An Unauthorized Book Leaks and Roger Ailes Declares War

[DonViejo]

In ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room,’ charges of anti-Semitism, Bill O’Reilly mockery, and a trophy from Lachlan Murdoch’s tenure. All lies, says Fox News, of a book they’ve yet to read.

Television wizard Roger Ailes and his combat-ready army at the Fox News Channel, the cable-news powerhouse he launched in 1996, have spent three years preparing for all-out war over New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman’s forthcoming Ailes biography, The Loudest Voice in the Room.

And now, with the book’s official publication two weeks away, war has finally been declared. After contents of the book leaked on Tuesday, a Fox News spokesperson quickly accused Sherman of writing falsehoods after receiving zero cooperation from his subject.

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According to a report posted late Tuesday night on The New York Times website, Sherman’s 560-page biography, to be published by Random House, is every bit as harsh as Team Ailes had feared—kind of a literary Pearl Harbor.

The Times account, based on the paper’s obtaining an early copy of Sherman’s book, reports that the author asserts that Ailes viciously mocks Fox News stars behind their backs; gloats over backroom victories against corporate opponents (specifically Lachlan Murdoch, elder son of Ailes’s boss Rupert Murdoch, who runs News Corp., Fox News’s parent company); once offered a prospective female employee an extra $100 a week in salary for sex; and flung an anti-Semitic slur during an argument with a rival television executive who happened to be Jewish. Sherman also claims, according to the Times, that Ailes—who was a celebrated Republican media consultant in his previous life—hoped to use Fox News for his political agenda during the 2012 presidential campaign, telling fellow executives: “I want to elect the next president.”

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[monmouth3]

1. Was this brought up on Morning Joe this morning? I didn't watch as I knew it would all be about

Gates and his slamming of the President and VP. Just curious..

[Gothmog]

2. This is going to be fun to watch

Ailes is not a nice person.

[davidpdx]

3. No, he isn't

Whatever he gets, he has coming to him in spades.