This is glorious. That pouting, childish statement put out by Fox News after Donald Trump bowed out of their next hosted debate? It was penned by none other than Roger Ailes himself.
According to one highly placed source, on Tuesday night, Ailes sent out the now-famous statement mocking Trump as being scared to meet with the “Ayatollah” and “Putin” if he became president. “That was Roger 100 percent,” the source explained. “A lot of people on the second floor” — where top Fox executives work — “didn’t think it was a good idea.”
Anyone surprised that the network's official response to the man-child Trump would be scrawled out by another man-child in the most man-childish way possible needs to remember that this is the network that airs Fox & Friends. Prepubescent stupidity is the network's bread and butter. Roger Ailes's office has no desk, but is merely a large, Chuck E. Cheese style ball pit in which he can swim around a bit while drafting each morning's network agenda.
In fact, Fox & Friends may no longer merely be the offspring of Ailes's morning Deep Thoughts; it looks like the inmates have spread to the other floors. The stupidity is coming from inside the house.
Fox executives are also troubled that Ailes’s principal adviser right now is his longtime personal lawyer and Fox & Friends contributor Peter Johnson Jr. “He wrote the statement with Peter,” the source explained.
Outstanding. Glorious. Fantastic. I am in my happy place.