Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Told Palin Not To Make 'Blood Libel' Video: NY Mag

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Roger Ailes Told Palin Not To Make 'Blood Libel' Video: NY Mag



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/roger-ailes-sarah-palin-fox-news-blood-libel_n_835265.html

Sarah Palin's infamous "blood libel" video reacting to the Arizona shooting caused no small amount of controversy. Now, New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman reports that Palin was even warned against making the video by Fox News CEO Roger Ailes--and that her decision to do so anyway has left a rift between the two.

Palin's video came days after the shooting, during a time when people had wondered why she had made no extended public statement about the tragedy and when some were citing her "crosshairs" map as an example of extreme political imagery that was contributing to a violent national climate. Palin was reacting to the latter when she accused journalists of "manufacturing a blood libel" by, in her view, charging her as complicit in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

According to Sherman, though, Palin called Ailes before making the video. She complained that the media were blaming her for the shooting, and expressed a desire to respond to her critics. Ailes said that would be a bad idea.

"Lie low," he said. "There's no need to inject yourself into the story." Sherman writes that Palin said her lawyer and other confidantes had given her the same advice. Of course, she didn't follow that advice, and made the video. Ailes was not happy.

[somone]

1. But youbetcha he'll renew her contract

[Atman]

2. Total narcissistic b*tch. It's a personality disorder.

Her boss, her lawyers and her "confidantes" told her NOT to make the video, NOT to make it about her...yet she had to. She just had to...she couldn't stop herself, because in her twisted world, it was about her. She's a sick fuck. Just the type of person we want in the White House, ignoring advice from the people she appoints to advise her.

[CanonRay]

3. She can't control teh stupid

it's in her genes.

[UTUSN]

4. Here's Gawker's hilarious take on it: We'll try rooting against BOTH sides of this feud

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x640233

[Javaman]

5. So we are to believe the word of some propaganda artist?

trying to polish his own turd at the expense of making the current turd look worse?

please.

They are both boorish morons.

Both are cretins, both use each other, both lie, both use propaganda for their own selfish needs.

So the choice is, which rotten apple do I take bite from?

I'll pass on anything this faux news pusher says regardless of it's content.

[KansDem]

6. "...that her decision to do so anyway has left a rift between the two."

So who's going to tell what to do if she's elected President?

Will she find someone else to tell her what to do?

I'm worried!

[Matariki]

7. I have to say, Roger Ailes looks like a caricature of corruption.