Robert Reich. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty)
18 August 16
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#2 most heinous public person in America is advising the #1 most
heinous public person on how to be even more heinous. Roger Ailes, the
former Fox News chairman, ousted last month over charges of sexual
harassment, is now giving media advice to Donald Trump as Trump begins
to prepare for the all-important presidential debates this fall,
starting with the first debate September 26.
How fitting. Before he founded Fox News in 1996, Ailes
spent years as a pit-bull political strategist for Richard Nixon,
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Rudolph Giuliani.
And it was Ailes’s Fox News that helped stoke the
bigotry and paranoia in America’s white working class that resulted in
the rise of Trump. It was Fox News that also elevated Trump as a
potential presidential candidate, and has continued to promote his
campaign. Oh, and one other thing: Ailes has imposed on women much the
same sexist, misogynistic, objectified treatment Trump is known for.
They're a perfect match. I wonder when Martin Shkreli will start
advising Trump.
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