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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFarewell, Roger Ailes. Take Trump with you?
Farewell, Roger Ailes. Take Trump with you?
Ailes' ouster: It's akin to Antonin Scalia suddenly vanishing from the corridors of power. No one saw it coming, but oh what a blessing
Never doubt there is a divine and fearful symmetry afoot, usually for the better but then again, these days, who can say?
Behold! It is entirely appropriate that on the same, enormously humiliating day the Republican Party officially nominated Donald Trump for president, AKA the day that America hung its head in shame, one Roger Ailes, the famously turgid, unapologetically biased media mastermind who made Fox News into the billion-dollar bastion of giddy racism and shameless ignorance it so very much is, was on his way to being strategically ousted from the network for allegedly sexually harassing enough women to earn him a nice gift basket from Bill Cosby.
Do you see the symmetry? The weirdly magical, oddly proper cosmic confluence? Sure you do.
It all makes wicked and maybe even slightly reassuring sense. See, Ailes reached his nadir. Sauron installed his doppelganger. Trump got the GOP nod and the Fates threw up in their mouths a little as all those years of Ailes-approved, Fox-led fearmongering, misogyny, lying, homophobia, bashing of the environment and women and science et al, resulted in a success far wilder, far nastier than even Ailes, in his most sexually inappropriate fever dream, could possibly imagine. Like a cross between Dick Cheney and a circus carney
Let history decry: It was Fox News with Ailes at the helm that essentially invented Trump the candidate, paved the way, set the tone, made it all kinds of brutally easy for an orange-faced, sociopathic mattress salesman to manipulate/abuse the media and the electoral system alike, flooding them both with fear and childish authoritarianism like nuclear waste into a river. Make no mistake: Fox News, with its GOP lackeys, made Trump happen. He is their most perfect inbred spawn. His ascent and ruthless takeover of the decaying GOP is entirely deserved: After all, you cant attack the immune system of the nation for all those years and not expect a virus to ooze on through.
It remains, however, rather amazing to witness: The moment Trump ascends, Ailes flounders. Its as though the system can only handle so much poison at any given time. Its as though the gods are saying Look, you cant have the Satan and Moloch on the same playbill. Even the cockroaches are in retreat. Someones gotta go. And right now, blessed be the heavens, that means Ailes.
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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2016/07/20/good-riddance-roger-ailes-take-trump-with-you/
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Farewell, Roger Ailes. Take Trump with you? (Original Post)
niyad
Aug 2016
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The SF Chronicle used to have Morford in the daily paper and too many right wingers
kimbutgar
Aug 2016
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BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)1. Good article, but I like this photo better
pretzel4gore
(8,146 posts)4. the Banality of Evil...
that's what the saintly Che Guevara, I think twas, said about people like murdoch, ailes, david frum ken starr, junyer bush and brocaw, donalsson etc
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)2. The SF Chronicle used to have Morford in the daily paper and too many right wingers
Complained he hurt their feelings so they put him online. But they keep the odious right winger deborah Sanders who is so awful in the paper. Her column today was her dumping on Hillary and defending Cheeto.
niyad
(113,552 posts)3. thank goodness I missed that one.