Roger Ailes dead

[ex-khobar Andy]

I note this from CNN's report. As a GOP operative in the Nixon years (1970) Ailes was early in seeing the potential of television to sway opinion. He wrote

"Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication," the memo read. "The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit -- watch -- listen. The thinking is done for you."

I don't think that there is a clearer expression of Republican attitudes to the electorate.

[BoSoxGal]

Ding, dong. Good riddance!

[Econoline]

Adam-Troy Castro said it well, on Facebook:

• We should not make more light of this than we need to enjoy ourselves. Technically, a human being is dead. Strictly speaking, his demise must be a great sorrow for his theoretical friends and family. He left behind a lifetime of what I guess you could call achievement, and he must be recognized for the mark, the big and rancid and oily mark, he made on the the world of journalism, in between dictating what specific talking points were to pushed on his network on any particular day, in brave defiance of whatever the facts were. His guiding hand will be remembered on the buttocks and breasts of many attractive women who found themselves in his employ. Truly, he filled a much needed void. It is with a heavy heart that I concede that we will see his like again.

• 

[MajGenl.Meade]

What ails thee, uncle?

[rubato]

I'm just glad he lived long enough to be fired, publicly excoriated, and humiliated.



yrs,
rubato

[Econoline]

From Wonkette (supposedly paraphrasing Joan Crawford on Bette Davis' death):

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good… Roger Ailes is dead. Good.

I still think Adam-Troy Castro's obit (quoted above) is just...perfect. I particularly admire the line, "Truly, he filled a much needed void."