Video is private? What idiot would upload a video that is picked up by the Washington Times and then set it to private?
ROGER AILES: And we have a dialogue everyday with them…
BARBARA WALTERS: Aw shucks it was more fun the other way around
AILES: Well I’ll pick a fight if you want. I’d be happy to get into one, but I think there will be others. We have differences, but…
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: But Roger, it’s not the question of picking a fight. Aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using?—which is, after all , inciting the American people. There’s a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be next in the killing spree…
AILES: Well, he’s talking about Hitler and Stalin slaughtering people, so I think he was probably accurate…
HUFFINGTON: No, he was talking about this administration.
AILES:…also I think he speaks English. I don’t know but I mean, I don’t misinterpret any of his words. He did say one unfortunate thing which he apologized for, but that happens in live television, so I don’t think it’s a…I think if we start going around as the word police, in this business, it will be a…
HUFFINGTON: It’s not about the word police. It’s about something deeper. It’s about the fact that there’s a tradition that historian Richard Hofstadtersaid in American politics of the paranoid style, and the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there with…
AILES: I agree with you. I read something on your blog that said I look like J. Edgar Hoover, I had a face like a fist, and I was essentially a malignant tumor, and then it got nasty after that.
HUFFINGTON: Well, that was never by anybody that we approved
AILES: Then, it really went nasty, and I thought, ‘gee, maybe Arianna ought to cut this out.’
It’s working.
Roger Ailes was great on this program. Didn’t back down one wit while surrounded by libs, and even went on the attack against them. Way to go Roger Ailes, my hero! He gave more than he got.