Roger Ailes' Super-Sunday Stratagem: Football Meets Politics
On Feb. 3, a k a Super Bowl Sunday, in an original News Corp. smorgasbord, reporters from FOX News will be teaming up with reporters from FOX owned and operated stations from around the country for a three hour broadcast event, focusing on—USA! USA!—presidential politics and professional football.
Shepard Smith, of FOX News, will headline the production from Glendale, Ariz., the site of this year’s Super Bowl. FOX News anchor (and Cincinnati Bengals fanatic) Bill Hemmer will contribute from New York, along with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly.
As the anchors toggle back and forth between discussion of the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, they will chew over political dispatches from FOX Broadcasting reporters from around the country.
More from today’s announcement:
FOX Super Sunday will also include a behind-the-scenes look as the action gets underway for the Superbowl. Meanwhile, FOX Business Network's Alexis Glick will offer a peek at the best commercials and the economics behind the biggest sporting event of the year while FOX News correspondents Carl Cameron and Major Garrett will provide live updates from the campaign trail alongside correspondent Bret Baier in Washington, D.C.
Also reporting from campaigns across the country will be Dick Brennan (WNYW FOX 5) with Rudy Giuliani, Harry Martin (WWOR My9) with Hillary Clinton, Jack Conaty (WFLD FOX 32) with Barack Obama, Scott Sayres (KDFW FOX 4) with Mike Huckabee, Joe Battenfeld (WFXT FOX25) with Mitt Romney, Steve Krafft (KSAZ FOX 10) with John McCain, Jason Carter (WHBQ FOX 13) with Fred Thompson and Bob Buckley (WGHP FOX8) with John Edwards.
Final proof that there is no God. Well, that frees up that Sunday afternoon.
Cool!!! I love Shep!!! I don't care too much for football (except the commercials) :)
In my eyes, the perfect combo!!
I wanna watch da footbal I dont wanna watch da politics lying boosheet when I watchin da football. If I gots to watch polotics with da football I will get very mad and I will break things so please no politics in the football cause I will be trouble and my family will suffer the children cry and momma screamin bloody murder with me bustin the place up! Then police come and we have more trouble jus because polotics ruined my football, damn it!
If they have someone with the Giuliani campaign (assuming there still IS a Giuliani campaign if he doesn't win in Florida), then they had also better have someone with the Ron Paul campaign, since Paul is currently leading Giuliani in the delegate count.
Giuliani and Thompson are still in the race?... Why not interview people who have been getting more votes?
What a joke. I cannot believe the continued blatant omission of Ron Paul. It's like he is not even running. Most people don't even have a clue how the election is being stolen since they don't even know who Ron Paul is unless they go online where the truth is. Fox News Sucks!
I can't understand why Ron Paul with more votes then Thompson and Guilliani so far in the primaries, more money raised last quarter then everyone, more straw poll wins then anyone gets excluded from Fox related events.
it is outrageous that Fox is intentionally removing Ron Paul from the presidential election. This country is finished.
Fox has lost its last shred of credibility.
The difference between the citizens and the coporations with respect to democracy is, the citizens blame the democracy, believing it to be something; but the corporations laugh at democracy, knowing it to be nothing at all. To all of you citizens who thought you could stand up to corporatism, this is the sound of FOX laughing at democracy. This is the sound of the Republic dying.
Thats because Fox News is a Nazi Corporation supporting the New World Order most people are blind to. Ron Paul has more public support than any of these peice of crap control freak pro war candidates, The Revolution is COMING.
The melding of football and politics as entertainment is a serious (and rare) miscalculation on the part of Fox. Culturally, the Super Bowl is as close as America gets to a shared religious experience. Even with a captive audience, introducing interviews with the candidates will be tantamount to forcing the fans to drink warm beer.
I will watch the game on delay, allowing me to skip the ads and the politicians. So will an ever-increasing number of viewers. Even Super Bowl watchers have their limits.
Poor Ron Paul
With friends like these...
More political bias / pablum force fed from the Fox Disinformation Punditry and Opinion division.
Liberals since the late 90s: Fox News is teh biasedest! How can they do such a thing and call themselves news! They are just shills for the GOP leadership!
Conservatives: Democrats are unhinged! If you can't handle Fox how will you handle bin Laden, etc.
Fox: Instead of just pushing party politics against Dems, we also hate this Ron Paul chap.
Conservatives: Oh noes! Fox News is teh biasedest! How can they do such a thing and call it themselves news! (Etc. Etc.)
Liberals: P.S. We were right that Iraq was going to be a disaster too.
Conservatives: No way! Fox News says its going great! General Petreus and Hannity would never lie! Oh, we see what you did there.
Liberals: Yeah, playing Cassandra just sucks.
Conservatives: Don't push it.
Feh. Fox started doing this in 2002 with its either-or questions to players:
Terry Bradshaw: What are you, hunting or fishing? NASCAR or windsurfing? Country or classical? Republican or Democrat? Liberal or conservative?
Player, with deer-in-the-headlights look: Uh, I try to stay out of politics and just play the game, Terry . . .
They were doing that with practically every player they interviewed. Complaints from the players must have shut it down.
The testosterone-huffing goes on, however. You're either a PLAYER, a MAN, or . . . something else.
Hoping for backlash. Mix sports and politics at your own peril.
Fox is stooping to ANOTHER new low. Will this anti-American "news" channel stop at nothing? Finally I get to stay at home and watch some foorball and these guys are going to expect me to join this? Wrongo, Faux!
Where's the coverage of my man, Dr. Ron Paul?
Faux is not a team player!
GO Giants!
Fox News - "We report, you decide" - should be changed to - "We report, WE decide".
Fair and Balanced? I don't think so, not if Ron Paul, who is ahead of both Thompson and Guliani in total votes, is left out.
I prefer my football without politics. Fox News is finished.
America better wake up!
Most representatives are ignoring their constituents, while representing their lobbyists and corporate sponsors in Washington, D.C. Concerned Americans are expected to get their limited amount of information via the memos government sends by way of the mainstream media -- which means most Americans, including those listening to mainstream conservative radio, have no idea what is happening in this country or around the world. I learned more about what was happening in America and in the Middle East by reading one hour's worth of Ron Paul's Freedom Reports than I did listening to Rush for 15 years.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” Mohandas Gandhi
Fox News...they distort, you comply!
I could point out that Dr. Ron Paul leads several of the other candidates Fox deems worthy of coverage in delegate count. I could point out he leads even more in fundraising. I could point out his leading straw poll results.
Don't fall for their lies. A vote for any candidate they approve of is a vote for more tyranny.
Ron Paul supporters have to come up with a way to get Ron Paul s message across at the game.... Maybe Ron Paul should just attend the game and get an interview live at the stadium!!!
This ought to cool everything !
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