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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDetails coming out about the new book on Roger Ailes - he's as disgusting as you'd have guessed
I think the BEST part about this story is the statement from Fox:
"These charges are false. While we have not read the book, the only reality here is that Gabe was not provided any direct access to Roger Ailes and the book was never fact-checked with Fox News."
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we have not read the book
" but we're just going to go ahead and say its all lies.
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fact-checked with Fox News."
http://gawker.com/roger-ailes-offered-staffer-an-extra-100-a-week-for-se-1496839598
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/business/media/biography-casts-critical-light-on-fox-news-chief.html?_r=1&
MADem
(135,425 posts)Don't they just make shit up? What would be the point of "fact checking" anything with those assholes?
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Fact checking to Fox is as kryptonite to Superman.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I think ten grand wouldn't be enough! What a nasty looking turd!
The New York Times got an advance copy and published some of the key revelations today. Among them:
During a salary negotiation in the 1980's, Ailes offered producer Randi Harrison an additional $100 each week she would agree to have sex with him whenever he wanted.
He also privately thinks of Bill O'Reilly as "a book salesman with a TV show" and Brian Kilmeade as "a soccer coach from Long Island."
During a 1990's power struggle with NBC executive David Zaslav, Ailes was accused of making an anti-Semitic remark involving an obscenity and "the words 'little' and 'Jew'." NBC's chairman and counsel believe "he probably said it."
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I'll bet they'd pay it gladly, even if it put their paychecks under minimum wage--anything to avoid the attentions of Pigface Stickypaws!
madokie
(51,076 posts)a three stab affair. once through the air, twice through the hair
I hope this is not out of line. If it is my apologies :
MADem
(135,425 posts)get him away from them!!!
madokie
(51,076 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)What a cheap john.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Those are dog walking wages, not prostitution remittances!
And given the bio-hazard that is Ailes, ten grand a week would be too little, I should think....
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)who checks to make sure that any politician that gets arrested or accused has a (D) after their name, no matter their party affiliation.
MADem
(135,425 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)said:
"During two and a half years of reporting, I made a dozen requests both in writing and in person to speak with Roger Ailes about every aspect of my book, The Loudest Voice in the Room," Sherman said in the statement.
"A team of two fact-checkers spent more than 2,000 hours vetting the manuscript before publication. Roger Ailes declined every request to discuss the reporting with me."
So suck on that Ailes. The 2,000 hours probably represents more than the Fox news channel has spent since it's been on air. And speaking of fact checking, since Random House has data to support their fact-checking (I'm sure due to payroll expenses) how is it that 60 Minutes doesn't have a clue how much time, if any, was spent fact-checking any of their stories?
MADem
(135,425 posts)They should get a kickback for helping sell the book....and he has the cluelessness to think that Dild-O Really is the ONLY bookseller at Fauxsnooze!
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)they encircle each other and sperm is exchanged through their protruded genitalia. A few days later, Roger Ailes lays around thirty eggs in a hole in the ground, or beneath the cover of an object such as a fallen log.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)sheshe2
(83,927 posts)Ouch, sorry the picture is so BIG! Disgusting is right!
dorkzilla~
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Oh, the neighbors up there REALLY love him
getta load of his version of winning friends and influencing people"
http://gawker.com/5800439/roger-ailes-continues-to-ruin-his-adopted-home
My part time job is to find stories about Ailes' misadventures in Putnam County and send a "tip" to Gawker. No one covers Ailes like Gawker, LOL!!!!!
sheshe! Keep warm up there!!!!!
sheshe2
(83,927 posts)and Putnam County in particular for having that diseased pustule of a man living there.
I hope you don't live downwind of him, dorkzilla! I pray that he never crosses the threshold of your establishment, though I do believe that you could take him down a peg or two. Now that would be great fun to watch! Then you could send the video to the gawker!
Thanks dorzilla, I am trying to stay warm, not an easy task the past week.
stg81
(351 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)pink-o
(4,056 posts)at his whim? Cuz they're sure jumping though hoops to trash this book--which makes them virtual prostitutes, since they do it all for the $$$$$$$.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)This will be fun to watch