Republican strategist says that Joni Ernst is Sarah Palin with more intelligence.

"She doesn't look so damn smart to me."

Courtesy of Newsmax: 

Republican political strategist Dick Morris shrugged off the news that former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin might run for office again, telling Newsmax TV on Wednesday that there's a new and improved Palin on the campaign trail these days — and her name is Joni Ernst. 

"Ernst is Sarah Palin, but with much more in the way of gray cells," Morris told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner, calling Iowa's Republican candidate for the Senate "one of the superstars of American politics." 

Wow, a smart Sarah Palin. That's the kind of thing that gives children nightmares here in Alaska. 

Dick Morris at one time was all in for Sarah Palin, but then he seemed to get over her. (Perhaps he saw her without her makeup or something.)

More recently Morris has become the political analyst who cannot get anything right.

Though I have to say that on this one he is undoubtedly correct.

I think that Joni Ernst IS just as much of a wing nut as Sarah Palin.

And as for the intelligence thing, well damn who isn't smarter than Klondike Kardashian?

Roger Ailes accuses President Obama of class warfare and racial divisiveness. Has he EVER watched his cable news station?

Fox News Latino. Nothing openly kiss ass about this right?

Courtesy of New Republic:

Roger Ailes is kvetching. “The president likes to divide people into groups,” he huffs into the phone. “He’s too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other.” With that off his chest, Ailes gets back on message. “We need to get along,” he says. 

It’s an unexpected plea from the Fox News CEO considering his impressive record of provocation. But recently, “getting along” has become an imperative for the conservative movement. Mitt Romney lost the Latino vote by nearly 50 points, and now almost everyone agrees that the Republican Party needs to improve with Hispanic voters to have a shot at the White House in 2016. That could also be Ailes’s last year at Fox News: His contract expires then, when he’ll be 76 years old. So if Roger Ailes wants to see a Republican win what may be his last presidential election as a major player, he’ll need to try to make conservatism more palatable to Latinos. Which, of course, he will. 

“The fact is, we have a lot—Republicans have a lot more opportunity for them,” Ailes says. “If I’m going to risk my life to run over the fence to get into America, I want to win. I think Fox News will articulate that.” 

Sadly for Ailes however is the fact that the audience for, and the talking heads representing, his cable news channel (Which is infamous for creating racial strife) are not quite so ready to embrace the pro-Latino love fest.

Old habits die hard, however, and some of the delicacies of the immigration debate are lost on these recent converts. Just after the election, O’Reilly chose as one of his show’s best moments a clip of himself saying: “I’m not committing a hate crime by saying ‘illegal aliens’ are just that.” Similarly, Hannity tells me: “I’ve used ‘illegals’ all these years I’ve been on TV....I don’t see it as an offensive term.” 

Neither do many Fox viewers. A National Hispanic Media Coalition survey in September found “a consistent pattern whereby Fox News audiences are indeed more likely to hold negative stereotypes about Latinos.” For the average Fox News anchor—not to mention fan—immigration reform is a harder sell than Ailes and other Republican elites admit.

Okay so who is it again "trying to get everybody to hate each other?"

Yeah if Ailes thinks that firing Dick Morris and Sarah Palin will fool the brown skinned people in this country into believing that Fox News is no longer in the business of racial division he has another think coming.

For one thing as long as he allows his anchors to launch ad hominem attacks against the President, with little or no evidence to back them up, he will continue to drive away the African American and Latino community in droves, as they see this President as the future of this country, and rich old fat men like Roger Ailes as its racist, oppressive, and lily white past.

On the right is Mitt Romney appearing on Univision and attempting to appeal to the Latino vote. I expect Roger Ailes approach to be very similar.

Like Sarah Palin before him Dick Morris has been culled from the pack of partisan pundits for being too stupid even for Fox News.

"Damn you facts and logic!"

Courtesy of Deadline Hollywood:

 Long time contributor Dick Morris will no longer be a talking head on Fox News Channel. “His contract is up and we will not be renewing it, ” a spokesperson for the news network confirmed today. A perpetual presence during last year’s Presidential election, Morris has not been seen on FNC since November 12. During the battle between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, the former Clinton advisor had been strongly predicting a big loss for the incumbent. Morris didn’t waste much time moving on from FNC. Earlier today, he announced via Twitter that he would be making an appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Wednesday. That will be the first time the conservative has appeared on CNN since 2002. Morris isn’t the only big name contributor departure from the top rated news network. FNC recently parted ways with former GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin after three years.

Morris of course famously predicted a Romney landslide which proved to be perhaps the most inaccurate prediction imaginable. After the election he was such an embarrassment that Sean Hannity had him on for a public spanking (“People are furious with you right now.”), during which Morris tried desperately to backpedal and blamed the outcome of the election on Hurricane Sandy and the fact that the media stopped covering Benghazi.

What I found interesting is that Karl Rove, who made a total ass out of himself on election night by not allowing Fox to call the election for Obama until well after every other network had, has been re-signed to a multi-year deal.

I guess being wrong at Fox News is not the real issue, they are wrong all of the time, but the REAL problem is being both wrong AND stupid. And who was more wrong and stupid than Dick Morris and Sarah Palin?

Rachel Maddow reveals that the difference between the conservative movement and scam artists is....well nothing.

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Well as most of you know WE have been talking about this for years, especially as it pertains to Sarah "Postage" Palin. However Rachel does a great job of essentially revealing that virtually the entire movement is nothing more than a giant money making scheme aimed at bilking those who they frighten into believing their bullshit.

In many ways this is reminiscent of televangelists who target the elderly, or "financial consultants" who provide seminars to church groups and swindle them out of their money.

In fact if you take a step back and look at Right Wing radio and Fox News, you cannot help but notice that the whole thing is set up as a marketing scheme to frighten low information people into supporting their candidates monetarily, buying books written by their on air "talent," and purchasing products that they don't need.

Gee, as if we needed yet ANOTHER reason to avoid Right Wing radio and Fox News.

To avoid further embarrassment Fox News benches Karl Rove. Yeah, like THAT will help!

"You can't send me to the showers I was Bush's brain. Wait, that may not be helping me here."

Courtesy of New York Magazine:  

The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network’s brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox in the post-election media environment, freshening story lines — and in some cases, changing the characters. According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff: He wants the faces associated with the election off the air — for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris — a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign — Ailes’s orders mean new rules. Ailes’s deputy, Fox News programming chief Bill Shine, has sent out orders mandating that producers must get permission before booking Rove or Morris. Both pundits made several appearances in the days after the election, but their visibility on the network has dropped markedly. Inside Fox News, Morris’s Romney boosterism and reality-denying predictions became a punch line. At a rehearsal on the Saturday before the election, according to a source, anchor Megyn Kelly chuckled when she relayed to colleagues what someone had told her: “I really like Dick Morris. He’s always wrong but he makes me feel good.” 

A Fox spokesperson confirmed the new booking rules for Rove and Morris, and explained that Shine’s message was “the election’s over.” 

Multiple sources say that Ailes was angry at Rove’s election-night tantrum when he disputed the network’s call for Obama.

While I love this, because I like it when the inmates throw spitballs at each other, I don't think it will last very long.

There really is only a small stable of so-called "experts" who are willing to lie their asses off on cable television and become a national laughingstock while doing so.

Both Rove and Morris are shameless self promoters who really don't care about facts and reality. How many other people are there out in the world of conservative punditry that Fox can get to replace them?

Oops did I just make a certain roadkill bewigged crazy person sit up and take notice?