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.’
She is lying. I've heard Beck specifically state otherwise.
Thanks for having Huffington’s comments translated into English.