According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris…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.”
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December 4, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Gavin
But now who is Jon Stewart going to talk about and make fun of? The Daily Show will only be 7 minutes long.
December 5, 2012 at 8:02 am
E
They’ve still got O’Reilly, who recently argued that Christianity is not a religion. (In fact, I think I saw this on Stewart’s show!)
December 5, 2012 at 9:39 am
Anonymous
I feel the same way. If Jon Stewart has less entertaining fodder, I’ll have less motivation to inform myself.
December 5, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Sandeep Baliga
Steve, Brian and Gretchen will help keep Jon involved and hence us up to date.