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Old 01-18-2010, 09:04 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum—which is why God created Roger Ailes. The president of Fox News is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America. And that, in turn, makes him the de facto leader of the GOP. In a relentless (and spectacularly successful) hunt for cable ratings, Ailes has given invaluable publicity to the tea partiers, furnished tryout platforms to GOP candidates, and trained a fire hose of populist anger at the president and his allies in Congress. While Beltway Republicans wring their hands or write their tracts, Ailes has worked the countryside, using his feel for Main Street resentment to attract and give voice to this year's angriest—and most powerful—voter-viewers: those who hate the Feds, the Fed, and the Ivy League. It was Ailes who put the "party" in the tea parties by giving them a round-the-clock national stage. Next month Fox will have priority access to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville.
Source: Fox News's Roger Ailes Is the Real GOP Chairman - Howard Fineman - Newsweek.com

He who controls Faux controls the GOP.
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:06 PM
 
Location: Here
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Why yes, yes he does.

Signed,
George Soros
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:27 PM
 
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Progressive Historians: History For Our Future

Sums up exactly what I feel about Faux News and its poisonous carny barkers quite succinctly.

Ailes should be ashamed of himself.
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Old 01-18-2010, 09:38 PM
 
Location: Illinois Delta
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Progressive Historians: History For Our Future

Sums up exactly what I feel about Faux News and its poisonous carny barkers quite succinctly.

Ailes should be ashamed of himself.
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Excellent link; there is no good excuse for the credulousness of people. Consider Limbaugh's "heart attack scare." He spends 2 days in hospital, and is pronounced healthy. He emerges and declares the excellence of
American medicine. So nothing was wrong with him (below the neck) yet
our incredible health care cured what wasn't wrong with him to begin with? And people think this is logical? No wonder we're in this hand basket.
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Old 01-18-2010, 10:30 PM
 
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Last I heard he retired, said he was going to soul search & exercise his Christian values. I can only hope this isn't his interpretation of scripture.
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Old 01-18-2010, 10:40 PM
 
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Why yes, yes he does.

Signed,
George Soros
I would think Roger Ailes has more power and influence than George Soros, by far.
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