Joan Walsh's |remembrance | of meeting w/Ailes in 2000.
“I created a TV network for people 55 to dead,” Ailes boasted to us. “Nobody believed it could be done, but I did it. It’s for guys who sit on their couch with the remote all day and night.” That seemed a condescending way to talk about his audience—not to mention, much of the Republican base—but it was fascinating anyway.
“And they don’t want to see anyone like you,” he continued, looking directly at me. I wasn’t sure whether he meant a liberal, or a brunette newswoman in a dark pantsuit. “They don’t want to see you — they don’t even want to know that you exist!” And he was obliging them: he’d created a world where women were blonde and wore short tight skirts, men were in charge, and articulate, principled, complicated liberals – especially women — didn’t exist.
| Fuck you, Roger, |
Who knew that Ailes was ailing?
This was news worth waking up for this morning.
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I know Elvis Costello had Maggie Thatcher in mind when he wrote this, but fuck you anyway, [roger.]
A golden Ailes moment: when GHW Bush put Dan Rather "in his place," Aisles was at Bush's side, just off camera.
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/20…
Joan Walsh's |remembrance | of meeting w/Ailes in 2000.
Has 45* tweetered his condolences yet?