Fox News CEO speaks about Karl Rove Meltdown

Roger Ailes talked about the infamous Election Night Meltdown on Fox News. Like many people, Roger was surprised at Karl's behavior:

“It only took 15 minutes to get home,” Ailes told TVNewser in a lengthy interview in his office Thursday. “I turn on the TV and the first thing I see is Rove saying something like ‘you called Ohio too early.’ And I thought, ‘What the? What is this?’” 

Ailes watched as his highly-paid pundit was challenging his decision desk’s call which would give the election to Pres. Obama. 

“So I quickly called [EVP of News] Michael Clemente and I said, ‘Michael whatever you do, don’t go to commercial. Don’t leave the screen.’” 

Ailes instructed Clemente to have Megyn Kelly, “go confront the decision team. If you have to, make the decision team confront Rove.” Confrontation is Roger Ailes’ middle name. (Actually it’s Eugene) 

Ailes says transparency was the key, telling Clemente, “‘We can’t do anything off camera.’ I didn’t want the public or our competitors to say we somehow panicked and didn’t confront the truth on camera.” 

“As it turned out Rove was wrong. He backed down. Our guys were right. We stayed with it. Megyn did her famous walk down the hall. And it all worked out.”

It made for good TV, I'll tell you that.

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Karl Rove's Excuses for his $300 Million Loss

Karl Rove has multi-reasons why Romney lost. Most of it is crazy, but hey, this man just lost everything so I get why he's all over the place.

But if you are not familiar with his excuses, Yahoo news has them listed nicely for you.

•Mother Nature: Don't like the election result? Blame God: "Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney's momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan." Rove telegraphed this argument even before election day, but the fact remains that there's almost no polling evidence at all for it. Obama's swing state lead had stabilized well before the storm hit. 

•Editors: "Then there was the anonymous New York Times headline writer who affixed "Let 'Detroit Go Bankrupt' to Mr. Romney's November 2008 op-ed on reorganizing the auto companies, which the Obama campaign brought up again and again in the industrial Midwest. The president made it appear that Mr. Romney favored liquidation of the companies (which he did not), instead of an orderly reorganization (which he did). 

•The Hired Help: "A hotel employee with a cellphone camera taped Mr. Romney talking at a May fundraiser about the "47%" of the population that do not have any federal income-tax liability. When released in September, the video added to public doubts about Mr. Romney's wealth and character." He also offered up another pair of juicy targets on Fox News the same day. 

•Dirty Tricks: Rove told Fox that Obama won by "suppressing the vote." Not by, say, imposing voting restrictions that disproportionately affect certain demographics, but by running mean ads about Bain Capital. And while Rove did the best he could ("The first group to respond to attacks on Bain was American Crossroads") the real problem was.... 

•Mitt Romney: Rove said the Republican nominee ran a "valiant race," but suggested that the failure to rebut the Bain attacks was exclusively a Romney issue. "We don't do defense all that well," he said. "It's better to have the candidate [respond]."

Oh Karl....

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