July 30th, 2016
That’s one takeaway from this report:
It was 2011 and Ryan, then the CEO of Politico, was on a mission to repair relations between the two media organizations, sources with knowledge of the situation said. Years earlier, Fox News had banned Politico reporters from its airwaves because of suspicions of anti-Fox bias, and Ryan was pushing for a fresh start.
Then, according to the sources, Ailes told Ryan what he wanted: He wanted fair coverage from Politico; he wanted the website to take stock of Fox News’ successes, not just its controversies; and he wanted Politico to stop taking talking points from “that faggot David Brock.”
…”Why am I not surprised?” Brock told CNNMoney when informed of the alleged slur.
After all, it was Brock who noted in his own book, “The Fox Effect,” that Ailes once told President George H. W. Bush he shouldn’t wear a short-sleeve shirt because he’d “look like a fucking faggot.”
Obviously, this shouldn’t have been surprising. People are now coming out of the woodwork to describe instances when Ailes has made derogatory comments about women, Jews, and racial minorities. In a sign of the times when simple manners and polite conversation is derided as “political correctness”, one media consultant who actually admires Ailes described him as the “Toscanini of inappropriateness.”
David Brock is the founder of Media Matters. He is a former conservative journalist and protégé of John Podhoretz, who cut his teeth as a self-described “Right-Wing Hit Man” in his books and articles excoriating Anita Hill the Clintons and. In 1997, he denounced his own writings and in 2002, published Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Media Matters has been aggressive in its criticism of conservative journalism and of Fox News especially.
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Richard Paulsen
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Political correctness has nothing whatever to do with simple manners and polite conversation. To the contrary, politically correct people always feel free to insult and viciously abuse people who do not share their ridiculous and obviously false views. That is what political correctness is about.
Lucrece
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Seems like we have our American version of Silvio Berlusconi.
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