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Rogers Ailes to receive award for being ‘visionary of American journalism’

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Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is set to receive an award for “innovative thinkers” from one of the most influential conservative organizations in the United States. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced on Tuesday that Ailes would be awarded one of four 2013 Bradley Prizes, which includes a $250,000…

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Fox News chief ordered Geraldo Rivera’s mic cut for defending Obama on Benghazi: report

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A new report says that Fox News President Roger Ailes ordered the Fox News control room to cut host Geraldo Rivera’s mic just two days before November’s election because he was defending President Barack Obama against the network’s “misinformation” about terrorist attacks in Benghazi. The New York Times reported on…

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Fox News chief Roger Ailes calls Obama ‘lazy’ in new biography

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It is the opening salvo in the most anticipated media book war of the year – a clash of biographies on the political consultant-turned-media tycoon, Roger Ailes. First out of the blocks is what amounts to an official account, by the columnist Zev Chafets. In a short extract published on the…

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How Dare Liberals Suggest Race Has Anything to Do With Obama-Hatred?!

Roger Ailes, you know the guy who runs the favorite news network of right wing America, has some ideas about what makes President Obama tick. As reported here at Raw Story, Vanity Fair has excerpted part of a new book out about Ailes written by Zev Chafets, and he got the…

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Fox News chief Roger Ailes: Obama is ‘lazy,’ Biden is ‘dumb’ and Gingrich is a ‘prick’

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An author was recently given “unprecedented” access to Roger Ailes and came away with the Fox News president’s thoughts about a “lazy” President Barack Obama, a “dumb” Vice President Joe Biden and former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who he described as a “prick.” In an excerpt from the new…

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Roger Ailes: Obama ‘is busy’ getting ‘blacks to hate whites’

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Fox News CEO Roger Ailes believes he can help Republicans win over Latinos because he says that President Barack Obama “is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other” and “we need to get along.” In an interview with the New Republic that was published on Monday, Ailes explained…

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Fox News’ Roger Ailes reportedly urged David Petraeus to run for president in 2011

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Bob Woodward reports on recorded conversation in which a Fox News analyst relayed offer from Ailes and Rupert Murdoch It has long been evident to observers of the right-wing Fox News channel that its creator and current chairman, Roger Ailes, likes to play kingmaker within the Republican party. Why else would he…

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Roger Ailes to stay as head of Fox News for four more years

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Creator of the infamously ‘fair and balanced’ network signs a new contract that will keep him at the helm until 2016 Roger Ailes has signed a new contract with Fox News which will keep him in charge of the channel for the next four years, News Corp announced on Friday.…

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HBO plans biopic of Fox News president Roger Ailes

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After taking on Sarah Palin, HBO has another Republican hate-figure in its sights. The TV network is planning a movie on Fox News president Roger Ailes, based on a forthcoming unofficial and by all accounts unflattering biography. In a turn that has already fizzed rightwing commentators, among the project’s executive…

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Jon Stewart rips Roger Ailes and explains his ‘socialist ethos’

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The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Tuesday night mocked Fox News president Roger Ailes for saying that Stewart had privately admitted to being a socialist. Stewart wondered why Ailes didn’t say what he had privately disclosed to him. “Did I ever tell you that I, Roger Ailes, plan to…

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