This speech by Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes at the annual Radio and Television News Directors Association dinner is being said to have been the “last straw” for some Democrats, leading them to nix the Demmies first debate on Fox. My view: it just looks like he did some weak topical jokes. And the joke about Obama seems a joke poking fun at Bush more than Obama.
But YOU watch his whole speech and YOU decide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hko3wOnQd8YJoe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.