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Roger Ailes
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 15
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Businessperson
Politician
Television Producer
Warren
Ohio
Roger Eugene Ailes
Grew
Television
Together

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Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you know this is a search-and- destroy mission on the part of the media and your case is very strong, you are very articulate, you know what you're trying to accomplish - and you have no alternatives.
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Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.
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Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
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I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
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Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.
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When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.
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I don't care what the polls say.
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The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.
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If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.
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I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.
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Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
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Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
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Phrase it in an interesting way don't phrase it in a mean or unfriendly way. Bob Dole said that if there's anything he would have done differently, he would have said [to George Bush] Start telling the truth about my record instead of Stop lying about my record. Frankly, had he done that, life might be different for Bob Dole today.
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They [NPR] 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.
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One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try. Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.
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I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.
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It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
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I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.
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In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.
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Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
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