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Matt Taibbi Delivers Vicious Takedown of Roger Ailes
File under De mortuis nihil nisi bonum [MEDIAITE] Add Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi to the list of those who aren’t sad to see Ailes gone. In what can only be described as a nasty takedown of the ex-FNC head, Taibbi blamed Ailes for creating the "hyper-divisive ...politicians call things divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive,they're principled... media environment" American public -- described as "a hate-filled, paranoid, untrusting, book-dumb and bilious people"
Then he had this to say about the man who had just passed away: Ailes was the Christopher Columbus of hate. When the former daytime TV executive and political strategist looked across the American continent, he saw money laying around in giant piles. He knew all that was needed to pick it up was a) the total abandonment of any sense of decency or civic duty in the news business, and b) the factory-like production of news stories that spoke to Americans’ worst fantasies about each other. After highlighting Ailes’ history with Fox News and how he believed the network was responsible for pushing outlandish conspiracy theories and getting Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... elected president, Taibbi ended the piece with this observation: The extent to which we hate and fear each other now ‐ that’s not any one person’s fault. But no one person was more at fault than Roger Ailes. He never had a soul to sell, so he sold ours. It may take 50 years or a century for us to recover. Even dictators rarely have that kind of impact. Enjoy the next life, you monster. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-20 |
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