A weblog by Knot O'Reilly

If so, we can expect a lot more witch hunts in the future.

Among other false statements, Beck has claimed Obama and his administration are communist, radical, scary, frightening, anarchist, Marxist, Maoist, terrorist, mafioso, Stalinist, fascist, Saddam-esque, Internalionalist, youth-indoctrinating, racist, Black Liberationists looking for reperations and hating white-culture, Hitler idolizing Brownshirts, Muslim, the Anti-Christ, Grandma murderers, and cigarette smoking Gangster Manchurian candidates out to rob, rape and murder everything good about America.

I have followed Beck’s boss Roger Ailes for quite a while, and have long assumed that he and his cronies had a lot to do with the smear campaigns Beck is a pitchman for.

Today it was reported that the man who cut his teeth working for Tricky Dick, and gained prominence linking a presidential candidate to a convicted rapist, is reported to be making a run at the presidency.

It is juicily ironic that Ailes (Mr. Willie Horton) has an employee, and frontman, that has unanswered questions about a rape and murder in 1990.

I think if Beck does not answer these questions his boss may just have to let him go, unless he wants to see his opposition hiring Azdavid to produce campaign ad’s.

This is from Media Matters:

Following 9-month political campaign against administration, Fox chief Ailes reportedly pushed to run for president

“The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it.” — Roger Ailes

“I have known Roger Ailes for 29 years…No one knows how to win better than Roger.”– Frank Luntz

Washington, DC – In light of reports that “friends and associates” are pushing for Fox News president Roger Ailes to throw his hat in the ring for the 2012 presidential race, Media Matters for America released the following statement:

“Though he claims to be in the business of ‘fair and balanced’ news, Ailes’ heart clearly belongs to partisan politics,” said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. “This Bush campaign veteran and his news channel have been on a nine-month campaign to destroy the Obama administration.”

BACKGROUND

The Politico reported today that “[f]riends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political area for real by running for president in 2012.” Though Ailes has said he would “decline” because “[t]his country needs fair and balanced news more now than ever before,” the network chief is no stranger to the political arena.

Earlier in his career, he served as a political consultant for a number of Republican candidates, including Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and was credited, along with Lee Atwater, with helping George H.W. Bush come from behind to beat Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election. Part of that winning strategy included portraying Dukakis as “soft on crime” and connecting him with convicted felon Willie Horton. Horton committed assault, armed robbery, and rape during a weekend furlough – a program granting temporary release to prisoners that Dukakis supported but was created under the previous governor.

While the Bush campaign did not produce the Horton ad that was widely criticized as “racist,” Ailes and Atwater did produce the “Revolving Door” ad that similarly attacked Dukakis for the furlough program. Ailes has been quoted as saying, “The only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it.”

As Media Matters has noted, Fox News has been waging a partisan political war against the White House since Inauguration Day, revealing both its disdain for journalistic standards and its all-consuming political agenda — qualities that clearly differentiate Fox News from any credible news organization.