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Fox News Boss Persuaded Fellow Executive to 'Lie' to Federal Investigators
Roger Ailes wanted Judith Regan to keep quiet about affair with man shortlisted to head US homeland security department
The chairman of the right-wing current affairs channel, Fox News, Roger Ailes, has been named in court documents as the previously anonymous executive who allegedly tried to persuade a fellow boss at News Corporation to lie to federal investigators over a crucial Washington appointment.
Roger Ailes (left) with Rupert Murdoch at a dinner party in Washington. The New York Times reported court documents had become available that for the first time name Ailes as the mysterious executive involved in the allegations. The claims were initially made in November 2007 by Judith Regan, one of Rupert Murdoch's rising stars in News Corporation until she was dismissed the previous year in a row over her decision to publish a book with OJ Simpson.
In her unfair dismissal claim against her former employers, Regan claimed that a News Corporation senior executive had tried to secure her silence during the process to vet Bernard Kerik as the US head of homeland security. Regan had been having an affair with Kerik, and she alleged in her lawsuit that the unnamed executive had wanted her to keep quiet about it during the vetting procedure in order to protect Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who had appointed Kerik as New York police commissioner and was Kerik's main supporter. Giuliani was at the time considering a run for the White House in 2008 and the revelations could have rubbed off adversely on him.
The identity of the executive has long been a topic of speculation in New York media circles. Now, according to the New York Times, the mystery is solved as Ailes is named in a separate court case in 2008.
The court documents reveal his identity and, even more sensationally, say that there is a tape recording of Ailes's conversation with Regan in which he seeks to secure her co-operation. However, there are no transcripts of the conversation.
Ailes, a hugely controversial figure in the News Corporation firmament who critics say has turned Fox News into a mouthpiece of the right-wing Tea Party movement, has been a friend of Giuliani's for more than 20 years. As mayor, Giuliani officiated at Ailes's wedding.
News Corporation hastily settled with Regan after she brought her 2007 lawsuit, to the tune of almost $11m. News Corporation said the case was closed.
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Show AllA very creepy picture of two of the most creepy people on the face of this Earth.
The fact that M$M drags Ailes out on the Sunday morning bobble head shows as a legitimate news person, COMPLETELY destroys any idea that they themselves are legitimate news sources.
"As mayor, Giuliani officiated at Ailes's wedding." My mind uncontrollably summoned up an image of their wedding night when Ailes jowls hung over both sides of his wife's head, as he struggled to consummated their marriage, his 60'' waist almost preventing it.
There, now that mental image is now stuck in your head like it is in mine...
'There, now that mental image is now stuck in your head like it is in mine...'
Bastage!
I thought it was just me who was repulsed!
I was going to say -- It always looks to me like Republican old men are either full of GAS or constipated. It just seems like they all must have bathroom problems because their faces just look --- like they are straining to holding something in.
Their 60" waist shows what we all know that they "are straining to holding something in." because they are all dressed up in cheap suits and full of shit.
Everybody is a work in progress.These guys have been working on getting to look like that all their lives. An ancestor of mine drew political cartoons for the underground press in Petersburg in 1905. These guys bear a striking resemblance to some of his cartoon images. You get the face you deserve. Whew.
Well thank you NC-Tom. Think I'll go scratch my eyes out now.
The headline says "Persuaded", but in the body of the story it says, "allegedly tried to persuade." Who wrote this, Fox news?
Isn't a crime to persuade someone to lie to federal authorities?
A picture for when you sit on the throne in your bathroom and wish and hope they and all their ilk were where your shit is going; a meeting of the minds, so to speak. Tony
Profitize the public need to know. Profitize justice. Profitize health. Profitize education, Profitize food/shelter/transport. Profitize government. Profitize water/air. Profitize life, body, mind, spirit. It's the Merkan Way. Crumbling.
Tired of old white men manipulating the world !!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed! Pee-U! The only thing they want to conserve is "white man's rule". They think they are better than anyone else who isn't an uptight white male. They want to turn back the clocks because they know white man's rule is dying out. It's too bad because it will happen whether they like it or not.
Maybe you missed the significants of the Presidential election in 2008. The ruling elite elected a black man to rule.
Obama is not a "black man".
By definition he is a mulatto, half black and half asian, just as tiger woods.
Thing with o is that he represents the rupert murderoks and r. ailes of this country which both of them have to know but o is such great 'grist for the mill' they have no compunctions about bashing him.
Obama is not a "black man". He is 50% white and that is why he is such a rotten president. Gee...........
No. the ruling elite surely would have preferred McCain. It was maybe the last election refuting the right-wing corporatocracy we may ever have. In that vein, I'm very underwhelmed with Obama, so far. The only conviction he seems to have is about health care. That's no small thing, mind you, but the rest of his administration has been rehashed Bush. Would McCain have done any better by now? Of course not, I'm just sayin'...
The colour of the man doesn't matter a damn, it's the colour of the stuff in his sizable wallet that matters. By that measure, Obama is just as acceptable to the rich wing as McSame was.
Ugly old white men! A lot of us feel that way.
Fox IS the Amerikan government
You've hit the nail squarely on the head.
If large corporations run the state, which they do, "Main Street Media (MSN) is nothing more than an illusion. What we have, really, is a "state run media" just like that in Venezuela (under Chavez), in Russia (under Putin), in Egypt (under Mubarak) and in Libya (under Gadhafi). The only difference in our case being that our leader serves more as a dictatee than as a dictator. And let’s be clear, we’re not the ones doing the dictatin’.
Perfect. He and Fox are what ailes this country. Pun intended... After imagining him consummating his marriage I'm skipping lunch--and possibly dinner.
I just heard that Roger Ailes is in charge of the government media in Libya. If it's true, it figures, sociopathic criminals love dictators.
We are not going to kick the habit with a needle filled with dope. Blow up your television. A day of rage and disgust..
Yes it is a crime to lie to Federal investigators. But when a majority of our elected officials have their noses up Rupert Murdochs ass, do you think any charges will come forth? Don't hold your breath. And just for the record, if you think RM or fox news give a rats ass about the average American, I've go some swamp land.
Myspace.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Couldn't explode on a nicer guy.
Isn't old Rup dead yet? The old boy's gotta be pushing daisies out his depends by now,
Right?
A traitor to the principle of Free Press.
I hope it's a slow one.
TJ
I just love it when the big fat pigs fall into their own big pile of shit.
God, aren’t they just ugly old toads... Nothing pretty about their natures either.
I usually like to put down these two domestic terrorists but it appears that you people are doing a fine job. Fox is dangerous and Rush should fall out of his window onto the Fox building and crush the whole mess. Problem is he's too damn fat to get through a window.
Just like seeing a slick 3 piece vested suited person with perfect hair and a white picket fence for teeth and a briefcase coming towards you, these guys in their perfunctorily black tie, jackets and shoes bear the hallmark warning signs of dangerous animals.
Ignore them at your own risk.