Former Fox News star Bill O’Reilly said his disgraced former boss Roger Ailes died from experiencing “hatred” in a guest obit published in USA Today on Friday. Ailes, who died on Thursday, left Fox News last summer after multiple women came forward with sexual harassment allegations. O’Reilly was fired last month because of similar allegations. Both men have denied all claims. “The list of legendary Americans whom Roger helped is long and impressive. From Ronald Reagan to George Bush, the elder, to Rush Limbaugh, Ailes gave them all blunt advice that led them to success,” O’Reilly wrote.
- 5/19/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Just hours after Roger Ailes’ death was confirmed Thursday, recently ousted Fox News host Bill O’Reilly penned a tribute to his onetime boss, defending Ailes against the backlash he received in life.
“The list of legendary Americans whom Roger helped is long and impressive,” O’Reilly wrote in a USA Today op-ed. “From Ronald Reagan to George Bush, the elder, to Rush Limbaugh, Ailes gave them all blunt advice that led them to success. And it was that bluntness that made his life difficult, as enemies accumulated — some armed with a brutal hatred.”
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“The list of legendary Americans whom Roger helped is long and impressive,” O’Reilly wrote in a USA Today op-ed. “From Ronald Reagan to George Bush, the elder, to Rush Limbaugh, Ailes gave them all blunt advice that led them to success. And it was that bluntness that made his life difficult, as enemies accumulated — some armed with a brutal hatred.”
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- 5/19/2017
- TVLine.com
Media are calling it an all-out book war. Vanity Fair’s website today published an excerpt from the March 19th biography Roger Ailes: Off Camera by Zev Chafets about the Fox News Channel lightning rod for media and political controversy. But the excerpt was devoid of much punch except for a number of insulting one-liners uttered by the 72-year-old Roger Ailes. But he stayed respectful of boss Rupert Murdoch and explained why their relationship works: because it’s profitable. (“Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn’t matter. Our relationship isn’t about love—it’s about arithmetic. Survival means hitting your numbers. I’ve met or exceeded mine in 56 straight quarters. The reason is: I treat Rupert’s money like it is mine.”) Expected this May but apparently now delayed is New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice In The Room:...
- 3/6/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Rory O'Malley is set to join his old Book of Mormon buddy Josh Gad on his midseason sitcom 1600 Penn. Gad plays the son of the president, and Rory will play a White House guide he competes with to give better tours. Basically, he's playing Kenneth from 30 Rock.
Mitt Romney will have a favorite new movie soon, with Family Circus forging ahead to an idyllic land of stay at home moms and children who take amazing detours to get ahead in life.
BBC Radio 1 host Nick Grimshaw logs onto Grindr with fake pictures to play gags on nearby people. These are the people you learn to hate on Grindr.
Shailene Woodley is indeed going to play Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel, but it's being called a very small part in the second movie, which will no doubt expand in the third.
When headline writers hate their jobs. h/t...
Mitt Romney will have a favorite new movie soon, with Family Circus forging ahead to an idyllic land of stay at home moms and children who take amazing detours to get ahead in life.
BBC Radio 1 host Nick Grimshaw logs onto Grindr with fake pictures to play gags on nearby people. These are the people you learn to hate on Grindr.
Shailene Woodley is indeed going to play Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man sequel, but it's being called a very small part in the second movie, which will no doubt expand in the third.
When headline writers hate their jobs. h/t...
- 10/21/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Bill Kristol criticized the Fox News host's Egypt coverage, and Rich Lowry and others are piling on. But the condemnations are unlikely to spread to the Gop mainstream-and favorites like Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart are two reasons why.
Is the right turning against Glenn Beck?
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This week in Commentary, Peter Wehner became the latest conservative commentator to call out the Fox News host's absurd ramblings. He joined Bill Kristol, who criticized Beck's coverage of the uprising in Egypt, Rich Lowry, who piled on, and Matthew Continetti, who called Beck's oeuvre "nonsense" last summer.
That brings us to their fellow conservative Jennifer Rubin, who writes for The Washington Post. "What should thoughtful conservatives do? I've said it before, but it is especially relevant here: Police their own side," she advised this week. "Rather than reflexively rising...
Is the right turning against Glenn Beck?
Related story on The Daily Beast: Shafik Gabr: What Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Most
This week in Commentary, Peter Wehner became the latest conservative commentator to call out the Fox News host's absurd ramblings. He joined Bill Kristol, who criticized Beck's coverage of the uprising in Egypt, Rich Lowry, who piled on, and Matthew Continetti, who called Beck's oeuvre "nonsense" last summer.
That brings us to their fellow conservative Jennifer Rubin, who writes for The Washington Post. "What should thoughtful conservatives do? I've said it before, but it is especially relevant here: Police their own side," she advised this week. "Rather than reflexively rising...
- 2/25/2011
- by Conor Friedersdorf
- The Daily Beast
His anger drove his ratings, but also drove his bosses crazy. Howard Kurtz on how the newly unemployed MSNBC star's indignation fueled his rise and fall.
