Roger Ailes

Roger Eugene Ailes founded Ailes Communications in New York which he owned between 1970 and 1992 which is described in his biographical note accompanying tesimony to the Energy and Commerce Committee as "a diversified communications consulting company whose clients included three U.S. Presidents, several senators and governors, as well as Fortune 500 CEO's". [1]
Ailes political work has included:
When a coalition of tobacco control groups, Coalition for a Healthy California promoted Proposition 99 which proposed a 25 cents a pack increase in tobacco tax, Ailes was called on in July 1988 to oversee what was to be a $20 million campaign for the tobacco industry.
Californians Against Unfair Tax Increases (CAUTI) was overwhelmingly underwritten by Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds. [2]
The tobacco industry strategy was to promote its claims that the tax increase was unfair and unnecessary government interference, that rich doctors would be the beneficiaries and that high taxes would encourage increased smuggling and place additional demands on police.
Ailes Communications earned just over $1 million in commission on the campaign. [3]
Despite Ailes best efforts, the tobacco industry was defeated. “Although we were not successful, the CAUTI campaign moved an extremely large number of voters to our position. While some television spots were more persuasive than others, the campaign never appeared to make much headway with the large number of people who are extremely anti-smoking,” Ailes Communications final report stated. [4]
In the aftermath of victories in California and other states, the following year politicians began unveiling proposals to further restrict tobacco industry promotion and costs. “The anti-smoking zealots tried first to throw water in everybody’s face … now they’re throwing legislation,” Ailes told one reporter. [5]
Acoording to his biographical profile to the Energy and Commerce Committee "in 1992, Ailes retired completely from political and corporate consulting to return full-time to television". [6]
Internal Philip Morris documents, however, reveal Ailes advised the company until at least 1994. A memo from PM’s Washington office to head office providing an outline of supplementary monthly budget expenditures on consultants, listed “Roger Ailes contract” with a figure of $15,000 under the heading “general media strategy”. [7]
In May 1993, PM’s Craig Fuller sent a memo, titled “Firing Line show on Sin Taxes”, to his colleagues. “I think we should look into this. Roger Ailes and I have talked about running ads with a coalition we will form ... one name “Coalition for Fair Funding of Health Care.” We might get the group … with whatever name … to help fund the show. It is definitely worth thinking about and looking at more closely”. (PM is the 'we' referred to in the note). [8]
(See Americans for Tax Reform and Defeating Clinton’s healthcare plan for more details on the PM campaign to defeat proposals to fund an expanded health care plan with an increase in the tobacco excise rate.)
A few weeks later Philip Morris Vice President Corporate Affairs, Ellen Merlo, sent a letter to Ailes as Chairman of Ailes Communications informing him of the results of some market research on smoking. “Suffice it to say the percentages of those embarrassed about smoking and the militant antis are shifting very rapidly so that we are losing support,” she glumly reported.[9]
Internal Philip Morris documents reveal that Ailes work for Philip Morris continued until at least the end of June 1994. A June 1994 e-mail to Craig Fuller canvassing possible speakers for a meeting the following month, Thomas Collamore wrote “(some possibilities: Roger Ailes who we pay 5k a month to be available;” before suggesting other possibilities.[10]
Ailes role in the media industry includes:
  • in 1991 persuading "a syndicator to bring Rush Limbaugh from radio to television and became executive producer of the late-night show";
  • In 1993 was appointed President of NBC's cable channel CNBC;
  • introduced NBC cable channel, America's Talking in 1994;
  • in January 1996 was appointed as chief executive officer of Fox News and the FOX News Channel and, according to his biographical note, "also serves as a senior advisor to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of the News Corporation Limited".

Career

Ailes began his career in television as a production assistant at Cleveland's KYW-TV, the station that launched the Mike Douglas Show, a popular daytime talk and variety show of the 1960s. At age 28, Ailes became the show's producer. He met Richard Nixon for the first time when Nixon appeared as a guest on the Douglas show, beginning the relationship that led to Ailes' hiring as a media consultant for Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.

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Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh is a right-wing radio talk show host syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks, a property of Clear Channel Communications. Limbaugh's hours-long commentaries are syndicated on hundreds of radio stations nationwide.
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Abu Ghraib: "a brilliant manuever" that was "pretty effective"

The babes are meting out the torture. ... it looks just like anything you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. ... this is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. [1]
This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off? [2]
I think the reaction to the stupid torture is an example of the feminization of this country. [3]
Sounds to me in the context of war this is pretty good intimidation ... Maybe the people who ordered this are pretty smart. Maybe the people who executed this pulled off a brilliant maneuver. Nobody got hurt. Nobody got physically injured. But boy there was a lot of humiliation of people who are trying to kill us -- in ways they hold dear. Sounds pretty effective to me if you look at us in the right context.
if you have the passwords to these various porn sites, you can see things like this ... [Maybe the soldiers] are simply acting out what they've on these websites or something, just for the fun of it. Or maybe other reasons. [4]
... there's a lot of false phony concern for these Iraqi detainees. This is not about people genuinely outraged about this. ... The Democrats and the media don't give a rat's rear end about what happened to those prisoners. ... It's all political. They don't give a hoot about those prisoners. [5]
I mean, don’t be surprised if [liberal financier] George Soros puts up a few hundred million dollars for a torture institute at the new torture university to teach people how it’s really done, to show how Bush and Rumsfeld are inept. [6]

Addicted to OxyContin

In October 2003, under criticism and closer scrutiny for alleging an African American football player was being promoted for his race (see below), Limbaugh admitted he was addicted to OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride), a long-acting slow-release opiod. Limbaugh checked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.
Upon returning to his program, Limbaugh lashed out at investigators who served warrants on Dec. 4 at offices of several physicians who he had visited. Search warrants indicated investigators suspect Limbaugh shopped for doctors willing to prescribe opiods, tranquilizers and anxiolytics.
Limbaugh earlier reported trouble with his hearing, nearly leaving his job because of an almost total loss of hearing. He reportedly returned to the job after receiving medical care for the hearing loss.

