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| Fox News Latino. Nothing openly kiss ass about this right? |
Roger Ailes is kvetching. “The president likes to divide people into groups,” he huffs into the phone. “He’s 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.” With that off his chest, Ailes gets back on message. “We need to get along,” he says.
It’s an unexpected plea from the Fox News CEO considering his impressive record of provocation. But recently, “getting along” has become an imperative for the conservative movement. Mitt Romney lost the Latino vote by nearly 50 points, and now almost everyone agrees that the Republican Party needs to improve with Hispanic voters to have a shot at the White House in 2016. That could also be Ailes’s last year at Fox News: His contract expires then, when he’ll be 76 years old. So if Roger Ailes wants to see a Republican win what may be his last presidential election as a major player, he’ll need to try to make conservatism more palatable to Latinos. Which, of course, he will.
“The fact is, we have a lot—Republicans have a lot more opportunity for them,” Ailes says. “If I’m going to risk my life to run over the fence to get into America, I want to win. I think Fox News will articulate that.”
Sadly for Ailes however is the fact that the audience for, and the talking heads representing, his cable news channel (Which is infamous for creating racial strife) are not quite so ready to embrace the pro-Latino love fest.
Old habits die hard, however, and some of the delicacies of the immigration debate are lost on these recent converts. Just after the election, O’Reilly chose as one of his show’s best moments a clip of himself saying: “I’m not committing a hate crime by saying ‘illegal aliens’ are just that.” Similarly, Hannity tells me: “I’ve used ‘illegals’ all these years I’ve been on TV....I don’t see it as an offensive term.”
Neither do many Fox viewers. A National Hispanic Media Coalition survey in September found “a consistent pattern whereby Fox News audiences are indeed more likely to hold negative stereotypes about Latinos.” For the average Fox News anchor—not to mention fan—immigration reform is a harder sell than Ailes and other Republican elites admit.
Okay so who is it again "trying to get everybody to hate each other?"
Yeah if Ailes thinks that firing Dick Morris and Sarah Palin will fool the brown skinned people in this country into believing that Fox News is no longer in the business of racial division he has another think coming.
For one thing as long as he allows his anchors to launch ad hominem attacks against the President, with little or no evidence to back them up, he will continue to drive away the African American and Latino community in droves, as they see this President as the future of this country, and rich old fat men like Roger Ailes as its racist, oppressive, and lily white past.
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| On the right is Mitt Romney appearing on Univision and attempting to appeal to the Latino vote. I expect Roger Ailes approach to be very similar. |
Ew...imagining fat pasty white Ailes in brown makeup! Ewww..what a moron. So he's whining about the very inclusive President to his own dwindling viewers, who already will tell you that Obama is divisive...hell, they've been using that one ever since the birther nonsense didn't work, the commie nonsense hasn't worked, and the socialist thingie is also a lie. So let's choose something that no one can 'prove' them wrong at. Please proceed, Roger.
ReplyDeleteAiles is mad b/c PBO put them in the back of the room or won't let them in at all?
ReplyDeleteAnd the wingnuts are turning away b/c they lied about Rmoney and said he was going to win! TeeHee.
Fuck fox news!
Ailes is the Jabba The Hutt of division. He's chewed away most of Fox already.
ReplyDeleteIt's opposite day for Ailes. You know they hate the "community organizer", and this is why. Obama doesn't divide people, he brings them together. He doesn't try to distract or confuse his message to gain support, he empowers people by providing them with the knowledge required to make good decisions.
ReplyDeleteThis President has organized the world. His abilities as a community organizer have placed Ailes, and Fox, in a perilous predicament. Their only defense is to mock his strengths.
I can't honestly say that I hate this development. Fox is goin' down!
Re your photos/caption for "On the right is Mitt Romney appearing on Univision and attempting to appeal to the Latino vote."
ReplyDeleteOn my iPad and on my PC Romney's skin tone is very similar. I remember the contrast being very stark. Photoshop the lefthand photo to lighten it up? (Possibly unethical)
You have to be kidding right?
DeleteGoogle "Mitt Romney on Univision" and you will find numerous pictures, some that clearly show the heavy makeup and the white spaces around his eyes and ears where it was not applied evenly.
There are also pictures of him days later where he is not nearly as brown.
No, Gryphen, you've misunderstood me. I was saying that the two photos today on http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com don't show the contrast that I saw during the election. On my PC and on my iPad, the photos on your blog today appear to be pretty much the same in tone and darkness. I wasn't saying at all that Romney hadn't painted himself up to try to appeal to our darker brothers and sisters.
DeleteOops, sorry.
DeleteI DID misunderstand your point.
OMFG! Hilarity is about to ensue at the Asylum y'all! The Washington Post Suzi Parker picked up that satire site The Daily Currant's post that Baldy was joining Al Jazeera America! Those nuts are about to SWARM that website with a Palinbot VENGEANCE!
ReplyDeleteHere's the link to the WP article....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/02/12/sarah-palins-plan-to-reach-millions-of-devoutly-religious-people-through-al-jazeera/
Best part of this Jabba the Hut Roger article....that his fat ass will no longer be around after the 2016 elections!
Sarah is learning how to speak Spanish.
ReplyDeleteShe thinks Fox Latino will hire her.
HeHe...Mediate is on the WP fuckup!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/parody-website-fools-the-washington-post-into-thinking-sarah-palin-heading-to-al-jazeera/
Who's the white guy with the shit-eating grin in the top pic?
ReplyDelete“The fact is, we have a lot—Republicans have a lot more opportunity for them,” Ailes says. “If I’m going to risk my life to run over the fence to get into America, I want to win. I think Fox News will articulate that.”
ReplyDeleteAnd it is quotes like this that prove Ailes doesn't understand Latinos. The large majority of Latinos are U.S. citizens and never risked their lives to run over the fence. Those who did are ineligible to vote. Way to stereotype, Ailes.
Every time I see that pic of Mitt with his white ears glowing against his dyed skin I laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteThe GOP, and their minions at Fox, are operating under the racist assumption that all Latinos are as uneducated, gullible, fearful and easily manipulated as their current audience.
ReplyDeleteThey believe that they can put some brown makeup on the lily white guy, hire a few token people with 'them funny Mexican names', add the word 'Latino' to a title and they will convince an entire segment of the population - that they have been maligning for years - to come over to their side of the aisle.
Yeah, good luck with that.
I know their ratings are tanking, but Fox News Latino? Good Luck with that Woo Hoo! Maybe they'll hire Sarah back so she can make her famoose fish taco's!
ReplyDeleteEvidently, even Ailes cant stand to watch that shit-pile of a cable channel called Fox News that he purportedly runs, or he'd know he's talking bullshit here.
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