When Keith Olbermann launched his MSNBC program eight years ago, he attempted to assemble a witty, fast-paced, post-ironic look at the day's news. Then he got angry.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis
As his indignation swelled-fueled by George W. Bush, the Republicans, the Iraq war and Fox News-his ratings ballooned as well. But at times the anger would metastasize into self-righteous fury, producing bitter confrontations with his network bosses-who treasured Olbermann's success but were increasingly worn out by the histrionics.
Olbermann's abrupt departure Friday demonstrated, in a very real sense, the limits of anger as a tool of television. The same fervor that draws cheers from partisan viewers almost invariably leads to clashes with the people who sign the checks,...
When Keith Olbermann launched his MSNBC program eight years ago, he attempted to assemble a witty, fast-paced, post-ironic look at the day's news. Then he got angry.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis
As his indignation swelled-fueled by George W. Bush, the Republicans, the Iraq war and Fox News-his ratings ballooned as well. But at times the anger would metastasize into self-righteous fury, producing bitter confrontations with his network bosses-who treasured Olbermann's success but were increasingly worn out by the histrionics.
Olbermann's abrupt departure Friday demonstrated, in a very real sense, the limits of anger as a tool of television. The same fervor that draws cheers from partisan viewers almost invariably leads to clashes with the people who sign the checks,...
- 1/24/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
MSNBC's liberal crusader abruptly resigned on air Friday, ending a provocative eight-year run. Howard Kurtz on Olbermann's career highlights and his clashes with network brass. Plus, watch Olbermann's signoff below and seven memorable Keith Olbermann videos.
Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis
The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O'Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.
Olbermann said he had been "told that this is the last edition of your show" and thanked his audience, saying: "My gratitude to you is boundless." He also thanked a list of people who have worked with him, notably excluding MSNBC President Phil Griffin,...
Keith Olbermann, the liberal crusader whose combative style put him increasingly at odds with his network bosses, resigned abruptly from MSNBC Friday.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis
The cable channel confirmed his unexpected departure as Olbermann was rather calmly announcing the demise of Countdown after an eight-year run that included a bitter feud with Bill O'Reilly, fiery denunciations of Republicans and occasional acknowledgements that he had gone too far.
Olbermann said he had been "told that this is the last edition of your show" and thanked his audience, saying: "My gratitude to you is boundless." He also thanked a list of people who have worked with him, notably excluding MSNBC President Phil Griffin,...
- 1/22/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
The two great pillars of the conservative establishment are Roger Ailes and Rush Limbaugh. In some sense, they are the same person: broadcast hacks with a taste for trouble-making and politics, both with substantial intelligences colored by grandiosity and militant hostilities. Together they have forged the modern conservative sensibility—bellicose, loquacious, conspiratorial—as well as their own individual conservative-themed media empires. It should not be a surprise that they are natural adversaries. Both vastly rich and believing they have the power of the word of God (which in some sense, with almost absolute media control, they do), Ailes and Limbaugh are each about as larger-than-life as you can become. The only difference, really, is that Limbaugh’s voice is his own, and Ailes (who stepped back from the camera—the one move in his career he seems to regret) must speak through the proxy heads he controls. Continue Reading at Newser.
- 6/30/2010
- Vanity Fair
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Q: Am I wrong or does the latest episode of Nip/Tuck send a very negative representation of the gay community, and the idea of gay marriage and adoption? – Dan, Rochester NY
A: A negative representation of the gay community just because they do an episode about an adoptive boy who gets plastic surgery so he’ll look more like his father so it’ll be more of a turn-on for the crowds of rich gay men who watch them perform in their live incest sex show?
Nip/Tuck's disturbing chip off the old block
Well, okay, but that’s just one gay storyline of this season, right? It’s not like they also did an explicit storyline about brutal prison rape, or one where a wildly promiscuous...
Q: Am I wrong or does the latest episode of Nip/Tuck send a very negative representation of the gay community, and the idea of gay marriage and adoption? – Dan, Rochester NY
A: A negative representation of the gay community just because they do an episode about an adoptive boy who gets plastic surgery so he’ll look more like his father so it’ll be more of a turn-on for the crowds of rich gay men who watch them perform in their live incest sex show?
Nip/Tuck's disturbing chip off the old block
Well, okay, but that’s just one gay storyline of this season, right? It’s not like they also did an explicit storyline about brutal prison rape, or one where a wildly promiscuous...
- 1/4/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
New York -- Former Fox News Channel analyst and White House press secretary Tony Snow died Saturday in Washington, D.C. He was 53.
Snow was a Fox News Channel host and syndicated columnist when he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005, eventually having his colon removed and undergoing chemotherapy. The cancer went into remission, and Snow became President Bush's press secretary, where he worked until September 2007.
The cancer returned soon afterward, this time to his liver and abdomen. But Snow said he left the White House not because of his illness but instead to earn a living for his family. He joined CNN in April as an analyst but almost immediately was been hospitalized in Washington State for exhaustion.
