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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles P. Pierce: A Few Words About Roger Ailes
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55144/roger-ailes-influence/A Few Words About Roger Ailes
Very few.
By Charles P. Pierce
May 18, 2017
Because Roger Ailes was the driving force behind so much of American politics over the past 50 years, almost all of it destructive and foul, I suppose we should deal, however briefly, with his passing at the age of 77.
Let us not make the mistake of saying that his life ended in tragedy. His life was an ongoing tragedy, especially for the women who were degraded by him personally, and by the culture he created in his company. That the last thing that happened to him was that he was run to ground for his crimes against human decency is not tragic. He almost got away with them.
The best thing I can think of to say about him is that he was the central character in one of the most groundbreaking political books of all time, The Selling of the President, 1968 by the late Joe McGinniss.
Let me think some more.
Hmmm
No, that's about it.
Nil nisi and all that, but American politics would be infinitely better today if Roger Ailes had gone to barber college.
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Charles P. Pierce: A Few Words About Roger Ailes (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2017
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50 Shades Of Blue
(9,983 posts)1. Good riddance to a giant shit stain!
But no I'm not dancing on his grave. I wouldn't soil my feet on the dirt covering his foul remains!
RedSpartan
(1,693 posts)2. Good.
Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)3. K&R
UTUSN
(70,684 posts)4. R k
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)5. He will be missed so much!
Like a fucking stomach pump!
elmac
(4,642 posts)6. B.I.Hell nt
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)7. To paraphrase Bette Davis...
"Always speak good of the dead. Roger Ailes is dead. Good."
babylonsister
(171,059 posts)12. Ha!! nt
Hulk
(6,699 posts)8. A "scourge" seems to sum it up.
Disgusting low-life swamp dweller to the nth degree.
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)9. RIH, mofo.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)10. I would cross out the word 'politics' in the last line
Nil nisi and all that, but American would be infinitely better today if Roger Ailes had gone to barber college.
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)11. What can be said about the type of human being . .
who takes on as their life's work making the world worse.
The American Goebbels indeed.
wysi
(1,512 posts)13. I don't know how Ailes died...
But I hope it was really fucking painful and agonizing.
lastlib
(23,222 posts)14. God, I hope the worms don't get indigestion from eating that shitnugget!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)15. K&R