Obama’s the one who never worked a day in his life…He never earned a penny that wasn’t public money. How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time. He’s lazy, but the media won’t report that.
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Nobody’s ever going to run me out of any place that I don’t want to leave.
‘That’s my man. I love him. I talk to him all the time’
Earlier this week Russell Simmons talked with Fox News chairman and co-founder Roger Ailes on Simmons’ GlobalGrind.com.
more, plus video, here.
I don’t consider it a media institution…It’s a political institution that [Fox News Chief Executive Roger] Ailes created after Obama came into office…We’re here to counter their lies and misinformation.
Media Matters’ founder David Brock
more, here.
Beck is often dismissed as an “entertainer”—the Rush Limbaugh excuse, calculated to make critics out to be stuffed shirts who can’t take a joke. Beck is nobody’s puppet, but he does have masters: Fox News and the News Corporation. Their respective chief executive officers, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, are the responsible—which is to say, irresponsible—parties. In an interview last week, Ailes had this to say about his National Public Radio counterparts: “They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism.” No wonder that, for Beck, there are no strings attached. There don’t have to be.
Hendrik Hertzberg, from his recent “Puppetry”
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