouble finding major advertisers). I don’t know much about the Murdoch sons’ feelings about politics, but it’s unlikely that whoever they choose to be Ailes’ replacement will bring the same ideological fervor to his or her job. So it’s conceivable that Fox could begin to open up, to try to find some way to keep its viewers while helping them broaden their views of the world. If they could manage it, that would help their whole party, and might even make it possible for them to elect a president one day. The end of the Ailes era, along with a bracing defeat in the 2016 election, could be just what the party needs to make a new start.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/07/20/how-the-fall-of-the-godfather-of-conservative-media-could-save-the-gop/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

 

A new start? Yep... But FOX will still be a conservative hub. The only difference is that the preaching will be done with more Trump-like hubris with shifting sands, traps and water hazards like on a golf course... Pretty simple stuff: new personnel, same simpletonian shit with shades of pretend understanding to lure the next generation of Pokemon addicts. 

 

Fox News co-founder and CEO Roger Ailes has stepped down over allegations of sexual harassment and retaliation. Co-Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch will take over as Chairman and Acting CEO.

The Thursday resignation came in response to accusations made by former anchor Gretchen Carlson and other female employees.

Murdoch, currently the executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, will become the acting CEO of Fox News and Fox Business Network in the wake of Ailes’ resignation.

“Roger Ailes has made a remarkable contribution to our company and our country,” Murdoch said in a statement. “Roger shared my vision of a great and independent television organization and executed it brilliantly over 20 great years.”

Carlson brought a lawsuit against Fox News claiming that she was fired for refusing to sleep with Ailes and complaining about what she thought was =a discriminatory work environment. More women subsequently accused Ailes of inappropriate behavior that they said happened over the span of decades.

The 76-year-old has denied the accusations, but 21st Century Fox determined in an internal review that Ailes would no longer remain in his position.

read more: https://www.rt.com/usa/352563-roger-ailes-resigns-fox/

When I first met Roger Ailes in 1993, I was working for The Los Angeles Times. I was surprised by how engaging he was and how much he seemed to enjoy debating a newspaper reporter. I was there to interview Mr. Ailes about CNBC, NBC’s cable business channel, which he had just been hired to run.

The move raised questions in my mind about the ethics of a news network hiring a former Republican strategist. Mr. Ailes, after all, had helped teach Richard Nixon how to use television in 1968 and helped George H.W. Bush beat Michael Dukakis in 1988 with vicious ads.

Mr. Ailes said that he had left politics to return to television, where he had begun his career. He semi-jokingly asked me whether I thought a former Democratic strategist joining the news media would get the same questions. Then, in a moment of seriousness, he talked about how as a young man he had hated seeing someone bullied. “I see myself as a ‘corner man,’ ” he said, “the guy in the ring, coaching the boxer to throw his best punches.”

Three years later, Rupert Murdoch hired Mr. Ailes to create the Fox News Channel. The pugilistic network became an absolute reflection of Mr. Ailes’s significant skills as a producer, his eye for talent and opposition-research-style public relations. It is an empire he created that shapes much of our political discourse today. On Thursday, Mr. Ailes, 76, announced that he is stepping down as chairman and chief executive of Fox News amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Fox News did not invent political polarization in Congress and the country. But it has abetted and amplified it, creating an ideologically bifurcated cable-news landscape. I know, because I had an up-close view of this, as a media commentator on Fox from the late 1990s until 2009.

The genius of Mr. Ailes at Fox has been repeating the same thing over and over until it is believed by Fox viewers: that it was “unpatriotic” for other media to show dissent about the Iraq war after the attacks of Sept. 11, that Obamacare is a “government takeover,” that President Obama is soft on terrorism and won’t call jihad “jihad,” that Hillary Clinton is crooked because of the investigation into her email. I sincerely doubt we would have had Donald Trump without Roger Ailes.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/opinion/the-world-roger-ailes-created.html?_r=0

 

 

Here one has to look at the grand sorcerer himself: Mr Rupert Murdoch. Ailes, despite his great knowledge of US politics, got the go ahead from the man who has crystallised right-wing capitalist thinking around the planet. Uncle Rupe.

A tweet by British journalist Piers Morgan, to whom US President Donald Trump allegedly revealed that he is not a feminist, sparked a lot of sarcasm among social media users. Trump's response to rapper Jay-Z calling his presidency "disappointing" added fuel to the fire.

British journalist Piers Morgan revealed details of his recent interview with Donald Trumpin his Twitter account.

In particular, he apparently considered it especially important to inform internet users about the "sensational" fact that the US president is not a feminist.

In an attempt to make his tweet catchy, Morgan provided it with a caption: "BREAKING NEWS."

 

https://sputniknews.com/us/201801281061141535-twitter-quake-trump-not-fe...

 

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