If you want to make Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes go ballistic – and I wouldn’t advise it – just suggest that his broadcast journalists are shills for President Bush and the Republicans. Ailes has transformed his formerly brass-knuckled, partisan persona into that of a “fair and balanced” cable-news czar. So he couldn’t have been happy Sunday night when The Simpsons featured a Fox News satellite truck sporting a huge Bush-Cheney bumper sticker while the rock group Queen’s classic “We Are the Champions” blared over the soundtrack. Ailes didn’t return my phone call yesterday. But my pal Tom Shales e-mailed that the wicked sendup was “pretty ballsy since ‘The Simpsons’ plays on the Fox network, but it also shows how firm is the image of Fox News as Bush whores.” “Simpsons executive producer Al Jean responded: “Shales said that, not me.” Read More >>>
