Ex-Fox News head Roger Ailes dead

[Blue_Adept]

Source: The Hill

Former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes died Thursday morning at 77, Fox News reported.

The network shared a statement from Ailes’s wife Elizabeth Ailes announcing the death. The statement was first obtained by conservative website The Drudge Report.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/334011-ex-fox-news-head-roger-ailes-dead-report

[spiderpig]

1. OK.

[GliderGuider]

2. I have a personal tradition that I follow at times like this

My mama taught me to only say good about the dead.
Roger is dead.
Good.

[leftofcool]

4. LOL

[VWolf]

6. Damn, beat me to it n/t

[IronLionZion]

16. Exactly what I was thinking.

[DK504]

21. LOL ... Never heard that one before.

I'll be stealing that one!

[CousinIT]

24. . . .

-->Roger Ailes-->

[Raster]

84. !!!

[MurrayDelph]

86. Bless Moms Mabley

I've used that line of hers for decades.

[GliderGuider]

87. Thanks! I knew it originated somewhere, but I had no idea where. nt

[yellowcanine]

99. Then there is this response to be considered...

https://results.searchlock.com/image.php?encI=X55g%3ADDiii.%2FWBs.JvVDJN%3FKOPTtAHAAFG_bptEhEApTA_-_hEZZehTb-I%26eKIPbhEATTFpIGzTZtAtzpbHTIheIFATZAIZ%26N4Pz%26XP%2FZztAI2e2M%2FS-3j2shGw6IRwUE_QOuyypF+nrVySI%2Fs%26mPz%26NPX55g%25F1%25GQ%25GQJ4B.9Vv9X.JvV%25GQ9W5f9%25GQ4fQ13a5%25GQQWaf9%25GQQ5g3gav149%25GQ%2Favs3gav149%25GQzGzF%25GQ9fYqcQ1WacQ3BfN1ac5ifNU.sWQ%26gPIfm-Y%2CHbtA.z

[romanic]

113. No chill.

[TNNurse]

3. The nicest thing I can say

is that Ailes can no longer sexually harass women anymore.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. His poor wife

Now she has to offload that ugly house all by herself.

[Fla Dem]

62. She's privately doing a happy dance. At 55 she is free of that disgusting man. nt

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

97. That's harsh...

[BigMin28]

103. And

She just got her payout.

[2naSalit]

82. He had a wife?

[Ellipsis]

7. How did he die? - - is the question of the day

[mountain grammy]

8. Died on his birthday.

Too special for that bastard. He did the most to divide America since the Civil War.

[Raster]

23. Yep, his "fair and balanced" trope poisoned the media for a generation...

...fry in hell, you bastard. Give my regards to Lee Atwater.

[NewRedDawn]

76. Probably died with a heart attack attempting Birthday sex.

Or Rupert Murdoch had him killed to silence him. Lets start a rumor like the right wingies do and run with it.

[workinclasszero]

79. Yeah...so much winning LOL!

[gay texan]

101. oh man.....

Great, now that image is going to be with me for the rest of the day.....

[yallerdawg]

9. My momma said, "If you can't say something nice about someone..."

[Danmel]

83. Mae West said

If don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me 😏

[Liberalagogo]

10. And the funeral march begins....

[nitpicker]

11. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39963887

[femmocrat]

12. Wow, he's really having a bad year. nt

[HughBeaumont]

22. THREAD WIN

[LittleGirl]

29. snicker - n/t

[CottonBear]

33. DUzy! n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

51. Wish I'd said that.

I probably will later. hahaha

[montanto]

69. lol

[2naSalit]

81. Couldn't happen to a

more deserving putz, to be polite about it.

And definitely thread winner!

[Kali]

85. !

[not fooled]

94. Yeah

Without women to harass and a country to further wreck, he'd lost his reason for living.

[reflection]

13. Wish there was a hell so I could imagine him in it. n/t

[barbtries]

41. you are free to imagine a hell first,

then imagine him in it. i just tried that, and it gave me a little bit of satisfaction actually.

