{"id":9085,"date":"2013-02-12T03:40:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2013-02-25T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:28:02","slug":"fox-news-ceo-roger-ailes-thinks-latinos-are-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9085","title":{"rendered":"Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Thinks Latinos Are Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The president likes to divide people into groups. 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. We need to get along.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the first quote in a New Republic article<\/a> profiling Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and his latest project to deceive and exploit America’s growing Latino community. And it frames the the rest of the article perfectly by illustrating just how delusional Ailes is if he thinks people are going to buy his Rodney King act.<\/p>\n

\"RogerRoger Ailes is, without peer, the most divisive media figure in America. His stewardship of Fox News brought us Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin. He presides over a ship of fools, liars, and racists who rip apart the fabric of this diverse nation, and now he wants us to believe our literally multiracial president is the source of our division and that Ailes genuinely wants us all to get along?<\/p>\n

The truth is that Ailes has belatedly realized that the patently offensive portrayal of Latinos as illegal, drug-using, job-stealing, criminals, has had a negative effect on both the Republican Party’s electoral prospects and the network’s bottom line. So not long ago he added a web page to the Fox News site aimed at pandering to this audience<\/a> while he continued to insult them daily on Fox News. The obvious contradiction was apparent in how the two entities covered the same story.<\/p>\n

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Note the Latino site’s adorable child draped in an American flag, and the Fox Nation site’s “illegals”<\/em> handcuffed on the ground. That editorial disparity is evidence of Ailes’ intent to manipulate people for whom he clearly has no respect. And manipulation is at the core of the next quote:<\/p>\n

“The fact is, we have a lot \u2014 Republicans have a lot more opportunity for them<\/em>. If I\u2019m 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice how Ailes started to say “we have a lot,”<\/em> then switched to “Republicans have a lot,”<\/em> having caught himself nearly admitting that Fox is indeed the Republican network. And his assertion that Fox will articulate a message that they want the people they characterize as invading moochers to be more successful in that pursuit is ludicrous. Ailes isn’t the least bit interested in moderating the rhetoric on immigration, despite his remarks to the New Republic:<\/p>\n

“Republicans haven\u2019t used the right language. They keep talking about illegal immigration. I think the word \u2018illegal immigration\u2019 is a false name. You are talking about two separate issues. One is sovereignty….Immigration is a separate issue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is just gibberish. It’s Ailes’ way of justifying a position that discriminates and insults Latinos and ignores entirely that his network is the only major news enterprise that still regularly calls undocumented workers “illegals.”<\/em> If he honestly objected to the term he could simply instruct his employees to discontinue the use of it. He hasn’t done that because he still regards them as illegals and he knows that his audience does as well. At least the Fox News audience. Now he also has to worry about the Fox News Latino audience and, according to the New Republic, he persists in clinging to the demonstrably false notion that there is no difference in the way they handle their reporting.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s an assumption that Fox News Latino is softer on Latinos than Fox News in general. That\u2019s ridiculous.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Ailes to support that view he would have to explain all the documented examples<\/a> of Fox News Latino reporting stories in a relatively fair manner while the Fox mothership was blatantly disparaging and downright racist.<\/p>\n

Ailes may have intended this New Republic piece to be a bit of PR to advance his campaign for Latino dollars and votes, but his own words betray the disrespect he has for the Latino community. And if he thinks he can fool them into thinking that his transparently self-serving Fox News Latino web site absolves him of any responsibility for the hatred oozing from the rest of his news empire, he really doesn’t understand people, and he will be sorely disappointed when he discovers that they are not as stupid as he thinks they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The president likes to divide people into groups. 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. We need to get along.” That’s the first quote in a New Republic article profiling Fox News CEO Roger Ailes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fox News CEO Roger Ailes Thinks Latinos Are Idiots http:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2mx","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684],"tags":[527,33,1054,143],"class_list":["post-9085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-fox-news-latino","tag-roger-ailes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2mx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4501,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4501","url_meta":{"origin":9085,"position":0},"title":"Understatement Of The Year: Sarah Palin Is An Idiot","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/23\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In an article published in New York Magazine, Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News is reported to have told colleagues that he thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot and unhelpful to the conservative movement. 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