Oooh, oohh, we cannot wait until Gabriel Sherman's very unauthorized biography of Fox News chief Roger Ailes is published later this month. Yesterday, the New York Times revealed some goodies and none of them make Ailes look good.
The Times wrote:
At Fox News, the book says, Mr. Ailes was disdainful of even his most bankable on-air talent, privately calling Bill O’Reilly “a book salesman with a TV show” and Brian Kilmeade, a peppy Fox host, “a soccer coach from Long Island.”
But that's nothing compared to this:
Roger Ailes was so eager to influence national politics that in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, he told fellow Fox News executives point-blank: “I want to elect the next president.”
And this:
In one anecdote, a television producer, Randi Harrison, told Mr. Sherman that while negotiating her salary with Mr. Ailes at NBC in the 1980s, he offered her an additional $100 each week “if you agree to have sex with me whenever I want.”
The Times also reports that Sherman and his publisher are "girding for a counterattack from Fox News." Ailes has reportedly complained that Sherman did not do any fact-checking with Fox. But that seems disingenuous, to say the least, given that Ailes reportedly fired executive Brian Lewis for talking to Sherman - and then paid Lewis $8 million in hush money.
According to the Times, the book is due out January 21.
http://notnowsilly.blogspot.com/2013/03/did-roger-ailes-dupe-james-rosen-or-did.html
With all my love,
Aunty Headly
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If I’d been Harrison, I would’ve said $50 a week more for sex no more than once a week and you provide the blindfold so I don’t have to look at you while we’re doing it. AND, the $50 a week extra is guaranteed, even if I’m sick or have a yeast infection. Oh, one last thing—any medical bills resulting from STDs or unintended pregnancies, YOU pay for. It’d be interesting to see just how desperate Ailes was for the sex. (Conversely, I might’ve just told Ailes, keep the money—I’m sure you can find some $10 crack whores on the street willing to service you. Hell, get ’em on a good night and you might can talk them down to $5 for anything and everything.)
This is called getting ahead of a story that could be damaging, and if the story about television producer, Randi Harrison, is true then he and Bill O’Reilly are like brothers and have much in common. I can’t speak for you ladies out there, being a heterosexual male, but I would think no amount of money could make a women want to have sex with “it”. I would think having sex with a cactus would be far more appealing. Since Miss Harrison was willing to voluntarily give her name, I believe her.
It’s always fun and entertaining to watch a bully get a taste of their own evil.
“Some Fox employees have already denigrated Mr. Sherman publicly, with the prime-time host Sean Hannity calling him a ‘phony journalist’ on Twitter.”
“phony journalist” ??
I guess Slanthead would know about that, considering that he is the phoniest, lying truth-twisting slimeball “journalist” in all of American media!
Listen now as Hannity’s attacks reach a crescendo as this book nears publication. I’ve heard him, on the radio at least, slobber over Ailes like the latter is some sort of diety! It was almost like listening to Slanthead’s tight buddy Mark Levin (the failed [disbarred?] Philadelphia shyster who’s due for a lobotomy any day now) worship Ronald Regan.
Nauseating!
