Isn't that exactly how Bush and Cheney trained the press as their lapdogs, by refusing to let certain reporters from certain organizations travel with them on their planes if they didn't like the coverage?

Maybe there was a some balance there. It seems to me the crack about Obama was more of a joke about Bush, both his difficulty with words and his prediliction to use the apparatus of government to go after political opponents.

Reading about his sick jokes makes me believe he AILS. But so does F**cks News.

I softened on Ailes after reading the article about him in the New Yorker. Seems he has moderated his views a lot recently, and is actually on friendly terms with the clintons.

I think it was all in good fun, and the Obama crack - if you think about it - is more a joke about how the right-wing's smear attempt (focus on Hossein, the school in Indonesia) was silly and laughable. And heck, he made it laughable!

All that being said, while I softened on Ailes, I ain't enamoured..;)

When you leave your Polonium-210 at home.

I can easily find these kinds of jokes uttered by those not on the far right of the political spectrum, too. Who hasn't heard a Clinton joke like that before?

And the Obama joke, as mentioned by another commenter, seems more like a jab at Bush.

Sure, the joke's against Bush, not Obama, and Ailes may be friendly with the Clintons, but where were jokes about McCain, Giuliani, Romney, or Brownback?

That joke about Obama sounds more like a dig at the Decider more than Barack.

accomplished something with his hijinks,...

Harry Reid and The Nevada Democratic Party have pulled out of the Fox Debate.

I sincerely hope that at some point in the next year-plus, Big Daddy takes the helm and steers Fox away from the starboard abyss.

And I may not just be wishing on a star - if anyone's interested, I found this article fascinating.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact1

His attack dogs were out early this morning -- calling Edwards and Democrats in general babies. Just look at the threads on sites like politico dot com to see how the effort to get Fox News out of the Dem's debate was latched onto and portrayed (the effort and the Dems) as cowardly. This is exactly what Greenwald was talking about wrt the Coulter thing.

Why is it so easy with the secret government of the USA to recall the secret government of the _____ ? Why all those fond memories flooding back bring such nostalgia . Thinking of all the photos and how they slimmed down over the years as one dear leader aged and found old friends and apparatchicks extraneous , ummm good times .

Fox News is fair and balanced. If you don't believe it, just ask them.

In all seriousness, I am very glad the Democrats are taking a stand on this one. Anyone who doesn't realize that Fox News is a mouth piece for Republican talking points is a....Republican. Now that Tony Snow is actually on the White House payroll, Brit Hume and John Gobson are left behind. Again, anyone unwilling to admit they are blatant Republican hacks are genuinely dishonest.

Fox News is the ONLY television equivelent of rightwing/leftwing radio.

The main article is good, but the comment that Ailes' wasn't being 'fair and balanced' in his jokes was unfair.

He was saying the news programs should be fair and balanced, not his jokes in the speech.

While his news channel is far from fair and that deserves criticism, the crack about his speech was unfair.

This lack of perspective bothers me, especially when it's combined with such a tin ear for comedy. So much of what War Room posts is highly valuable information about abuses of power by the current administration, the cultural fascism of the religious right, etc. Too bad we also get items like this, which attempts to take Roger Ailes to task for two utterly standard-issue late-night-talk-show jokes (I automatically imagined the Clinton joke in Jay Leno's voice as I read it). Even worse, one of the jokes, as has already been pointed out, is actually a Bush joke. Please save the bandwidth for the important items you post here, and try to get someone who has a better handle on humor if that's the best you can do in the area. Don't worry: some people just have no knack for it.

Wow! The Nevada Dems promptly fire Faux News over anti-Dem remarks; and MoveOn observes that Faux News is not a real news organization, and calls for a boycott of the GOP's right-wing disinformation channel. Not just in the same week, but in the same story!

See, that's how it's done! It's like 1918, when the Allies finally figured out how to use tanks, airplanes, artillery and infantry together in a concerted attack. Brilliant! Of course, the GOP has been doing this every day for the last fifteen years or so; but better late than never!

Let's put a dead Philippino male hooker in his bed and then make jokes about it. Call in the rest of the Dead Homo Society from the RNC and have a nice little circle jerk. Let's have a nice jolly laugh about it.

Contact and encourage all Democratic Presidential candidates to not have anything to do with Fox News or their "reporters". What a great way to marginalize this so called news organization! Ailes can see what will happen. Why so you think he's squealing so much!!! MARGINALIZE FOX NEWS!

Youy folks need to develop a sense of humor.

The reason is the Clinton's and the Bushes are two sides of the same coin. Witness the passing of NAFTA and the end of Welfare legislation then the exponential growth of corporate welfare,the ignoring of the healthcare crisis,then making middle classes into lower classes, and don't forget the Quote fron S of S M. Albright that the loss of 500,000 children in Iraq was an acceptable price to pay for the sanctions. It may have been Bush lite but it was no way to be fair and balanced in Middle East policy and as an example it was one of the fire stokers for Osama to target the 911 attacks. Blowback folks for every action there is a reaction. This I'll give to the right there are things the Clinton's did to lead to 911 they don't hate our FREEDOMS they hate our Government's Foriegn Policy and selective use of it to support our ends for the Corporate military welfare state that sell's the despots of their region the means to use against the indigenous inhabitants of their land AND Many other locations around the globe READ the books Osama has recommended KILLING HOPE BY WILLIAM BLUM AND HEGEMONY OR SURVIVAL BY CHOMSKY. Its 2007 and the answer is in the cards for all to see if the US doesn't want to go the way of the USSR the policy of Fighting the world as it lines up its poor with no hope left but to strape on a bomb and terrorize civilization we must see there are more of those being made everyday by both political parties,but I digress Clinton's, Bushes Worthless leaders of big money,big business,big government, when was the last time a government offical said to you I'm from the government and I'm here to help for most of us out here in the middle its a cop or prosecutor and we then get jailed or they say there's nothing they can do or sorry sometimes there's no JUSTICE unless of cource your connected or have political juice...........