Thread: Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Stupid'

Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Stupid': New York Magazine

NEW YORK -- Fox News still dominates the cable news ratings, but chairman Roger Ailes wants something more: to help elect the next president.

That's the takeaway from Gabriel Sherman's New York magazine cover story hitting newsstands Monday. Sherman, who's currently writing a book on Fox News for Random House, looks at how Ailes -- who built up a stable of possible presidential contenders after the 2008 election, including Sarah Palin -- isn't so pleased with their chances at beating President Barack Obama in 2012.

Ailes doesn't speak on the record in the article, but several Republicans close to the Fox News chief describe his concerns going into an election year.

"He thinks things are going in a bad direction," another Republican close to Ailes told [Sherman]. "Roger is worried about the future of the country. He thinks the election of Obama is a disaster. He thinks Palin is an idiot. He thinks she's stupid. He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven't elevated the conservative movement."

The Republicans were unable to produce a credible candidate in 2008, and the direct result of that failure was the election of Barack Obama. In the aftermath of that disaster, the party has promoted a variety of hacks, wannabees, and demagogues, but still has not come up with an effetive leader. The withdrawal, this weekend, of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels from the race simply emphasizes the dearth of reasonable and responsible people on whom the Republican Party can depend. Instead, we are treated to a circus, with Mama Grizzlies, multiply-bankrupt real estate developers, has-been ex-governors, senators, and congressmen, and a walking Brylcream advertisement.

The Republicans must be afraid of responsibility, because they seem to be doing everything they can to assure the re-election of Barack Obama.

Obama could easily be elected to a 3rd term if we let him..

Originally Posted by Babylon

Obama could easily be elected to a 3rd term if we let him..

By the time the Republicans get through sorting the alternatives, Obama will look good to a lot of people.

Originally Posted by Neomalthusian

The only reason the Republican Party seems not to have a credible candidate is because they (the neoconservative right and their foot soldiers at Fox News) cannibalize their own libertarian-leaning contenders that actually pull together support from social liberals and fiscal conservatives. And people eat it right up. We've all been trained to disregard libertarian thinkers as "kooky" and "loony" and "not serious," but we have no justification for doing this, other than that we're just programmed that way by our news outlets. The Power Elite cannot control libertarians, so they smear them. Effectively and efficiently. Even overtly. We all call for better commitment to the principles (not being the world's police, not overspending, heeding the Constitution) for which libertarians have always stood, but we react to them as though they are psychotic right after they repeat, almost verbatim, that which we just called for Congress and government to do better.

Yea, I have to say that Forester's conclusion seems a bit off.

The article itself even lists not so neoconservative yet still feasible candidates, and it explains how they don't want to step up because the party is just so damn dumb and prejudiced. You have these Rockefeller Republicans instead who are moderates, but they're moderate in the wrong way. They're socially conservative and fiscally liberal unless it's for bailing out big business or standing up for minorities along with aggressive foreign policy.

Originally Posted by TheHighForester

Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Stupid': New York Magazine



The Republicans were unable to produce a credible candidate in 2008, and the direct result of that failure was the election of Barack Obama. In the aftermath of that disaster, the party has promoted a variety of hacks, wannabees, and demagogues, but still has not come up with an effetive leader. The withdrawal, this weekend, of Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels from the race simply emphasizes the dearth of reasonable and responsible people on whom the Republican Party can depend. Instead, we are treated to a circus, with Mama Grizzlies, multiply-bankrupt real estate developers, has-been ex-governors, senators, and congressmen, and a walking Brylcream advertisement.

The Republicans must be afraid of responsibility, because they seem to be doing everything they can to assure the re-election of Barack Obama.

The Op title says that Roger Ailes "thinks" Palin is stupid .. yet it also states in the article that Ailes does not go on record about it..

from that part of it I gather this is just a hit piece and warrants no further consideration.


from the article quoted:

Ailes doesn't speak on the record in the article, but several Republicans close to the Fox News chief describe his concerns going into an election year.


My conception of this would be if Ailes actually thought this , why does he have her on the FOX payroll?

Originally Posted by wingrider

My conception of this would be if Ailes actually thought this , why does he have her on the FOX payroll?

Foxs' entire staffing is comprised of stupidity. Just sayin.

Originally Posted by Inkslinger

Foxs' entire staffing is comprised of stupidity. Just sayin.

really??

Bill oriely, neil cavuto, bret baer, bill hemmer, all of them are stupid ?? if these people were as stupid as you claim how did they ever succeed in the business?

Originally Posted by wingrider

really??

Bill oriely, neil cavuto, bret baer, bill hemmer, all of them are stupid ?? if these people were as stupid as you claim how did they ever succeed in the business?

That's a no brainer... of course you'd have to have a functional brain to see it.
They appease the ignorant, much like evangelists in the pulpit.