RIP: Roger Ailes, former CEO of Fox Newts

[thewayne]

I was wondering what Roger had been up to since the end of the election. It had been rumored that Trump was planning a conservative news channel and that Ailes would head it up, but then Trump made the mistake of winning the election and look at where we are now. Well, it turns out that Ailes had hemophilia. Apparently in '12 he said that actuaries said he had 6-12 years left, I guess he didn't make the odds. Still, to make it to 77 with that condition is an achievement.

Aside from heading up Fox and exploiting his position of authority to sexually exploit women, he previously was the chief media advisor to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. He also helped create the Merv Griffon Show and several other TV programs.

I can't say that I'm too sorry to see him gone. It would have been nice to see him have a reformation and make some amends for his past behavior, but it would be so totally out of character as to be all but an impossibility.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/18/528925119/roger-ailes-former-fox-news-ceo-dies-at-77

Comments

[silveradept]

Ailes is responsible for much of our current situations in the world, by giving voice to an entire community that ignores reality and fact in favor of their own dogma.

[thewayne]

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has a scathing piece on Ailes here, it's quite a read.

[thewayne]

Apparently he had an accident in the bathroom, presumably a slip and fall and bashed his head, possibly leading to bleeding to death.