Roger Ailes never feared criticism from respectable media.
Ailes had almost absolute power at the company.
Ailes was in the Marine Corps for 35 years.
Fox News, Ailes claimed, would always remain the underdog
and be forever denigrated by mainstream rivals.
And both articles would have delighted the late Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News.
As we know, Lee Atwater and Roger Ailes came up with the Willie Horton ad.
The White House has
named a retired Marine major general Randolph Ailes as the New Director of the Secret Service.
So rather than put Trump in the White House, Ailes and Murdoch were unable to stop Republicans from voting for him.
Like the Wizard of Oz, Ailes was far more anxious that he,
and his creation, might be revealed as weak and ineffectual.
When the dust settled,
Fox had paid out settlements to six women and sent Ailes on his way with a tidy $40 million for his trouble.