Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes feared being bombed by ‘those gays’

kpete

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Thu May-26-11 07:44 AM
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Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes feared being bombed by ‘those gays’

How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network
Ailes. “He is Fox News,” says Jane Hall, a decade-long Fox commentator who defected over Ailes’ embrace of the fear-mongering Glenn Beck. “It’s his vision. It’s a reflection of him.”

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Roger Ailes, the President of the Fox News Channel, had bomb-proof glass installed in his office because of fears he would be attacked by gay activists, according to a former colleague.

Dan Cooper, a former managing editor at Fox News, told Rolling Stone that Ailes insisted on having bomb-proof glass installed in his second story office windows in Manhattan.

"They’ll be down there protesting," Ailes allegedly said. "Those gays."

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The June 8 issue of Rolling Stone will feature an article by Tim Dickinson about how Ailes created the Fox News "fear factory."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/25/fox-news-chairman-roger-ailes-feared-being-bombed-by-those-gays/
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no_hypocrisy

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Thu May-26-11 07:52 AM
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1. In the absence of real evidence, Ailes' attitude is just plain paranoid.

Edited on Thu May-26-11 07:53 AM by no_hypocrisy

Besides being ignorant and homophobic.

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pacalo

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Thu May-26-11 08:02 AM
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2. There's a weakness in the newspaper division after Murdoch bought the Wall Street Journal.

Interesting, considering their phone-tapping troubles in Great Britain...

The cable channel's earnings rivaled those of News Corp.'s entire film division, which includes 20th Century Fox, and helped offset a slump at Murdoch's beloved newspapers unit, which took a $3 billion write-down after acquiring The Wall Street Journal.

http://m.rollingstone.com/?redirurl=/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525?page=1

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Thu May-26-11 08:14 AM
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3. That's very comforting

So when the bomb goes off inside his office there won't be any collateral damage.

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Thu May-26-11 08:37 AM
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4. We should start sending chocolates in pink triangular boxes. n/t

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