by Gabriel Sherman has a book coming out about
roger ailes who is the head ok box new season at a Fox News
ever since their creation now Roger Ailes has been involved in politics in
the media for a long long time
so there are a lot of accusations in this book and it is
don't get me wrong well-documented the talk to 614
different people about this book and boy did they have a lot of charges so
Fox News immediately says where and everything is
in this book is false so let's find out why do you think so they put out this
tape
these charges are false while we have not read the book
it's a good start the then how do you know their boss
okay dollar reality here is that Gabe was not provided
any direct access to roger ailes and the book was never fact-checked
with Fox News all I see
says box new didn't want to write it it must be boss
that is just about the worst reasoning I've ever heard even for Fox News
he didn't clear when Fox News so it can't be true
me I would argue the opposite pain now
when you ask Gabriel Sherman about it he says during two and a half years
reporting
I made a dozen request both in writing and in person
to speak with roger ailes about every aspect of my book
the loudest voice in the room and of course he didn't want to speak to him
because he knew that he was actually talking to all those different sources
were telling him
the reality what's happening at Fox News knowing this book was coming out Parsons
was in such a panic
that they hired they basically commission to someone else to write
another biography over roger ailes except this one
shockingly enough had access to roger ailes and was glowing
said Roger Ailes was a brilliant man who never did anything wrong
Wow see that's what Access gets you I can't believe a good reporter 11 access
like that
so what's in the book well %ah to valuations and of course
they say roger ailes was loudon
offered you know the people that work under 'em open really call that a
revelation
at the small part of it um but
at heat they actually had some really juicy stuff was in 2002 in a second one
more
quarter we have real Sherman as to how much went into this book he said
a team of Tupac Shakur spent more than 2000 hours
reading the manuscript before publication roger ailes declined every
request to discuss the reporting with me
and when your ass Random House is very legitimate publisher
they say it listen man we went through every effort to make sure the facts in
this book were accurate we stand 100 percent behind it
so the New York Times had an advance copy of the book
and this what they right about the book also details the Fox News she's
well-known attempts to influence politics
including an alleged statement by ales that he wanted to like
the next president in 2012 now what they're referring to in 2012
is that roger ailes
actually try to prepare persuade General Petraeus
to run for president and he said a so-called reporter
to go try to encourage him to run and saying that Fox News would have his back
that's a scandal that broke earlier so it's not just that he leaves appear the
republicans
he literally trying to pick me guide that would be president
okay so a that's a level detail as to how much roger ailes 12
handpick the president when it will obviously that didn't work Impreza
nobody betrays never got into the race
and President Obama no now won reelection
now we get into some serious allegations Sherman also documents an allegation
that
ill use an anti-semitic slur towards an employee in 1995
something both ales and the employee card discovery CEO
David zaslow deny to lose interest in as per back from the nineteen eighties when
they work a CNBC
apparently use a slur that
others heard and told Sherman about that involve the words little
and you and so now
his ass lab who is the CEO at another
cable company says look man we disagreed on a lot of things
but on that he didn't say it we don't know
there are a lot of people who say he did say now understand
AAU erybody in television is scared to death
roger ailes and a retribution him in his PR team do
to anyone who disagrees with that so could that be a factor could be
but you know you decide on your own and then there is one more
up peace in the book that is very damage
former employee side in the book talk to mister ales volatile temper
and domineering behavior in one anecdote a television producer
Randy Harrison told mister sherman that while negotiating her salary with Miss
trails at NBC in the nineteen eighties
he offered her an additional one hundred dollars
each week if you called agree to have sex with me
whenever I want damn
now that's the person herself saying he offered me
so doubt she could be lying of course you have think everybody
you know understand that everybody's presenting only one side of the story
Roger L says
that's not the case why you would make something like that up
all these years later I don't know there is a reason for
but that's a pretty damaging accusation
I know what's more damaging lawford it you know 20 someone who works underneath
you
or the only offered a hundred dollars extra week
okay now in all seriousness what kinda guy does that mean
when you have power over some money and you basically say to a person who works
in News
become my part-time prostitute
that's pretty heavy look if you don't work in the news business you might not
know
how much everybody in the news business a scare to roger ailes
I work in cable news for some time okay
and when I did when I was in the building I can tell you
that I'd personally got talks from people
inside the building including at MSNBC where I was for a year
where they said be careful don't say anything about roger ailes
and honestly they told me generally try to avoid Fox News
because they have a vicious PR department and they will come after you
so the guys who are supposed to be as competition
are incredibly afraid of it
now what he has on them I don't know okay
but that's why
the book by Gabrielle Sherman is
unique because most people in industry
are frayed were apparently Sherman wasn't he published a book
these are interesting accusations Fox News aspiring everything they got Adam
we'll see how it turns out up suffice it to say
although there are some dramatic revelations in the book I'm not
surprised by any of them
roger ailes is a guy who is power-hungry
we've already covered stories about how he had people who work
underneath them tracked in a local paper in upstate New York
guys would so find out that what they said at lunch
roger ailes knew about when he was in the room at all
one day one of the guys who was driving around knows that Fox new security was
following him around
in upstate New York any pull the guy over said I know your fights the
security what you doing here
and he said Roger had been following
interesting stuff man so I hope more this stuff comes out
and there when you pull back the curtain and Fox News
gets even uglier than what's on air