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Fox News Chief Disses Cooper, O'Brien, Anyone Not Associated With Fox News

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“Firing poison darts at his cable-news competitors” during press sessions, Fox News boss Roger Ailes has been on a — dare-we-say — Keith Olbermann-like tear.

Via the Miami Herald:

  • About two-thirds of the 150 critics left the room before Ailes took the stage, several of them openly voicing their scorn for what they say is Fox News’ conservative spin.
  • “Fox News is doing pretty well,” Ailes said with a sly smile, noting that many of the critics who forecast the channel’s doom were “sitting in their hotel rooms right now”
  • When a critic asked him to promise “that you’re not planning to inject [Miami’s local Fox affiliate] with that same Fox attitude,” Ailes jeered.
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