Friday, October 23, 2009

SLURP!

Mike Allen gives the reach-arounds -- while wondering why on earth anyone would suspect FoxNews of right-wing bias.

Why oh why indeed? Lifted utterly and completely from here.

Roger Ailes for president in 2012?

Roger Ailes In Playbook today, Mike Allen reports that “friends and associates” are encouraging Fox News CEO Roger Ailes to run for president in 2012:

“Ailes knows how to frame an issue better anybody and that’s what we need now,” says one Ailes friend who is encouraging him to run. Frank Luntz, for one, tells Playbook that Ailes could be a force if does it. “I have known Roger Ailes for 29 years,” says Luntz. “No one knows how to win better than Roger.”


No reason to suspect media bias at all. Not. one. reason.

Alex Cook at Gawker reaches Pareene level accuracy with this pithy summary of what this laughable prospect is really all about and how only a complete tool like Mike Allen could fall for it and push the notion:

But here's the joke: The White House's decision to delegitimize Fox News isn't intended to delegitimize Fox News. It is intended to elevate them into a political force, to fill the vacuum in the GOP leadership. By spinning a "White House v. Fox News" narrative, they've managed to temporarily supersede the "White House v. GOP" narrative, thereby making Fox News the de facto political opposition. Which is what both sides want: Fox News for money and viewers, and the White House because they like the idea of having an opposition that is noxious, untruthful, combative, angry, emotionally unstable, and subject to an unyielding financial incentive to be ever moreso. In that meta-world of jujitsu message wars—if you were trapped, Tron-like, inside Allen's foul mind—an Ailes candidacy makes perfect sense.


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