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Related: About this forumFox News Chairman Roger Ailes Accuses Obama of Fomenting Hate
by Howard Kurtz Feb 11, 2013 12:01 AM EST
The Fox News chairman says the president pits blacks against whites, middle class against rich. Howard Kurtz on how Ailes undercut his largely positive message in a New Republic interview.
Roger Ailes says President Obama is whipping up hate. The Fox News chairman has never been a fan of the president, but even by his standards, those are strikingly harsh words.
The president likes to divide people into groups, Ailes tells The New Republic in an interview. Hes too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other.
He then added: We need to get along.
Ailes has a fondness for blunt language, and his point about Obama turning the middle class against the rich, albeit with the H word, echoes the standard conservative gripe about Democratic class warfare.
But getting blacks to hate whites?
What in Obamas record casts him as a racially divisive leader?
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/fox-news-chairman-roger-ailes-accuses-obama-of-fomenting-hate.html
Link to TNR article:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112364/fox-news-latino-roger-ailes-courts-hispanic-viewers
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts)Remember O'Rielly calling Dr. Tiller, "Tiller the baby killer" time and again?
Or when Sean Hannity linked Ohio Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner to ACORN and
voting fraud w/zero proof and she got death threats?
Fox and Ailes are not burdened by telling the truth ..... matter of fact lying is
part of their business model and it starts in the AM w/ Fox and Friends.
Iggo
(47,563 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)accuse your enemy of doing what you actualy do.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)But I think it may be more like opposite day. I think in reality, the President works to remove the differences between people, and brings us together for the common good.
They really hate that. Community organizer? Why, yes he is.
lapfog_1
(29,218 posts)election theft
racial intolerance
women's health
voter rights
(the list goes on and on)
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)For the younger DUers:
The only question, Ailes bragged to a reporter, is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/photo-gallery-roger-ailes-gop-mastermind-20110525/video-revolving-door-tv-ad-0720566
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,426 posts)I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
-Harry S. Truman
Held true then (re: Republicans), still true now.
great white snark
(2,646 posts)That is the most appropriate quote Proud Liberal Dem.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)DFW
(54,428 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)doesn't mean he has anything to do with it.
tartan2
(314 posts)you sound as though you suffer from what is know as the "whiney ass white man's syndrome"!!!
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Obama turned all those people into racists.
Before that, they were fine with minorities.
Riiiight.
CBHagman
(16,987 posts)Freudian slip: I almost wrote right whinge.
Glenn Beck said our biracial president, who speaks affectionately and respectfully of his white mother and grandparents, has a "deep-seated hatred for white people." Christian Coalition types borrow an image from the struggle for civil rights when they accuse people who support public schools but oppose voucher programs for private institutions of blocking the schoolhouse door.
It's beyond projection. It's a means of controlling the argument and influencing public opinion. These are the people who systematically attacked John Kerry's military honors and Al Gore's veracity. We know what Ailes and co. are capable of. We've seen and heard it for decades.