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Fox News CEO Rules Out Presidential Bid in 2012

'I can't take the pay cut,' Roger Ailes jokes

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(Newser) – Roger Ailes won’t run for president in 2012, despite appeals from friends and associates. The Fox News CEO says he thinks he’ll serve the nation better in his current role: “This country needs fair and balanced news more now than ever before, so I’m going to decline a run for the presidency,” Ailes tells Politico. “Besides, I can’t take the pay cut.”

Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes visits the studio of Fox Business Morning during its debut on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 in New York.
Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes visits the studio of Fox Business Morning during its debut on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007 in New York.   (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of FOX Television Stations poses for a picture during the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008.
Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of FOX Television Stations poses for a picture during the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008.   (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Gooner82
Oct 23, 09 5:33 PM CDT
“This country needs fair and balanced news more now than ever before..." - he does realize he works for Fox News, right? Reply
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rajanKazhmin
Oct 23, 09 5:58 PM CDT
Hate FOX news? Donate to PBS and NPR. It's as close as you'll get to kicking Murdoch in the balls.
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kokuaguy
Oct 23, 09 7:05 PM CDT
Appeals from friends and associates? Who are these cretins?
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Thinker
Oct 23, 09 8:13 PM CDT
The Republican party is desperately short on fat, rich, white, conservative males as potential candidates right now.
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shonangreg
Oct 23, 09 9:30 PM CDT
How can so many people not see FOX for what it is? The claims of "liberal bias" versus corporate bias in the rest of the news media can play themselves out, but FOX is unlike all the rest. It should be compared with "Saturday Night Live", "The Colbert Report", or "The Onion", not ABC, CBS, or NBC news. Even CNN tries to be "objective" and MSNBC, be it biased or not, limits itself to things that have actually happened.
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