Fox News, also spelled FAUX News pays the highest talking head fees in the industry for the celebrity former losers in the political game still smarting from when they went down in flames.
Many of their analysts are recent converts from normalcy who realized when they got fired from other stations that they had a career with FOX (FAUX) NEWS who loves those who follow the script.
Think of Fox news as the magazines you see at the checkout counter at the grocery store. And for those seeking employment at FOX news remember the secret decoder line that will get you the job. “It’s Presidents Obamas fault” and basically anything T-RUMP farts out.
THE HEAD SPIN-MEISTER - PIMP-MEISTER IS FIRED!
We simply call it working for the Pimp-Meister. Mr Roger Ailes
With the gender discrimination suit filed against the network’s chairman, Roger Ailes, this week, Fox, is now in tune with the rest of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Madison Avenue, bringing into the open generations-old patterns and behaviors, sexual and otherwise that were never O.K., but were for so long abetted by silence.
Some are surfacing now. Former President Clinton was never right in what he did, but this is just part of our culture. And Donald Dork, will not let us forget, calling the usual pots and kettle and the innocent black.
Whoa! You mean the news station that put crotch shots ahead of the real news, is the future of Mr. Ailes, who through his own cunning, mastery of television and, in a former life, politics, has made his network a singular force within the Republican Party. Bringing up their motto “Fair and balanced”, to whence the reply, ‘Who the F*ck Are You Kidding”.
Mr. Ailes’s very approach to television — replacing the newspaper for fun and games — has stood as a rebuke to those who might be sensitive to signs of female objectification.
His sets are famous for their translucent desks, which show the legs of his female stars, no stockings, no pants and little else, who are so often in very short dresses or skirts. Including a few oops by Gretchen (believe me unintended) and other shots are an entire show on Youtube. As a friend commented to me, there are more leg shots on Faux news than at the Miss America Contest.
It was Ms. Carlson who once said that when she was a host on the set of “Fox & Friends,” the network’s morning program, “Pants were not allowed.” Fox News has denied any such rule. But for all that, there were a couple of articles in the last two days quoting former female staff members — albeit anonymously — echoing Ms. Carlson’s descriptions of Mr. Ailes’s behavior and the overall climate at Fox.
The old adage , where there is smoke there is fire. All I see is the spinmeister basically useless in true untainted journalism and it will continue to thrive because of the dollars FOX brings in till we raise its listener level from below 80 on the IQ testing and evaluation scales. He should have his balls cut off.
Gretchen Carlson today reacted to word that Roger Ailes had resigned as chief of Fox News, Fox Business and Fox TV Stations, two weeks after she filed a lawsuit claiming he sexually harassed her: Meanwhile, her attorneys, Nancy Erika Smith and Martin Hyman, released a statement saying their lawsuit and Carlson’s “courage” has “caused a seismic shift in the media world.”
“We hope that all businesses now understand that women will no longer tolerate sexual harassment and reputable companies will no longer shield those who abuse women. We thank all the brave women who spoke out about this issue,” the attorney continued, adding, “We will have more to say in coming days as events unfold.”
Minutes after 21st Century Fox issued its announcement that Roger Ailes resigned, effective immediately, Ailes began trending on Twitter. Greta Van Susteren, who’d been among the female members of Fox News Channel’s on-air team giving interviews in support of Ailes over the past two weeks, tweeted out the news, as did Brit Hume, who’d also come out in support of Ailes while 21st Century Fox conducted its investigation:
Today’s announcement effectively ends Ailes’ 20-year career as founder of Fox News Channel, the powerful news network and political force that, for the past two decades, has billed itself as the “fair and balanced” antidote to the “Lamestream liberal media.”
In today’s announcement, no reason was given for Ailes’ resignation, with a $60M parachute, according to a source. Also conspicuously absent from the announcement is a statement from Ailes.
But, in a letter from Ailes to Keith Rupert Murdoch Sr., shared with Drudge Report, Ailes said “I take particular pride in the role that I have played advancing the careers of the many women I have promoted to executives and on-air positions,” and that he was resigning so as not “to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day to ensure that Fox News and Fox Business continue to lead our industry.” Though the company made no mention of an ongoing relationship with Ailes, in his letter he pointedly said he looks “forward to continuing to work with you as an adviser in building 21st Century Fox.”
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