[reflection]

44. Imagine there's a hell...

it's easy if you try
A hell below us
Where Ailes screams and fries
Imagine all the people... pissing on his grave, oooo

yes I do feel better, thank you!
(apologies to John Lennon)

[barbtries]

49. lol

perfect.

[SCantiGOP]

66. And Dylan:

And I hope that you die,
And your death will come soon.
I'll follow your casket,
On a pale afternoon.
And I'll watch while you're lower'd,
Down to your death bed,
And I'll stand over your grave till I'm sure that you're dead.

(from Masters of War)

[workinclasszero]

80. Perfect

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Including WaPo link from other thread

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/roger-ailes-architect-of-conservative-tv-juggernaut-fox-is-dead-at-77/2017/05/18/b5b9e73a-3bc7-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html

[bagelsforbreakfast]

15. Oh oh... This puts him on top of Trump's list to head the FBI! n/m

[Botany]

17. No Roger Ailes No Florida 2000 No President w bush

No President w bush = no 9/11 = no war in Afghanistan and Iraq

no war in Afghanistan and Iraq = no ISIS

No President w bush = no BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill

No President w bush = No Ohio 2004

No President w bush = No Dick Cheney shooting a man in the face after drinking and walking away form it

No President w bush = No Big Branch Mine explosion

No President w bush = Torture and wiretapping

No President w bush = No Gitmo

No President w bush = not doing anything about climate change

No Fox News = no network to give Trump a platform for his awful "birther crap."

Fox News is a cancer on America's body. God only knows how many people's minds
got poisoned by Fox.

[n2doc]

27. And likely no Obama either

Who knows what would have happened.

[ffr]

65. Fox Noise is a cancer on America's body. Brilliantly said!

[StevieM]

70. You make an interesting point. But here are a couple other things to consider:

First, the GOP was determined to steel that election. And the MSM was complicit once they got their narrative going. Ailes and Fox made it easier. But were they really going to be stopped? They had the Florida legislature and the Supreme Court working for them.

Now let's suppose that we did elect Al Gore in 2000. Wasn't there always going to be the next Republican act of evil? The next diabolical scheme? Look at what they did after Benghazi. So maybe it would have come later. But isn't it equally accurate to say that it could have come earlier? Maybe they could have done something to illegitimately win in 1996.

Put it like this: If Wes Clark had been the Democratic nominee in 2004 rather than John Kerry, is there any doubt that we would still have had some incarnation of the Swift Boat Veterans?

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. death. Inevitable for all of us. and that's all I will say.

[Raster]

19. Fry. In. Hell. You. Bastard...

...Ailes can easily be singled out as the one person most responsible for bitter acrimony and partisan rancor gripping our Country... Ailes was Fox News and knowingly molded Fox into the right-wing media cesspit it is today.

Fry in hell you bastard.

[dalton99a]

30. +1

[HughBeaumont]

20. Least. Sad. Obituary. EVER.

RIH.

[cabot]

25. To paraphrase Bette Davis

"My mother told me never to speak ill of the dead. Roger Ailes is dead. Good."

That said, I do feel sorry for his family. I'm sure they are in pain. So - my sympathies to go to them. But other than that - I find it hard to mourn someone who sexually harassed numerous women and single-handedly helped dumb down America.

[Roland99]

26. Chris Cornell. :( ... Ailes? meh

[dalton99a]

28. Asshole lived too long

[CottonBear]

31. Alrighty then.

He leaves behind a legacy of sexual harassment, fake news and right wing propaganda.

[Archae]

32. Clarence Darrow said it best...

"I have not wished death on anyone, but I have read some obituaries with some satisfaction."

[NoMoreRepugs]

43. This

[chwaliszewski]

54. +1

I feel the same. I would not wish death on anyone, not even the Sunkist Stalin. But that person's passing will determine my reaction.

[Thomas Hurt]

34. we shouldn't speak ill of dead, so...

lets just say he lived a long, full life of partisan political propagandizing, deceit, misogyny, right wing extremism and helped to turn this country down the path to neo-fascism. He did his best to bring a little of Orwell's 1984 to our country and culture.

Take it as you will.

