Ailes: Navy SEALs should “have to personally kill an illegal immigrant” as part of certification"

[kpete]

For more than a year, Fox News has waged an intense campaign to discredit Gabriel Sherman’s forthcoming biography of network CEO Roger Ailes. A review of the book, which Media Matters obtained in advance of its Tuesday release, reveals that the network was right to be worried.

Among other revelations, Sherman reports that Ailes agreed with Glenn Beck’s infamous remark that President Obama has “a deep-seated hatred for white people”; Ailes thinks Navy SEALs should “have to personally kill an illegal immigrant” as part of their certification; Ailes allegedly offered an employee a salary increase if she would have sex with him on demand; and Ailes once called a rival executive “a little fucking Jew prick.”

The first details from Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room generated serious press attention this week, including the news that Ailes tried to gear Fox’s 2012 coverage to “elect the next president.”

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/12/new-book-reveals-the-real-roger-ailes/197547

[Skidmore]

1. Roger Ailes is a seriously disturbed individual.

As are Beck and Limbaugh and any number of the flotsam that has risen to the top of the RW/Teabagger communications cess pool.

[sufrommich]

2. I imagine the Fox News studios just pulsate with

violent,angry vibes all the time. What a fucking creep.

[Blue_Tires]

3. So does Ailes prefer the Navy eliminate McCain first, or Cruz?

[Lex]

4. Psychopath. nt

[madrchsod]

5. hell the fox zombies will agree with him

so ailes did a great job in electing the next president? interesting isn't it.

[shenmue]

6. What a creep

Ugh!

[phantom power]

7. Are they now literally competing to see who can act most like a movie villain?

That scene where the arch-villain forces his underlings to murder some innocent to demonstrate loyalty is practically a cliche.

[get the red out]

8. That's like a gang initiation

He would have our best military people turned into nothing but killer thugs. That is immoral, disgusting, inhuman, and also unpatriotic.

There aren't words to describe a person who would say something like that.

[OnyxCollie]

11. +1. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. "Accusations" - or even "unsubstantiated accusations" would be a fairer word than "revelations".

It doesn't sound like Sherman has any evidence beyond "someone claims he said it to them" for most of these accusations.

Some of it - possibly even all of it - may well be true, but the unquestioning acceptance it's receiving here is evidence of blind faith and wishful thinking trumping critical thinking.

[PeoViejo]

12. There is truthiness in what you say........

..but the reality is probably a lot worse.

Ailes is one Paranoid Mutherfucker....one with a lot of money and Power...

[bullwinkle428]

10. What a vile prick. Easy to see how the FoxBots think the way they do.

[AverageJoe90]

13. No surprises here, folks.....nt

[jsr]

14. Truth is worse than fiction with RW assholes.

[The CCC]

15. Ailes: Navy SEALs should “have to personally kill an illegal immigrant” as part of certification"

Read "A Report on the Banality" of Evil by Hannah Arendt. Humans take it as a cautionary tale. The T-Baggers as a how to book.

[Heywood J]

16. Personally killing immigrants?

Between that and his above-quoted comments about Jews, I wonder if Ailes speaks German.