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Fri May 25, 2012, 12:59 PM May 2012

Roger Ailes says there's only one conservative at Faux "news," the rest are liberals... [View all]

"Liberals" compared to neo-nazis, maybe.
Otherwise as always Ailes is full of it.

Ailes' Whopper: Fox News Employs 1 Conservative, 24 Liberals

May 25, 2012 11:35 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Ailes made the head-scratching pronouncement during two recent campus lectures. The first came at the University of North Carolina [emphasis added]:

Well, first, I separate out news from programming. If you're talking about programming, we noticed that all the talk shows on the other networks basically had progressive or liberal talk show hosts. We have one conservative on FOX News, Sean Hannity. Quite open about it, that's what he is, that's what he does, that's his framework, that's where he comes from. Others tend to be libertarians or populists or you can't really tell.

Last week, according to reports from Ailes' lecture at Ohio University, the Fox chairman boasted about the array of progressives he employs:

Ailes defended his network, saying he was not politically biased compared with competitors MSNBC and CNN. Ailes said he employs 24 "liberals," which distinguishes him from those networks who feature fewer dissenting opinions.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205250005

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he wakes up every morning and drinks the kool-aid spanone May 2012 #1
actually oldhippydude May 2012 #3
And these days, he's mixing it double strength!! Arkansas Granny May 2012 #6
What is he adding to it? Archae May 2012 #8
Apparently, these days... pinboy3niner May 2012 #9
I agree... Archae May 2012 #10
I've always thought that it must contain some percentage of bullshit. Arkansas Granny May 2012 #18
I think that Kool-Aid is Politicalboi May 2012 #14
I think his definition of liberal is far different than most. liberal N proud May 2012 #2
you don't suppose oldhippydude May 2012 #5
Of course his definition is different that most... richmwill May 2012 #12
"you can't really tell" - funny, *I* can tell n/t UTUSN May 2012 #4
I am not surprised, Foxnews is 'All Lies, All the Time'.(tm) Rex May 2012 #7
He is most likely referring to contributors and frequent guests Puzzledtraveller May 2012 #11
LOL bongbong May 2012 #23
Roger, cafeteria staff doesn't count. Wait Wut May 2012 #13
Whenever anybody at Faux News says something Downtown Hound May 2012 #15
Hold Up... Coulter, O'Reilly and others are Liberal??? Xyzse May 2012 #16
He's just trolling now. Dash87 May 2012 #17
Fox News is the world's biggest troll. Initech May 2012 #20
I think the current definition of "conservative" is radical regressive so that even TheKentuckian May 2012 #19
You beat me to it Kentuckian......... socialist_n_TN May 2012 #27
You got their number. TheKentuckian May 2012 #30
Yeah that morning thing they call a show packed full of liberals Kingofalldems May 2012 #21
His definition of "liberal" being... Prophet 451 May 2012 #22
Holy hooties on a hot plate! If Ailes believes there is only one effing Conservative on Fox, rustydog May 2012 #24
From Ailes' perspective, GETPLANING May 2012 #25
Yes, Fox & Friends is where I get my liberal on every morning. Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #26
"Springtime for Hitler in Germany..." n/t PCIntern May 2012 #28
Fair and Balanced underpants May 2012 #29
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