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Roger Ailes' letter to Fox employees
Foxnews.com ^ | May 23, 2013 | Roger Ailes

Posted on 05/24/2013 4:01:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Dear colleagues,

The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a "co-conspirator" in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; ailes; bho44; doj; fox; foxnews; rosen
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In some ways, Ailes actually enabled the spying, and now he's acting like this is all a big surprise?.

Flashback:

Behind the War Between White House and Fox

Ailes' "Course Correction"

Roger Ailes ‘thinks Palin is an idiot’

I wonder if he still thinks that Palin is stupid?

1 posted on 05/24/2013 4:01:31 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

What??? Put down the bong!


2 posted on 05/24/2013 4:09:11 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: sirchtruth

No, bong...Ailes has been trying to quietly cozy up to the Obama Regime, and now it’s come back to bite him squarely on his fat butt. I guess you haven’t noticed the left turn at Fox News since 2010?


3 posted on 05/24/2013 4:13:23 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Timber Rattler

I think ailes is stupid... fired Brit Hume’s wife as News Director and crapped on Conservatives by slamming left and keeping an openly gay flamer as head anchor. Coddling old bill o’bloviator was another dumb move. Palin has been right all along and rupert and ailes only care about their success and getting along with the powers that be... until that got them injured and along with that... an attack on our First Amendment. Maybe they will wake up?

LLS


4 posted on 05/24/2013 4:15:44 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

“keeping an openly gay flamer as head anchor.”

Apologies for my ignorance, who is that?


5 posted on 05/24/2013 4:23:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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“keeping an openly gay flamer as head anchor.”

Apologies for my ignorance, who is that?

The guy who leads into the O'Reilly Factor? Who else could it be?

6 posted on 05/24/2013 4:28:46 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Well, Roger, how hard are you going to fight back? Are you going to reverse your move into ‘moderacy’ and give Conservatives their time in the sun, or are you going to stick with the rovian attacks on us even now that you know we were right all along?
Your words are hollow if they are not followed up by action. Are you brave enough to stand by your words?
WE are watching.


7 posted on 05/24/2013 4:32:53 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: V_TWIN
Apologies for my ignorance, who is that?


8 posted on 05/24/2013 4:35:05 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: MestaMachine
Not all of us.

Miss the beauties but not the beasts.

9 posted on 05/24/2013 4:35:32 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (We say "low-information" but we mean "low-intelligence")
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To: V_TWIN

shep


10 posted on 05/24/2013 4:38:46 AM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: Timber Rattler

“We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era...”

The Obama regime is on a political witch hunt for communists and communist sympathizers?


11 posted on 05/24/2013 4:43:10 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Timber Rattler; MestaMachine

Surprised I ain’t, but I did not know that................. Well that explains all the drama.


12 posted on 05/24/2013 4:44:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: luvbach1

At 2:00 and 6:00 CST I have to turn Fox News off because of Shepherd Smith. Cannot stomach the idiot any longer. Fox needs to get rid of Shep


13 posted on 05/24/2013 4:50:49 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Timber Rattler

“Ailes has been trying to quietly cozy up to the Obama Regime”
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Everything else in Amereka is going Communist, Why would FOX want to be left out?
If America is ever to recover, it will be many years down the road from the Obamination.


14 posted on 05/24/2013 4:54:58 AM PDT by AlexW
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To: hondact200

I can’t watch him either & the TV is on something other than FOX when he’s on.


15 posted on 05/24/2013 4:55:23 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: MissMagnolia
mug shot
16 posted on 05/24/2013 5:03:14 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: MissMagnolia

Same here. They also need to get rid of Chris Wallace. I can’t stand that flaming liberal.


17 posted on 05/24/2013 5:03:28 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Timber Rattler
We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.

He seems to contradict himself - we now know McCarthy was right - almost like he agrees with Zero's folks.....

18 posted on 05/24/2013 5:07:12 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: V_TWIN

Shep Smith. Can’t you tell?

LLS


19 posted on 05/24/2013 5:07:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: MestaMachine

My guess is that Fox will push further left.

LLS


20 posted on 05/24/2013 5:08:31 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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