2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumScott Brown's campaign is faltering in New Hampshire, but Roger Ailes has arrived with the cavalry!
FOX News plays an hour long campaign ad for free to rescue Scott Brown.
Have you noticed that Obamacare hasn't been the big campaign boost wingers were hoping for? Like it or not, it's not 2010 all over again, at least not with Obamacare leading their wave midterms.
It turns out people actually like Obamacare as long as you don't call it that. Don't call it the Affordable Care Act, either. But if you ask them about whether they like getting health insurance at subsidized rates, you get overwhelming approval. Ask them about whether they're glad there are no more pre-existing conditions exclusions and they like that too.
That sad fact of life means Scott Brown's entire reason for running for office in New Hampshire is a solid bust. Polling has him way behind Jeanne Shaheen, Tea Party groups aren't really active in New Hampshire, and he's on his way to remaining a former Senator from Massachusetts.
But wait! There's a knight in shining armor out there. Roger Ailes, realizing Brown is probably doomed, called for an hour-long special on Obamacare, featuring...New Hampshire! No mere coincidence, that.
Fox News basically handed Scott Brown an hour-long free TV ad, not to mention all the promos their hosts had to do pimping the special.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/fox-news-runs-hour-long-free-campaign-ad
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)And Ailes and his crew are just that.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)No, never
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)NEVER!!!!!
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Can't put that carpetbagger's election hopes back together again.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)And Ailes / FOX work for Rupert Murdoch.
He went to war with the Australian Labour government over a *single* issue (the carbon tax / global warming) and the scare campaign got Labour replaced and the carbon tax rescinded. By one estimate, Murdoch controls 70% of the media in Australia... definitely in the oligarch category.