ROGER AILES LIES; SHOULDN'T THE RULE OF LAW APPLY TO HIM AS HE HAS CALLED ON IT BEFORE FOR OTHERS?

Roger Ailes

Judith Regan, reportedly has Ailes on tape urging her to lie to federal investigators about her affair with Bernard Kerick, a former top lieutenant of Rudolf Giuliani when he served as New York’s mayor. With Giuliani eyeing a possible presidential run, Ailes allegedly told Regan to lie in order to protect both Kerik and Giuliani.(as reported in the NY Times)  For the entire article written by Eric Boehlert of Media Matters, click here. 

Meanwhile, three right-wing hypocrites  continue their union bashing.  An article in AlterNet by Ted Fox turned up an interesting observation.  "Confirmed: Union-Bashing Right-Wing Media Stars Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly Are AFL-CIO Union-Affiliated Members"  They are in the American Federation Television and Radio Artists.

Meanwhile, Presidential hopeful, Huckabee, continues his 'birther' crusade, spewing lies about Obama's early history, religion, and education.  Why he is foolish enough to be on permanent record with his lies.  Does he still expect to be President?  It makes one wonder about his intelligence.  Unless, of course, he knows he won't be elected president but will continue to get campaign donations from the people who wish to believe what he is saying   And so, another politician, for whichever reason, gets a citation  for SHAME.  He confirms all my fears about religion's employees.  Do they make rules for themselves as they go along?  We seem to be in an era where the rules are governed not by integrity or truth but of 'whatever works'.

SPORTS ON TV IS LESS AGGRAVATING THAN POLITICAL MEDIA

Having always preferred being a participant rather than a spectator, TV sports have not been my first choice for entertainment.  However, many things have effected a change in that view.  I'm not as physically energetic as I was thirty or forty years ago.  It is nice to keep part of my mind occupied while I am doing an otherwise  mindless task sitting down.  For years I have watched news channels and political talk shows. 

When I begin to not choose playing the piano to relax, it finally dawned that it is because the piano has gotten somewhat out of tune and is not pleasant to me.  Similarly, the media has also gone out of tune.  Instead of finding news about what is happening, we are fed opinions from biased people who pretend to have some authority to predict our economic and political future.  It feels as my piano does when it is out of tune so I turn to the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, or play around with some of the PBS channels. While I don't follow all of any sport, I tend to get hung up on the Baseball Playoffs, the Superbowl, the Masters and other tournaments for golf, though I really can't say that tennis, hockey and soccer have grabbed me yet.  However, I realize that watching athletes who have mastered their sport, surgeons who have mastered their operations, even cooks who have become skilled at food preparation and many blue collar pros doing their electrical work, plumbing, carpentry or whatever, is far more entertaining and educational than the 'balanced' panels that have people like  and too many others who make me cringe and channel surf.

If I believed that most published polls are accurate, I would try to find out the changes others have made in their video viewing.  Even the sitcoms have gone so commercial and politically correct.  I long for the energy that was raised when Normal Lear tackled sensitive subjects in the most tasteful ways.with shows like Maude or Archie Bunker (was that All in the Family?) 

ROGER AILES - OUT FOR RATINGS, NOT TRUTH

Every small child learns the safest course when you have done wrong is to deny your responsibility. Most mature adults out grow this childish tendency and face the consequences of their actions. In this world of technology, video, and fast news transmission it is even more amazing that there are still those who try to get away with this tactic.

Last Sunday, January 31, 2010,
Roger Ailes, CEO and American president of the Fox News Channel, was a guest on a talk show of another channel. During the Round Table discussion, he denied that Glenn Beck ever used the word slaughter. Today several shows had a field day play video tapes of Glenn Back doing just that. Ailes inaccurately said Beck was talking about Hitler and Stalin, patently wrong from the context in which it was said. He is quoted: "They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered.

Regarding Health Care which Ailes and Fox are clearly against. Ailes weaseled out of a reasonable explanation as to why they stopped showing the President 20 minutes before it was over when none of the other channels did.

Roger Ailes On "This Week": Defends Glenn Beck, Insists Fox Is No Longer At War With Obama

Fox News Channel President Roger Ailes insisted on Sunday that his network was no longer at war with the Obama White House and defended Fox's Glenn Beck over some of his more inflammatory statements.

Appearing for the first time on ABC's "This Week," Ailes said that Beck's often over-the-top rhetoric was politically legitimate, even if it ruffled a few feathers.

Reminded by HuffPost's Arianna Huffington that Beck has warned of "slaughter" and a "killing spree" for those not on board with the Obama administration's agenda, Ailes insisted that the reference wasn't to this president but rather to murderous dictators.

"Well, he was talking about Hitler and Stalin slaughtering people, so I think he was probably accurate," he said. "I think he speaks English, I don't know. But I don't misinterpret any of his words. He did say one unfortunate thing that he apologized for. But that happens in live television."

Ailes was wrong. Beck's reference was, indeed, to Obama. Here is the "killing spree" quote from October 2009:

Spread the wealth -- hello, Mao -- that is what this is all about. And anybody not on board, look out because you too could be the next victim of the killing spree. Is it far fetched to think that [pay] Czar [Kenneth] Feinberg could go into Walmart and argue it that it is just too important to the economy if Walmart fails? I mean it's the biggest store in the world. We feel you are being reckless in your pay structure Walmart. We have to bring the unions in to control your pay. What about Rupert Murdoch? if News Corp failed would it be harmful to the economic health of America?... Obama has repeated over and over again just how dangerous, old and unworkable our economy is.


And here is Beck warning of a possible impending "slaughter" in November 2009:

I told you yesterday, buckle up your seatbelt, America. Find the exit -- there's one here, here, and here. Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash landing. Because this plane is coming down, because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees!

Most likely, it'll happen sometime after Christmas. You're gonna see this economy come up -- we're already seeing it, and now it's gonna start coming back down again. And when you see the effects of what they're doing to the economy, remember these words: We will survive. No -- we'll do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these people are not in control. They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered!


From the Huffington Post: "Lamenting what he felt was the "word police" nature of the questions being directed at him, Ailes tried to turn the tables by saying that he had been subjected to some ridicule on the pages of the Huffington Post. The remarks he cited, however, did not come from a Huffington Post employee, but were written by a blogger, longtime TV critic Bill Mann. What's more, Ailes misquoted what Mann had said about him. Mann did not, as Ailes claimed, describe him as "a malignant tumor." Here is what he wrote: "So, while Fox News, as the Times story stresses, may be a financial success story, it's also a malignant tumor on the body politic. For that you can thank Roger Ailes."