Posted on 07/25/2004 1:44:00 PM PDT by wagglebee
Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes has "a few choice words" for his critics at MoveOn.org and his rivals at CNN, the upcoming issue of Broadcasting & Cable magazine reports.
Liberal activists at MoveOn and Common Cause tried unsuccessfully to get the Federal Trade Commission to come down hard on Fox, charging that its "fair and balanced" slogan is false advertising.
Ailes did not comment on the brouhaha while it was being played out.
But he opened up to B&C for its July 26 edition.
Ailes responded to his critics: "Their assumption is people made us No. 1 because people are stupid."
Some more Ailes' gems:
"I'm happy with MoveOn.org and Common Cause and those other clowns. They drove our ratings up 10%."
As for CNN, he asks: why do they hate America? "CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad."
On plans to spin off a business news channel from FNC: "Nothing is imminent. We thought we needed to compete with CNBC, but they're dead. We would launch in a clear climate."
On Dennis Miller's CNBC talk show: "We gave Dennis three minutes a week on Hannity & Colmes, and he was great. But if you're going to give a guy five hours a week and not support him with enough writers and producers, it's not going to work."
My powers of expression are limited. Maybe I should have said CNN is blind to values.
I meant that in the cynical mind of CNN they see themselves as value-neutral, so neutral in fact that they do not even choose sides between the U.S. and the advancing jihad armies. They are hedging their bets! In CNN's calculation if in 10 years they are in business, and providing content to an Arabic-speaking Middle East and an Arabic-speaking Europe, well that two markets from which they will be deriving profits. If they happen to contribute to the demise of the U.S., its just good business to them.
I second that emotion.
Roger is OK.
I get the feeling that the elites look on in horror at the activities and lives of the people who comprise the great majority of Americans. "Why these rubes and hicks need someone to guide them and tell them what to do and think", so believe these lefties. The contempt they have for the middle-class is ill-concealed.
Besides the middle-class is forever getting in the way of the libs great social plans. A recent book by lefty Tom (?) Frank where a puzzled Frank bemoans the failure of Kansans to adopt socialist attitudes is very revealing. They frankly (no pun intended) do not understand what makes the middle-class tick.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I noticed Miller starting to go to the right during Monday Night Football. Perhaps it was some of the small comments Dennis would make that you would never hear a liberal say? I think he is good friends with Al Michael still who is a conservative.
bttt
well, not just that (i love sean hannity) but it does get boring after a while. i don't dislike alan colmes, even, because i think he is an honest liberal (don't laugh) but dennis miller's quick wit and banter just CAN't be beat..it's so funny and upbeat and he always makes me feel better and laugh, no matter how ultra bad the libs get, in defiling our country and our military and the war against terrorism.
Who has Roger's e-mail Addy?
Good news, but too bad Ailes didn't see fit to vent some of that anger at the three majors.
Striking...saw a show today with some nut bitching about Home Depot, the show billed itself as a business show...amazing.
maybe he should lure him over to Fox......
Maybe he just tried.
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I would love to see Ailes start up a financial news channel that is fair and balanced. I would bet it has a positive affect on the markets.
CNBC tries to stay apolitical. But markets are not apolitical. For example INVN was a soaring stock post-911 until Daschle's wife forced L3 onto airport security planners and L3 systems were unreliable! How many people knew that?
Bloomberg is not bad. Both CNBC and Bloomberg are on the superficial end of the spectrum. Louis Rukekeyser's Wall St. week is excellent.
I won't bother to comment on CFN as I have never really watched it.
Neil Cavuto does an excellent job covering all sides of a story. He doesn't let bashers and pumpers of stocks get away without backup. But he doesn't have enough time to cover the markets adequately.
There's alot of political influences on the markets. From Canadian tariffs to immigrant labor in the agricultural industries to union griping about outsourcing. A Fox financial news channel could lend their famous brand of balance to financial issues just as they do for general news.
Weekend show would be good for him. IMO
"I don't dislike alan colmes, even, because I think he is an honest liberal (don't laugh)"
I wouldn't laugh, I like Alan.
He has a conscience, he genuinely believes the policies he supports will help this country rather than harm.
IMO, he is a good man fighting for the wrong cause.
I still can't listen to him without hitting the mute within 10 seconds. LOL
Too much to hope MSM takes this fights against Fox to the next degree? They are admitting their partisan nature in trickles with the increasing pressure. Full fledged war would expose their agenda just in time for the elections, resulting in an "inadvertant" endorsement for G.W.
Ailes is a God send.
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