What "Ailes" Fox News
Roger Ailes is the head of Fox News. He is the fellow who created the psuedo-news network for Rupert Murdoch that captures the heart of every right-wing nut in America. It is very much like Murdoch's tabloid newspapers. Heavy on local, grisly murders, violence and sex, mixed in with an extreme right-wing editorial agenda.
Ailes recently criticized President Clinton for his now legendary explosion at a Fox News set up question by little, elfin-looking, Chris Wallace. The question implied that Clinton hadn't done enough to get Bin Laden.
Ailes, who has done more to destroy the credibility of objective reporting and journalism than anyone since Joe McCarthy, called Clinton's outburst an "assault on all journalists". Why an assualt on journalists is of concern to him is not obvious, since he hires failed models and actresses and right-wing ideologues to slant and convey the reactionary news that he sees fit to broadcast.
His actor/commentators, like O'Reilly, high school grad Hannity, and Cavuto, spend most of their time trying to get Americans to distrust the mainstream media. That's what makes it ironically humorous when he called for all journalists after the Clinton-Wallace interview to join Fox and him and...do what?
Nothing. He just wanted to make the statement so that his "news"casters can "prove" once again to the average gullible Fox viewer that the mainstream media is liberal, i.e. venal, if it doesn't criticize Clinton as well. I'm sure those Fox viewers will believe it, and the reactionary propaganda machine that is Fox will roll on happily.
In an ABC internet report Ailes is also quoted as saying, "I quit (politics) 14 years ago because I hated it." He doesn't hate politics. He loves politics. He's just practicing it in a disguised form, as a pseudo-news chief that slants extreme right-wing reactionary opinion in this country as "fair and balanced". Himmler could have learned from him.
At least the Daily Show says it is fake news and is purposely funny. Fox News is fake news also, but denies it, and is only inadvertently funny, as when an ex-Nixon hatchetman like Ailes "worries" about an attack on all journalists; a sport in which he and his minions engage all the time.
Ailes recently criticized President Clinton for his now legendary explosion at a Fox News set up question by little, elfin-looking, Chris Wallace. The question implied that Clinton hadn't done enough to get Bin Laden.
Ailes, who has done more to destroy the credibility of objective reporting and journalism than anyone since Joe McCarthy, called Clinton's outburst an "assault on all journalists". Why an assualt on journalists is of concern to him is not obvious, since he hires failed models and actresses and right-wing ideologues to slant and convey the reactionary news that he sees fit to broadcast.
His actor/commentators, like O'Reilly, high school grad Hannity, and Cavuto, spend most of their time trying to get Americans to distrust the mainstream media. That's what makes it ironically humorous when he called for all journalists after the Clinton-Wallace interview to join Fox and him and...do what?
Nothing. He just wanted to make the statement so that his "news"casters can "prove" once again to the average gullible Fox viewer that the mainstream media is liberal, i.e. venal, if it doesn't criticize Clinton as well. I'm sure those Fox viewers will believe it, and the reactionary propaganda machine that is Fox will roll on happily.
In an ABC internet report Ailes is also quoted as saying, "I quit (politics) 14 years ago because I hated it." He doesn't hate politics. He loves politics. He's just practicing it in a disguised form, as a pseudo-news chief that slants extreme right-wing reactionary opinion in this country as "fair and balanced". Himmler could have learned from him.
At least the Daily Show says it is fake news and is purposely funny. Fox News is fake news also, but denies it, and is only inadvertently funny, as when an ex-Nixon hatchetman like Ailes "worries" about an attack on all journalists; a sport in which he and his minions engage all the time.
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