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| Fox News chief Roger Ailes aims at political foes. |
Roger Ailes is back in the news for all the wrong reasons. The chief executive of Fox network and Fox News has been once again shrouded in controversy.
Roger Ailes had the nerve to blow the dog whistle and worked the camera.
A biography tells a tale of the Fox News boss and his daily routine on and off camera.
Roger Ailes, a native of Warren, Ohio was a political hitman.
Ailes helped move Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush into the White House. He managed to help mayoral candidate Rudy Giuliani win a seat in the country's largest city New York.
Ailes was a political juggernaut. He stepped aside from the political theater to become a journalist.
Ailes started working for a few local stations in Ohio when he was young. He helped produced the Mike Douglas Show. He became the president of cable business network CNBC.
Ailes helped his protege conservative agitator Rush Limbaugh become the nation's most controversial talker.
Ailes wanted to change the direction of the news. He figured that the news was too bias towards Republicans. He teamed up with Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch to launch Fox News.
In October 1996, Fox News was born. The network soured through the late 1990s and reached its milestone in 2002. The network was a fledgling in the fight for cable news. MSNBC launched later that year, CNN was the network choice of America. That all changed around the beginning of George W. Bush's first term.
Fox News was the first network to call the 2000 U.S. Election for George W. Bush. The controversial voter recount in Florida was the talk of the nation. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, then governor was the brother of Texas governor and Republican nominee George W. Bush. He became involved in the dirty work of recounts in Democratic strongholds. Fox News had the Bushes' distant cousin of the network intern at the election call center.
In a Vanity Fair piece, a biographer interviews the often reclusive Fox News chief and tells a tale of how Ailes shows such disdain for his political foes. Roger Ailes had some words for that interview. He called the president "lazy" and stated that Barack Obama never worked "a day in his life". He called Vice President Joe Biden, "dumb as an ashtray".
That turned out to be a smear attack and the network was involved in it. As soon as Barack Obama announced his run for president, he ordered his staff and campaign advisers to not appear on Fox News.
That launched an all out feud with the network. Leading the way was Sean Hannity. The conservative agitator was constantly drum beating on Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. Hannity wasted nearly six years trying to expose the hidden radicalism in Barack Obama.
Before the interview with Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News chief Ailes and Murdoch secretly met with Barack Obama. The candidate stated that Fox News is doing its best to make him and Michelle Obama look villains. He stated that Sean Hannity is a nuisance and if he was to become the president, the network would see limited access to him.
Roger Ailes had some words for that interview. He called the president "lazy" and stated that Barack Obama never worked "a day in his life". He called Vice President Joe Biden, "dumb as an ashtray".
Fox News is long known as the public relations for the Republican Party. Sean Hannity has been forefront as the go-to-guy for the Republican Party.
The president has not appeared on Fox News since the days of the Superbowl in 2011. The president went on the Fox network to talk to Bill O'Reilly. Although the president detest O'Reilly, he found him to be a little more fair in his coverage of him.
The lazy remark is dog whistle made by Ailes is obvious Signature of the "Southern Strategy" technique used by many Republicans to court extremists.
You gotta love the blatant disrespect of the first Black president by those in the conservative media!
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