UK: What's Roger Ailes thinking

The Guardian

Fox chief on Obama, Palin, Clinton - and the US 'liberal propaganda machine'

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Here's Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News, supposedly showing his soft side in an interview with Howard Kurtz for Newsweek.

On President Obama, the man Fox News loves to hate: "He shot that SOB in the head that killed 3,000 Americans. That was his finest hour."

On Hillary Clinton, another Fox punchbag: "I'd like to hire her. She looks unhappy at the state department. She'd get ratings."

On Sarah Palin, a Fox commentator whom Ailes has been reported as calling an idiot, which he strenuously denies: "She's so smart she's got the press corps running up the whole east coast behind her bus."

On Glenn Beck, Fox's inflammatory presenter who is now serving his notice at the channel: "His goals were different from our goals..." (You have to wonder why it took Ailes so long to discover that).

Speaking about the other three TV networks and the New York Times Ailes returns to his usual script, accusing them of forming "a liberal propaganda machine". He added:

"If they did fair and balanced news, we'd be out of business."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/06/fox-news-barack-obama