So Fox News’s boss Roger Ailes gave an interview to Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast, which is weird enough in and of itself. And he called Jon Stewart “crazy” in the interview, which is really par for the course these days in no-holds-barred political mudslinging these days.
But then the conversation turns to National Public Radio and Ailes gets a little, shall we say, riled up.
So not just Nazis, but left-wing Nazis. Because just calling somebody Hitler, Nazi, etc. isn’t enough these days, you’ve got to throw in a qualifier like that.
Of course, we are soon going to hear a whole bunch of apologists saying that the right-wing media would never stoop so low as to use Nazi imagery against their opponents. Between this and Glenn Beck’s recent attack on George Soros as a Holocaust enabler…hmmm. One wouldn’t think Fox News could go more off the deep end, but I guess the moral of this RO post is: never underestimate the noise machine.
Sure, maybe he got a little worked up, but I think it’s nice that Roger Ailes is so committed to unbiased journalism which doesn’t favor any particular ideology or viewpoint. Good for him!
True fact: I am now less than 30 feet from a person who, in all seriousness, claims that, while both NPR and Fox are biased, at least Fox allows both sides to be heard (unlike NPR.) After all they are “fair and balanced”. No joke.
The Nazis *were *left-wing, when you reallly look at their economic policies, even if self-styled neo-Nazis don’t like to think of themselves that way.
No they weren’t. People base this on the early economic program, which was never put into effect - never even tried in fact. The Nazis were a party that left capital to do its own thang, by and large.
And Fox News describing NPR as left-wing Nazis is oddly enough progress. Usually they preach the utter bollocks that the Nazis were left-wing themselves.
Just like the Reichstag. Isn’t it curious ? Isn’t it a concerning little coinkidink ? And is it a wonder I’m the only one asking these questions, as a concerned not-American-at-all ?
Just playing along with what Mr. Ailes must have meant as a joke, here, but which bits of NPR’s prgramming are ‘propaganda’, exactly? Car Talk? This American Life? A Prairie Home Companion?
