# Roger Ailes of Fox News goes full Godwin about NPR

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 18, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118 "2010-11-18T18:09:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/61 "2010-12-17T21:32:55Z")

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Well, yes, but on the other hand…

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/62 "2010-12-17T22:13:33Z")

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I’d go full Godwin. But only if it was tastefully done and important to the plot.

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**Author:** ![katydid1031](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@katydid1031](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katydid1031)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/63 "2010-12-21T19:05:44Z")

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> [@villa](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

You mean after most of the companies were stolen from the Jewish population.

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**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/64 "2010-12-21T21:20:16Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Well, yes, but on the other hand…

Centered extremists ?

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/65 "2010-12-24T03:23:17Z")

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Well, this isn’t that surprising.

Take the crap I say when I’m in full frothing Bolshevik mode. Imagine that kind of partisan bile running a network news division. That’s Roger Ailes.

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-ailes-of-fox-news-goes-full-godwin-about-npr/561118/66 "2010-12-24T10:31:33Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> Take the crap I say when I’m in full frothing Bolshevik mode.

I need to start paying closer attention.

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