[HelenWheels]

35. Whew, all the women in the world sigh in relief.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

36. Huh

I woke up thinking the air seemed a tad bit fresher.

[mikeysnot]

37. One less asshole in the world.

Fuck this guy.

[barbtries]

38. oh well.

i heard it on NPR this morning and could not summon a single tear.

[Javaman]

39. huh, how about that.

is he on the vacation island with Bernie Madoff?

good riddance to bad rubbish

[rdmtimp]

96. Given that Madoff's still alive,

that would be a neat trick.

[Javaman]

98. damn, I was thinking of the Enron guy. nt

[smb]

40. Buh Bye

Say hello to the other frauds in the tenth bolgia of the eighth circle, Roger.

[Bleacher Creature]

42. I really am sorry to hear this news.

I don't wish harm on anyone, and I try not to speak ill of the dead. If anything, I was hoping he'd stick around long enough to see what he built continue to crumble.

FoxNews was never built to last. It's success was based on appealing to older, angry, conservative white men. It did a great job of doing that, but nothing was going to stop the fact that its target audience is shrinking rapidly.

Also, when you look at the amount of mysogony thrown around on the air, it was inevitable that it would spill into the personal realm. Those sexual harassment lawsuits were entirely predictable, and I wouldn't be shocked if they aren't the tip of the iceberg.

When you add all that to the fact that the network is now joined at the hip with one of the most despicable and comical figures in American history, I get the sense that the pace of its decline will only get faster.

It's too bad Ailes won't be around to see it.

[Skittles]

100. pleading the 5th

[Sunlei]

45. dead men tell no tales

[griloco]

46. Convenient. True? Or should we

be looking for that body on a different face...

[Dopers_Greed]

47. This fat evil bastard did more damage to our country that any "enemy combatant" ever could

Burning in hell for all eternity would be too good a fate for him

[Demonaut]

56. on fox they said "he loved this country"..like an incestuous father

[Orrex]

48. Just about eight decades too late, you evil motherfucker

[turbinetree]

50. I really wanted him to testify before the Congress to explain his interactions

with the sexual predator presently who having been assigned to have a special prosecutor looking at his, let's say, social and private behavior of someone that, he and his nefariousness associates were thinking they can run the country like good fellas with a mob boss with orange hair sitting in some tower.

And since he (Ailes) missed the opportunity in 1972 to be called into the Watergate crime spree testimony, he can be rest assured that he too will have a excuse to be able to missed this crime spree to explain himself and his actions

[Demonaut]

52. a special place in hell, keep the couch warm for O'Reilly

[rpannier]

53. Not going to say one bad thing

Just gonna grab my white tux, my cane and my dancing shoes

[Cryptoad]

55. Before I was shown the wickedness of my ways and ,,,

how it was ill to speak bad of the bad of the Dead , I would posted something like,
"Hope u Rot in Hades, u piece of shit.

[no_hypocrisy]

57. I haven't been this happy since Jerry Falwell died.

[rpannier]

60. Antonin Scalia made me smile

My next opportunity will likely be Marion 'Pat' Robertson

[edbermac]

58. Megyn Kelly opens up about Roger Ailes, saying he was a "king of sorts"

So was Henry VIII

[rpannier]

59. More Dong Zhou in my opinion

Dong Zhou was a sociopaths, sociopath. Funny thing is, he's the evil villain in RTK, yet he was much worse in real life than he is depicted

[MurrayDelph]

92. A king? That explains it.

It wasn't sexual harassment. It was Droit du seigneur.

[csziggy]

61. MSNBC just said Ailes died of a blood clot

That he fell, got a blood clot and died of complications due to his hemophilia.

No link, just now live on air.

[LeftInTX]

95. He lived a long time for someone with hemophilia

Clotting factor wasn't available til the late 50s. Later it became tainted with AIDS.

[lillypaddle]

63. I am furious

at those on cable TV that are lionizing this filthy predator for his vision and loyalty. Don't they get that this POS has done so much harm to the US? I've let morning Joe know what I think, I hope you will join in and let anyone you hear lamenting his loss know what you think. Fuck Roger Ailes and Fox News.

