I always get a case of the schadenfreudes when I learn of some right-wing freakout when reality hits them in the face.
This time it's Roger Ailes that's turning my frown upside down.
MSNBC is has a copy of Gabriel Sherman's biography of Roger Ailes titled The Loudest Voice in the Room. Of the election night fiasco, when Karl Rove famously melted down on camera, there's this:
But as Fox’s exit poll team presented the numbers, Ailes came undone. “They weren’t good for Romney,” a person in the room said. “Roger started arguing about how the sample skewed toward liberals.” Ailes said, “Liberals like to share their feelings, and conservatives work, so they don’t vote until later.” Arnon Mishkin, the head of Fox’s decision desk team, told Ailes that the data accounted for a sample skew. It appeared that Romney was going to be trounced. Worse, so-called late-deciders were breaking for Obama.
and this:
Data was no substitute for what his gut told him. “Everyone left the room with the knowledge that Roger didn’t believe the polls” a participant said. His opinion would be channeled on-air later that night, with embarrassing consequences
One might interpret this that the Fox people take their cues from the top. Or one might think that the entire lot of them live in "the bubble." I'm not sure I care. If the chief of their "news" network is so blindsided by actual news, if he is so biased in his interpretation of data that he can't see the truth, then I say to hell with them. They're very bad at their job.
You can't will your way to your side winning.
The money quote, however, has to do with his belief that liberals have "feelings" while conservatives work. You know, at jobs and stuff. I'm not sure what that really means. Perhaps he's suggesting that conservative voters don't have feelings. They're automatons to do what he pleases with them. Perhaps he believes that liberals don't work. They sit around and discuss how they feel all day long.
Ironically, the people that worked the hardest to win the last presidential campaign were the liberals. They kicked conservatives' ass. How's that feel Roger?
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