Fox News head and living Cthulu Roger Ailes forwarded to all his underlings some crazy chain emails from the Fox Research department saying George Soros, as a 14-year-old Jew who had been hidden by a Christian family but did not have the grace to stay in the attic, was a total Nazi collaborator who ate Jewish babies and washed them down with communion wine. The one-word response from Bill O'Reilly's producer? "Ugly." "So do you want a job or not?" snitted Ailes, sort of, or more properly: "Do you think you guys will use it or should I give it to someone else?" O'Reilly passed, because Roger Ailes's cherished gotcha about the liberal and big-spending billionaire Soros being a 14-year-old who shoved Jews into ovens was
I think he's created a persona that probably incorporates some features of his actual personality and beliefs, but which he has selectively exaggerated parts of, because it turns out that it pays really fucking well.
Now, because it has been so successful, the irrational, hate-mongering persona has largely supplanted his actual personality (at least in public). He can't substantially change that without seeing a huge drop in income, but every so often something comes along that is so fucking stupid that whatever is left of his original personality blurts something out.
Note 1: There's a good chance the original O'Rly personality was an asshole, too; just not maybe quite as big an asshole.
Note 2: If I'm reading this right, in this particular case, the "tip" was not turned down by Billo, but by his producer. One of the things producers are supposed to do is to keep you from looking like an idiot. Props to his producer fo doing his or her job.
If you can believe it, it's actually worse than that.
According to the "60 Minutes" piece and Mr. Soros' autobiography, he risked his own life to warn fellow Jews about deportation.
I mean, it would have been one thing if a 14-year-old boy during WW II did nothing. I could understand that. But he went out there and tried to help people at considerable personal peril.
Before I got kicked off NewsBusters for telling the truth, several times I pointed out these lies to the right wing cretins.
I keep waiting for BillO, who does have an IQ north of 100, to tell Ailes to fuck off, and take a job that doesn't cause him to wrinkle his nose every time he cashes a paycheck.
In my professional opinion, the guy is selling his soul for way too little.
I think he's created a persona that probably incorporates some features of his actual personality and beliefs, but which he has selectively exaggerated parts of, because it turns out that it pays really fucking well.
Now, because it has been so successful, the irrational, hate-mongering persona has largely supplanted his actual personality (at least in public). He can't substantially change that without seeing a huge drop in income, but every so often something comes along that is so fucking stupid that whatever is left of his original personality blurts something out.
Note 1: There's a good chance the original O'Rly personality was an asshole, too; just not maybe quite as big an asshole.
Note 2: If I'm reading this right, in this particular case, the "tip" was not turned down by Billo, but by his producer. One of the things producers are supposed to do is to keep you from looking like an idiot. Props to his producer fo doing his or her job.
CK:
Curses! You beat me to it! Again!
If you can believe it, it's actually worse than that.
According to the "60 Minutes" piece and Mr. Soros' autobiography, he risked his own life to warn fellow Jews about deportation.
I mean, it would have been one thing if a 14-year-old boy during WW II did nothing. I could understand that. But he went out there and tried to help people at considerable personal peril.
Before I got kicked off NewsBusters for telling the truth, several times I pointed out these lies to the right wing cretins.
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Locutus of Bore?
I thought that was Colbert&#039;s schtick.
Schroedinger&#039;s Billo.
Well, he probably would have asked for a chalkboard to outline how the chain worked.
Cheech Marin is Master of Ceremonies.
The Catholic Church
I keep waiting for BillO, who does have an IQ north of 100, to tell Ailes to fuck off, and take a job that doesn&#039;t cause him to wrinkle his nose every time he cashes a paycheck.
In my professional opinion, the guy is selling his soul for way too little.
Yeah, but Razi shooting down disobedient flying nuns with an 8.8cm flak is still funny, right?
No kidding...there are some things that even the pure embodiment of evil won&#039;t do.
Tom&aacute;s de Torquemada?
That&#039;s what they get when they sally forth over an open field.