Fox News CEO Roger Ailes: Connecting teabaggers or Fox to AZ shootings is "bullshit"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes said that he has told his network to "tone it down" in the wake of the shooting in Arizona, and that he hopes the "other side" will do so as well.

Ailes' comments appeared in a conversation with Russell Simmons that was published on Simmons' website, Global Grind. He said that any attempts to connect Fox News or the Tea Party to the shooting were "bullshit," and that "both sides" were responsible for extreme rhetoric.

But Ailes did say that he had issued a warning to Fox News staff.

"I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually," Ailes said. You don't have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/fox-news-ceo-roger-ailes-_n_806952.html

[eleny]

1. If it's "bullshit" then what is there to tone down?

:shrug:

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

... and him ignoring the correlation between this and possibly FUTURE shootings is batshit.. crazy.

[Skittles]

2. LOLOL - he told Fox News to make their argument intellectually?

HA HA HA GOOD LUCK WITH THAT OMG :rofl:

[davidinalameda]

4. I was thinking the same thing

Faux has been up and running for how many years now?

why start now?

[Matariki]

3. Ah, go choke on a ham sandwich old man.

[Ken Burch]

8. How could you wish such a horrible fate...on an innocent sandwich?

n/t.

[Rex]

5. If so then WHY did you tell your crew to TONE IT DOWN?

AMazing...ths guy is rich and he is that stupid?

[MichiganVote]

6. Too late Fat man, you killed a nine year old girl. We won't forget.

[Initech]

11. He looks like Jabba The Hutt.

[NuclearDem]

7. Sure, we'll get right to toning it down

Oh wait, there was nothing for us to tone down in the first place.

Fucking idiot.

[Initech]

9. No, there is no attempting to connect. They are directly responsible for this.

[liberal N proud]

10. That is so predictable

Rabid animals backed into a corner and they are looking for a way out.

They had to know that with all the hate they were peddling that some one would act on it. I don't think they expected the awakening to their rhetoric of hate and are not stuck.

[Liberal Veteran]

12. My Fox News edit "Roger Ailes: Teabaggers or Fox...is bullshit"

[RainDog]

13. quack

as in... if it walks like a duck...

I wish people would quack whenever that guy is in the room. Here he is, saying, basically, that his news station has spent years making anti-intellectual (and, let's face it, down right lying) arguments against the left. He recognizes their schtick is nothing but bombast.

quack.

Funny that he asks them to use intellectual arguments because I've yet to see an intellectual argument ever come from Beck or Palin.

quack.

he has paid people to spout eliminationist rhetoric against liberals - he kept O'Reilly on the air after he targeted a doctor who was murdered - no, EVEN THAT was not enough to get Roger Ailes to decide to indulge in some decency.

quack.

Fox News quacks like a duck. You spout constant fear-mongering lies to a gullible and vulnerable population. You make money off of threatening liberals.

quack.

[MadMaddie]

14. Alert : A live nerve may have been touched

Keep on touching it because they have never truly had the light on them. This is good.

They always play victim when it comes to accountability..note the "false equivalency" angle....this is all they have.

[Tsiyu]

15. Ah, Bloody Roger

you accursed sob


You have so much blood on you, you make slasher films jealous


But, this i don't understand....why tell them to tone it down if they didn't ratchet it up to begin with?

America suddenly has your number, eh?

Can't spin six deaths so easily, can you, you bloody piece of filth....?

[Angry Dragon]

16. For over 13 hours the talking heads have only talked

about how they are so being attacked.
There must not be any thing happening in the world today
This must be the most important thing to them
They must be really afraid

[MrMickeysMom]

17. Which chin moved when he said it?

Did he then roll over and fart, then pull a duck out of the crack of his ass, saying "DO SOMETHING WITH THIS!"

I hope the "other side" calls this ass out again for not knowing a fucking thing about media and much more about being obtund.