Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Apologises for Nazi Remarks

Chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, has apologised after comparing public radio network NPR's executives to Nazis.

Brian Stelter of the New York Times writes;

Mr. Ailes, a staunch conservative, views NPR as a liberal outlet. In an interview with The Daily Beast that was published Thursday, Mr. Ailes said the following about NPR executives: “They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.”

Last month, when NPR fired Juan Williams, an analyst who was employed by both NPR and Fox News, Mr. Ailes immediately handed Mr. Williams a new three-year contract that was said
to be worth nearly $2 million in total, and Fox became something of a home base for an anti-NPR campaign.

Mr. Ailes was angry then, and evidently he is  angry now. In a letter to Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Mr. Ailes said, “I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough.”

Toward the end of the letter, Mr. Ailes said that instead of “Nazi,” the term “nasty, inflexible bigot” would have “worked better” to describe the NPR officials who fired Mr. Williams.

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