Roger Ailes, perhaps the ugliest human being to become famous since The Elephant Man, and one of the meanest since Dick Cheney seems to have decided to side with the bolwhard Trump over his statr reporter, Megan Kelly
How Roger Ailes Picked Trump, and Fox News Audience Over Megyn Kelly
By Gabriel Sherman | nymag.com | August 11, 2015 1:32 p.m.
"In the fallout since the first GOP debate, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has found himself caught between Donald Trump, who has the full backing of Fox's misogynist audience, and Megyn Kelly, the star anchor whom Ailes has nurtured and sees as the key to reaching younger viewers.
For a few days, Ailes didn't know how to handle Trump's full-throated attack on Kelly, who accused Trump of sexism during the debate. Eventually, as I reported yesterday, he made the same choice he always does: follow the ratings, and mend fences with Trump.
While Trump barnstormed rival media outlets over the last few days, dissing Kelly and Fox at virtually every turn, Ailes remained surprisingly restrained in his response, even after Trump told CNN on Friday that Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever" during the debate.
Paralyzed by the volume of pro-Trump emails from Fox's loyal viewers, Ailes's only statement, released a day after the debate, said that he was "extremely proud of all of the moderators."
Fox's famously aggressive PR apparatus has not gone after Trump to defend Kelly, and although Kelly's executive producer Tom Lowell did send out an email to colleagues thanking them for their support in recent days, that support has been private.
Trump is now back in Fox's fold, but the lengths that Ailes went to in order to win Trump back revealed a rare moment of weakness for the Fox chief. Since Trump's "blood" comment on Friday, some Fox executives have wanted Ailes to personally call Trump and broker a truce.
But, according to a Fox source, Ailes and his lawyer Peter Johnson Jr. felt that calling Trump was a risk they couldn't take, given Trump's erratic behavior on the campaign trail. What if Trump leaked the conversation on Twitter like he did with Lindsey Graham's cell-phone number?
Ailes's unwillingness to pick up the phone meant that Fox was flying blind. "They didn't know what Trump was thinking," one source explained. But, after Trump told Sean Hannity in a weekend phone call that he was "never doing Fox again," appeared on four non-Fox public-affairs shows on Sunday, and did interviews with Today and Morning Joe on Monday, Ailes raised the white flag and picked up the phone on Monday morning. "Roger wanted a friendly relationship," the source explained.
Last night, Ailes put his own spin on it and released a statement. "We had a blunt but cordial conversation and the air has been cleared," he said, adding that Kelly is a "brilliant journalist." For her part, Kelly addressed the controversy only briefly on her show, saying simply: "I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism."
But resecuring Trump access could prove to be a temporary victory for Ailes. Having backed down to the GOP front-runner and all but sacrificed one of his biggest stars to appease the conservative base — a.k.a. Fox viewers — Ailes has set a dangerous precedent. The message is clear: Fox reports, but the audience decides."
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Soooo, while the presidency run gets momentarily sidestepped to indulge in some erratic, negative and sexist foreplay on Pig Trump's part, Roger Ailes has thrown his purportedly prize journalist, Megyn Kelly, under the bus in order to further Pig Trump's ludicrous circus into the rresidential limelight.
He has already ruined a ridiculous republican clump of moral do-nothings first "debate" which has rapidly declined into a rabid Pig Trump morbid display of a female's monthly 'Fall Off The Roof'- more casually known as menstruation...to the utter disgust of moral America.
Donald Trump does not fool anyone in his cowardly attack on a female journalist by insinuating a gross insult by mentioning "blood coming out of her whatever" on public TV. No apology can rectify this kind of piggish behavior in year 2015.
He should be stricken from the crowded Republican Clown Car and sent into political Siberia for what he has so easily attempted to do to a working person at Fox News. That Fox News has not adequately championed her against Pig Trump's gross allegations shows Meghan Kelly is ready for the more credible news agencies.
