Like this is really any surprise. The
entire article is a profile on Roger Ailes and the history of his propaganda farm, Fox News.
Traveling with the Chairman is like a scene straight out of 24. A friend recalls hitching a ride with Ailes after a power lunch: “We come out of the building and there’s an SUV filled with big guys, who jump out of the car when they see him. A cordon is formed around us. We’re ushered into the SUV, and we drive the few blocks to Fox’s offices, where another set of guys come out of the building to receive ‘the package.’ The package is taken in, and I’m taken on to my destination.”Ailes is certain that he’s a top target of Al Qaeda terrorists. “You know, they’re coming to get me,” he tells friends. “I’m fully prepared. I’ve taken care of it.” (Ailes, who was once arrested for carrying an illegal handgun in Central Park, now carries a licensed weapon.) Inside his blast-resistant office at Fox News headquarters, Ailes keeps a monitor on his desk that allows him to view any activity outside his closed door. 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.”
#18 Exactly, what does a terrorist look like?
Simple – they look NOT like us.
They look Arabic, or Jewish, or Black, or Sikh, or Irish, or Basque or Native American.
The tricky ones are the ones that look just like us – but with a pickup truck full of ANFO
The political history of the United States over the last century reads like a Heinlein novel. You couldn’t make this stuff up!
>> NobodySpecial said, on May 31st, 2011 at 10:38 am
>>> #18 Exactly, what does a terrorist look like?
>> Simple – they look NOT like us.
>> They look Arabic, or Jewish, or Black, or Sikh, or Irish, or Basque or Native American.
But especially “Muslim” (whatever that looks like!)
That’s what makes Ailes seem like a paranoid nut-job. He sees a Muslimy-looking janitor and suspects him as a terrorist.
Anyone who thinks a terrorist would get on a plane dressed in anything that would draw attention to themselves is a blithering idiot. That’s like putting on a black bandanna with eye holes cut into it to rob a bank. What a bunch of racist choads.
#24 FTW
I was wondering how long it would take to run the racist flag up the pole.
Honorable mention to #20 for “That’s nuts to get freaked out by every brown guy!”
Fox News has one-third the staff and 30 fewer bureaus than CNN – Ailes generates profit margins above 50 percent. Nearly half comes from advertising, and the rest is dues from cable companies. Fox News now reaches 100 million households, attracting more viewers than all other cable-news outlets combined, and Ailes aims for his network to “throw off a billion in profits.”
Hardly the accomplishments of a nut ball.
The Elite propaganda press can’t stand Fox nestled into a comfortable niche, which not so coincidentally is where half the country lives, in this center right country.
#12, not only that but walk into any McDonald’s, Burger King, Walmart, K-Mart, etc and you will most likely see Fox News being the channel playing on TV.
Mextili, yup, you got it!
We can always count on GregAllen to provide the counterpoint to intelligence.
re #26 Just realized most here don’t realize the force of my point.
It is an accomplishment to do more with less, its a goal of every ceo…
Left lunatics see good business practice as evil, but they are a tiny minority most of whom post at DU and live deep in their mom’s basement…
Alfie ruthlessly proves the RS article right, and doesn’t even realize it. that’s just classic. Maybe the gay terrorists will get him when he’s at the pharmacy buying colon flow.
#26 Teadud
If the majority were truly “center right” you wouldn’t have to qualify it. It would just be the center.
To the conspiracy nuts out there, if someone wanted the self-important head of FOX news quite dead, he’d already be sleeping with the fishes.
All it would take is a .50 bullet shot from a few hundred meters away and a couple of thou to contract the hit.
Does he sit still for a few seconds in some place regularly, i.e. does he ever go for a shit at work? Does he have a preferred stall? (Most people do.)
Then he’s vulnerable to remote detection, targeting and being hit. (Explosive .50 bullets will go through glass and a few sheets of drywall and tile like it wasn’t even there and then fuck you up worse an any medic can patch.)
Paranoia over running an American news service indicates a need for medication. The fact that he’s still walking tells me he’s clinical and delusional.
He’s got a severely inflated eqo and a Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst vision of his own role in history.
The problem is that he can claim his continued breathing is due to his security servuce’s own success, and how can you prove a negative? …
To his whole strain of paranoid politics was born when Buchanan developed Nixon’s southern strategy back in the 60′s. Fear is a powerful weapon.
This is the result of people who wanted to take him out and were foiled by his security.
What is it with the liberal media liking to reveal the security detail of conservatives? The New York Times points out the location of security cameras at Rumsfeld’s house.
All it would take is a progressive with a sniper rifle … damn, those commies are against the 2nd Amendment. Foiled again!
Amusing the tag along easily lead sheep all flock to defend Faux Spews. It is clearly more than biased: it is aimed with a purpose.
Just another way this PUKE supporting organelle is part of something evil–something intentionally wanting to KILL AMERICA.
And the ratio’s/evidence is about right: 10x more people Don’t watch Faux Spews and Faux spins themselves as the News Leader.
See how that works?
Wake Up–Pay Attention–VOTE YOUR OWN SELF INTEREST, not those of the Super Rich as advocated by the Super Rich.
>> Mextli, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? said, on May 31st, 2011 at 12:04 pm
>> Honorable mention to #20 for “That’s nuts to get freaked out by every brown guy!”
Did you read the article? Here is the relevant sections:
“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!”
Seems like racism to me. Paranoid, nutcase racism.
>> Ah_Yea said, on May 31st, 2011 at 12:31 pm
>> Mextili, yup, you got it!
>> We can always count on GregAllen to provide the counterpoint to intelligence.
You countered with NOTHING but insults. No facts. No logic.
Seriously. Re-read your responses to me. There is nothing substantial. Nada.
Projection a little?
#36 bobbo, the living will to bondage said:
“Amusing the tag along easily lead sheep all flock to defend Faux Spews. It is clearly more than biased: it is aimed with a purpose.”
Fair enough.
But you clearly did not observe that on your own power.
Because if you had, you would be able to notice that same truism regarding every other coast-to-coast news outlet, emphatically including PBS.
So, in your case, even stating a flat fact is mere partisan parroting.
Somebody==words have meaning, and a context. You can’t just put words you like into any context you wish.
What coast to coast news (sic!) network has ONE or more candidates for political office?
What coast to coast new (sic!) network has ALL the candidates for political office?
Yea, having them all means exactly the same as having none.
Ha, ha.