Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes has apologized after calling NPR “Nazis” for firing Juan Williams during an interview with The Daily Beast‘s Howard Kurtz. “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough,” Ailes said in his apology. (Williams was fired by NPR following his not-so-PC comments about Muslims during an interview on The O’Reilly Factor.) While speaking with The Daily Beast, Ailes said of NPR: “They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to sprout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.”
But NPR wasn’t Ailes’ only target during the interview — the chairman also slammed Jon Stewart when asked about the Comedy Central host’s disdain for the 24-hour cable news cycle. “He hates conservative views,” Ailes told Kurtz. “He hates conservative thoughts. He hates conservative verbiage. He hates conservatives … He’s crazy. If it wasn’t polarized, he couldn’t make a living. He makes a living by attacking conservatives and stirring up a liberal base against it.” Your move, Stewart.
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yup.
At least Fox is honest about its sympathies.
More than you can say about NPR or Comedy Central.
take the bedsheet off your head and go educate yorself
At least Fox is honest about its sympathies.
That’s more than you can say for NPR or Comedy Central.
No, their argument is that they are the only “fair and balanced” news network out there: it’s their slogan.
fox news kills babies, puppies and america, any one who watches also does biding for satan, see we can all say crazy things now
There is no left-wing of Nazism. They killed all the left-wingers first. Before the Jews, the Gays, of the slavs. The first people they went after were their political opponents, the communists and the social-democrats, rounded them up and shot them. Can we please stop bandying about the term Nazi?
THANK YOU! i am happy to see that there are people who understand that the word “Nazi” is not a malleable word for “people we don’t like.” i went to a rand paul dinner (i’m a journalist) and one of his supporters kept talking about that “socialist nazi” obama. i tried to explain to him that it’s impossible to be such a thing, but i think my small history lesson was lost on him.
The Nazi party was the National Socialist party. How, again, is it impossible to be a socialist nazi?
HOLY CRAZY PERSON BATMAN. Uh, crack a history book sometime? Or even a Dictionary? This guy is completely delusional
Uh … Nazi is a shortened term for the phrase “National Socialism” – and when they came to power it was with the support of the people they turned around and murdered. Read your history. And pray that Sinclair Lewis was wrong in his book “It Can’t Happen Here.”
Uh, Read your history – “National Socialism” as practiced by Hitler and his cronies didn’t have much to do with what we commonly understand as “socialism.”
East Germany was called the German Democratic Republic. GDR was not a democratic republic.
Nazi’s were not Socialists. And killed all the socialists they could find.
There is no such thing as Liberal Facists except in the mind of the moron that wrote that book.
Fox is not Fair and balanced in any way, shape or form.
Just because you declare something about yourself does not make it true… and for those who traffic in propaganda like Roger Ailes, choosing a slogan that is the opposite of reality is a useful tactic.
One tiny little thing the conservatives always seem to forget when they call people “nazis”: The nazis were extreme RIGHT wingers, not left. They were fascists, which is about as far to the right as you can get.
This article is a bit misleading.
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Ailes apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for using the word “Nazi” when describing NPR. He didn’t apologize for calling NPR Nazis or suggesting that they have Nazi-like tendencies. He did not back down from his hyperbolic description of NPR.
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He apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for using a term they found offensive.
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More semantic bull**** to make Fox seem reasonable.
I know it’s fun to associate Nazis with the political party you hate, but they don’t fit neatly onto the left-to-right high school diagram everyone’s trying to use here. Hitler sold his policies to the German people as politically syncretic, theoretically neither left nor right. He hated liberals AND capitalists (to name a few).
I think we default to calling certain people Nazis because we feel they’re willing to use any means necessary to promote an agenda we find despicable, one of the defining elements of Hitler’s regime.
I heard Roger Ailes was a communist