Media Matters just flagged this bizarre statement it found in the transcript of an April speech that Ailes gave at the UNC School of Journalism: “We have one conservative on FOX News, Sean Hannity.” That’s it! Just that one, according to Roger Ailes, who may or may not be losing functioning in his frontal lobe. Or is there another explanation?
Here’s the full part about Hannity:
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.
Right. And then it gets weird.
We actually believe in freedom of speech and we have many, many liberals on FOX News. Geraldine Ferraro, for instance, who became a good friend of mine, passed away recently, was there for 10 years. We have a man running for president, Evan Bayh of Indiana. We have Sarah Palin and we have other people, Huckabee and so on.
Either the speech transcriber has brain rot or Roger Ailes does, because we just read that Evan Bayh is running for president and Sarah Palin is a liberal commentator. [UNC School of Journalism via Media Matters]
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Roger Ailes has mad space cow disease.
A common affliction, among mad space cows like Roger Ailes.
Cut his mike.
Ailes is clearly talking about diversity — you have your conservatives, then your ladies, then your crazy preacher types. Very diverse.
Roger Ailes would classify Pol Pot as a "moderate centrist," because the self-declared Maoism and brutal authoritarianism cancel each other out.
Balance! How very Buddhist.
And Mr. Miyagi.
Battery cables on; battery cables off.
Wow, those are the most excellent planets in his orbit!
"We actually believe in freedom of speech and we have many, many liberals on FOX News", he went on to say "do you buy that?"
"Fox News is very diverse: We have a black."
A black named Juan? I going with less than 100%.
And he worked at NPR. It's a trifecta.
They got Juan, all right.
They got juan crazy fucker after another.
Funny thing is, on FoxPAC Duh Gov'Nuh might be a liberal.
And a brown: Geraldo (who may be crazier than all of them).
In what fucking bizzaro world is O'Reilly a populist?
What color is the sky in your world Roger?
All of them Katie?
Shit, In a country where President Obama is considered a "socialist" by these types, I'm sure Palin seems a bit "liberal."
right wing must be franco or hitler
Freedom of speech= Murdoch is free to tap your phones and listen to what speech you are making.
He be making free wit' yo speech.
I can't remember whether Sarah Palin qualifies as a liberal because she called Glenn Beck and idiot, or Glen Beck qualifies as a liberal because he called Sarah Palin an idiot.
AOTK?
Palin is a LIBERAL!?
I didn't think you could say stuff like that without the universe imploding.
So, since, according to well known conservative Jonah Goldberg, Hitler was a Nazi and the Nazis were all liberals and according to Roger Ailes Sarah Palin is a liberal does this mean that Sarah Palin is a Nazi?
Derp?
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa THE GUY’S NUTS HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa FOX NEWS IS FOR NUTS HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa.
I guess that's why he sees Obamer as a communist. In Ailes' universe, everything dangles to the right.
BTW, the only thing Evan Bayhem is liebrul for is lining his pockets with health insurance monies.
All of these people will now have photoshopped cocks in their mouth.
Well when they do I hope the photoshopped cocks in their mouths are more attractive than the disease ridden ones they actually have there.
Not sure Roger can find his.
Um … they're not photoshopped.
Obviously even Ailes can't stand to watch Fux News or listen to Sarah Palin's screeching voice.
I'm starting to suspect that Roger is a compulsive liar. I mean that's a lie so easily disproven that there is no other explanation for him saying that.
He’s helprd polarize the politics of the U.S. so much, he can now be classed as bi-polar.
So, he's teh ghey?
There he goes, creating his own reality again. This is why people wonder how a thermos knows to keep things cool or hot.
How do it know?
nobody knows the temperature I’ve seen.
No one can 'splain it.
Ailes, himself, is just a standard middle-of-the-road moderate, of course.
You can't explain it.
Gas goes in, gas goes out.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the FOX people hated Sarah Palin more than people on the left do.
I can certainly imagine a lot of FOX viewers, the male ones, waking up one morning and thinking "she's just not doing it for me anymore. Ailes…bring me new conservative boobies…now!"
Too bad he doesn't separate news from sensationalist right-wing bullshit.
To be fair, you'd go insane too if you had to listen to all those hours of cell phone conversations without being able to say anything.
When you say "losing functioning in his frontal lobe" you are referring to the lobe-like paunch hanging over his belt, right? Aristotle and other ancient philosophers suspected that human rationality was as much a function of the gut as the brain so I suppose Ailes might have been under the influence of a bad bit of beef when he characterized his network's programming in that way. Although I do think it's revealing that by singling out Hannity the FOX CEO may be admitting that in his own mind "conservative" is synonymous with "mouth breathing jack-ass".
Apparently they were right. The gut has its own CNS and produces serotonin and dopamine. So, gut check.
Does Fox News have Liberals? Maybe (they are moderates to me). Are they allowed to voice their opinions? Fuck no.
