Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Fox News Benches Karl Rove and Dick Morris


After making a fool of himself on election night, Fox News tells Karl to have a seat.
Fox News chief Roger Ailes wants Karl Rove and Dick Morris take a long break from the network.

The NYT reports
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. At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.”

A Fox spokesperson confirmed the new booking rules for Rove and Morris, and explained that Shine’s message was “the election’s over.”
 Well, Karl and Dick must feel like crap, and that's music to my soul.

3 comments:

Gene Perry said...

Ah, shuck, they will be missed!

Roger Poladopoulos said...

A permanent removal would be a huge leap in the right direction.

Bob said...

Ooh snap!

Love it.

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