Snow had been a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush, the first host of "Fox News Sunday," a radio talk-show host and a syndicated newspaper columnist. He also filled in occasionally for Rush Limbaugh on his radio talk show.
"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend, Tony Snow," said President George W. Bush in a statement released Saturday from Camp David. "The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father, and America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character."
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes had known Snow in Washington, and then when it came time to start the news channel, the commentator was a natural.
"I always thought he was a great communicator, and what people don't know about Tony is that he was a genuine intellectual. He had traveled, he understood a lot about foreign policy, he was a writer," Ailes said on Fox News on Saturday. "He was a very deep thinker. On top of that, he played in a rock band, and sometimes did things you didn't expect of him. So he was a renaissance man in a sense."
The Cincinnati native began writing editorials for newspapers in the South after his graduation from Davidson College in 1977 and became editorial page editor of the Washington Times in 1997. He became a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush in 1991 but later returned to journalism as a syndicated columnist and to Fox News in the mid-1990s. He hosted "Fox News Sunday," which was Fox News' first program, from 1996-2003.
"This is not only a death in the family to us at Fox, it's also a death in the family to Fox viewers," said the current host, Chris Wallace, on the channel Saturday morning.
As a columnist, radio and TV host, there was no doubt about his conservative beliefs. But he also was charming and a natural for TV, something that served him well in broadcasting as well as in his later job as press secretary.
"He demonstrated that the political process does not have to be mean and ugly," former President George H.W. Bush said on "Fox & Friends" on Saturday morning. "I think people respected that."
Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle remembered Saturday that in an environment where reporters go into the White House press room "throwing rocks at the press secretary," Snow was not only not cowed behind the podium but willing to joust with reporters.
"For him, it was like a salon where you were discussing policies and ideas and coming to an understanding rather than battling with them over some fact," Angle said. He said Snow was one of the best press secretaries ever.
Snow worked at CNN for two stints, once before coming Fox News when he was a substitute co-host of "Crossfire" and then again beginning in April as a political contributor.
"He loved this country and its people and was looking forward to getting out into America to listen to their stories and share them with the rest of us," CNN president Jon Klein said. "It is all of our loss that he never got the chance to do so."
Born Robert Anthony Snow on June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., he was raised in Cincinnati. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Jill Ellen Walker, and three children.
Snow was a Fox News Channel host and syndicated columnist when he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005, eventually having his colon removed and undergoing chemotherapy. The cancer went into remission, and Snow became President Bush's press secretary, where he worked until September 2007.
The cancer returned soon afterward, this time to his liver and abdomen. But Snow said he left the White House not because of his illness but instead to earn a living for his family. He joined CNN in April as an analyst but almost immediately was been hospitalized in Washington State for exhaustion.
Snow had been a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush, the first host of "Fox News Sunday," a radio talk-show host and a syndicated newspaper columnist. He also filled in occasionally for Rush Limbaugh on his radio talk show.
"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend, Tony Snow," said President George W. Bush in a statement released Saturday from Camp David. "The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father, and America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character."
Fox News chairman Roger Ailes had known Snow in Washington, and then when it came time to start the news channel, the commentator was a natural.
"I always thought he was a great communicator, and what people don't know about Tony is that he was a genuine intellectual. He had traveled, he understood a lot about foreign policy, he was a writer," Ailes said on Fox News on Saturday. "He was a very deep thinker. On top of that, he played in a rock band, and sometimes did things you didn't expect of him. So he was a renaissance man in a sense."
The Cincinnati native began writing editorials for newspapers in the South after his graduation from Davidson College in 1977 and became editorial page editor of the Washington Times in 1997. He became a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush in 1991 but later returned to journalism as a syndicated columnist and to Fox News in the mid-1990s. He hosted "Fox News Sunday," which was Fox News' first program, from 1996-2003.
"This is not only a death in the family to us at Fox, it's also a death in the family to Fox viewers," said the current host, Chris Wallace, on the channel Saturday morning.
As a columnist, radio and TV host, there was no doubt about his conservative beliefs. But he also was charming and a natural for TV, something that served him well in broadcasting as well as in his later job as press secretary.
"He demonstrated that the political process does not have to be mean and ugly," former President George H.W. Bush said on "Fox & Friends" on Saturday morning. "I think people respected that."
Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle remembered Saturday that in an environment where reporters go into the White House press room "throwing rocks at the press secretary," Snow was not only not cowed behind the podium but willing to joust with reporters.
"For him, it was like a salon where you were discussing policies and ideas and coming to an understanding rather than battling with them over some fact," Angle said. He said Snow was one of the best press secretaries ever.
Snow worked at CNN for two stints, once before coming Fox News when he was a substitute co-host of "Crossfire" and then again beginning in April as a political contributor.
"He loved this country and its people and was looking forward to getting out into America to listen to their stories and share them with the rest of us," CNN president Jon Klein said. "It is all of our loss that he never got the chance to do so."
Born Robert Anthony Snow on June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., he was raised in Cincinnati. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Jill Ellen Walker, and three children.
- 7/13/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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