Roger Ailes to be Indicted?

The Big Picture ^ | 02/27/2011 | Barry Ritholz

[pjsbro]

This is from Barry Ritholtz's blog:

Here’s what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes was scheduled to speak at their event in March, but canceled. It appears that Roger’s people, ostensibly using a clause in his contract, said he “cannot appear for legal reasons.”

I asked “What, precisely, does that mean?”

The response: “Roger Ailes will be indicted — probably this week, maybe even Monday.”

You read it here first . . .

[InterceptPoint]

Even O'Reilly would start talking up the Birth Certificate issue. Disagree....Bill-O is too far up Zero's bunghole.

But Roger Ailes could move O'Reilly to midnight if he wanted. Or swap his time slot with Greta. O'Reilly is not going to buck Ailes. And in any case, Obama can't take the chance.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Like the unwashed masses won't recognize this for what it is?

Taken with Holder'r refusal to prosecute the New Black Panthers, it could get very, very ugly for the administration in 2012.

And President Palin could start the investigations and indictments on the day of her inauguration.

[raybbr]

Disagree....Bill-O is too far up Zero's bunghole.

It amazes my how many people think BOR has principles and that he does something without considering his ratings first.

[pjsbro]

I would guess that Ailes would step aside if indicted, until the case gets dismissed, thrown out

[mewzilla]

Never pick a fight with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.

Mark Twain.

And how the heck is Bill Clinton getting credit for that quote?

[paulycy]

Disagree....Bill-O is too far up Zero's bunghole.

But maybe now we know why... and now that could change?

[txroadkill]

The my guess would be it's going to make it past the judge. Unless, she violated the law by making the recordings and then they could be inadmissible.

[Huck]

I admire Ailes’ professional ability. I hope he didn’t actually do what is alleged. If he told Regan to lie to prosecutors about an affair she was having, just to protect Guliani’s political bacon? Barf. If there is really a recording of the conversation....yikes.

[pjsbro]

The documents that refer to the audio tape were supposed to have been sealed by court order but some public union employee mistakenly unsealed them. So it’s unlikely the case will go anywhere.

[Terry Mross]

Ailes should say “I was fantasizing about having sex with Judith so this is all about sex. I call Bill Clinton as my first witness.”

[pjsbro]

The truth is undoubtedly somewhere in between. But it doesn’t matter because this is just an attempt to discredit Fox in the middle of all this Wisconsin stuff.

[pjsbro]

Actually this case has so much stuff surrounding it that I sometimes wonder if Ailes himself is encouraging it to drive traffic to Fox owned media.

[Brilliant]

It depends on where you try him. If you try him in the liberal DC jury pool, then even a ham sandwich could be convicted if it’s associated with Foxnews.

[ml/nj]

It’s a crime now to urge someone else to lie? Really?

Weren't there tapes of the Slickster urging women to lie?

ML/NJ

[chickadee]

I thought lying about sex wasn’t really lying, just like some kinds of sex aren’t really sex. I cite Clinton v Truth.

[Signalman]

Just like Rove was indicted...

[2111USMC]

I cite Clinton v Truth.

Good one!

[InterceptPoint]

I would guess that Ailes would step aside if indicted, until the case gets dismissed, thrown out

Perhaps. So let Murdoch put in a real anti-Obama guy and see what happens. This is risky proposition for a President who is risk-adverse. Not going to happen.