It’s hard out there for a pimp:
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox’s parent company 21st Century Fox, cut short a vacation on the French Riviera with his wife Jerry Hall to return to New York and finalise the departure of his long-term ally. He will assume the role of chairman and acting CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
Open thread.
Peale
And as his parting shot, he had BJ taken down for an hour. He knows who really took him down!
dedc79
Is there some rule that the head of Fox News must have enormous jowls?
gratuitous
I read the release from Fox announcing the resignation. No reason is given for Ailes’ sudden departure. Did he get a better offer? Health problems? Wants to spend more time with his family? Strange!
You’d think someone who had been with the company since Day One would get a little more hoop-de-do when he left. At least tell Fox’s loyal viewers why the top man is leaving. Sad.
scav
How DARE Faux step in front of Drump’s limelight on this of all nights! It’s a media plot!!!
Eric U.
@gratuitous: I assume they thought everyone but their own viewers knew why he resigned. I don’t think they were hiding the fact they were cooperating with the lawyers of the women suing over sexual harassment.
The story yesterday that he was asked to resign probably was assumed to cover things
c u n d gulag
Bullshit Mountain seems to have become a volcano!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope that as he left his petty bullshit empire built on lies, deceit, and propaganda, that he turned and looked back once more at what he used to rule like a sex-obsessed Authoritarian tyrant..
And that the automatic doors crushed his dick and balls as they closed!!!!
Ridnik Chrome
Not the same one who used to be married to Mick Jagger?
Also, good riddance to Ailes.
ETA: Is anyone else seeing the Papa John’s ad with the little green ghost from “Ghostbusters”? “One pizza with extra slime, please.”
hellslittlestangel
To the women he victimized over the years I’d like to offer a word of condolence:
Ka-fucking-ching!
inventor
@Ridnik Chrome: Yep. She’s had a long and illustrious career as a starfucker.
Emma
@Ridnik Chrome: Yep. That’s her.
schrodinger's cat
Balloon Juice was not loading for me for the last hour or so. Anyone else had the same problem?
dr. luba
Obama is trying to kill Republicans again. He has just encouraged everyone to stay well hydrated in the record heat……..
Mai.naem.mobile
Dis any BJrs read Roger Ailes blogspot(not this Roger Ailes)? His commentary is funny and snarky.He last posted in 2015. I was just wondering if anybody has seen him post anywhere. I hope he’s okay.
Amir Khalid
@inventor:
That can only be a deliberate reference to the song from Goat’s Head Soup.
Ridnik Chrome
@inventor: I dunno. Going from young Bryan Ferry to middle-aged Jagger to geriatric Rupert Murdoch seems kind of the opposite of illustrious, if you ask me…
inventor
@Amir Khalid: Ding! Give the man a Kewpie doll!
rikyrah
Rumor is that he has an 8 figure parachute. And a non-compete clause.
hovercraft
@gratuitous:
They are fair and balancing their viewers need to know what a scumbag he is. You know that women who complain about sexual harassment, are just complaining because real men are not politically correct and don’t know how to take a compliment. Roger has been a conservative hero for so long, and he’s been brought down by their own employees, so it’s hard to argue that he was brought down by the liberal. So best not to discuss why he’s leaving.
hovercraft
@Ridnik Chrome:
Same one.
hovercraft
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yes, we all got a time out.
EconWatcher
Sorry, Rupert, but boinking the ex-wife does not make you as cool as Mick Jagger. Nice try, though.
Schlemazel Khan
@Mai.naem.mobile:
Towards the end of his blogging he said he was getting bored, it was taking too much time. I don’t recall him saying he was having any particular problem. I kept hoping he would return but it would be nice to know he is doing OK.
tybee
@Amir Khalid: star star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1zgmM2lalo
SiubhanDuinne
@Ridnik Chrome:
I know.
schrodinger's cat
How old is Murdoch?
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
I kind of like that part. Because otherwise, every channel, station, and network would be elbowing each other in the ribs to sign him up, right?
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
85
Cacti
The NBA is moving the 2016-2017 All Star game from Charlotte, NC because of the bathroom bill.
Ridnik Chrome
@SiubhanDuinne: I bet Mick laughs his ass off whenever he sees them on TV together…
NonyNony
@SiubhanDuinne: Have you seen how much money he made for Fox? Without a non compete I’d bet he’d be at the head of CNN or MSNBC within months building a new Fox News for them. Even with the harassment issues.
Ridnik Chrome
@Cacti: Good for the NBA.
Amir Khalid
@tybee:
Star Star is its official title, but that’s not what Keef calls it.
The Ancient Randonneur
I wonder how common it is for someone as public and powerful as Ailes to be a serial harrasser.
catclub
@scav: This is one of the best parts. Remember the reports that they wanted to postpone all this until August 1 so there would not be things disturbing the RNC? Good times two days ago.
I wonder if we will get a look at the newer post nup.
catclub
@SiubhanDuinne: I think they would be happy to get him if he could do for their viewership what he did for FOX.
[without the vile politics or sexual harassment, which might be tougher.]
Villago Delenda Est
@Cacti: GOOD!
Fuck North Carolina and it’s Rethug governor and legislature.
Aleta
CNN: For the talent portion of tonight’s pageant, Donald is expected to perform a ventriloquy interpretation of the Hawaii Five O theme song while Ivanka does her rifle twirling routine and wears a cowboy hat.
