Fox News CEO Ailes: ‘The Candidates Who Can’t Face Fox, Can’t Face Al Qaeda’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/06/qaeda-ailes/

Fox News CEO Ailes: ‘The Candidates Who Can’t Face Fox, Can’t Face Al Qaeda’


Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly has compared people who oppose participating in Fox News’ presidential debates to Nazis, claiming they “lie, distort, defame, all the time” using “propaganda techniques perfected by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of information.” Fellow Fox News anchor Mort Kondracke claimed they are “not about free speech” and guilty of “junior grade Stalinism.”

This hysteria continued last night, when Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch co-hosted an awards show for opinion writing. During the event, Ailes “had some choice words for Democratic candidates who have decided not to debate on Fox.”

“The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda,” said Mr. Ailes. “And that’s what’s coming.”

That was followed by applause from the crowd which featured several News Corp. executives and journalists from Murdoch-owned papers–Richard Johnson, the Post’s Page Six editor, for one.

Can there be any doubt left why presidential candidates don’t want to endorse Fox News?

The issue, of course, isn’t that presidential candidates — including Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson — are afraid of appearing on Fox. The issue is whether they want to legitimize this constant source of partisan misinformation by allowing Fox to claim that it is a real news source that can independently manage a presidential debate.

[HockeyMom]

1. Fair and Balanced They Ain't

Or as those bumper stickers say, "We Distort" "You Comply"

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Ailes is sounding a lot like *, Cheney, & Giuliani.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. And *looking* like them, too!

What's with all these guys starting to look like bald gophers?

[yardwork]

24. Yes, in their cases the evil is all to obvious in their faces and bodies

I've never seen such a collection of unhealthy-looking people. Their bodies scream substance abuse and over-indulgence in bad food.

[JoePhilly]

26. Have you noticed that Ailes, Cheney and Rove all look like ...

Darth Vader (sans helmet), Doctor Evil, and about half of the Bond villains. For some reason, this same villainous archetype appears over and over.

Apparently, evil manifests itself in a recurring theme, and its so scary and universal, we put it in movies.

[yardwork]

27. Welcome to DU!

You make a good point. Without the constant brainwashing from the corporate-owned media, most people would recognize these folks as villains.

[bryant69]

3. Yeah it is hard to believe Democrats wouldn't be eager to throw

themselves into teh loving embrace of Fox.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Triana]

4. That's because those candidates don't negotiate with TERRORISTS, Mr. Ailes (n/t)

[Phredicles]

5. Is he saying Fox = Al Qaida?

Is that fair? (To Al Qaida, I mean)

[TahitiNut]

8. GMTA ,,, my thought exactly

Funny how Al Qa'eda's allies are so attuned to their plans, policies, and objectives.

[Supersedeas]

29. the American Taliban wants to litmus test our candidates

[Tempest]

7. Mutually exclusive.

Democrats are unwilling to go on Faux News and are still able to face al-Qaeda.

[xxqqqzme]

9. using John Conyers to identify Jefferson;

fabricating the Obama/Osama Islam school and promoting it after it was debunked; chris wallace - Bill Clinton 'interview' - need more?

[RedStateShame]

10. Maybe they thought they already went to the Fox debate, but it was the MSNBC one.

You know, like Fox News "mistook" John Conyers for William Jefferson? Really, all these white people look the same to me. :sarcasm:

[Bob3]

11. So Fox's mission is to destroy the US?

or has Al Queda gone into the business of hosting presidential debates?

I'm confused.

[ComerPerro]

12. unfortunately, we can hunt down and kill members of Al Qaeda but not Faux News

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

13. Bill-the-fascist O'Reilly said that?!?! Too effin' funny!!!

Oh, and,...I'd challenge the fox ceo to face al qaeda. :rofl:

PUH-LEASE!!!

Sheesh,...I can't even believe I'm wasting my time posting in response to these assholes' bs.

[Marr]

14. In typical GOP style, he disproves his own claim as he makes it.

Fox News' pro-GOP bias is widely acknowledged by even their own fans, and this smear of non-GOP candidates from the head of the outlet is just another example of it.

I've never seen another group of people who could achieve such deep hypocrisy with so few words. I swear- most people would find it difficult to be hypocritical in a one paragraph, but these guys can do it a single sentence.

[IDemo]

15. Ailes may be up for a 'Worst Person in the World' for this one n/t

[Sapere aude]

16. Dems should all shun Faux News. Don't give them any legitimacy.

[dave29]

17. Is he saying Fox IS Al Queda?

The Terror News network.

[City Lights]

18. Get back to me Roge, when your "news" organization can tell the difference

between Jefferson and Conyers. Til then, go fuck yourself!

[antonialee839]

19. And that's what's coming?

What do you suppose crackpot Ailes meant by that? Is he keeping in touch with Al Qaeda? Did they tell Ailes they were coming? Or did Ailes mean that Fox and Al Qaeda are pretty much the same thing?

[Canuckistanian]

20. So, facing down the extremists at Faux proves you can handle Al Qaeda?

That's probably not a bad point.

[Labors of Hercules]

21. How can we bring these assholes to their knees?

Suggestions?
Mine: Publish a list of ANYONE who advertises with them and start boycotting them immediately.

[hatrack]

22. And here I thought Tor Johnson was dead!

Who knew he was in charge of a right-wing "news" outfit?

[rec_report]

23. Well, Faux and al-CIAduh are one and the same!

Polar Bear

[gatorboy]

25. Because, obviously, Fox News is equal to terrorism.

Who writes this stuff for them :rofl:

[bamacrat]

28. They felate the pukes and marginalize the dems.

FUCK FOX. Recently I heard something about the crazy anti war fringe. Not sure if it was faux, sounds like them, but fringe? If 70% of Americans are considered as fringe then ok