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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:25 PM Mar 2016

Fox Figures Turn On Fox Contributor Erick Erickson For Organizing Meeting Aimed At Thwarting Drumpf

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/18/fox-figures-turn-on-fox-contributor-erick-erick/209393

Fox's Stacey Dash: Erickson Is A "Benedict Arnold" For His Anti-Trump Campaign. During the March 17 edition of Fox Business' Making Money with Charles Payne, Fox contributor Stacey Dash said Erickson was wrong about Trump not being conservative and that Erickson was a "Benedict Arnold" and his activities constituted "treason":

STACEY DASH: I think he is wrong about Trump, first of all, and him not being a conservative. He is a conservative. And what's wrong with someone changing their mind? I mean, we want Democrats to change their minds about becoming Republicans, right? So, there's nothing wrong with changing your mind, and I applaud him for admitting it, for saying, "Yes, I was this way one time, and now I've changed my mind, I've learned, I've learned. I've become wiser." And he -- Hillary Clinton, if we don't stand behind Trump, we are setting the floor for Hillary Clinton to win. A criminal, a liar, responsible for the four deaths of American patriots. A woman who should be indicted for a spillage of classified information that was kept in her barn as opposed to a skiff where it should have been. So, I mean, I don't understand. To me this is treason. He's a Benedict Arnold, that's what I think. (Fox Business, Making Money with Charles Payne, 3/17/16)

Fox's Hannity: Erickson And Other "So-Called Conservative Leaders" Have "A Political Death Wish." During the March 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show, Fox host Sean Hannity said Erickson's group was a "bad idea" that had a "political death wish." Hannity went on to claim the group was engaging in "a suicide mission" and a "circular firing squad":

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Alright, that's from The Circus, the show with Mark Halperin on Showtime. And there you have it, basically talking about everything we've been telling you, including our friend Erick Erickson. By the way, I have no problem with these guys meeting, and if this is where they want to go, that's fine. I just think it's a bad idea, my own personal opinion. And Erick sent out, as we talked with Jamie about, I have signed no oath of loyalty to Trump or the GOP. "I'm a conservative, I believe in limited governments, free markets, free people. Donald Trump does not," he said on his website. Now the group includes a whole bunch of other people, that apparently were at this meeting, and look -- this is now a growing narrative, that I guess people are going to have to face. I mean, if you look at the numbers, the numbers are pretty clear, that for Ted Cruz to win this nomination, he's got an uphill climb. And that is going to make it harder. So The Washington Post tells this story that today the group of so-called conservative leaders got together to plot a third party challenge to Donald Trump. Either these so-called conservative leaders have a political death wish, or The Washington Post is engaging a boatload of wishful thinking. Either way, that's just my take. This, to me, is a suicide mission. This is a circular firing squad. (Premiere Radio Networks, The Sean Hannity Show, 3/17/16)


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Fox Figures Turn On Fox Contributor Erick Erickson For Organizing Meeting Aimed At Thwarting Drumpf (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
Erickson is their own promotion/creation so they can dump him at will underpants Mar 2016 #1
really? here: Gabi Hayes Mar 2016 #2

underpants

(182,590 posts)
1. Erickson is their own promotion/creation so they can dump him at will
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 05:36 PM
Mar 2016

How Hannity has survived this long is still amazing to me.

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