"Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."

[kpete]

This Is How Fox News "Saved" The GOP?
From Government Shutdown To The Bundy Debacle, Fox Keeps Damaging The GOP Brand



"As the network has become more extreme, it's become harder and harder to resonate -- it's become damaging to the Republican brand." That's how Roger Ailes biographer Gabriel Sherman recently described the dynamic to Media Matters.

Are Fox talkers that obtuse and out of touch with American politics? Not necessarily. The fact is they're just in a different business than the Republican Party and until the GOP recognizes that, Fox will continue to do damage to that party's brand. ("Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.&quot

At Fox, boss Ailes is in the business of serving the channel's hardcore, far-right audience of approximately two million viewers who tune in throughout the day, every day, to be outraged about what awful plans Obama has allegedly hatched, and which liberties and freedoms are suddenly under fire. And as a business plan, phony outrage works just fine for Fox. But politically, it represents a possibly permanent dead end for White House aspirations.

Fox News long ago commandeered the GOP's communications apparatus and has been championing the type of paranoid rhetoric that loses national elections and turns off voters en mass. The relentless, paranoid crusade falls well outside the mainstream of American politics. But the GOP can't turn it off. In fact, most Republicans can't even work up enough courage to ask Fox News to turn down the volume. And that's how malignant characters like Cliven Bundy get elevated to hero status and why conservatives are now gnashing their teeth over the fiasco.

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the rest:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/29/this-is-how-fox-news-saved-the-gop/199065

[Cartoonist]

1. Your bed, now go to sleep.

it's become damaging to the Republican brand
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Typical of the GOP, blame someone else. Yesterday they blocked a minimum wage increase. Fox had nothing to do with that. The Republican brand stinks.

[liberal N proud]

2. They raised the snake and now it has bitten them

[Eleanors38]

3. Didn't one of Fox's big boys go to work at CBS? Seems

they are expanding the Fox brand, much like RW radio has taken over that medium. I have to wonder as well what influence Rupert Murdoch, the owner, has. Most people at DU don't realize his anti-gun stance. Like most movers & shakers in the corporate state, he generally keeps his mouth shut and thinks ahead.

[Bjorn Against]

4. If they don't like the extremism of Fox they should denounce it

If instead of denouncing the extremism they choose to continue to give Fox exclusive interviews then it is fair to say they embrace the extremism.

[Douglas Carpenter]

5. Fox News might have started as a propaganda wing for the Republican Party - But since the last

several years - The Republican Party has been and is the political wing of Fox News. What you hear on Fox News today - you will hear from their legislative wing in Congress tomorrow.