Fox chief is in it for the ratings, but he's the right's kingmaker
(NEWSER) - The true leader of the Republican Party isn’t its loose-lipped chairman, Michael Steele, nor the dour Mitch McConnell, distracted John McCain, or disinterested Bushes; it’s Roger Ailes. “The president of Fox is, by default, the closest thing there is to a kingmaker in Anti-Obama America,” writes self-declared Ailes “frenemy” Howard Fineman for Newsweek . Which is a bit ironic, he says, because Ailes doesn’t really care about political power. More»
