Fox News parts ways with Dick Morris

Fox News parts ways with Dick Morris

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
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Morris predicted a "landslide" victory for Romney. (Fox News)

Less than two weeks after Fox News announced its decision not to renew the contract for former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, the network has decided to part ways with paid conservative pundit Dick Morris, too.

A spokeswoman for Fox News confirmed that Morris' contract was up recently and the News Corp.-owned network would not be renewing it. He had been a contributor to Fox News since 1998.

Morris, who predicted a "landslide" victory for Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential election, was ridiculed by in the wake of President Obama's decisive victory on Nov. 6.

"I've got egg on my face," Morris wrote on FoxNews.com. "The key reason for my bum prediction is that I mistakenly believed that the 2008 surge in black, Latino, and young voter turnout would recede in 2012 to 'normal' levels. Didn’t happen."

"How badly does this hurt your franchise?" Bill O'Reilly asked Morris the day after the election. "How badly does it hurt?"

In December, New York magazine reported Morris and fellow Fox political analyst Karl Rove--who initially refused to accept Obama's win on the air even after Fox News projected the president's reelection--had been benched by the network. Rove has since returned to the air, but according Media Matters, Morris has not appeared on Fox News since Nov. 12.

But Morris isn't done with his cable news career entirely. On Wednesday, he's scheduled to appear on CNN as a guest on Piers Morgan's primetime show.

According to the New York Times, Palin had been renegotiating her original contract--reportedly worth $1 million a year--before talks dissolved last month.

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Interesting.

Rove is still there which in my opinion is a mistake.

Dick Morris supports amnesty for illegal immigrants!

I still can't look at him and not think about the toe sucking scandal.......

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Originally Posted by MW

Dick Morris supports amnesty for illegal immigrants!

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I did not know that. What is your source?

W

OK,
Apachesknow has not been scalped yet. Still in the fight underground inside the beast.
All here know how to sing, so apachesknow is out teaching tone, pitch, delivery to others.

Now that Lick Morris is gone, next needing a pink slip for his liberal (commie) leanings is Karl (wrong way) Rove.

The Two Party Evil Money Cult in Washington D.C. is now in fear of its life.
They spent the U.S. into debt of current account of $15 Trillion, with another $10 Trillion coming on line to be paid soon.
So they know their over spending for the last 50 years will come to roost on top of their 5,000 sq ft homes .
Fear no,,,, panic now holds them in its grip.
They lust for these new tax payer/slaves, wage/slaves, vote slaves to keep them from the final judgement of our jury.

The judgement will come, the guilty are known, the crimes known, they will recive what they deserve.

apachesknow how this ends if you do not fight long and hard

These ones in D.C. are the "scouts" from our tribe who lead these others to our camps, and they come in the night while many of our warriors are in fights in Iraq, Afganistian, or gurading the borders of S. Korea.

Fight

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Originally Posted by ALIPAC

I did not know that. What is your source?

W

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Plan for immigration reform - The Hill

Plan for immigration reform


By Dick Morris - 11/13/12 06:23 PM ET



Democrats want illegal immigrants to vote, because they are likely to be supporters, but not to work, because of union sensibilities. Republicans, on the other hand, want them to work — in agribusinesses and the like, often owned by their fellow partisans — but not to vote.
So the key to a Republican approach to immigration reform is to split off working from voting.






