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The Tail Eats Itself

Gabriel Sherman has a rather remarkable profile of Fox News head Roger Ailes in this month’s New York magazine. I’m not crazy about the use of anonymous quotes to basically slander Ailes co-workers, but it does bring up a good issue: more than anything else, Ailes would love to make an impact. Fox News has certainly done that, but in the way opposite of how Ailes intended, in the sense that it may have cost the Republicans the next election. There’s some tragic justice to that…