Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Gen. David H. Petraeus in 2012: Rupert Murdoch & Roger Ailes failed efforts to enlist him?

So in spring 2011, Ailes asked a Fox News analyst headed to Afghanistan to pass on his thoughts to Petraeus, who was then the commander of U.S. and coalition forces there. Petraeus, Ailes advised, should turn down an expected offer from President Obama to become CIA director and accept nothing less than the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military post. If Obama did not offer the Joint Chiefs post, Petraeus should resign from the military and run for president, Ailes suggested. 
The Fox News chairman’s message was delivered to Petraeus by Kathleen T. McFarland, a Fox News national security analyst and former national security and Pentagon aide in three Republican administrations. She did so at the end of a 90-minute, unfiltered conversation with Petraeus that touched on the general’s future, his relationship with the media and his political aspirations — or lack thereof. The Washington Post has obtained a digital recording from the meeting, which took place in Petraeus’s office in Kabul.
McFarland also said that Ailes — who had a decades-long career as a Republican political consultant, advising Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush — might resign as head of Fox to run a Petraeus presidential campaign. At one point, McFarland and Petraeus spoke about the possibility that Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., which owns Fox News, would “bankroll” the campaign.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad he didn't run now that we know the scandal he was involved in.

Anonymous said...

Well what about all the scandals that Obama is involved in daily. Don't forget about the people he let die even though he watched it happen from pictures by a drone..........

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

This Washington Post article by Bob Woodward [who broke the Watergate scandal 40 years ago] proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what I've been saying since 2007: Fox's leadership - Rupert Murdoch & Roger Ailes - was anti-Romney from the get-go and did everything it could to torpedo his 2 presidential runs.

"Okay," McFarland [K.T. McFarland, Fox national security analyst]] said to Petraeus "the big boss [Rupert Murdoch] is bankrolling it [the proposed Petraeus presidential run]. Roger's [Roger Ailes] going to run it. And the rest of us [the rest of Fox] are going to be your in-house [in-house media]."

Petraeus was the first of the ABR(Anybody But Romney) candidates pushed and promoted by Fox, followed by Jeb Bush & Chris Christie, followed by the Star Wars bar scene of Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich & Rick Santorum.

The Woodward article tells you everything you need to know about Fox.

"Fair & Balanced" my ass. Fox is nothing but a bunch of liberal, RINO & neocon partisan hacks that were out to destroy Romney from day one, just like the rest of the mass media.