Fortunately, millions of Mexicans, Central Americans and people from the Caribbean come to America looking for work, not for the right to vote. Political rights concern them little. Economic ambition is the motivation behind their migration. Republicans can gratify their economic aspirations more easily than can Democrats, and can do so without giving them the political power Republicans fear.
Here’s the deal
1. Create a guest-worker program to fill the many needs of our economy that are not being, and likely cannot be, filled by our countrymen. Talk to any California farmer and he’ll tell you that he couldn’t harvest his crops without migrant labor. Many service businesses tell the same story. Canada has a guest-worker program that brings 150,000 people every year to Canadian farms at harvest time and returns them back home afterward.
Congress should give each of these guest workers a green card, entitling them to stay in this country as long as they were needed for work but conferring on them no pathway to citizenship or voting. Those already here illegally should be given legal status — amnesty — but for economic purposes only. Those who want to become U.S. citizens would have to go back home and go to the back of the line.
All guest workers should be paid at least the minimum wage and be required to pay taxes on their income.
If any guest worker is convicted of a crime, he or she should lose guest-worker status and be deported.
We should give priority to those already here as guest workers so that companies will not have to hire and train an entirely new labor force but can use their current illegal workers, newly made legal.
2. Employee verification must be universal and vigorously enforced. With legal jobs awaiting the migrants, there is no reason to let a black market in illegal employment flourish.
3. With the guest-worker program and E-verify must come strong penalties for any employer who hires illegal workers who are not part of the guest-worker program.
4. Border enforcement — including the wall — should be aggressive and include the use of National Guard units.
5. No benefits, other than guest-worker status, should be conferred on anyone who entered the country illegally, as adults or as children. They should be allowed to stay and to work, but not to join a citizenship track.
Some will argue that even a work-related amnesty program will encourage others to come here illegally. Why should it? If there is a risk-free, totally safe and legal way to come to the United States as a guest worker, what is the incentive to climb walls, swim rivers and evade the Border Patrol?
Conservatives must abandon their knee-jerk aversion to “rewarding” illegal behavior in any form. It is in both our national and our party’s interest to grant legal guest-worker status to those who are already here.
Such a position will defuse the immigration issue and confound the Democrats. They now blithely lump citizenship with legal work status. By separating economic status from political rights, we expose this facade and expose the Democrats for what they are: hypocrites who want Latino votes and could care less about their economic condition.
Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Clinton, is the author of Outrage, Fleeced, Catastrophe and 2010: Take Back America — A Battle Plan. To get all of his and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by e-mail or to order a signed copy of their latest book, Revolt!: How To Defeat Obama and Repeal His Socialist Programs — A Patriot’s Guide



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"Those already here illegally should be given legal status — amnesty — but for economic purposes only."

Fox Contributors Who Weren't Purged: Resident Birther And Resident Truther

Blog››› 5 hours and 53 minutes ago ››› MATT GERTZ

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Fox News recently parted ways with two of the network's most high profile contributors, Sarah Palin and Dick Morris, in a reported effort to "purge some of its more controversial characters."

In prior years, Fox drew criticism for its employment of birther Eric Bolling and 9-11 conspiracy theorist Andrew Napolitano, both of whom the network still employs.

On the April 2011 evening after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, Bolling claimed on his Fox Business program "that there is a legitimate question as to whether or not the president of the United States is allowed to be president of the United States" and said that the document had "been altered." In a subsequent segment featuring a large-scale blow-up of Obama's long-form birth certificate, he said that the document had "a green border that had to be Photoshopped in."

In November 2010, Napolitano appeared on the radio show of leading conspiracist Alex Jones and said that it's "hard for me to believe that" World Trade Center Building 7 "came down by itself" -- a central tenet of 9-11 conspiracy theories -- and claimed that "twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us." Despite criticism from liberals and conservatives, Fox News gave Napolitano a pass.

In February 2012, Fox Business canceled Napolitano's Freedom Watch and Bolling's Follow the Money in a primetime shakeup that didn't appear related to any single remark (Fox suggested that they wanted programs that focused more on business news). Bolling is now the co-host of The Five (where little about Bolling has changed), and was recently made the host of the weekend show Cashin' In. Napolitano continues to appear frequently across Fox's lineup as its "senior judicial analyst."

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"Those already here illegally should be given legal status — amnesty — but for economic purposes only."

--Dick Morris

Your thoughts William?

Dick Morris: GOP Needs New ‘Reagan’ Approach to Win, Attract Independents



Monday, 11 Feb 2013 08:52 PM
By Dick Morris



I do not believe that Republicans should “moderate” their views.

The GOP needs to stick to core principles but be more realistic about how to fight for them.

Recently, a liberal blog wrote that I said the Republican party needs to “moderate” its views. I never used the word moderate.

Here’s what I said in that National Review article:

“I’m trying to explore ways in which the Republican party can make itself viable nationally, so it can win national elections without sacrificing its basic principles,” Morris said. “That’s the mission I’ve set for myself.”

Obama has deconstructed the electorate into special interest or ethnic constituencies to create a winning coalition.

In his first Inaugural speech he spoke of following those who fought at “Concord, Gettysburg, Normandy, and Khe Sanh, “national symbols all. But in his second Inaugural, he urged us to follow those who marched at “Selma (Blacks), Seneca Falls (Woman), and Stonewall (Gays),” each symbols for a disparate constituency group.

The Republican Party often needlessly offends each element of the Democratic coalition. Blacks, by its past opposition to voting rights, Latinos over immigration reform, gays by its antipathy to their marrying, single women over abortion rights.

