Politico: Friends push Ailes for President
Friends and associates are encouraging Fox News chief Roger Ailes to jump into the political arena for real by running for president in 2012, top sources tell POLITICO.
“Ailes knows how to frame an issue better than anybody, and that’s what we need now,” says one Ailes friend who is encouraging the Fox founder, chairman and CEO to seek the Republican nomination to run against President Barack Obama.
Ailes, 69, has an aggessive, winning personality that made Fox News a huge success — and a huge target for liberal critics.
Frank Luntz, the well-known Republican pollster, said Ailes could be a force if he makes the run.
“I have known Roger Ailes for 29 years,” says Luntz. “No one knows how to win better than Roger.”
This smells like a pushed story to me. Is that what you call it? A “pushed story?” Where some reporter starts asking people “should Roger Ailes run for president,” and then reports what people say, and then it becomes “Roger Ailes touted for president?”
Either that, or some PR guy at Fox News thought it would be funny.
Regardless, no offense, here, but Ailes isn’t exactly what you’d call handsome. Kind of like Dick Cheney, but with Dick Nixon’s jowls. Surely he realizes the disadvantages that would cause him.
Via Memeorandum.
UPDATE – Ailes says no thanks. That supports my first theory. If it was a PR stunt, they’d have let it stew over the weekend.