Excellent post.

Agreed. The “don’t speak ill of the dead” crowd forget that Ailes was an objectively terrible human being with no apparent redeeming values.

As the late great Pratchet said about Vorbis: “…the worst thing about [him] isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil”

To a lesser extent this is my father. You’ve hit the nail on the head - Ailes did irreversible damage to our democracy through fearmongering. I hope he goes down in history as the Goebbels of our time.

And it infects the young too. My Aunt and her husband, who have Fox News running nearly all day, turned their son, a curious, meteor shower obsessed 8 year old, into someone who would ask someone, “Did you vote for Obama?” and, if answered in the affirmative, would call that person a, “Socialist, Communist, N****r…

Brilliantly written. I too have older relatives whose minds have been corrupted at a fundamental level by a steady diet of FoxNews. It is sad to see.

Is this Photoshop? Please tell me this is Photoshopped. If not, this is hilarious.

This is a fair point.

Yup, I was just listening, He delivered the most generic accolades to the work of the Coast Guard and then swiftly pivoted into a “woe is me” speech. And it went on and on. It was pretty fucking disgusting. He made their graduation about himself and his self-induced problems.

I mean, we are talking about a guy whose command of English basically only includes his own surname and the phrase “You’re fired,” here.

Right now he is giving an embarrassing commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy graduation. About 30% of it is about how great he thinks he is and all of his tremendous accomplishments and how he is the most persecuted president in American history. Completely tone deaf.

Jesus! Is there anything that Donald Trump won’t leak?

What do you think is supposed to be funny about withholding a source? This is about ethics

What difference does that make I’m looking for responsible journalism

It’s probably LaVar Ball you idiot

I hope the Celtics trade him to Toronto.

They won’t be tanking.

Ohhhh Brooklyn

I must’ve done something really terrible in a past life to be forced to suffer through the agony of being a Knicks fan.