Roger Ailes Wants To Start A History Channel With Bill O'Reilly

Yesterday, it was reported that Fox News chief Roger Ailes calls his biggest rated host, Bill O'Reilly, a "book salesman with a TV show." Today, in a lapdog interview that Ailes could have scripted himself, Ailes said he wants to start a history channel with O'Reilly. Let the jokes begin!

Apparently, the Fox News empire is striking back at Gabriel Sherman's unauthorized biography of Ailes - from which the "book salesman" quote came. In its PR piece interview with Ailes today, The Hollywood Reporter just happened to ask Ailes:

Do you have any interest to work with Bill on other projects, like the assassination histories he's done with National Geographic?

And it just so happens Ailes does.

I do. I would like News Corp to form a history channel and let Bill work with me. I'd run it for him because I'd like history done correctly for a change. They're not teaching the kids the real stuff. I think there is room for another channel, and I would love to do it.

Can't you see it now? Blonde babes in short skirts "revealing" how President George W. Bush was really responsible for the capturing Osama Bin Laden? How slavery was not as bad as the liberal media has portrayed it? How the Founding Fathers would have made ObamaCare unconstitutional if they could ever have imagined such a terrible thing could befall the republic?

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commented 2014-01-09 10:04:48 -0500 · Flag

I assume the first 3 episodes on there new history channel will be: Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus!
I doubt we’ll see “Killing Tiller” any time soon.

commented 2014-01-08 18:32:28 -0500 · Flag

H2 is ok, but they catch the alien and gangster bug too often. And I don’t think FNC has a lock on odd interpretations of history, take a look at the History Channels or any other cable channel like that, they all slant like a roof, imho.

commented 2014-01-08 17:28:51 -0500 · Flag

@ Joseph West: “As for O’Reilly’s ventures with NatGeo, about the only good things I’ve ever heard about them have come from right-wing groups. Most real historians have generally called those shows absurd and laughable with only the most minimal of actual history being presented.”

In other words, just like the books they were based on.

If Ailes and BillO do start a history channel, Truth in Advertising laws should force them to name it The Fiction Channel . . .

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commented 2014-01-08 16:57:01 -0500 · Flag

Will he “do it live?”

commented 2014-01-08 16:55:43 -0500 · Flag

I wonder if every person they interview will be asked if they know who O’Reilly is? If yes, do you like him? How many times will Billdo interrupt a war veteran so he can tell them that he was also involved in many of the wars our country fought?
Just more trolling for appreciation…O’Reilly style!

commented 2014-01-08 16:26:15 -0500 · Flag

On the Jabba & Bildo History Channel: Saint Ronnie Raygun. Best President of the 20th Century or the Best President Ever?

commented 2014-01-08 16:22:03 -0500 · Flag

Greg, there is a better version of the History Channel. It’s currently known as H2 but it used to be known as History International. (As far as I can tell, the only real difference now is that History International used to feature foreign-language versions of their programs—usually in Spanish—in the early morning. I think it was either 6-8 or 7-9am CT, but it’s been so long I honestly don’t recall.) And the idea that “false or incorrect” history is better than none, uh-uh. No, it isn’t. That kind of thinking is what led to the Teabaggers.

As for O’Reilly’s ventures with NatGeo, about the only good things I’ve ever heard about them have come from right-wing groups. Most real historians have generally called those shows absurd and laughable with only the most minimal of actual history being presented. And NatGeo’s also become a trash heap of reality programming (Border Wars, Alaska State Troopers, Wild Justice, Doomsday Preppers, Yukon Gold) and programs you’d just as likely see on Discovery’s Science Channel.

It is kind of funny though that Ailes would want to do a “Fox History Channel” (more properly, it should be “Faux History Channel”) since Fox already owns NatGeo (gee—maybe that’s why the channel’s worked with O’Reilly?).

commented 2014-01-08 15:06:30 -0500 · Flag

Episode 2: SEXUAL HARASSMENT——The Co$$$t

commented 2014-01-08 14:31:06 -0500 · Flag

O’Reilly’s first guest would be Phil Robertson, who could talk about 15 and 16 year old girls and why they should be his slaves.

commented 2014-01-08 14:09:45 -0500 · Flag

I hate to say it, but it does sound better than the current History Channel. False or incorrect or whatever, at least it might be history instead of pawn shops and guns and butter.

commented 2014-01-08 14:04:17 -0500 · Flag

Always go with experience. Junior O’Reilly has been Re-Writing History on his Narcissistic TV Show for 17 years now, so why not?

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