Posted on 11/20/2012 1:29:08 PM PST by Beaten Valve
When Roger Ailes was a kid he used to watch Roy Rogers movies. He used to love the part where “the cattle would all start heading toward the cliff in a stampede. And one poor son-of-a-bitch had to go out there and ride on a horse and ride into the middle of it and try to turn the whole herd.”
That’s how the 72-year-old co-founder of Fox News sees himself today.
“If someone’s got to go in there and turn the herd at least I’m willing to wade in and try it,” Ailes told TVNewser during a lengthy interview in his office last week.
“Listen, my life would be so much easier if I were just more liberal. You know how much money I’d make. I’d be on the cover of every magazine. I’d be the biggest goddam celebrity in the world. God almighty I’d have Joy Behar kissing me. That’s my greatest fear. Joy would kiss me. I would be a giant, if I would just sell out what I believe in. They’d be so thrilled if I would just sell out my beliefs.”
Sorry Roger, my life would be so much eaiser if you were less liberal, and had sold out LESS than you have - and you have - to a great degree.
If you were any more liberal mister ailes... you would be running msnbc.
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So that is how he looks at his mindless liberal followers, CATTLE!? Why am I not surprised!
LOL - exactly my first thought.
MORE?
All these GOP elites have base envy. Their ashamed of their base. Wish they were as cool as the democrats’ base.
Their = They’re.
“More liberal” - implying he is very liberal already?
How do you write liberals so well?
I think of a conservative and I take away reason and accountability.
“Listen, my life would be so much easier if I were just more liberal. You know how much money I’d make. I’d be on the cover of every magazine. I’d be the biggest goddam celebrity in the world. God almighty I’d have Joy Behar kissing me. That’s my greatest fear. Joy would kiss me. I would be a giant, if I would just sell out what I believe in. They’d be so thrilled if I would just sell out my beliefs.”
I guess if Ailes were a liberal he could have found a secure niche at CBS or NBC. But that might not have made him a national celebrity. Liberal Ailes wouldn't have had to create anything new on his own. He could have just relied on the existing network. Nowadays media people have to hustle in a way that they didn't back when there were only three networks.
But why the obsession with Joy Behar?
“How do you write liberals so well?
I think of a conservative and I take away reason and accountability.”
You really should give Updike credit when you add your own twist to his quotes.
For people who aren’t familiar with the quote it’s the following:
>> I would be a giant, if I would just sell out what I believe in.
No, Ailes, you’d be an asshole just like the other sellouts.
Agree
We need a new stronger conservative TV network. Fox is too much geared to pleasing their liberal-progressive viewership and aiding in the decline of moral values. Imo.
All these GOP elites have base envy. Their ashamed of their base. Wish they were as cool as the democrats’ base.
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Exactly.
All black and Hispanic....wonder how unbiased they will be in their reporting?
Also, the website of AAP says it was “honored” to have Jesse Jackson as the speaker at its 2012 graduation.
Meh,.....just like blacks, I believe in the one drop rule....
One drop of liberalism in your blood makes you a liberal....
I thought it was so blatantly obvious as to self-attributing.
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