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Fox News Mole: Fox Knows Dick Morris Is Full Of BS

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on November 17, 2012 · Flag

Fox News "mole" Joe Muto visited HuffPost Live the other day (as our Priscilla previously posted) and confirmed something we've long suspected: that not even Fox News believes Dick Morris' predictions.

Muto said:

The people at Fox are not stupid. …They know when they have Dick Morris or one of these other pundits on predicting a landslide victory for Romney, people behind the scenes know that it’s all bluster. They know that this is sort of an entertainment. They know that a lot of these people are just hucksters and they’re trying either to sell a product – I guess in Dick Morris’ case subscriptions to his website or political consulting fees or something like that. …We producers behind the scenes know that this is all kind of a farce. The reason we don’t sort of step in and give more of a reality check to our audience is because that’s terrible for ratings.

As I've previously posted, Dick Morris recently admitted to Sean Hannity that he predicted Mitt Romney's landslide victory in order to help his then-floundering campaign. Although Morris insisted he had believed his own predictions, there is plenty to suggest in his comments that he knew he was exaggerating. At the very least, Morris' remark - that he felt it was his "duty at that point to go out and say what I said" - raises a lot of red flags about Morris' integrity as a Fox News "political analyst" and begs the question, what would he have said under other circumstances?

Now, Muto is saying that not even Fox believes what Morris says but that they promote his bluster because it's good for ratings.

So if Muto is right and Fox knows Morris is full of BS, does this not raise the question as to whether Morris deliberately says things he knows are not true - but sensational - to complete the vicious cycle of good-for-ratings dissembling?

Video is available at HuffPost.

 

 

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doors17 commented 2012-11-18 11:06:03 -0500 · Flag
Whenever Morris appears in the future Fox should have a disclaimer saying “For entertainment purposes only”.
Joshua Hatheway commented 2012-11-18 06:07:09 -0500 · Flag
Wow, since when did Muto become a reliable source. He certainly has no agenda. I forget, what was his big story? Fox’s bathrooms are dirty? or Something? And how does he know what people at Fox are thinking now? He was let go in disgrace from that establishment.
mlp ! commented 2012-11-17 22:59:32 -0500 · Flag
Toes are breath-fresheners for people who eat shit.
(to borrow from an old phrase!)
Dick Morris’ time has passed.
truman commented 2012-11-17 20:21:34 -0500 · Flag
Anyone with an ounce of brains has known for some time that whoremongering, toe-sucking Dick Morris is full of shit.
Kent Brockman commented 2012-11-17 20:20:09 -0500 · Flag
Corruption of this kind feeds on itself in an ever escalating spiral of even worse corruption. Fux Nuze is an unReality TeeVee show.
Thx4 Fish commented 2012-11-17 20:17:39 -0500 · Flag
Its almost unanimous. Fox knows Morris is full of bs. Morris knows he’s full of bs. The only ones out of the loop are the brain dead viewers. But that, unfortunately includes a lot of politicians. God help them.








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