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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 10:43 PM Aug 2014

Scott 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

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Scott Brown's campaign is faltering in New Hampshire, but Roger Ailes has arrived with the cavalry! (Original Post) UCmeNdc Aug 2014 OP
My friends to the north have an extreme dislike for carpetbaggers MannyGoldstein Aug 2014 #1
Fox News doing that? davidpdx Aug 2014 #2
You mean, "fair and balanced" Fox *News*? Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2014 #3
All of Rogers horses and all of Rogers men Blue Idaho Aug 2014 #4
"FOX News plays an hour long campaign ad for free to rescue Scott Brown." blkmusclmachine Aug 2014 #5
Murdoch & Co. can still decide elections in Australia and UK cprise Aug 2014 #6
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
1. My friends to the north have an extreme dislike for carpetbaggers
Sat Aug 9, 2014, 10:57 PM
Aug 2014

And Ailes and his crew are just that.

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
4. All of Rogers horses and all of Rogers men
Sun Aug 10, 2014, 12:05 PM
Aug 2014

Can't put that carpetbagger's election hopes back together again.

cprise

(8,445 posts)
6. Murdoch & Co. can still decide elections in Australia and UK
Mon Aug 11, 2014, 07:46 AM
Aug 2014

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.

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