Roger Ailes
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Roger Ailes (b. 1940) is president of Fox News. So it's all his fault (except when it's Rupert Murdoch's fault, of course).
He was also a media consultant for presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. See, we told you it was his fault.
Even worse, he is also responsible for bringing Rush Limbaugh to television.[1]
To boot, he headed MSNBC's short-lived ancestor America's Talking.
Bryan Fischer claims that Ailes's “leadership style is exactly the style that Jesus taught,” and credits Ailes’s Jesus-like behavior for Fox’s success, summing it up with “the key to success in a capitalistic system is to do things Jesus’ way.”[2]
Ailes's Jesus-like behavior includes encouraging employees to lie under oath,[3] threats, paranoia, and harassment,[4] race-baiting,[5] as well as developing a vast variety of political dirty tricks,[6] in addition, of course, to running Fox News.[7]
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ IMDb: Rush Limbaugh
- ↑ Right Wing Watch: Bryan Fischer Hails Roger Ailes for Running Fox News with 'Exactly the Style that Jesus Taught' 1 February 2012
- ↑ The New York Times: Fox News Chief, Roger Ailes, Urged Employee to Lie, Records Show 24 February 2011
- ↑ Gawker: Roger Ailes Continues to Ruin His Adopted Home 10 May 2011
- ↑ Media Matters: Fox News' rhetoric echoes Ailes' long history of race-baiting 27 October 2009
- ↑ Rolling Stone: How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory 25 May 2011
- ↑ Fox News has a “crumbling foundation”: Roger Ailes’ biographer talks to Salon. Violence, paranoia, bigotry and sexual harassment reign at "America's Newsroom," author Gabriel Sherman explains