Peale
@NonyNony: Yep. I mean CNN just hired Weenerdoodledogski from the Trump Campaign with an NDA and a history of uddder incompetence to comment on the campaign. Why not hire a guy who will expose you to lawsuits? I mean its only your blonde staffers who’ll have to suffer, females to boot. Not the real reporters.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ridnik Chrome:
I do hope so.
catclub
@schrodinger’s cat: I know over 80. Not sure how many years over.
Greg
Conservative logic primer 101.
Rule 1) Sexual harrassment is not real. It was invented by ball chomping femi-Nazis. All cases of harrassment are designed to attack the benevelont patriarchy and need to be dismissed outright.
Rule 2) Ignore rule 1 in the event Bill Clinton is accused of harrassment.
SiubhanDuinne
@NonyNony:
I realized that after I posted my comment. It made me ineffably sad.
Bitter Scribe
@dedc79: IK, R? People who speak to him face-to-face must hear an echo.
Trollhattan
Nice, France got shoved right off the front pages and there’s a story worth telling–motorcyclist who climbed into the cab window and tried to punch out the driver while he was in the act of mowing people down. Driver hit him with his jammed gun and knocked him away. Luckily he lived, somehow. French now feel the driver had support from several folks in custody.
Amir Khalid
@The Ancient Randonneur:
We can never know. Not everyone gets found out like Jimmy Savile or Rolf Harris or Bill Cosby.
delk
Male escorts are making crazy money at the RNC.
lollipopguild
Rodger the Dodger has 40 million dollar golden parachute is what I heard.
Dmbeaster
@SiubhanDuinne:
CNN
JosieJ (not Josie)
@Ridnik Chrome:
I dunno: they got older as she went along, but they also got richer.
Patricia Kayden
Trump delegate yanked from RNC for hoping that cops kill “N” words.
How is it that Rethugs attract so many racists?
Shalimar
@schrodinger’s cat: Rupert’s mom died at 103, so age isn’t necessarily the best determinant of time left on this earth.
Trollhattan
@lollipopguild:
Here’s hoping an army of angry blondes remove every ill-gotten shekel from his bloated hide.
“Roger, see you in court, sweetie.”
slag
A nice article about the rise of the neoconartist in America ends quite appropriately:
‘Weaponized insincerity applied to structured ignorance’ should be Fox’s new slogan.
Emma
@lollipopguild: Well, since the lawsuits are against him, not Fox, he might not get to keep it.
lgerard
Gretchen Carlson is probably on her third bottle of champagne right about now
hellslittlestangel
@Shalimar:
How did she go? Exposure to sunlight? Stake through the heart?
burnspbesq
@Ridnik Chrome:
Some enterprising reporter should ask her to compare and comtrast … Or maybe not.
BTW, Mick’s current 20-something girlfriend is in the family way. The child will be his eighth, IIRC, by at least three differemt women.
LeeM
Rumor from the politbureau is Ailes will help form TrumpTV after the spectacular flameout in November.
burnspbesq
@Emma:
Or he might be indemnified.
Keith P.
He can eat shit. And then shit out the shit he just ate, then eat that shit, which contains the shit that he just ate.
TS
So the men at Fox are heartbroken
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/roger-ailes-fox-news-staffers-react
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace praised Ailes’ as a boss and said he had already shed his tears.
Brit Hume, a Fox News analyst and former anchor, tweeted the news was “heartbreaking.”
Emma
@burnspbesq: You are a joy-killer and a party-pooper.
tybee
@Amir Khalid:
many moons ago, right after the stones released the album, they were on tour and, IIRC, were in tennessee.
the police said they could not play that song and if they did, they’d be arrested.
guess what the first song that night was?
Arclite
Buh-bye, fuckwad! Thanks for ruining the country with FAUX news!
Arclite
@delk:
Apparently female strippers aren’t.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Greg: @Greg:
Yeah, funny how that works….
D58826
@hellslittlestangel: melted by a bucket of water
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@lgerard:
Would it be sexist to say that I bet she’s a fun drunk? Maybe let’s loose a little and spins some good tales?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@D58826:
What a world, what a world….
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
@LeeM: TrumpTV won’t work.
While he’s a natural insult comic, he needs a foil for material. Since the primaries ended he’s been a bore, repeating the well worn punch lines over and over and over again.
He’s turned into Uncle Rico from “Napoleon Dynamite”, endlessly talking about the past.
Botsplainer, Neoliberal Corporatist Shill
Ailes is out, Failgunner nearly endorsed Clinton and John Bolton is squalling about Trump’s NATO remarks.
We has peak wingnut yet?
Pogonip
@Trollhattan: I’ve heard of the Blue Army, but not the Blonde Army!
PaulWartenberg2016
I should send my resume and college grades from the University of Florida (Journalism major) to Fox Not-News and see if they’ll hire me.
Sure, I only got a 2.86 GPA in Journalism and a B in Ethics, but I aced the Photography class.
PaulWartenberg2016
@Botsplainer, Neoliberal Corporatist Shill:
PEAK WINGNUT IS A LIE, a fairy tale told by parents who want their kids to grow up to become Breitbart reporters.
PaulWartenberg2016
@hellslittlestangel:
something to do with garlic cloves and running waters.
Kathleen
@PaulWartenberg2016: Your GPA is too high for Fox. Also, too, your B in Ethics.
Trollhattan
@Kathleen:
Could probably neutralize the ethics B by bragging about how you cheated on the mid-term and final.
Kathleen
@Trollhattan</And got a librul prof fired!
Paul in KY
@inventor: Mick wrote a song about her….
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: I think the original title was ‘Starfucker’.
Paul in KY
@Trollhattan: What a hero! He’ll get Legion of Honour for that.