“Fox was Romney’s War Room”; GOP being run by Fox News: Zucker & Gabriel Sherman Agree

The new head of CNN, Jeff Zucker, replied to Fox News’ Roger Ailes obituary for CNN by alleging that the Republican Party is being run out of Fox. Then Gabriel Sherman, author of a new biography of Ailes, weighed in, saying that Fox was the “War Room” of the 2012 Romeney campaign. Ailes decided, he said, to use the network to do negative campaigning against Obama because he couldn’t trust Romney to “rip his face off.”

First, a Raw Story report, and below is the Gabriel interview with Piers Morgan:

CNN head Jeff Zucker: Fox News is Republican Party ‘masquerading as a news channel’ (via Raw Story )

Jeff Zucker, CNN’s current president, said on Friday that the Republican Party is being run by Fox News and that networks like Fox are just telling people what they want to hear “and missing the story.” According to Mediaite, Zucker was speaking…

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Gabriel Sherman, author of a new biography of Roger Ailes of Fox News, back Zucker up on CNN: