SO, ROGER AILES HAS PASSED AWAY, OF COURSE HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF
FOX NEWS, HELPED NIXON, GEORGE HW BUSH, RONALD REAGAN, GEORGE
W. BUSH ALL GET ELECTED.
TO SOME DEGREE, DONALD TRUMP AS WELL.
CERTAINLY PROMOTED HIM FOR FREE OVER AND OVER AGAIN ON FOX
NEWS, AND WAS A SERIOUS SERIAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT OR, PAID
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OUT TO HIS VICTIMS, DOZENS OF VICTIMS
NEVER GOT PAID IN THE FIRST PLACE.
HE HAD BEEN DOING THAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT FROM THE 1960S,
ALL THE WAY TO LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS EXPOSED.
THIS IS NOT HOW FOX NEWS HOSTS REMEMBER HIM.
INITIALLY SOME OF THE WEEPING ON AIR.
ROGER BELIEVED IN HARD WORK.
HE RAN FOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.
MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE WOULD SAY THAT HE SAVED THIS COUNTRY
BY STARTING THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL.
ROGER GAVE EVERYTHING ONE OF US ON THIS COUCH AND OPPORTUNITY.
HE PUT FOOD ON OUR TABLE.
AND YOU KNOW, HE WENT OUT IN SUCH A SAD WAY, BUT WHO
DOESN'T HAVE SINS?
WE ALL HAVE OUR CROSS TO BEAR, AND ROGER I WILL LOVE YOU
FOREVER.
YOU GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY, AND I WILL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL.
I KNOW I WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THIS JOB IF IT WERE NOT FOR YOU.
AND I'LL BE REST IN PEACE, ROGER, AND I HOPE YOU ARE
AT PEACE.
HE WAS THERE FOR ME WHEN I WENT THROUGH SOME REALLY HARD TIMES.
JANICE, ARE YOU OKAY?
I WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT THAT MAN, AND WHEN I WAS DIAGNOSED
WITH MS HE GOT ON THE PHONE AND SAID, WHATEVER WE CAN DO FOR
YOUR FAMILY, BECAUSE WE WERE ALL PART OF A FAMILY, AND, YOU KNOW,
HE WAS A PRESENCE, AND HE WILL BE MISSED ON THIS CHANNEL.
HE WILL BE MISSED.
WE WERE ALL PART OF A FAMILY.
WELL, I WOULDN'T SAY YOU ALL WERE.
SO, LOOK, I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY KNEW THE GUY, AND IF I KNEW THE
GUY, EVEN IF HE HAD DONE SOME BAD THINGS, BUT HE WAS GREAT TO
ME, I WOULD PROBABLY SAY THAT ABOUT HIM, BUT WE DON'T KNOW HIM
PERSONALLY, AND HE NEVER DID ANY OF US ANY FAVORS AS A COUNTRY.
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS THE ABOMINATION HE CREATED AT FOX
NEWS.
HOW HE STOLE AT LEAST THE GEORGE W.
BUSH ELECTION ON ELECTION NIGHT.
LET ALONE THE HELP THAT HE GAVE TO CONSERVATIVES IN
PROMOTING NOT JUST THEIR CONSERVATIVE IDEALS, BUT
BIGOTRY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AND WE KNOW, LIKE I SAID,
THE DOZENS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASES.
SO, YOU TELL US THAT HE'S BEEN HELPFUL TO YOU, AND I
BELIEVE THAT AND I UNDERSTAND THAT'S WHY YOU ARE UPSET,
BUT I BELIEVE THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT HE BROUGHT IN
THAT LOOKED JUST LIKE YOU, THAT HE DID NOT HAVE AN
INTENTION OF MAKING PART OF THE FAMILY.
AND IT IS DOCKETED AND PROVEN, AND THAT'S WHY THE
SETTLEMENTS WERE PAID, HE HAD THE INTENTION TO SEXUALLY HARASS
THEM, AND HOPEFULLY COERCE THEM INTO SLEEPING WITH HIM.
SO, IF THAT IS A GUY WHO IS PART OF YOUR FAMILY, I DON'T
THINK THAT'S THE GUY TO CELEBRATE.
SO, MAYBE YOU GUYS WERE LUCKY, AND I ASSUME BY YOUR REACTION
THAT YOU WERE, THAT HE NEVER GOT AROUND TO SEXUALLY HARASSING
YOU, BUT THERE WAS A WOMAN TO SET SEAT, NAMED GRETCHEN
CARLSON, WHO WON $20 MILLION BECAUSE OF HOW MUCH SHE
WANTED TO SLEEP WITH HER, HOW MUCH HE THREATENED HER, AND
HOW HE EVENTUALLY REMOVED HER FROM AIR BECAUSE SHE WOULD
NOT GIVE IN TO HIS DEMANDS TO PLEASURE HIM SEXUALLY.
