Gawker - Roger Ailes Is No Longer Sane

[Swede]

Roger's paranoia and projection has deranged the poor old SOB.



Toadlike Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes has always been thought of as an evil genius—even his detractors admire his media-savvy PR brilliance. It's not true. In fact, he's an isolated old man whose anger has driven him insane.

We tend to just dismiss most of Roger Ailes' public proclamations as so much rote (albeit viciously rote) Republican propaganda, in the same way we tend to dismiss most of what Robert Gibbs says. Ailes is only notable in that he's ostensibly a media executive rather than an open political operative. Still, it was hard to ignore how Ailes described NPR in an interview out today:

"They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view."

http://gawker.com/5693476/roger-ailes-is-no-longer-sane?skyline=true&s=i

[Mimosa]

1. The other overused N word.

Ailes makes me want to puke.

[calimary]

8. That's some high comedy there: "These guys don't want any other point of view."

Hey roger - heard about something called pox "news"?

You know, that place that trumpets itself as "fair and balanced (to one side only)"?

[niceypoo]

2. Just look at the world he inhabits

That explains all

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Was he ever?

[1776Forever]

4. rofl - so right on! n/t

[glinda]

5. Ailes sanity coming into question should be looked at. along with some of his

employees. It would be of no surprise that Beck and some other of his employees are the result of "people with severe psychiatric or emotional behavioral issues" grouping together.

[HughBeaumont]

6. And yet - HE gets the voice, HE controls the message, HIS message is publicized.

OURs . . . well, is not.

And people wonder why this country votes the way it does . . .

[rfranklin]

7. At least he conceded that the Nazis were right wingers...

For years the wingnuts have been parroted the idea that the Nazis were lefties because the word socialism is in their party name. Of course, that's the same trick that the Republicans use when they name a bill "Clear Skies Initiative" when it is actually a licence to pollute.

[DainBramaged]

11. An excerpt

We fear that Roger Ailes' own paranoia has got the best of him. This is a man who's already acquired a permit for carrying a concealed handgun and who told the New York Times "I've got a bad leg, I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight" in case of terrorist attack at his place of employment, and who is shadowed by private bodyguards at all times, and who bought the newspaper in the small town where he lives in order to buffer himself from criticism. He has become so insulated from the normal human experience of life that he has become untethered from reality. It's actually sad to see.

[DainBramaged]

9. Hmmmmmmmm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9575380

[safeinOhio]

10. Projection.