The first sentence in this zippy New York Daily News story is only partly true. Ann Coulter is right up there with the snappy zingers. Of course, liberals think everyone who says something nasty about liberals is a “moron”, a “liar”, a “Nazi”, a “homophobe”, “intolerant, or “want to take us back to the 10th century”. Oh yeah and they’re “neo-cons” (and they say it like it’s a negative!).
But when conservatives are attractive, popular, smart, have the right formula, and are right, they simply become unhinged and start oozing brain poo.
You haven’t been zinged till you’ve been zinged by Roger Ailes.
Yesterday, the razor-tongued Fox News chairman – whose network is the ratings king of cable news – sliced and diced his competitors at a breakfast hosted by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications and The New Yorker magazine.When New Yorker writer Ken Auletta asked Ailes if he envies anything about second-place CNN, Ailes shot back: “No!” But then he reflected: “They get better press. I keep reading about [CNN President] Jonathan Klein, and he’s got 50 great stories about what they’re doing there – one of which is, he thinks there’s not enough liberals in the newsroom; they need more progressives. God, I hope he believes that!”
As for ratings-challenged MSNBC, Ailes quipped: “They’ve hired every blond that doesn’t work for us. And it’s not working.”
Ailes – who in a former life was a brass-knuckled Republican media strategist – defended his recent comment that CNN International is “the anti-American channel.”
“It was a joke,” Ailes said. “Now that I think about it, it’s actually pretty serious.”
Chairman Roger claimed that CNN’s global outlet regularly accentuates the negative about the United States. “The one thing I know about America is, there are a hell of a lot of people trying to get in, and nobody’s trying to get out,” Ailes said. “In fact, if you can find somebody trying to get out, I’ll do a story on him – because that’s a hell of a story.”
And Ailes boasted that his reporters have been more aggressive than Manhattan’s media elite, especially when it comes to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and his son Kojo’s questionable business activities.
“Most of the reporters in this town like to go to Le Cirque and say, ‘Hey Kofi. Hey, have a drink!’ instead of saying, ‘Hey Kofi, where’s your kid?’” Ailes said. “We kept saying, ‘Hey Kofi, where’s your kid?’ and we were criticized as bashing the UN.”
By the way, thanks to enormous pressure from folks like us, Fox News Channel is no longer BANNED by the state censor in Canada, the CRTC division of the Liberal Party (who did ban it for years). Canadians are finally free to subscribe to Fox News Channel. It’s available to most subscribers of Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Cogeco Cable, and to StarChoice satellite service. Please check it out.
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