SO, YOU'LL EXCUSE ME IF I'M NOT CRYING ALONG WITH YOU.
SO, NOW, LET ME GIVE YOU THE REACTIONS OF OTHER HOSTS
AND CONSERVATIVES.
BRET BAIER SAYS, "LOVE AND PRAYERS TO BETH AND ZACH.
RIP ROGER, YOU CHANGED TELEVISION AS WE KNOW IT."
THAT IS RELATIVELY BENIGN, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
HE IS OBVIOUSLY SAYING LOVE TO ROGER AILES'S FAMILY, I
HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT.
THEN YOU GO TO GERALDO RIVERA, "OH MY GOD ROGER AILES IS
GONE, DEVASTATING NEWS, AND ERIKA AND I SEND OUR
CONDOLENCES TO BETH AND ZACH.
HE WAS A GREAT MAN."
NOW, GERALDO DEFENDED ROGER AILES AT
THE BEGINNING OF THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS, AND THEN
REALIZED LATER THAT HE WAS WRONG, AND CAME OUT AND
SAID THAT HE WAS A COMPLICATED MAN.
SO POORLY RUNNING AROUND WITH YOUR PANTS OFF CHASING
SOMEONE AROUND YOUR OFFICE ON THE MICHAEL DOUGLAS SHOW
MAKES YOU COMPLICATED.
DEATH DOES NOT GIVE YOU REDEMPTION.
BRIT HUME SAYS, "TERRIBLY SAD NEWS."
SEAN HANNITY SAYS, "TODAY AMERICA LOST ONE OF ITS
GREAT ADRIATIC WARRIORS, ROGER AILES.
FOR DECADES, ROGER AILES HAS IMPACTED AMERICAN POLITICS
AND ME."
IT IS TRUE THAT HE HAS IMPACTED IT, BUT I WOULD ARGUE AND
HAVE ARGUED HERE TODAY, FOR THE WORST.
LAURA INGRAHAM, WHO HAS GUEST HOSTED ON FOX NEWS SAYS,
"ROGER AILES FOUNDED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MEDIA
OUTLETS IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
I WILL MISS HIS FRIENDSHIP DEARLY.
RIP."
AGAIN, I GUESS LAURA WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES, OTHERS DID
NOT MISS HIS FRIENDSHIP AT ALL.
BRENT BOZELL, ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE SAYS, WOULD BE
GOOD ROGER DID FOR AMERICA IS IMMEASURABLE, MAY HE REST
IN PEACE."
THAT IS NOT AN OF NOXIOUS COMMENT, JUST NOT ONE I
AGREE WITH.
GEORGE W.
BUSH SAID, BUT HE WASN'T PERFECT, BUT ROGER AILES
WAS MY FRIEND AND I LOVED HIM.
NOT SURE I WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT WITHOUT HIS GREAT
TALENT.
REST IN PEACE."
NOW, GEORGE BUSH, I'VE GOT MIXED FEELINGS ON GEORGE HW BUSH,
BUT HE DID NOT RUN CLEAN CAMPAIGNS.
HE RAN IN GREATLY DIRTY CAMPAIGNS, INCLUDING THE WILLIE
HORTON AD, AND AILES HELPED HIM RUN THOSE CAMPAIGNS, SO MAYBE HE
IS RIGHT THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT WITHOUT HIM.
WHAT HIS SON HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT WITHOUT ROGER ALES EITHER?
PROBABLY NOT.
WE APPRECIATE YOU PUTTING GEORGE BUSCH INTO OFFICE BY CALLING THE
ELECTION, TO PUT THIS A COMPETENT FOOL INTO OFFICE,
SO THAT YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS COULD GET TAX CUTS AND
DEREGULATION THAT YOU WANTED, BUT IT COST THE REST OF US
A HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PRICE.
FINALLY, BACK TO SEAN HANNITY, HE SAYS, "HIS ENDLESS
ENTHUSIASM, ENERGY, WHICH, HUMOR AND RAW INSTINCTIVE
INTELLIGENCE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED."
PRETTY SURE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT FIND ROGER AILES FUNNY,
INCLUDING THE DOZENS OF WOMEN THAT HE SAID, EITHER YOU MUST
PLEASURE ME OR I WILL FIRE YOU AND AND YOUR CAREER.
THEY DID NOT FIND THAT THAT FUNNY.
ALL RIGHT, AND HANNITY ENDS BY SAYING, "BUT TO HIS ENEMIES KNOW
THIS: I SAY ADVANTAGE ROGER DOT IN HIS MIND HE JUST HAS A HEAD
START IN PREPARING TO KICK YOUR ASS IN THE NEXT LIFE."
OOO...
SINCE I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S AN NEXT LIFE, HERE'S WHAT PROBABLY
HAPPENED IN HIS LAST MOMENTS.
OH YEAH, I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS IN THE NEXT LIFE.
GONE.
NO NEXT LIFE, YOU'RE JUST DEAD.