Fox News President: ‘We Still Don’t Know
Anything About Obama’

post from ThinkProgress on 22 May 2012 12:00:05 PM. © ThinkProgress

Roger Ailes

In a guest lecture at Ohio University Monday night, Fox News head Roger Ailes touched on media bias, the Obama administration’s legitimacy, and whether comedian Jon Stewart would be on air without Fox News.

During the event, titled “FOX News: Past, Present and Future,” Ailes argued that US voters still don’t know anything about Barack Obama — a line commonly repeated by conservative commentators and far-right legislators:

“Tiger Woods gets hit with a 4 iron and we know every girlfriend within 12 miles. We still don’t know anything about Obama” #AilesOU
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 22, 2012

Still, Ailes criticized the New York Times, the AP, and MSNBC for being unbalanced left-leaning news sources:

“I would love for the AP to go back to being a neutral news source” ? Roger Ailes #AilesOU
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 22, 2012

He also knocked comedian Jon Stewart, whose news parody show The Daily Show often mocks Fox News:

“They’re not news programs…Jon Stewart would go out of business w/o Fox News” – Ailes, on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert #AilesOU
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 22, 2012

Ailes: Jon Stewart is a comedian. He wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist.
— Jonathan Peters (@jonathanwpeters) May 22, 2012

At Ailes’ request, no audio or video was allowed at the event. According to Wesley Lowrey, a reporter who was in attendance, “Moderator Andy Alexander asked him specifically about that, and whether it showed a lack of transparency. Ailes responded that OU asked him to speak, so OU has to play by his rules. ‘To be honest, I don’t give a damn about being here,’” Ailes said.

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