Click to subscribe!Īnd the best way to get on Fox News as much as possible? Say the most outlandish and outrageous things possible. THE POINT - NOW ON YOUTUBE! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Now the goal was to become a conservative pundit on Fox News – that was where the real power (and money if you decided to leave Congress) was. To Boehner’s critical point about how Fox skewed incentives within the GOP: No longer was the goal for most members of Congress (or those aspiring Republicans hoping to join their ranks) to accrue seniority and rise in the ranks of their preferred committee or even into House GOP leadership. Instead, the network became a fever swamp for internet trolls pushing every sort of conspiracy theory – from Benghazi to Obama’s citizenship. It was no longer about pushing conservative policy solutions and young stars of the movement. The reality that Boehner exposes is that following the 2008 election of Obama, something fundamentally changed at Fox News. ”Īiles died in 2017, so we’ll never know – as Boehner claims here – whether the head of Fox News believed all of the conspiracies being peddled on his air. “ Places like Fox News were creating the wrong incentives.
“I thought I could get him to control the crazies, and instead I found myself talking to the president of the club. Then he outlined elaborate plots by which George Soros and the Clintons and Obama (and whoever else came to mind) were trying to destroy him…. Embassy in Benghazi, which he thought was part of a grand conspiracy that led back to Hillary Clinton. But he did go on and on about the terrorist attack on the U.S. “When I put it to him like that, he didn’t have much to say. I didn’t expect this meeting to change anything, but I still thought it was bullshit, and I wanted Roger to know it. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder. I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. “At some point after the 2008 election, something changed with my friend Roger Ailes. But the most important part of the piece, which is taken from his book – “On the House” – set to be released later this month, is what Boeher writes about the role Fox News and Roger Ailes, the man who ran the network, played in seeding the ground for the rise of the conspiracy theory wing of the GOP and its eventual leader Donald J. Ted Cruz a nasty name, refers to lots of Republicans elected in 2010 as “morons” and admits that President Barack Obama had little reason to find “common cause with people who think you are a secret Kenyan Muslim traitor to America.”Īll of these tidbits are interesting – and will draw headlines. In an interview then, Lee calmly explained his opposition to Boehner’s plans to avoid a confrontation that eventually provoked a shutdown.In an explosive excerpt from his forthcoming memoir, former House Speaker John Boehner calls Texas Sen. The gambit resulted in a government shutdown as Boehner sought to placate the conservative forces that plagued his reign as speaker.īut even when he was battling with Boehner back in 2013, Lee merely said he was “not a fan” of the Ohio Republican’s plans to try an end run around conservatives, which ultimately failed as Boehner went with the failed Obamacare gambit. Lee and Cruz were architects of the GOP strategy in 2013 that sought to defund Obamacare in a spending bill. The same guy who praises Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.” He’s the golfing buddy, the texting buddy of John Boehner. “This is a wake up call to people who are supporting Donald Trump, thinking that he’s the guy that’s going to rail against the establishment. “The fact that he has done this is appalling. But after reading about Boehner’s comments in Stanford on Wednesday evening, Lee said he was “livid to have him talk about my friend Ted Cruz” like that. Lee, who is confrontational in his tactics but generally soft-spoken and deliberative in his remarks, called Boehner’s remarks “really vile stuff” and said he had held his tongue for years out of respect for Boehner’s office as a powerful GOP leader.
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