Understatement Of The Year: Sarah Palin Is An Idiot

[babylonsister]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=4501

Understatement Of The Year: Sarah Palin Is An Idiot
Posted by: Mark @ 7:50 pm




In an article published in New York Magazine, Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News is reported to have told colleagues that he thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot and unhelpful to the conservative movement.

Really? Gosh, we never knew. But to be fair, there was a lot more of interest in that article than the sensational headline that is getting all the attention. I’ll have an article at Alternet soon (and here at News Corpse in a day or two) about how Fox News has sabotaged the Republican Party, but in the meantime, here is a brief summary of some of the more salient facts in the NYMag article:

* Ailes thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot (a given).
* Ailes threatened to fire Glenn Beck as talks over his departure broke down.
“…as with everything concerning Glenn Beck, the situation was a mess, simultaneously a negotiation and a therapy session.”
* Ailes was upset that he could not elect a president.
“the Fox candidates’ poll numbers remain dismally low.”
* Ailes tried to recruit Chris Christie to run for president.
“…he fell hard for Christie, who nevertheless politely turned down Ailes’s calls to run.”
* Ailes is the GOP kingmaker.
“You can’t run for the Republican nomination without talking to Roger.”
* Ailes threatened to quit in 2008.
“Ailes confronted Murdoch after he learned Murdoch was thinking of endorsing Obama in the New York Post.”
* Ailes is a true believer in the lunatic theories his network broadcasts.
“Ailes told Axelrod that he was concerned that Obama wanted to create a national police force.”

Perhaps the most profoundly disturbing item in this list is that Ailes is recruiting candidates for the GOP. How can the head of an alleged news network have that sort of political role? What if he succeeds in persuading Christie, or someone else, to enter the race? How could his network cover the campaign with any impartiality? Not that they would anyway, considering that half of the Republican field is on the Fox payroll, but this would blow any pretense of being “fair and balanced” out of the water. No wonder Rupert Murdoch’s own son-in-law said of Ailes…

“I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.”

Ouch!

[Gman]

1. KO should have copyrighted "THAT woman is an idiot"

I wonder if Ailes wants to hire him. LOL!

[RandomThoughts]

2. You have to first understand the private sector as a form of governance.

Then realize it is no different then state funded propaganda, accept for a different form of governance, rule by money.

Side note, it is not as simple as them putting up candidates, they can also put up candidates that don't actually represent the ideas of a group to take it down. So it is deeper then that.

It is also possible they are trying to show how bad the information systems are, by being inaccurate.

On a side note, I have seen fox move to some better reporting on many things. It is more the structure that bothers me, and that is a difference on views on how society should be ran, possibly becuase of different experience sets.

But the concept of propaganda, or private sector intelligence agencies, is not any different then a 'country' or form of governance.

[malaise]

3. Duh!

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Although I agree with the sentiment completely, idiot is technically incorrect

Idiot derives from idiotes, a Greek word for a private person, an individual not involved in politics.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_idiot_mean

Moron, yes. Imbecile, yes. Idiot, sadly, no. Honestly, I wish she *was* an idiot; an individual not involved in politics.

:hi:

[Bosso 63]

5. Sarah is ignorant and proud of it.

[EstimatedProphet]

7. Actually, in English, idiot derives from the French word idiot

which means idiot.

It also means Sarah Palin.

[rurallib]

6. “the Fox candidates’ poll numbers remain dismally low.”

"The Fox candidates" that is a scary term. There is an admission in there that Fox IS THE KINGMAKER in the repug party.
Maybe we should do away with parties and just go to corporations putting up candidates directly.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

8. Speaking As An Idiot................

...........I'm offended by the comparison.