Media | Karl Rove Fox Sidelines Karl Rove, Dick Morris Post-election, Ailes wants fresh faces By Rob Quinn Posted Dec 4, 2012 11:57 PM CST Updated Dec 5, 2012 12:41 AM CST Copied Political commentator Dick Morris speaks to the crowd during the "Gateway to November" Tea Party rally in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis, file) The post-election shake-up at Fox News includes benching two of the pundits who called it wrong the most persistently, New York reports. Under orders from Roger Ailes, producers must get permission before booking Karl Rove or Dick Morris. "The election’s over," says a Fox spokesperson confirming the new rules. Sources say Ailes wasn't happy about Rove's on-air refusal to accept the network calling Ohio for Obama, or about the way Morris' reality-defying predictions became a punch line even inside Fox. Read These Next White House isn't happy about the pick for the Nobel Peace Prize. It started with failure to say 'thank you,' ended with murder. Multiple people are dead or missing after an explosion in Tennessee. Freak accident kills a woman as she cleans her car. Report an error