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Why is Ailes’ head on the block?

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So Roger Ailes, an evil genius whose genius and whose evil can be topped by few (other than Dick Cheney), is being escorted out of Fox News. The cover story is that Ailes’ departure (which sounds like a firing) has something to do with sexual harassment. Horse. Wash. The right-wing money and billionaire money behind Fox News couldn’t care less about a little old sexual harassment case as long as Ailes delivers what his bosses want. Corporations routinely buy their way out of sexual harassment cases. It’s just a cost of doing business. Ailes is a pig, and everyone always has known that Ailes is a pig. Something else is behind his firing. What might that be?

We can only speculate and hope for future leaks. But my guess is that the vast right-wing conspiracy is plenty pissed off about what has been happening. Roger Ailes’ job was to help make money for his billionaire owners, to keep the clueless, white, right-wing voters angry, deceived, and paranoid, and to keep them under control. That’s where Ailes failed spectacularly. He grew Fox News. He kept the white idiocracy inflamed and angry. But he failed to control them. Failing to control them not only allowed Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, it also has threatened the very future of the Republican Party and broke the puppet strings that tie the white idiocracy to the billionaires who expect, for their investment, to set the agenda and get total political control of the country through a preferably legal election. They must be incredibly pissed off, because this election may well cost the right-wing elite not only the White House for another eight years but also control of Congress as well. They stand to lose control of the Supreme Court pretty much forever.

But right-wing billionaires always have a plan. Fox News’ 24/7 paranoia-mongering, hate-mongering, and keeping its target audience completely distracted and deceived is absolutely critical to the right-wing plan, whatever that plan is. That plan may now be starting to unfold, with the firing of Ailes as one of the first steps.

In the coming days and weeks, we need to pay careful attention to changes at Fox News. As usual, pay no attention to what they’ll say about Ailes’ departure and the selection of his replacement. That will be a lie and a cover story, as always. Rather, pay attention to what they do, while deconstructing their cover stories for clues to what they’re trying to distract us from. Changes at Fox News may be the first real clues we get to how the right-wing elite are retooling for a new strategy, now that the old has blown up in their ugly faces.


Update, July 30, 2016: In an interview with Slate magazine, Gabriel Sherman, who wrote an unauthorized biography of Roger Ailes, talks about what he thinks is going on inside Fox news. Here’s the link and a quote: “My sense is that they are not going to just rip the place up before November. But I think they will be watching the political landscape in America as the election unfolds. They have people right now looking at how they are going to reposition this network for a post-2016 landscape.”

One Comment

  1. Henry wrote:

    Wow, a great bit of insight. I’ll try and use this info as an argument point @ the Friday coffee

    Monday, July 25, 2016 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

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