Wag the Dog

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. . . er, the Fox

“The conservative media has [sic] hog-tied the Republican Party and taken it hostage . . . . 

“That’s the message delivered by a new 20,000-word Shorenstein Center paper by New York Times reporter Jackie Calmes. This finding — that the conservative media tail wags the Republican dog — will appeal to every liberal who ever shrieked in fright after accidentally tuning in to Fox News or who has yet to recover from involuntarily exposure to Rush Limbaugh’s radio program during a taxi ride.”

—Jack Shafer, “Fox News Doesn’t Control the GOP: No matter how much liberals think it does,” Politico.com, August 2015 

• Editorial Comment: Tell it to Donald Trump. Is that him shrieking, or Roger Ailes?






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