All joking aside, I’m with Kevin on this one. I actually couldn’t sleep last night, I’m so worried about what will happen. Not just in the campaign but after.

Has Roger Ailes Become A Key Strategist For The Donald Trump Campaign?

Hey — who better for a man who admitted he’d date Ivanka if she weren’t his daughter to get advice from?

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Don’t forget Bill O’Reilly Jr. as African-American Outreach Coordinator. Donald T. Rump claims he will get 95% of the African-American vote. I’m not sure even Junior O’Reilly, with his well documented ability to tell tall tales can win that many votes for Mr. Rump.

Was Roger ‘Zipper Down’ Ailes brought in as their women’s outreach coordinator? Or maybe Trump’s “fairness and balance” advisor? Or maybe Donald’s fact checker since Trump’s a 65% 4 Pinocchios liar. Roger can get Trump to 100%.

It would seem to me Fox creation The Donald has already taken enough advise from Roger. But keep up the good work! 👍

I don’t think Bannon and Conway will last long either. I think if you watch the Trump campaign, it is an exercise in how to founder a ship. I think those are the captain’s wishes.

Don’t underestimate Roger Ailes’ ability to toss out distractions and viciousness during a campaign. Remember his activities during the 1984 Reagan campaign and the 1988 George HW Bush campaign – particularly the Willie Horton ad. Ellen is correct that he’ll take this campaign even farther into the mud than they’ve already descended.

And don’t underestimate Ailes’ continuing influence on Fox News, particularly with Bill Shine being at the top of the pyramid. My instincts say that Shine and Ailes are coordinating as closely as they can – with Ailes not “officially” working for the Trump campaign but in fact actually doing so. This would explain the increasingly connected messaging of the Trump campaign and Fox News’ coverage. And of course, Fox News will continue to cover every Trump rally they can as though it was newsworthy.

I note in the gutterball territory that Jesse Watters sneered out another debunked cheap shot at Hillary Clinton last night – in which he “just” threw in the notion that Hillary Clinton had stolen 200K of silverware from the White House when she and Bill Clinton left there in 2001. Anyone actually having followed this whack-a-mole story would know that this is not actually what happened, and that if we are to compare departing presidents and their gifts that they take with them, Ronald and Nancy Reagan would dwarf everyone with the millions of dollars of materials they took.

I also note that for some reason, Sean Hannity is now repeatedly setting up “Town Halls” for Trump to appear presidential while Hannity arranges an approving group of right wing talking heads and angry white Trump supporters to buoy him up. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a situation where a “news network” would go all-in like this for a candidate. It’s pretty blatant.

Of course, at the same time, there are several voices at the network that aren’t drinking this Kool-Aid. I’ll be very curious to see how the fallout looks in November and December. I have a strong feeling that some people will not be staying at Fox News afterwards.

So, what’s the point if he is ‘back’?
What can he offer other than ALL the Fox viewers, which I’m pretty sure Trump already has. let’s count the presidential candidates that Ailes has propelled into presidency since GWB:
Oh, wait…there hasn’t been any.
But, of course, Ailes wielded his vast power and knowledge to destroy Barack Obama, didn’t he?
Hmmmm.
I guess that didn’t work out so well, either.
Hillary Clinton???
Nahhh…she’s still standing.

Jabba “give me a twirl” Ailes is back. Or maybe he never left. Every ounce of his 300 pounds of blubber quivers at the thought of being a Presidential kingmaker.