Recruiting Drives 2
Fox News is often rightly characterized as the official propaganda outlet for the Republican Party.
Or is it perhaps the other way around? Jay Bookman reports:
A.) Urges Petraeus to run for president against Barack Obama;
B.) Tells Petraeus that she was instructed to carry that message to Petraeus by Fox News President Roger Ailes and its owner, Rupert Murdoch;
C.) Tells Petraeus that Fox would fully back his presidential campaign, and by fully back she means:
D.) Murdoch would finance the campaign. Ailes would leave Fox to run the campaign. And Fox News itself would become the house organ of the campaign. As McFarland puts it point blank, “The big boss is bankrolling it. Roger’s going to run it. And the rest of us are going to be your in-house.”
No doubt this would have worked out well.
After all, everything else being equal (which, of course, it would not have been), the Paula Broadman story would have broken three days after the election.
December 4, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Hah. KT McFarland has always been nuts but just the kind of person from the old Reagan administration who would make a good messenger and be deniable. If you need some light humor check all the speeches she has on YouTube.
December 4, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Maybe later. I’ve had enough insanity for one day. I should have believed in the Sanity Clause.