Roger Ailes lies about Glenn Beck: 'Slaughtering' remark
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Roger Ailes lies about Glenn Beck: 'Slaughtering' remark was
about progressives in the White House
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/roger-ailes-lies-about-glenn-beck-sl
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 07:00 AM PST
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When you watch Roger Ailes on TV, you can really see why Fox
News is what it is: a compulsively mendacious propaganda
operation. Because nearly every word out of Ailes' mouth is
a lie, distortion or prevarication of some kind.
The most egregious yesterday on This Week, as John already
noted, was in defense of Glenn Beck,
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/roger-ailes-defends-glenn-becks-over-to
after Arianna Huffington -- who has already made an issue
out of Beck's rhetoric recklessness -- called Ailes out on
it:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/countdown-fearmonger-chief-we-cannot
HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it's not a question of picking
a fight. And aren't you concerned about the language that
Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the
American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as
you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered,
about who is going to be the next in the killing spree...
(CROSSTALK)
AILES: Well, he was talking about Hitler and Stalin
slaughtering people. So I think he was probably accurate.
Also, I'm a little....
HUFFINGTON: No, no, he was talking about this
administration.
AILES: I don't -- I think he speaks English. I don't
know, but I mean, I don't misinterpret any of his words. He
did say one unfortunate thing, which he apologized for, but
that happens in live television.
Well, as John pointed out, this is flatly false. Just a
couple of months ago, Beck was telling his audience that
"progressives" like President Obama and SEIU chief Andy
Stern were taking the country down the path to genocide:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-black-obama-fans-were-taught-be
Beck: I told you yesterday, buckle up your seatbelt,
America. Find the exit -- there's one here, here, and here.
Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash
landing. Because this plane is coming down, because the
pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees!
Most likely, it'll happen sometime after Christmas.
You're gonna see this economy come up -- we're already
seeing it, and now it's gonna start coming back down again.
And when you see the effects of what they're doing to the
economy, remember these words: We will survive. No -- we'll
do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these
people are not in control. They are taking you to a place to
be slaughtered!
Moreover, as Arianna pointed out, he talked last October
about the Obama administration embarking on a "killing
spree," inspired by Mao:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910230029
Spread the wealth -- hello, Mao -- that is what this is
all about. And anybody not on board, look out because you
too could be the next victim of the killing spree.
More to the point, the point of Beck's most recent big
project, his fake "documentary" touting Jonah Goldberg's
"Liberal Fascism" thesis,
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/historians-stand-liberal-fascism-and
is that the progressive movement -- represented by Hitler,
Mao, and Stalin -- is responsible for all of the genocides
of the previous century.
It's nothing new, in fact. Beck has been telling his
audiences for some time that Obama and "the progressives"
are planning all kinds of evil and nefarious activity in
pursuit of the destruction of America -- including rounding
people up into concentration camps, and marching us toward a
"new" kind of fascism.
We've put together a compendium of these various moments.
So, who do you believe? Roger Ailes, or your lying eyes?
As Simon Maloy at Media Matters points out,
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001310016
Ailes also lied about Beck supposedly apologizing for an
"unfortunate remark." Moreover, in spite of his endless
deluge of misinformation and lies,
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/memo-glenn-beck-long-youre-making-co
Beck has not once apologized for a single thing he has said
on Fox. On the few occasions when he has corrected a
falsehood, he has decidedly not apologized; instead, he has
used those occasions instead to launch fresh rhetorical
assaults on the persons about whom he's already lied.
Seems a perfect fit for Ailes, really,
http://mediamatters.org/research/200910270001
considering just who Roger Ailes is and what he's done for
years. Fox is just the final outcome of a lifetime stoking
the politics of resentment -- a politics stoked by hate,
fear, and above all, lies.
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