Monday, April 20, 2015

The Introspective Roger Ailes:





◼ Fox News' Chief on Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz, Brian Williams' Future ("I'd Put Him Back") and His Own - Marisa Guthrie/Hollywood Reporter

We talk for nearly two hours about everything from Hillary Clinton ("Do you believe that the stuff on 30,000 emails that were destroyed after the prosecutor told [her] to keep it had things on it about yoga? I don't"), the 2016 presidential field in general ("I haven't heard anybody in election campaigns say things that would make me run out and vote for them yet"), exiled NBC News anchor Brian Williams ("I'd put Brian back, but I'd do it the right way"), fatherhood ("It made me a coward") and his legacy ("I don't give a rat's ass what the world thinks")....

Ailes has spent his entire career "stand[ing] in the doorway," as he puts it, a rare "dissenting voice" amid liberal media orthodoxy and coastal elitism, the only backstop against political correctness (some would say) run amok. Combative and brutally funny, he seems to enjoy stoking the popular caricature of the liberals' bogeyman.

"I think liberals have a lot of good ideas actually," he says. "But I've been pigeonholed and I'm quite comfortable with it." KEEP READING

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