THE SPARKS WILL FLY – ROGER AILES, THE MAN WHO BUILT FOX NEWS, HAS RENDERED HIS OPINION OF PRESIDENT OBAMA.  WATCH THE "SHOCKED" REACTION OF OTHERS IN THE NEWS BUSINESS, WHO WILL BE "DISMAYED" THAT ANY NEWS CHIEF HAS AN OPINION.

Of course, if it were a liberal chief, that would be a different story.  Double standards, anyone?  From The Politico:

President Obama “has not been very successful” and has a “different belief system” than most people in the country, the chairman of Fox News, Roger Ailes, tells the Daily Beast in an interview.

“He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it,” Ailes said. “He had to be told by the French and the Germans that his socialism was too far left for them to deal with.”

Ailes claimed in the interview that Fox News hasn’t singled out Obama, and that it challenges presidents. But he adds of the White House’s current occupant, “He just has a different belief system than most Americans.”

“He’s had 3,000 press secretaries since he got into office,” Ailes said, but now, “he’s making it harder for the press to make him look good. ... When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard. They’re like teenagers in love. It’s like the old Frankie Lymon song, ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love?’ ”

Finally, Ailes offered a critique of Obama’s formal remarks: “I literally never heard an Obama speech that didn’t blame Bush.”

COMMENT:  I just can't wait to hear the MSNBC crowd on this.  And Ted Koppel will no doubt somberly weigh in, as he somberly addresses the somber issue of press bias, in his somber way. 

November 17, 2010