Roger Ailes Presidential Run

Michael Wolff reports the feud between Fox News and the White House is making Roger Ailes nutty. How nutty, you ask? Ailes is talking about running for President in 2012. Wolff write Ailes floated the rumor about a presidential bid. Ailes will be 73 years-old in 2012. No one views Ailes as a candidate that would have a chance against Obama.

The White House attacks on Fox News have made Ailes increasingly paranoid. Ailes has been able to get away with attacking Democrats. Fox News is good at dishing it out. The bogus news network screams bloody murder when they are forced on the defensive. The advertisers bolting on Glenn Beck hit Fox News hurts Fox News financially. Fox News is less about liberal or conservative than money.

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Before getting to my relative affection for Ailes, let me note that he will be 73 in 2012; he’s vastly overweight (and sensitive about it); he has health problems and can’t walk very well; he’s ghoulish looking; he’s deeply and nuttily paranoid (he discusses freely, albeit in lowered voice, the plans of radical Muslims to storm his house in New Jersey); and he may not be capable of doing 15 minutes without an offensive utterance.

Run, Roger, Run