Sunday, January 22, 2017

Not Foxy Enough For The Trump Regime

Dissent will not be tolerated in the Trump regime, and nobody is a bigger target now than conservative pundits who weren't sufficiently loyal enough during the Trump campaign. There's no use for them in the era of Trump propaganda, and so they are being purged.

Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson.

Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning conservative columnist who was with ABC from 1981-2011 before coming to Fox in 2013.

In June of 2016, he declared he was leaving the Republican party because of Donald Trump, a decision the then-nominee appeared to embrace.

In 2015 and 2016, Will had periodically feuded with the network's highest-rated host, Bill O'Reilly, with Will once stating that O'Reilly's best-selling book, "Killing Reagan" was "nonsensical" and "The Factor" host calling Will "a hack" in a subsequent interview.

Dash was signed by Fox in 2014 and was primarily seen on the afternoon news discussion program, "Outnumbered." The 50-year-old Republican is best known for her co-starring role in the 1995 comedy, "Clueless."

Political strategist Ed Rollins, 73, was a political commentator for CNN before jumping to Fox in 2011. He's primarily known for serving as national campaign director for the successful Reagan-Bush 1984 campaign and currently co-chairs the pro–Trump Great America PAC.

Veteran journalist Marvin Kalb, 86, and syndicated columnist and radio commentator Cal Thomas, 74, also did not have their contracts renewed by the network.

No need for Dash with Obama gone.  No need for older "Never Trump" conservatives like Will, Thomas, Rollins and Kalb with Trump in charge.  They've outlived their usefulness.  Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly were the smart ones and left for greener pastures on networks who need conservative cred with the Trumpies.  This is how the business of political media works.  It's not about fact, it's about "truth".   They're out.  Who's in at the new Trump News Network?

On Friday, Fox announced the signing of former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage as a contributor.

Farage is a major backer of Brexit and outspoken supporter of President Trump.

Have to make the new regime happy.

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