Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77[W:79]

Gimmesometruth said:

I'm sure they allow groping in hell.

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Excon said:

Are you speaking from experience, or is it just what those liberals who have returned from hell tell you?

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Excon said:

Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77


Roger Ailes, who mastered the art of selling political candidates like Hollywood celebrities and was the architect of conservative-oriented TV news, died May 18 at 77. He was the longtime chairman and chief executive of the Fox News Channel, building it into an politically influential juggernaut until his abrupt ouster last year amid sexual harassment allegations.

Fox News reported the death, citing a statement from his family. No cause was reported.


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Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77​

His creation of a conservative News Network was a positive addition to the US.

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Erod said:

The same people that mourned the death of Ted Kennedy are celebrating the death of Roger Ailes.

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Kellie Boyle said:

This was back in 1989. I was 29 and living in New Jersey. My husband worked at CNBC and he said, “Roger Ailes is coming in to be interviewed — would you like to meet him?” I said yes! I’d worked in political communications for the Republican National Committee, so Roger Ailes was like a god. I’d read his book, You Are the Message, and I used it for a lot of training I did for candidates. I introduced myself in the green room, and he was very charming and said, “Would you like to visit my office downtown sometime?”

A week or two later I went in and mentioned to him I was going down to D.C. the following week to sign a major contract with the National Republican Congressional Committee. He said, “I’m going to be in D.C. too. Would you like to have dinner before you go in?” So we had a nice dinner at a restaurant in Union Station. There was nothing untoward about it at all. He had a driver and a car, and after dinner he said, “Can I take you to your friend’s?” So we get in the car and that’s when he said, “You know if you want to play with the big boys, you have to lay with the big boys.” I was so taken aback. I said, “Gosh, I didn’t know that. How would that work?” I was trying to kill time because I didn’t know if he was going to attack me. I was just talking until I could get out of the car. He said, “That’s the way it works,” and he started naming other women he’d had. He said that’s how all these men in media and politics work — everyone’s got their friend. I said, “Would I have to be friends with anybody else?” And he said, “Well, you might have to give a blow job every once in a while.” I told him I was going to have to think about this. He said, “No, if you don’t do it now, you know that means you won’t.”

The next morning I show up to get my assignment and was told the guy I was supposed to be meeting with was unavailable. Back in New Jersey, I got a call from Roger Ailes. He said, “How’d your meeting go?” I said, “Actually, he wasn’t available and I’m hoping to hear back from him.” He said, “Ah, well, I’m sure you will. Have you changed your mind yet?” I said, “I’ll have to pass, Roger. I’m married and really committed to my husband. No offense.” He said, “Well, we’ll be in touch.” And that was that. A couple weeks later, I called a friend who was very high up in the RNC and I asked him what happened. He said, “Word went out you weren’t to be hired.”

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Marsha Callahan said:

This was either ’68 or ’67. At the time he was producing The Mike Douglas Show, and I had a call from my modeling agency about the show. I got a call directly from Roger asking me to come down and to make sure I wore a garter belt and stockings. This was right after pantyhose came into use, and I said, “Why would you want me to do that instead of pantyhose?” He said, “If your legs look good in a garter belt, I’ll know you have great legs.” So I go into his office and right away he says, “Sit on the sofa and lift your skirt up.” I had to do these different poses. And then, I recall very clearly, he said he’d put me on the show but I needed to go to bed with him. I was a really shy girl, but I was a little cheeky, so I said, “Oh yeah, you and who else?” And he said, “Only me and a few of my select friends.” I said, “Well, if you think I have star quality and you can make money off my looks, I don’t think it’d matter if I went to bed with you or not.” And he said, “Oh, pretty girls like you are a dime a dozen.” The interview ended quickly. I was called in to do the show and I remember passing Roger in the hallway. He pretended not to know who I was.

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Anonymous said:

I was 16 years old, living in Radnor, Pennsylvania. I was sent over for a walk-on part on The Mike Douglas Show in the winter of 1967. It was 6:30 in the evening and the place was totally closing up. Ailes took me into this big office and locked the door with a key. He reclined on a couch in a seating area under a map that had flags of all the cities they were syndicated in. He proceeded to pull down his pants and very gingerly pull out his genitals and said, “Kiss them.” And they were red, like raw hamburger. He was pretty meticulously dressed, with long white shirttails coming out. It was like he was just at the end of a long day and I was supposed to know what to do. I was a kid — I’d never seen a man’s privates before. I jumped up, but the door was locked and nobody was out there. He chased me around the office, and at some point it dawned on him that this just wasn’t going to happen. He finally pulled up his trousers. He was very angry and rushed over to his desk, pulled open a door, and had a reel-to-reel tape recorder going. He said to me, “Don’t tell anybody about this. I’ve got it all on tape.” I think he knew I was 16.

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Gimmesometruth said:

False dichotomy. I have read that all sorts of evils take place in hell. I'm sure he has found a home there.

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RickJames3000 said:

How many threads do we need for this dead, bloated, vile, sexual predator?

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Excon said:

.....experience..... evidence....

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Excon said:

iLOL
Those that criticize others ...


As for how many threads? One, how many do you count here in Breaking News? I only count one at the time of this posting.

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rocket88 said:

Not sure who will miss him more, conservatives who need Fox to tell them what to think, or liberals who need a villain.

In his honor, all skirts at Fox are being worn at half-length.

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Mac77 said:

I see all the rancid liberal comments

But I thought the rules forbid hateful rants against the dead?

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Gimmesometruth said:

Takes a discussion on imaginary events and places, turns them into reality. Another day in excondialand.

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RickJames3000 said:

https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...werhouse-dies-77-a.html?highlight=roger+ailes

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Gimmesometruth said:

Uh...the op made a fatal error....it did not use the "rip" tag.

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Excon said:

Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox Grope News, is dead at 77

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Rogue Valley said:

Fixed that headline

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rocket88 said:

And vice versa

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Infinite Chaos said:

Thread not going as well as intended.

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