Roger Ailes Exposé in Rolling Stone
If you have 15 minutes, do yourself a favor and read the exposé of Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News in Rolling Stone. I had heard a good deal of the information before, but the story has been well researched and documented and weaved into a full picture of the man, his mindset and the ideology that drives the network.
Once, after observing a dark-skinned man in what Ailes perceived to be Muslim garb, he put Fox News on lockdown. “What the hell!” Ailes shouted. “This guy could be bombing me!” The suspected terrorist turned out to be a janitor. “Roger tore up the whole floor,” recalls a source close to Ailes. “He has a personal paranoia about people who are Muslim – which is consistent with the ideology of his network.”
As I read it, I am struck by the intractable nature of the problem. I don’t see a way to counter the guy or his message. I have a feeling of doom as the noise machine seems impervious so long as Ailes decides to stay on. The only bright spot I see is the guy is old and out of shape.
The article even has a Christine O’Donnell quote:
During her Senate race in Delaware, Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell bragged, “I’ve got Sean Hannity in my back pocket, and I can go on his show and raise money.”
What a world.
Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Fox News, Fox Noise, Liberal Media, Media Watchdog, racism
Great article. I had that same feeling of helplessness at stopping this propaganda machine while reading it.
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With all respect, LG, this was the key passage for me:
Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization.
“What Nixon did – and what Ailes does today in the age of Obama – is unravel and rewire one of the most powerful of human emotions: shame,” says [Rick] Perlstein, the author of Nixonland. “He takes the shame of people who feel that they are being looked down on, and he mobilizes it for political purposes. Roger Ailes is a direct link between the Nixonian politics of resentment and Sarah Palin’s politics of resentment. He’s the golden thread.”
Ya know, Geezer, that struck me, too. I have no idea why I didn’t quote it. It is one of several money quotes.
And don’t worry, you didn’t hurt my feelings. 🙂
Geez ya got that right….in the days of CREEP, Nixon mastered the politics of fear. All one has to do is study Haldeman, Erlichman, Kleindeinst, Ailes, Liddy et al and one can see Sarah Palin. Palin is Nixon on Steroids and she is wlll positioned to mow the Rethug field down and grab the nomination. As a state level McGovern guy i had the pleasure of being targeted by CREEP, being young and dumb I loved it 🙂
JP: Nixon was far more cunning and conniving than Sarah Palin could ever hope to be. Many a biographer has credited his incredible work — make that study — ethic for much of his success. He himself credited his success in college to his “iron butt.”
Great dialog guys but the Republicans have been screwing people ever since reconstruction. Check out this Willie Lynch speech and see for your self that People are so dumb that this shit works on everyone and anyone. Tell me what you think after you read it? http://www.africanamericanimages.com/aai/willie%20lynch.htm
Geez…. my point is that with today’s tools you can make a stuffed animal into Nixon….Sarah is the stuffed polar bear:)