Plenty of liberals on the janitorial staff, es verdad Miguel?
Mas tambien in the mail room.
They have one conservative" on FOX like i had "one beer" last night.
Wheras your beer is full of hops, that “conservative” is full of shit.
.. like I only looked at that 22 years olds magnificent rack "once" last night.
"Roger Ailes, who may or may not be losing functioning in his frontal lobe. Or is there another explanation?" Roger chose the frontal lobotomy, I went with the bottle in front of me.
One conservative and 157 Nazis.
Sure, FOX employs the full spectrum of commentators — it's just that all those other networks are just over the cliff with their radical dashiki-wearing afro-sporting pot-smoking hippies — like Joe Scarborough.
If he sais he employes over 2 dozen liberals I'd hate to see what his version of a conservative is. I mean can one of his "conservative" come out in the daylight with out turning to ash? Do we need to keep garlic and crucifixes away from them?
I guess they would be considered liberal…by North Carolina standards.
Give him a break – the machine was all out of Diet Coke.
Huckabee's not a Conservative, he's a bass-playing cheeseburger.
I can't tell if Sarah Palin is a Libertarian, a Populist, or a Syphlitic Meth-head.
HAHA. Just kidding.
Here's an easy way to tell a Libertarian apart from a syphilitic meth-head: check their copy of Atlas Shrugged. The syphilitic meth-heads will have hollowed theirs out to use it as a stash box, the Libertarians will actually have read the fucking thing, and a whole bunch of the pages will be stuck together.
I know this one! AOTK!
You know what he said about Shep Smith?
Fox News has the full range of political thought represented as long as you define political thought as far right to light bulb licking bat shit crazy right.
Oh, we got both kinds. We got country *and* western.
"… we just read that Evan Bayh is running for president and Sarah Palin is a liberal commentator."
Think of it this way: you read it on Fox. It's much less disorienting that way.
Fux News = rich people paying rich people to tell the middle class to blame the poor people
I gamed Ella, the bitch caught a Fitz like Gerald-
-ine Ferraro, who's full of sorrow
Cause the ho didn't win but the sun will still come out tomorrow
And shine shine shine like gold mine
It's rap reference Friday, everyone!
The Tea Party shift is complete when Roger Ailes turns to his employees and says, "You're all liberals!"
Maybe he has that OldTimers disease?
We've got both types of commentators, country and western.
I canz throw beer bottle?
Can hemophilia lead to brain damage?
Or can brain damage lead to hemophilia?
Huntington's chorea? Roger ain't danced since August '74.
Ailes said he employs 24 "liberals"
Sure he does…they're the janitors and admins. Probably underpaid, also, too.
Out of 51,000 NewsCorp employees? Sounds about right.
Don't worry. They'll weed them out soon enough.
Oo, wait'll Sister Sarah hears Ailes called her a liberal! Darn you, Lamestream Media!
She is a woman, only men with raping penii can really be considered "conservative".
I facebook "liked" this story based solely on the title, and still have not read it. I'll be home from work soon, I have a feeling it's gonna be worth the wait. Stay cool, Wonkette.
Rodger Ailes is loosing control of his frontal lobe? He is now GOP qualified to lead the brain dead Zombies of hatred.
Ailes: "We have one conservative on FOX News, Sean Hannity. All the rest are Vogons."
That explains the upcoming show called Bill O'Reilly's Poetry Hour.
" …Or else I shall
rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheonsend Jesse Watters to harass youSee if I don't. "
Don't listen to it. Just don't
At least they never employed Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings.
If Santa were to turn evil, that picture represents my imagination.
Elmer Fudd after he got out of prison.
Alzheimers is a helluva drug.
It is true that Faux News has only one true conservative commentator. The rest are members of the Bat Shit Crazy Party.
Fox News employs many liberals. They employ them as sacrifices to Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath.
"Others tend to be libertarians or populists or you can’t really tell." Roger, maybe YOU can't …
What an asshole! But at least he's still got his beauty.
You know Who Else employed just one Liberal in their very own Propaganda organization?
The Christian Church employing Jesus?
Doesn't sound very 'fair and balanced' to me. Get rid of that commie O'Reilly first off.
Jabba the Hutt never died!
I think of Fox News not as a village but more of a leper colony. Sarah Palin is the colony idiot.
You left out the part of him that is a total douche. Other than that….
Sedentary, over 50, overweight, so overdue for that Coronary… WTF?
I'm interested in the audience reaction to this various Ailes speeches, especially at journalism schools. Roger should be booed continuously and have shoes thrown at him about 10 times per speech (at least). But I guess at UNC the kids are probably angling for jobs from him with Faux News?
Cut Ailes some slack. Palin did attend five liberal arts colleges before she graduated.
Sarah Palin is very liberal with monetizing herself.
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