'Different belief system'
Ailes: Obama isn't 'very successful'
By MATT NEGRIN | 11/17/10 6:58 AM Updated: 11/17/10 8:19 AM
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Close President Obama “has not been very successful” and has a “different belief system” than most people in the country, the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, tells the Daily Beast in an interview.
“He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it,” Ailes said. “He had to be told by the French and the Germans that his socialism was too far left for them to deal with.”
Ailes claimed in the interview that Fox News hasn’t singled out Obama, and that it challenges presidents. But he adds of the White House’s current occupant, “He just has a different belief system than most Americans.”
“He’s had 3,000 press secretaries since he got into office,” Ailes said, but now, “he’s making it harder for the press to make him look good. ... When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard. They’re like teenagers in love. It’s like the old Frankie Lymon song, ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love?’ ” Finally, Ailes offered a critique of Obama’s formal remarks: “I literally never heard an Obama speech that didn’t blame Bush.”
On non-White House matters, Ailes weighed in on Fox's relative radio silence on MSNBC's decision to suspend the left-leaning anchor Keith Olbermann for donating to the campaigns of three Democrats, even though many had been critical of Fox News hosts' contributions.
“If they went to get the guy, they were going about it fairly stupidly,” Ailes said. “It isn’t like we don’t know the guy supports left-wingers.”
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Ha ha ha - classic quotes.
