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In reply to the discussion: Good Question at Quora: Why hasn't Trump gone after Rachel Maddow like he did Mika Brzezinski? [View all]Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)67. Got it and thanks for this.
Went searching a bit more and found this in a Rolling Stone interview https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rachel-maddow-the-rolling-stone-interview-200759/
You had a collegial relationship with Roger Ailes, who helped create this toxic political environment were in. What made you seek him out?
I wasnt seeking help from him on how to create a toxic political environment, I was looking for help on my camera angles! But I dont want to talk about the technical advice he gave me, because I consider it to be both a gift and also proprietary like, I use it, I dont want anybody else to use it. It was a nice thing that he did for me, and its been very valuable it helped me get an advantage over my competitors.
Was it hard for you to reconcile the Ailes you knew with the Ailes who was accused of serial sexual harassment?
It was just never my experience of him. I knew him in a very specific context. Ive never been in his office. Ive never seen him interact with his staff. I only ever saw him in public. Wed meet and have breakfast. Im horrified by the allegations against him, and I am appreciative of how serious Fox must have found them to be in order to fire him. But I didnt know anything about it. I was never in touch with Roger after those allegations became public.
Did you ever try?
Its funny, the last time that we had any communication was within 48 hours of that story breaking with the allegations. Id sent him a note saying that I wanted to see him. Nothing urgent, just lets put a date on the calendar. After the story broke, I remember thinking, I wonder if hell ask me to vouch for him or something. But I never heard from him again.
Your not having any idea is a bit hard to swallow, when there were stories for years about how he dealt with women. Unless he treated you more like a guy?
Yeah, Im not that female. I've been an out lesbian since I was a teenager. I look like a dude. Im totally comfortable with that. I am not trying to be on TV because I like the way I look on TV or because I love the glamour.
I wasnt seeking help from him on how to create a toxic political environment, I was looking for help on my camera angles! But I dont want to talk about the technical advice he gave me, because I consider it to be both a gift and also proprietary like, I use it, I dont want anybody else to use it. It was a nice thing that he did for me, and its been very valuable it helped me get an advantage over my competitors.
Was it hard for you to reconcile the Ailes you knew with the Ailes who was accused of serial sexual harassment?
It was just never my experience of him. I knew him in a very specific context. Ive never been in his office. Ive never seen him interact with his staff. I only ever saw him in public. Wed meet and have breakfast. Im horrified by the allegations against him, and I am appreciative of how serious Fox must have found them to be in order to fire him. But I didnt know anything about it. I was never in touch with Roger after those allegations became public.
Did you ever try?
Its funny, the last time that we had any communication was within 48 hours of that story breaking with the allegations. Id sent him a note saying that I wanted to see him. Nothing urgent, just lets put a date on the calendar. After the story broke, I remember thinking, I wonder if hell ask me to vouch for him or something. But I never heard from him again.
Your not having any idea is a bit hard to swallow, when there were stories for years about how he dealt with women. Unless he treated you more like a guy?
Yeah, Im not that female. I've been an out lesbian since I was a teenager. I look like a dude. Im totally comfortable with that. I am not trying to be on TV because I like the way I look on TV or because I love the glamour.
Perhaps her sexuality in the last bit of the excerpt might be another reason for the administration's hands-off approach, they just don't know how to handle a PhD Rhodes Scholar, good-natured out lesbian political commentator who appears every day of the week; in re-runs on the weekend.
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Good Question at Quora: Why hasn't Trump gone after Rachel Maddow like he did Mika Brzezinski? [View all]
Kind of Blue
Mar 2019
OP
As well as all sorts of other body parts he would rather not have exposed on TV. n/t
DFW
Mar 2019
#9
It's 1:25 AM here and I have to be on my way to work by 6:15 tomorrow, er, this morning
DFW
Mar 2019
#22
She's not part of the elite group Trump secretly clamors for approval from.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
#30
He desperately wants approval from the NY-DC centrist intellectual set, i.e. people like Mika.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
#36
My guess is that Roger Ailes told him not to take Rachel on. Ailes and Rachel were friends.
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#44
Not from an ideological point of view, but she said she got great help from him, and he even told
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#64
Perhaps, but my thought is that Ailes warned Trump off trying to take her on. It's distinctly off
OnDoutside
Mar 2019
#70