Just made me start crying too.

This is a summer of pain.

Done.

niyad's request: Why I'm BEYOND THRILLED that roger ailes is in trouble.

Our niyad asked me to make this an OP, from the following thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027991710

I wrote that I am almost delirious with joy to learn that the Jabba the Hut of cable "news" is now in trouble. But it's personal for me. Some folks here know I used to be a broadcast journalist before I retired from it, 20 years ago, mainly so I could be home for my then-very young kids. I was very proud of my profession, and couldn't believe I was allowed to step carefully into the well-established, path-cutting footprints of people like Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Catherine Mackin, Pauline Frederick, Roy Neal, Frank Reynolds, John Chancellor, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, and more - and hope to be worthy someday to touch the hem of Edward R. Murrow's garment. By now, though, this industry has become so perverted and bastardized, and bimbo-ized that it's no wonder anymore why so many Americans distrust the media. It's deteriorated into a shit show by way of a soft core porn show. And roger ailes is DIRECTLY to blame. If he's in trouble now, whatever way it arrived on his doorstep, I am FREAKIN' THRILLED!!!!!

I am SO loving this!!!!

SOOOOO loving this!!! I hope he's SOOOOOO screwed!

What that bastard has done to information brokering and curating - the shit that he has mainstreamed, the partisan "news" bullshit he's peddled and organized and produced and massaged and twisted and tarted up and shoved down gullible viewers' throats from coast to coast, how he's perverted the national discourse, poisoned the American mindset, dumbed us all down, and played to our lowest, cheesiest, basest, stupidest, pie-in-the-sky-loving reality-defying and negating instincts. He's done nothing but foster and encourage STUPIDITY from sea to shining sea.

The low-information voter, the paranoiac, the lowlife, the predator, the conspiracy theorist, the hater, the racist, the sexist, the liar, the cheat, the folks and the trends that developed to make someone like Donald Trump possible - it ALL traces back to him. He is the seed - AND the soil - from which the poison plant sprouted. He is the stork that delivered the New Century Ugly American, and his results are in FULL FLOWER now. He's given aid and comfort - TONS of earthly comfort - and fame and fortune and glory and a safe haven and an echo chamber to the stupidest, nastiest shit-stirrers like bill o'reilly and that guy whose name rhymes with Vanity, and sarah palin, and oliver north, AND a parade of decorative bimbos to force-feed to us. He is a curse upon us all. He has slanted the news so far that it's fallen over on its collective face and become a complete and totally biased sham. He has RUINED broadcast journalism. Turned it into a shrieking whore house with bright colored lights and bursts, and bells dong'ing, and sexy graphics and rousing music to get the hormones cranking, and wall-to-wall empty-headed long-legged blondes for side dishes, shilling half-truths and rumor-mongering and character assassination and outright LIES that are peddled for truth. All those raving lunatics like the crazy uncle who you usually kept sequestered in your attic and only allowed out for Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family have been installed in the spotlights on center stage, given phony respectability, showered with money and fame, and made into stars. And flushed the American intellect, objectivity, and discernment straight down the crapper.

I hope he eats shit. Scheming manipulative partisan son-of-Beelzebub. All those nasty Scottish slurs and putdowns that showered down upon the head of The Donald? Times A MILLION for roger ailes. He IS the original sin. He IS the toxic primordial sludge that gave us such monsters as bush/cheney, and more.

To borrow a line from that obnoxious Joanie Ernst campaign commercial - I'd LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to see this "make him squeal!"

Yeah, niyad. Thank you. I would.

This is personal for me. The profession I was SO incredibly proud to be part of has been destroyed. Bastardized. Bimbo-ized. It's damn near criminal.

NO WONDER people don't trust the media anymore. The media now serves us lies for the appetizer, bullshit for the entree, and a peep show for dessert.

It's BOTH.

Well I happen to agree with you, morningfog.

You'll get all kinds of excuses and rationales and other crap about why somebody needs and just simply HAS TO have a massacre machine. Their problems just simply MUST become a problem for all the rest of us, I guess. Nobody can tell me there's a reason on earth why, that will ever make any sense to me. And Heaven knows they've certainly tried!

And their whole canard about the so-called "good guy with a gun" - hell, Dallas police were the absolute poster children of that, in the madness that erupted there, and look how nicely that all worked out. I'm fed up being held hostage to the 2nd Amendment. And no one can tell me it simply mustn't ever be touched. Baloney. If they can futz around with the 15th Amendment, there's no reason on earth why the 2nd Amendment must absolutely be immune to a few nips and tucks, and much-needed modernization, too. The 2nd Amendment desperately needs further amending. If we have ANY hope of reducing further carnage, that is.

Take a number!

Oh PLEEEEEEEEEZE!!!! Make it so!!!!!

I am SO loving this!!!!

SOOOOO loving this!!! I hope he's SOOOOOO screwed!

What that bastard has done to information brokering and curating - the shit that he has mainstreamed, the partisan "news" bullshit he's peddled and organized and produced and massaged and twisted and tarted up and shoved down gullible viewers' throats from coast to coast, how he's perverted the national discourse, poisoned the American mindset, dumbed us all down, and played to our lowest, cheesiest, basest, stupidest, pie-in-the-sky-loving reality-defying and negating instincts. He's done nothing but foster and encourage STUPIDITY from sea to shining sea.

The low-information voter, the paranoiac, the lowlife, the predator, the conspiracy theorist, the hater, the racist, the sexist, the liar, the cheat, the folks and the trends that developed to make someone like Donald Trump possible - it ALL traces back to him. He is the seed - AND the soil - from which the poison plant sprouted. He is the stork that delivered the New Century Ugly American, and his results are in FULL FLOWER now. He's given aid and comfort - TONS of earthly comfort - and fame and fortune and glory and a safe haven and an echo chamber to the stupidest, nastiest shit-stirrers like bill o'reilly and that guy whose name rhymes with Vanity, and sarah palin, and oliver north, AND a parade of decorative bimbos to force-feed to us. He is a curse upon us all. He has slanted the news so far that it's fallen over on its collective face and become a complete and totally biased sham. He has RUINED broadcast journalism. Turned it into a shrieking whore house with bright colored lights and bursts, and bells dong'ing, and sexy graphics and rousing music to get the hormones cranking, and wall-to-wall empty-headed long-legged blondes for side dishes, shilling half-truths and rumor-mongering and character assassination and outright LIES that are peddled for truth. All those raving lunatics like the crazy uncle who you usually kept sequestered in your attic and only allowed out for Thanksgiving dinner with the extended family have been installed in the spotlights on center stage, given phony respectability, showered with money and fame, and made into stars. And flushed the American intellect, objectivity, and discernment straight down the crapper.

I hope he eats shit. Scheming manipulative partisan son-of-Beelzebub. All those nasty Scottish slurs and putdowns that showered down upon the head of The Donald? Times A MILLION for roger ailes. He IS the original sin. He IS the toxic primordial sludge that gave us such monsters as bush/cheney, and more.

To borrow a line from that obnoxious Joanie Ernst campaign commercial - I'd LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to see this "make him squeal!"

Sad, and true.

Reminds me of that scene when Harry Potter goes into Olivander's wand shop to buy a new wand. By the time the perfect match is found, and it has some rather wicked undertones, Mr. Olivander recalls the evil wizard in the connection. "He did great things. Terrible. But great." So are these. Terrible. But, sadly, great.

But it's certainly an aim.