# Human bag of pig suet and sexual harassment Roger Ailes dead at 77. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 18, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942 "2017-05-18T17:25:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick\_Sanchez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rick\_Sanchez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/21 "2017-05-18T21:25:47Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > I knew there would be a thread like this here. > > The Straight Dope - Where the classiest of the left show their true colors. Because Roger Ailes was _such_ a classy guy. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/22 "2017-05-18T21:54:57Z")
> [@Rick\_Sanchez](#): > > Because Roger Ailes was _such_ a classy guy. You don’t understand. As a “leftie”, you are \*required \* to simply sit passively, while powerful media millionaires spit on you, and call you a disgusting human being. You may not, at any time, (even after their death), return these insults. These are the rules, apparently, as written by the supporters of the aforementioned shitty media millionaires. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/23 "2017-05-18T22:12:41Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > I knew there would be a thread like this here. > > The Straight Dope - Where the classiest of the left show their true colors. Fuck him. I’m glad he’s dead and wish, for the sake of those whose lives he polluted, he had been strangled at birth. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/24 "2017-05-18T22:20:47Z")
My first reaction as well. I actually had some sympathy when Scalia passed, but this guy sexually harasses women, which makes it much harder. This is one where my policy of “sympathy costs little” is tested. I choose it out of duty so I don’t become a monster, not for his sake. I’m sure he had some loved ones, so I can at least feel bad for them. Trump will be so hard I may not try. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/25 "2017-05-18T22:25:33Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > After all, no man is an island. OK, I’m Donne here. Ugh. A pun is the lowest form of humor. And it’s no cure for what Ailes you. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/26 "2017-05-18T22:31:26Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Ugh. A pun is the lowest form of humor. And it’s no cure for what Ailes you. Roger that, but I think a recycled pun might just be one rung lower. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/27 "2017-05-18T23:47:00Z")
I always thought that his face looked like a foot. Seriously, if you think the media is biased start a network that is _objective_, not one that’s merely biased in the opposite direction from what you perceive exists. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/28 "2017-05-19T00:33:50Z")
Hundreds Of Miniature Sean Hannitys [Burst From Roger Ailes’ Corpse](http://www.theonion.com/article/hundreds-miniature-sean-hannitys-burst-roger-ailes-56052). ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/29 "2017-05-19T00:48:11Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > Hundreds Of Miniature Sean Hannitys [Burst From Roger Ailes’ Corpse](http://www.theonion.com/article/hundreds-miniature-sean-hannitys-burst-roger-ailes-56052). With the Onion, it’s so often hard to tell which are the real stories and which are the satirical ones. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/30 "2017-05-19T00:57:25Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Well at least he lasted long enough to disgrace Fox News and cost them a lot of money. If he died 12 months ago, he would have done all his evil without any penalty for Fox most likely. Good point. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/31 "2017-05-19T01:02:47Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Ugh. A pun is the lowest form of humor. And it’s no cure for what Ailes you. Actually, no. A pun requires an adaptive approach to language. My dogs know what “out” means. They haven’t figured out, yet, what “O-U-T” means, much less anything abstract. Trilby managed a clue, but the others have always been Dumb, Like a Dog. None of them could manage a pun, but they had a deep understanding of slapstick. ETA: Especially anything involving Human Alpha Male. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/32 "2017-05-19T01:32:12Z")
I have to figure he was one of those guys whose job was his life. He didn’t have any kind of involvement that didn’t center on it. When he got driven out at long last, he had nothing to do in his life and his prestige and his power had evaporated. And with the loss of that power, which was fed by the hate and fear of millions of old people, his contract with Satan became due. There’s probably a big old pentagram burned into his floor with a pile of ashes in the smoking ruins at the center of it. ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/33 "2017-05-19T01:40:44Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > If you would like to eulogize Roger Ailes, have at it. I certainly won’t stand in your way. Right. Because there’s in no in-between. > [@Rick\_Sanchez](#): > > Because Roger Ailes was _such_ a classy guy. I didn’t say that. I commented on the lack of class and tact I expected to find here… the smartest, hippest place on the 'net. > [@Chefguy](#): > > Fuck him. I’m glad he’s dead and wish, for the sake of those whose lives he polluted, he had been strangled at birth. Deal with it. You wish he’d be strangled at birth… because you can’t tolerate an opinion (those said on Fox News, I presume) that differs from yours. Charming. And so progressive, forward thinking. Me? I like counter ideas. I like hearing, engaging, and reading ideas that aren’t my own. In the end it usually strengthens my own personal positions. Sometimes it changes them. Imagine that. > [@BigT](#): > > My first reaction as well. I actually had some sympathy when Scalia passed, but this guy sexually harasses women, which makes it much harder. Are you going to have that same struggle when Bill Clinton dies? Or is it only those that politically disagree with you? > [@E-DUB](#): > > Seriously, if you think the media is biased start a network that is _objective_, not one that’s merely biased in the opposite direction from what you perceive exists. So what do you read or watch that isn’t biased? I’d argue that one hundred percent unbiased news is not only unrealistic, it’s unattainable. Better to have the biases out there so you can pick and choose. And again, in my opinion and how I go about things, I like to take in a little bit of all of it. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/34 "2017-05-19T01:42:06Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > because you can’t tolerate an opinion (those said on Fox News, I presume) that differs from yours. That is a stupid assumption. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/35 "2017-05-19T01:45:01Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I have to figure he was one of those guys whose job was his life. He didn’t have any kind of involvement that didn’t center on it. When he got driven out at long last, he had nothing to do in his life and his prestige and his power had evaporated. > > And with the loss of that power, which was fed by the hate and fear of millions of old people, his contract with Satan became due. There’s probably a big old pentagram burned into his floor with a pile of ashes in the smoking ruins at the center of it. That is so metal. ---
**Author:** ![Zoot\_Sutra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/51bf81/32.png) [@Zoot\_Sutra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoot_Sutra)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/36 "2017-05-19T01:45:46Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I have to figure he was one of those guys whose job was his life. He didn’t have any kind of involvement that didn’t center on it. When he got driven out at long last, he had nothing to do in his life and his prestige and his power had evaporated. > > And with the loss of that power, which was fed by the hate and fear of millions of old people, his contract with Satan became due. There’s probably a big old pentagram burned into his floor with a pile of ashes in the smoking ruins at the center of it. [I imagine it would have gone something like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTqHbiE0vl8#t=00m30s) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/37 "2017-05-19T01:48:20Z")
> [@Zoot\_Sutra](#): > > [I imagine it would have gone something like this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTqHbiE0vl8#t=00m30s) _“NO! I’m working on another network! Please, just a little more time! We almost have the investors lined up! PLEASE! Just a little more timeeeee…”_ ---
**Author:** ![HeweyLogan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heweylogan/32/547_2.png) [@HeweyLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeweyLogan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/38 "2017-05-19T01:55:48Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > That is a stupid assumption. You’re speaking for the person I quoted? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/39 "2017-05-19T01:59:16Z")
It’s nice that you admitted that Fox News is just opinion. It’s not as good as recognizing that it’s misleading bullshit designed to play into its audiences prejudices and not to inform them, but it’s a start. And, no, the same cannot be said by any “liberal” news channel. There’s shit like that online, but not on TV. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942/40 "2017-05-19T02:00:49Z")
> [@HeweyLogan](#): > > I knew there would be a thread like this here. > > The Straight Dope - Where the classiest of the left show their true colors. I suppose we could call his family members and insist his death is part of some conspiracy. I know it’ll be tough to compete with right wing crazy but we could try! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-bag-of-pig-suet-and-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-dead-at-77/786942.md?page=3)