Many of these special interest Democratic voters would vote for the GOP if the Republicans were smart enough to re-package and re-position themselves slightly while keeping to central GOP doctrines of less government, less debt, and less spending — ideas that resonate with the grand majority of Americans.

We do not need to change our core beliefs. We just need to approach them more sensibly and delicately.

On immigration, many Republicans are pragmatically worried that legalizing 12 million would just add to the Democratic electoral majority.

But these Republicans can still embrace immigration reform, as proposed, by the Rubio plan that increases border security dramatically, gives current illegal immigrants work permits so they can pay taxes (no free ride anymore!) and steep restitution fees for breaking the law.

And no one gets citizenship automatically — it can take 10 to 15 years to gain it under the Rubio plan — so we will have no tidal wave of new Democratic voters swamping us.

Meanwhile, by embracing such a plan, the GOP can gain many new voters today among Hispanics. Here’s why. Polling that I have conducted suggests that Latino voters in the US are far closer to Republican views on abortion, gay marriage, welfare, entitlements, public indebtedness, family stability, drugs, and crime.

Indeed they see Democrats as peddling the same message that their old leaders back home pushed — entitlements, debt, big government, corruption, and class warfare — which created such a mess that they came to America in the first place. They sharply differentiate themselves from those who lean on entitlements and want instead to follow in the footsteps of hard working immigrants who rise by their initiative and labor.

The Latinos vote Democratic because Republicans oppose immigration reform. And Republicans oppose immigration reform because they worry that Latinos will vote Democratic, a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Similarly, another voter group, women and single women don’t love abortion. Like most Americans they abhor the extremes of the right — that rape is “an act of God” — and of the left in support of very easy and third trimester abortions. They agree that abortion is a not a good thing and should be avoided, if possible.

By insisting that Roe v. Wade be overturned, something that will not happen in the foreseeable future, the Republican Party is frightening women voters and, at the same time, losing the ability to enact laws that will, in fact, greatly reduce the number of abortions. They do no service to the cause.

The GOP can remain staunchly “pro-life” and “pro-family” but re-focus our efforts at preserving life by reducing the number of abortions rather just focusing on completely denying their legal availability.

The efforts to reduce the number of abortions are working. The number of abortions has dropped from about 1.4 million in 1992 to slightly more than 700,000 today. Teen pregnancy is down 42%. Those are good things we can all support.

So let’s work together to reduce abortions further by a whole range of strategies: birth control, abstinence education, waiting periods, parental notification and consent, adoption subsidies, and the like. We don’t need to scare women voters into the hands of the Democrats. Just reduce the number of abortions by sensible policies so that they become rare.

On the controversial issue of gay marriage, the GOP can make it clear that marriage is a social compact that must conform to the norms of each society. The Founding Fathers set up a wonderful system that allows almost all of the major social issues to be dealt with by state and local governments. So, if the people of a state find that marriage between gays conforms to their standard, so be it. And likewise for states that want to ban it.

But the Republicans can and should resist the courts trying to jam gay marriage down our throats by inventing some constitutional right that Thaddeus Stevens probably never thought of when he wrote the 14th Amendment.

While pivoting ever so slightly on issues like immigration, abortion and gay rights, the GOP can be even more aggressive on core issues.

We need to stand stronger on spending, debt, and taxes. These are our central to our philosophy of limited government and our belief in the free enterprise system. These issues win the support of the bulk of the American people while the divisive social issues do not.

In the 1990s, the Democrats under Bill Clinton needed to shed their image of being weak on crime, permissive on drugs, and tolerant of welfare abuse in order to prevail over their core issues of education, the elderly, and the environment. So they adapted, adopting many Republican strategies such as abolishing welfare. Now, the Republicans need to return to the Reagan center of the party — opposing big government, decrying over-regulation, and determined to cut our debt, public spending, and tax levels.

Then, Republicans can win and win big.
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"But these Republicans can still embrace immigration reform, as proposed, by the Rubio plan that increases border security dramatically, gives current illegal immigrants work permits so they can pay taxes (no free ride anymore!) and steep restitution fees for breaking the law.

And no one gets citizenship automatically — it can take 10 to 15 years to gain it under the Rubio plan — so we will have no tidal wave of new Democratic voters swamping us."


Dick Morris is still pushing Rubio's version of amnesty! Giving illegal immigrants work permits is amnesty and giving them citizenship is amnesty, regardless of how many years it takes.