Donovan McNabb: promoted because media "very desirous that a black quarterback do well"

On September 28, 2003, Shortly after Limbaugh became a commentator on ESPN's Countdown, he made the following comment:
LIMBAUGH: I’ve listened to all you guys, actually, and I think the sum total of what you’re all saying is, Donovan McNabb is regressing, he’s going backwards. And my, I’m sorry to say this, I don’t think he’s been that good from the get-go. I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well, for instance, black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there is a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he really didn’t deserve … [crosstalk] the defense carried this team, I think, and he got credit for it.[7]
On October 2, after heavy criticism, he stepped down:
LIMBAUGH: What happened was that some of my cast members began to be made to feel uncomfortable by the press and others who couldn't believe that they had not responded to what I said so the path of least resistance became for me to resign. [8]

Against indecency restrictions

Following controversial comments broadcast by Bubba the Love Sponge Clem and Howard Stern, Clear Channel executives were required to appear before a February 2004 House Energy and Commerce telecommunications subcommittee. This followed the Federal Communications Commission proposed to fine Clear $755,000 for Clem's broadcasts . The FCC, is headed by Republican appointee Michael Powell, and regulates indecency standards on radio. Clear Channel was fined.
After the hearing St Peterburg Times journalist Eric Deggans noted that even though the FCC was headed by a Republican appointee and indecency on radio had been regulated on radio since 1936, Limbaugh railed against the possibility that Democrats could constrain what could be said on radio.
"Smut on TV gets praised. . . . On radio, there seems to be a little bit of a different standard ... If we sit by and let a federal government start to define what is okay for someone to say on radio . . . what happens if a whole bunch of John Kerry . . . Terry McAuliffe types end up running this country?" Limbaugh complained. [9] (McAuliffe is Democratic National Committee chairman).

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Limabugh's brother, David Limbaugh, an attorney, is also a regular contributor to conservative media commentator.
Limbaugh is carried on American Forces Radio and Television Service.

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Lynne Cheney

Lynne Cheney has been a member of the American Enterprise Institute since at least October 1998. She is currently a senior fellow at the Institute.[1]
On October 13, 1998, Secretary of Defense William Sebastian Cohen "announced the formation and first meeting of the National Security Study Group" that was headed by former Senators David Boren and Warren Bruce Rudman and otherwise known as the Boren-Rudman Commission. Lynne Cheney was invited to become a member of the Group.[2]
Cheney is the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney. Between 1994 and 2001 she was a member of the Board of of Directors of the Lockheed-Martin Group. [3] [4]

George Herbert Walker Bush

(Redirected from George H. W. Bush)
George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. He was a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover and, on his 18th birthday, he enlisted in Navy. When he received his wings, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy and flew 58 combat missions during World War II. In January 1945, Bush married Barbara Pierce (Barbara Bush) with whom he had six children: George Walker Bush, Robin (who died as a child), John (known as Jeb Bush), Neil Mallon Bush, Marvin Bush, and Dorothy.[1]
Bush attended Yale University, where he was tapped as a member of the Skull & Bones Society and graduated as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation, Bush "embarked on a career in the oil industry of West Texas."[2]
"Like his father, Prescott Sheldon Bush, who was elected a Senator from Connecticut in 1952, George became interested in public service and politics. He served two terms as a Representative to Congress from Texas. Twice he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate. Then he was appointed to a series of high-level positions: Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency" from 30 January 1976 (Pres. Ford) to 20 January 1977 (Carter inauguration).[3][4]
"In 1980 Bush campaigned for the Republican nomination for President. He lost, but was chosen as a running mate by Ronald Reagan. As Vice President, Bush had responsibility in several domestic areas, including Federal deregulation and anti-drug programs, and visited scores of foreign countries. In 1988 Bush won the Republican nomination for President and, with Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana as his running mate, he defeated Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in the general election."[5]
"Bush faced a dramatically changing world, as the Cold War ended after 40 bitter years, the Communist empire broke up, and the Berlin Wall fell. The Soviet Union ceased to exist; and reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Bush had supported, resigned. While Bush hailed the march of democracy, he insisted on restraint in U. S. policy toward the group of new nations."[6]
"In other areas of foreign policy, President Bush sent American troops into Panama to overthrow the corrupt regime of General Manuel Noriega, formerly a CIA asset, who was threatening the security of the canal and the Americans living there. Noriega was brought to the United States for trial as a drug trafficker."[7]
"Bush's most lucrative opportunity came when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, then threatened to move into Saudi Arabia. Vowing to free Kuwait, Bush rallied the United Nations, the U. S. people, and Congress and sent 425,000 American troops. They were joined by 118,000 troops from allied nations. After weeks of air and missile bombardment, the 100-hour land battle dubbed Desert Storm routed Iraq's million-man army."[8]
"Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Jefferson Clinton."[9]
Wikipedia for George Herbert Walker Bush.

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Roger Eugene Ailes (born May 15, 1940) is the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President, of FOX News.
Ailes says, "You've got just 60 days to prove yourself on a new job - and just seven seconds to make a good first impression. Seven seconds is all that people need to start making up their minds about you. If you don't demonstrate an energetic attitude on your first day, you're already screwing up."

Employment History

Ailes was President Nixon's media strategist and President Reagan's media consultant.
Ailes was once the executive producer for The Mike Douglas Show.

Writing by Roger Ailes


He can be reached at:
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