FOX News Chief Roger Ailes: Clinton Hatred for Journalists is Showing

[Human Torch]

FOX News Chief: Clinton Hatred for Journalists is Showing

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216180,00.html

NEW YORK — Fox News chief Roger Ailes says former President Clinton's response to Chris Wallace's question about going after Usama bin Laden represents "an assault on all journalists."

Ailes said Clinton had a "wild overreaction" in the interview, broadcast on "FOX News Sunday." Hundreds of thousands of people subsequently watched clips over the Internet, with FOX News foes rallying behind Clinton.

"If you can't sit there and answer a question from a professional, mild-mannered, respectful reporter like Chris Wallace, then the hatred for journalists is showing," Ailes said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday. "All journalists need to raise their eyebrows and say, 'hold on a second."'

Wallace has said he asked Clinton about bin Laden partly because of ABC's recent docudrama "The Path to 9/11," widely criticized as full of falsehoods by former Clinton administration officials for depicting a bungling effort at going after the terrorist leader.

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. Excellent news! I'd always wished he'd had his security people

frogmarch them out of the building that time when Yasser Arafat was with him, and the perjured scum kept harrassing him about his private life.

Unfortunately, we know it's a bare-faced lie. He simply insisted on not allowing the lying little rat to steamroller him when he had begun to answer a qustion.

[jayctravis]

24. Doesn't Shrub "assault journalists" with his demeaning manner

and nicknames? He certainly is guilty of not behaving properly if they think Clinton is.

[Joe Chi Minh]

27. Sure. But most people are nothings to him at present.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Ailes: corrput repulicon crony propagandist-in-chief

You ain't foolin anyone, you corporo-fascist asshat.

[bullimiami]

3. just for lying sycophantic ones.

[tsuki]

4. Hatred, I thought it was disgust. Do you hate a worm? eoq

[sam sarrha]

5. perhaps just the Fascist corporate whores disguised as journalists

[Tellurian]

6. If Ailes had any self-respect, he wouldn't be working at FOX!

What kind of hooey is he peddling?

Trying to portray Chis Wallace as the Walter Cronkite of FOX?

Time you retired Roger, you're distinctly out of touch with mainstream politics.

:rofl:

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Hey Roger. Let us know when you hire a journalist. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. At least he doesn't drop bombs on them. n/t

[LiberalHeart]

9. Wallace needs to get his story straight.

Didn't he tell Clinton he was just posing the questions emailers wanted answered?

If so, how does this wash:

Wallace has said he asked Clinton about bin Laden partly because of ABC's recent docudrama "The Path to 9/11," widely criticized as full of falsehoods by former Clinton administration officials for depicting a bungling effort at going after the terrorist leader.

[Human Torch]

11. Wallace has also claimed that...

...Clinton left the interview "yelling at his staff for getting him into this."

So far the only person offering evidence that this exchange actually happened: Wallace.

[swag]

10. Nixon's 1968 "Executive Producer of TV" learned his own hatred of

journalism from Nixon himself. That's why he created Fox News. To help destroy journalism.

[Hav]

12. .

Not everyone can treat journalists as respectfully as Bush has in the last months. I understand that.


"There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from The New York Times."
"Oh yeah, he is, big time."

[Chipper Chat]

13. Jesus! Doesn't Ailes watch the pResident's press conferences?

The treatment Helen Thomas and David Gregory get from the bLivet is disgusting and "an assault on all members of the press" to paraphrase Mr. Roger.

[beltanefauve]

14. Chris Wallace is

a JOURNALIST??? That's news to me!:wtf:

[GreenTea]

15. As Jon Stewart said, why aren't the talking about the points & facts...

Clinton spoke about...We know why...Just like with Dean in 2004...The republicans & their owned MSM don't want the message nor the truth to be heard...so they distort, lie smear and change the story line.

[Riddler]

16. How the hell would Ailes know that?

There hasn't been a "journalist" at FOX since it's inception, just right wing sound boards for pre-approved talking points.

[blondeatlast]

17. Yep, it was the Clenis who shoved Helen Thomas into the back

corner of the Press Room; I remember as if it was yesterday...

Yeah, he sure hates journalists a big lot, sure, I believe you, Roger. :sarcasm:

[PlanetBev]

18. Ailes gives me the creeps

He looks like he could drown a bag of kittens and then sit down and eat a hearty dinner

[Sapere aude]

19. All parts of the right wing noise machine are singing in concert.

You would think that since so many right wingers are saying the same thing that this has to be an orchestrated attack on Clinton. Of course I don't give the right wing supporters the credit to be able to think like that.

[Old and In the Way]

20. Dick Nixon's media strategist - that's really all you need to know.

Roger runs the Media racket for the Republican Crime Syndicate.

[nam78_two]

21. !

:eyes:

sometimes there are no words....

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. So where will Hannity and O'Lielly be working after you fire them?

Oh, that's right. They're family. I forgot.

[Skittles]

23. no, it was an assault on all propganda whores

yes INDEED

[treestar]

25. Calling that an "assault on journalists" is also a "wild overreaction"

if not the epitome of such a phenomena.

[Writer]

26. And this is the time when journalists everywhere roll their eyes and say..

"Yeah, whatever, you fat fuck." :eyes:

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. I wonder if there are grounds for Clinton suing Ailes.