so @maddow has been talking for a while about how fox is playing loose w their debate requirements, seems accurate http://t.co/bOHOrSWJh6

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 30, 2015

From the link:

Gabriel Sherman writes in New York that “inside Fox, the debate is generating controversy among Ailes’s senior ranks. “A Fox personality told the reporter that there is “total confusion” about the debate process, and accused Ailes and other executives of “making it up as they go along.” Another personality described it as “crazy stuff” where “you have a TV executive deciding who is in — and out — of a debate.”

According to Sherman, advisers for Gov. John Kasich and Gov. Rick Perry “have taken to lobbying Ailes and Fox executives to use polls that put their guy over the line.” A source close to the Perry campaign said that “GOP fund-raiser and Ailes friend Georgette Mosbacher recently called Ailes” on his behalf. Sherman notes that “Ailes is certainly hoping to produce the best television, which would give the unpredictable Perry the advantage.”