Newsweek's Fineman: Things Rogers Ailes 'Allowing on his Network Don't Do Justice to His Reputation'

newsbusters.org ^ | 9/15/09 | Jeff Poor

[Saint X]

So what if his network is drawing a larger audience than its combined competition? So what if one of his newest shows has drawn unprecedented numbers for a start-up that airs at 5 p.m.? According to Newsweek's Howard Fineman, Fox News President Roger Ailes is tarnishing his own personal reputation.

It could just be sour grapes for Fineman, who is affiliated with rival network MSNBC and was appearing on that network's "Countdown" with fill-in host David Shuster, but he attacked Fox host Glenn Beck and the 9/12 protestors he helped inspire.

"Well, he can - he can pretend to cry all he wants on the stage and call himself a televangelist," Fineman said of Beck on MSNBC's Sept. 14 "Countdown." "He is not into uniting the country, from everything I've seen. He is making a boatload of money dividing the country. When you say with no real evidence whatsoever that the president of the United States hates white people, you aren't behaving in the spirit of 9/12, you're behaving in a spirit that we thought we've gotten rid of at the end of the civil war and the end of the second civil rights movement. So, you know, he can cry the crocodile tears all he wants. That doesn't seem to be what he's actually doing."

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[Saint X]

Ratings envy.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Fineman is a cowardly dummy. Next........

[goodnesswins]

Fineman's a RACIST....doesn't want to see the breakdown of the DEM PLANTATION....(we can play this game, too)

[BertWheeler]

Howard Fineman talking about the Fox News Channel’s lack of journalistic integrity with David Shuster? Crazy. Pure insanity. I know the MSM is biased, but this is taking it too far.

[Frantzie]

NewsWeak is rapidly dying. Fox News ratings are exploding.

[Reagan Man]

I’d enjoy seeing Howard Fineman debate Roger Ailes.

Ailes would kick his butt. LOL

[God luvs America]

hey howie...how’d that flushing the koran’s down the toilet thing work out for ya’???

[marstegreg]

It seems to me that they are attacking him so their own reputations don’t look so soiled with tarnish.

[Obadiah]

You know, people are voting with their eyeballs, and Fineman and his pack of liberal dogs are getting slaughtered. Boo hoo, it’s so unfair.

[roses of sharon]

[Antoninus]

Hey Howard. Glen is just doing the reporting that you won't do.

Go have some cheese with your whine.

[marstegreg]

It’s funny to me how “uniting the country” means all the media must tell the same lies, otherwise they won’t believe the garbage we are passing of as news, right Nancy?

[roses of sharon]

[maggief]

“Well, he can - he can pretend to cry all he wants on the stage and call himself a televangelist,” Fineman said of Beck on MSNBC’s Sept. 14 “Countdown.” “He is not into uniting the country, from everything I've seen. He is making a boatload of money dividing the country. When you say with no real evidence whatsoever that the president of the United States hates white people, you aren't behaving in the spirit of 9/12, you're behaving in a spirit that we thought we've gotten rid of at the end of the civil war and the end of the second civil rights movement. So, you know, he can cry the crocodile tears all he wants. That doesn't seem to be what he's actually doing.”

Further evidence that MSM is pushing an agenda.

[SuziQ]

Typical Northeast Elitist Snob attitude.

[scooby321]

Old Media losers. Next in line for a bailout.

[VeniVidiVici]

Right. How dare Beck and Ailes give investigative reporting a mouthpiece on which to tear down corrupt organizations and politicians. Why that's the purview of the State Run Media!

[DGHoodini]

He can go and “commiserate” with his Peter Lorrie impersonator pals, Krugman, Maher, and Klein...and the rest of thhe “Fake Jew, Enslaver Pervert Nation”.

[Huebolt]

MSM is pushing an agenda.

I love going into dentist's waiting rooms, barber shops, hotel lobbies etc. and DESTROYING EVERY COPY OF TIME, NEWSWEEK, etc. that I can find. Have to be stealthy, take it to read, casually get up to 'go to the restroom' - and INTO THE TRASH WITH THE TRASH ! ! !

[o2bfree]

Since all the MSM networks are owned by various conglomerates they’re protected from most of the competitive market pressures they face... except they aren’t protected from FOX !!!

Sounds like sour grapes to me — they’re jealous of the ratings but they don’t want to give up their cozy relationships with their overlords. FOX is giving the media oligarchy the finger, and the conglomerates aren’t too happy about it.