Discussion: Ailes Lawyers Attack Journo Covering Scandal As 'Real Enemy Of Women’

system1 · August 31, 2016, 4:42pm

Ailes Lawyers Attack Journo Covering Scandal As 'Real Enemy Of Women’ Back to article

theghostofeustacetilley · August 31, 2016, 4:44pm

TIpical LIBtard “blame THE victim”.

maximus · August 31, 2016, 4:53pm

Roger the Hutt, every woman’s dream date.

bkmn · August 31, 2016, 4:53pm

Is anyone surprised that Roger Ailes behaves like a grade school bully?

arc_of_the_universe · August 31, 2016, 4:55pm

I guess Ailes met Susan Estrich’s price for the sale of her soul.

lizzymom · August 31, 2016, 4:55pm

Slime.

cpease · August 31, 2016, 5:03pm

This has gone from a “potential” to a “must” read article for me thanks to the lawyers reactions.

beattycat · August 31, 2016, 5:04pm

LOL. Damn, there must be some real damaging shit this dude will be exposing. Good on him!

ncsteve · August 31, 2016, 5:06pm

Long since. Which is why she was dead to me long before she took on this case.

beattycat · August 31, 2016, 5:06pm

[quote=“cpease, post:7, topic:42769, full:true”]
This has gone from a “potential” to a “must” read article for me thanks to the lawyers reactions.
[/quote]Seriously. That reaction is way way over the top hyperbole.

fargo116 · August 31, 2016, 5:10pm

“Well, we can’t do anything about Carlson and Tantaros, maybe can keep people from knowing about it.”

ronbyers · August 31, 2016, 5:18pm

Blame the victims. Blame the press. Next he will blame the lawyers. At no point will he ever admit he is an unprincipled bag of scum.

beal · August 31, 2016, 5:21pm

So who paid for the 400 page opposition research volume on his biographer? I suspect that some shareholders may be a tad upset.

jonathang · August 31, 2016, 5:25pm

Good on you, Gabe Sherman. The Ailes attack machine was trying to tear him down even before he released his book, and now it’s clear why: he’s a tenacious journalist who won’t back down just because some rich, powerful clown tries to put the pressure on him. Keep it up.

humpback · August 31, 2016, 5:31pm

Not Ailes taking legal advice from lawyers, but lawyers taking political advice from Ailes–attack your opponent where they are strongest (even if it sounds ridiculous) and accuse your opponent of what you yourself would do, or have already done.

midnight_rambler · August 31, 2016, 5:34pm

The thing is, doing that in politics can work if you do it right. Doing it about a media item leads to the Streisand Effect.

humpback · August 31, 2016, 5:35pm

Still, the battle may not be about readership of the Sherman piece, but public “common knowledge” of Ailes (or even, ultimately, some judge’s opinion).

edhedh · August 31, 2016, 5:37pm

ailes is toast. a true waste of air.

psyclone · August 31, 2016, 5:41pm

“~~Gabe Sherman~~ Roger Ailes is a virus, and is too small to exist on his own, and has obviously attached himself to the ~~Ailes~~ Clinton family to try to suck the life out of them,” attorney Mark Mukasey said

There, FIFY. YW.

jacksonhts · August 31, 2016, 5:42pm

Sherman made it all up by abusing women. That’s why Roger Ailes agreed to quit his dream job politicizing the American Media for Rupert Murdoch as it had never been polarized before.