I’m kind of hoping the conservatives who have been denouncing liberals for insulting Ailes–who appears to have been both an awful human being and a person who has done lasting damage to American political discourse–might show us the way by telling us all the great things Ailes did, privately and professionally.
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Make that two of us. Politics aside, the guy was an asshat to women. Good riddance.
Same here ! This was great news to me too ! I cheered when I heard it on the news and my dog was wondering what had happen ! LOL!
I will hope only that Mr. Ailes had a moment or two of clarity in which to contemplate and regret a lifetime of lies and victimization before he left us.
And that, as a joke on his family, he left all his money to charity, and hadn’t managed to change his will back before he died.
Saw cut of Sean “The Big Giant Head” Hannity choking back tears as he talked about how Roger Ailes had made him the man he was. So, there’s that.
I, for one, can thank Ailes for leading me to realize that I am on a “side”, and that all questions, political, personal, moral, are best- nay, ONLY understood viewed through the lens of which side any given behavior served.
For example, Hitler. Right-winger. Total asshole. No brainer, amirite?
Stalin. Left winger. Hey, nobody’s perfect, quit exaggerating his flaws, you partisan hacks!! :mad:
Maybe I missed where this is sarcasm, but if this is your opinion of liberals, then you’re a jackass who likes to put words in his enemy’s mouths to make them seem more evil and easier to hate.
You’re right. It’s become so much a part of the landscape that we don’t even see anymore just how weird it is.
Everything is now political. Science, religion, morality, sexuality, music, even what we eat and drink.
And that’s largely due to Ailes and his ilk.
D’ya think when you die, your thread will look more like this thread or like the one about the Soundgarden frontman? More “what a shame, he was a great guy”, or “Good riddance, what a shitty human being”? Saying that dozens of women who came forward to claim they were raped were probably all just looking for a payoff doesn’t put you on the nice side of that equation.
I think that post was the very first time I’ve put a long-term poster on my Ignore List for a single post that didn’t even tangentially involve me.
I thought I was posting an obviously parodical reductio ad absurdum of Ailes’ intellectual contribution to the world. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Ah, ok, my apologies as well. I’m narfled by allergies this morning and was confused by such a thing coming from you.
Here’s a take from Stephen Metcalf in the New Yorker. It’s more sober than Matt Taibbi’s article, but pretty much reaches the same conclusion: Ailes was a deeply disturbed very talented man who caused serious damage to the American political landscape.
He doesn’t even go into his loathsome personal behavior.
So, have we been told who killed Aisles? Was it Obama?
It was Killary, of course. Who else?
I understand he choked to death trying to swallow a suckling pig whole.
After all his effort defending Jerry Sandusky, I don’t think he’s ever going to find himself on the great guy list. He seems to have a soft spot for rapists.
Yes, it’s perched on his neck.
DeVito was sleazy, but with a disarming charm and vulnerable insecurity that ultimately made him likable.
Schwarzenegger, otoh, was somewhat stilted in his golden boy/paragon guilelessness. His character’s sentimental urge to effect the reunion of his “family,” such as it was, was saved from mawkishness by the growing affection that DeVito’s character developed towards his.
Because I won’t rally around and rah rah rah!!! pissing on the grave of a guy that just died. Who’s hatred is born out of an irrational hatred for a news network you despise.
Pound sand you bag of wind.
In my case I thought bringing him up was obvious - it’s a great example of how two people accused of similar crimes will be remembered differently in death simply because of their ideologies.
Unless when Clinton dies you’ll say you wish you could piss on his grave too, in which case I’ll take back my criticism. It’s not blatantly hypocritical then.
The hypocrisy of it all is what gets me, if it wasn’t obvious.
Exactly.