[aeromanKC]

64. God is Draining the Swamp

Wihile Ailes is not quite champagne worthy, (he is close) but nonetheless God, Drain away!! I've got a few bottles in fridge that need uncorking!!

[titaniumsalute]

67. Sing with me

One steak over the line sweet Jesus...one steak over the line!

[Jarqui]

68. I can't think of anything good to say about the man

[DinahMoeHum]

71. RIH, mofo.

[Ilsa]

72. It's really hard to give up your dream job of

Trying to sexually assault your employees and screw over the world. He no longer had a reason for living if he go after the pussy.

[Crowman2009]

73. The plus side is that the RW media machine is running around like...

...a chicken with it's head cut off. Good riddance! Rushbo, Becky Boy, and Alex Jonestown will hopefully be gone soon as well. Given that addiction to pain killers, constant suicidal thoughts, and being constantly angry are not indicators of good health.

[Still In Wisconsin]

74. Good. I hope the end was painful.

[Jim Dandy]

75. Can somebody check again?

Just to make certain?

[Coventina]

89. Yeah, I recommend all the safety measures: silver bullet, stake thru the heart,

destruction of the brain (no Zombie return!), etc.

[rurallib]

77. he made the world better by leaving it.

[k8conant]

78. Well...

he hardly crossed my radar until I met him at the Philly Convention. That was right after the sh*t hit the fan for him at Fox. He was somewhat annoying.


I will not say any more. He is gone.

[Mars and Minerva]

88. Thank you Roger.....

[vkkv]

90. I hope Rush is next!!!!!!!!!!!!

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USA! USA! USA!

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[Marie Marie]

91. Hell just got worse.

[TeapotInATempest]

93. I just hope that

Chris Cornell kicked his ass on their way out.

[jberryhill]

102. Just his head? That's not news

[benpollard]

104. It's snowing right now -- HUGE snow flakes

I'm not sure what the connection is. It could be unrelated to Ailes and maybe connected to Trump acting like a huge snowflake.

Or maybe it's just Colorado.

[flibbitygiblets]

105. The good news just keep rolling in!

The world lost another privileged rich white man who misled millions and caused untold suffering to countless women and minorities. How fitting that this news is buried by the scandal following another horrible human being fitting the same description.

[jmowreader]

106. Cause of death probably "being 77"

This won't stop the Alt Right from blaming it on Hillary Clinton.

[TygrBright]

107. Deeply mourned by plaintiffs in ongoing litigation, and their attorneys. n/t

[Littlered9560]

108. Hell gained another soul today.

Good riddance to the pos.

[cstanleytech]

109. Hmmm wonder if it was of natural causes or if he had help?

After all probably knew were alot of the bodies were buried for the varies Repugnants and if one or more of them were afraid he might talk they might have decided to help him along in taking that final journey.

[Va Lefty]

110. In honor of Roger

[paleotn]

111. Well?.......Bye.

[LiberalLovinLug]

112. Good riddance

[Homer Wells]

114. When I saw it this morning at the dialysis center

I was sure I felt a very positive disturbance in the Force

[Alice11111]

115. He contributed nothing but evil, lies, & misery to the US

[TexasBushwhacker]

116. Funny thing

When I read that Chris Cornell died early this morning I gasped audibly and said "NOOOOOOO".

When I heard on the radio, while driving to work, that Aisles died, I said " Yes!!!!" and pumped my 👊.

[reggaehead]

117. O'reilley had Kim killed

Hannity tried to hide the body and failed

[moondust]

118. Goebbels has been expecting him.

[Martin Eden]

119. RIH n/t

[Tatiana]

120. If this wasn't karma, I don't know what karma is.

When he died, how he died...

That's about all I can say about someone who is dead.

[LompocDem]

121. I bet this quote from Moms Mabley

They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!

Has been thought of on this forum. I haven't seen any posts so here is some Moms Mabley.

Whoopi Goldberg seems like the right person to give this intro to the documentary that I can't find a free version of.
And a later interview.

Moms was a caricature of my FA grandmother.