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Fox News' Roger Ailes: "Tone it Down"
CBS ^ | 1/10/11 | Stephanie Condon

Posted on 01/10/2011 9:57:18 PM PST by pissant

In the wake of the tragic shooting in Tuscon, Ariz. that left six dead and 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News President Roger Ailes is saying that his network and others in politics and the media need to "tone it down."

In an interview with Russell Simmons, published today by Simmons' website Global Grind, Ailes addressed the tragedy and the partisan rhetoric some say is to blame for the incident.

Ailes to some extent defended Sarah Palin's use of crosshairs imagery during the 2010 campaign, arguing that such rhetoric was not uncommon in politics. Palin has come under criticism in the wake of the shooting for having created a "target list" of lawmakers she hoped to unseat, including Giffords. Palin released a map featuring the 20 targeted House Democrats that used crosshairs to show their districts.

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But Ailes called the use of such imagery "bulls**t" and said "both sides are wrong, but they both do it."

"I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually," the Fox News president said. "You don't have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: foxnews; giffords; murdoch; palin; rogerailes; rupertmurdoch; toneitdown
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Idiot. Next up, Karl Rove?
1 posted on 01/10/2011 9:57:24 PM PST by pissant
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It is the liberal media that needs to tone it down.


2 posted on 01/10/2011 9:59:04 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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You mean we need to sit down and shut up while the Left can assault us at every turn? Screw you, Ailes!


3 posted on 01/10/2011 9:59:28 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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4 posted on 01/10/2011 10:00:35 PM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: pissant

I say tone it up.


5 posted on 01/10/2011 10:00:59 PM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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I say give em hell, give em no quarter and double the vitriol!


6 posted on 01/10/2011 10:03:44 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Eat it, Ailes.


7 posted on 01/10/2011 10:04:00 PM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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Mr. Ailes....et tu Brute?

Leni

8 posted on 01/10/2011 10:04:15 PM PST by MinuteGal
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The left is not just the ones to STFU but get out of our faces and our wallets. Mind its own business and LUTF alone.


9 posted on 01/10/2011 10:04:33 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (The Rodney King Riots: Courtesy of ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN)
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Obama told supporters today that a Republican victory in November would mean “hand to hand combat.”
The LA Times

''I don't regret setting bombs, I feel we didn't do enough.'' Lib-terrorist and Obama friend Bill Ayers

10 posted on 01/10/2011 10:04:44 PM PST by NoLibZone (Homosexuals oppose diversity.)
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Tone WHAT down? His speaking is the “synthesis” part of the Hegelian dialectic. The Communists(D) scream RACIST, the Progressives(R) say, no we are not. Then the Progressive(R’s) trim the political discussions. I mean, if they don’t cut the criticisms, people will not like them. Apologies to those that still believe the Republicans are conservative. After all the kowtowing to 0 during the lame duck session, I figure it proves my point.


11 posted on 01/10/2011 10:07:04 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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Due to extenuating circumstances, I've watched TV for the last week (quite unlike the last 10 years). TV is all about the story of the story. They really cover NO news most days.

Retards, totally they are.

(Fox is as bad as the rest.) Useless, they are.

12 posted on 01/10/2011 10:08:42 PM PST by Paladin2
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Ailes should just keep Shepherd Smith and Geraldo as his only fulltime “reporters”. Then have Bob Beckel, Alan Colmes and Juan Williams as correspondents. He could keep the Chucklebee show and maybe replace Hannity with Karl Rove and O’Reilly with Mara Liasson. As far as a replacement for Beck’s timeslot, I hear Larry King is available. This will solve all his pesky problems and the MSM will stop saying mean things about him.


13 posted on 01/10/2011 10:09:56 PM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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I think this was aimed at Hannity, whom you have to admit does rant. OTOH he is usually right. But sometimes I wish he’d use a bit more of an intellectual approach.


14 posted on 01/10/2011 10:10:02 PM PST by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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I’d like one example of Fox News spewing the same crap on the other networks. For Fox to tone it down anymore they’d have to close it down.


15 posted on 01/10/2011 10:10:34 PM PST by Terry Mross (.)
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Retards, totally they are.

After working more than 20 years in the media, mostly in broadcasting, I would have to agree. Just call me retard. And I mean that, sincerely.
16 posted on 01/10/2011 10:12:24 PM PST by malkee (Actually I'm an ex-smoker--more than four years now-- But I think about it every day.)
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I read the whole article at that nit-wit Russells website no one ever heard of. Other than thinking why he would talk to this Commie Pinko Rap mogul, I thaught Ailes was good.

He is running a new organization. We complain here all the time at the crazy ramblings of the other news outlets. I like that FOX was at least adult in their coverage.

Except for that poofter Shemp Smith. He is a Lib Rat POS and was just itching to start bashing the right in his interviews with people with agendas.


17 posted on 01/10/2011 10:12:29 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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The quote attributed to Harry Truman,”I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.” should have been used by Ailes. Unfortunatly, he seems to have caved.


18 posted on 01/10/2011 10:12:44 PM PST by JimSEA
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The L/MSM are really having a bit of a problem with this one, given all the stuff that has been made known on the shooter's real allegiance and his mental condition and now known non-conservative or Tea Party leanings.
They are spinning their wheels like a bunch of kids that just got caught burning down some vacant building or something.
The kid attended a school Bill Ayers set up through his radical socialist networks that originated out of the Chicago thugs.
What almost floored me today. Was I just got done reading the excellent book written by Stanley Kurtz titled RADICAL-IN-CHIEF. That goes into the very details as how Ayers set up these schools.
A school as mentioned on this site that this poor bastard attended. They got his head so screwed on wrong with his most probably mental conditions to boot.... well. You know the rest of the story.
19 posted on 01/10/2011 10:14:22 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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He better be talking about Jerry Rivers....


20 posted on 01/10/2011 10:16:03 PM PST by Jrabbit
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