Former Roger Ailes Confidant Dan Cooper is Ready to Spill Blood

[meegbear]

Former Fox News architect Dan Cooper is lashing out at old bossman Roger Ailes – “a man I knew to be a schoolyard bully” – in a scathing … website post. In what’s said to be the beginnings of a book, Naked Launch, Cooper’s item story-tells how he’s gone from member of the inner circle in the 1990s to corporate outsider, and now is as intent on destroying Ailes as Ailes is on destroying Cooper. Touche!

Back in ‘97, already ousted from Fox News, Cooper gave an “on background only” interview to David Brock for New York magazine about Ailes. And before the cover story even hit newsstands, Ailes had gotten wind of it, told Cooper’s agent Richard Liebner (of N.S. Bienstock), and told him to drop Cooper as a client or none of Liebner’s roster would ever be welcome at FNC. BECAUSE ROGER AILES KNOWS ALL! Oh, and he held a grudge against Cooper.

So Cooper left Liebner, and left New York for Los Angeles. And now he’s ready to tell all. God, what we’d give for dramatic music right about now.

To be sure, the anecdotes offered are perhaps what you’d (mostly) expect about Ailes: “boys club” meetings (”How about those bazookas on that Indian girl, or whatever the hell she is!” … “Pussy masala on the menu today?”), making fun of Rupert Murdoch, admissions that he’s been diagnosed as paranoid.

And what Cooper writes about FNC’s operations could’ve been entirely fictionalized — and still entirely believable. But isn’t it much sexier when it’s relayed by a former insider? That, and Cooper doesn’t exactly reveal why Ailes “reorganized” things to have him bounced from the company. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

The best thing that ever happened to Roger Ailes was 9/11. Even Roger Ailes, Machiavellian as he was, couldn’t have dreamed up anybody as fabulous as Usama bin Laden (Allah told Roger to spell it Usama), or UBL, as Fox News called him. Because somebody up there, or down there, loved Roger, 9/11 happened on his watch. It gave him the opportunity to throw gasoline on the bonfire he had already set to scorch and destroy traditional liberal values. For those of you under 50, the United States once had liberal values. There was even such a thing as liberal Republicans. That’s enough of that, because I know talking about the Devil’s spawn and blond big-boobed temptresses is far more interesting. But hang on a bit.

Cooper’s full version goes live later today (complete with sing-songy story about the love of his life, Gina). And the book? Well, anything more interesting than Tom Brokaw’s gets a rave review from us.

http://www.jossip.com/former-roger-ailes-confidant-dan-cooper-is-ready-to-spill-blood-20080110/

[Rockholm]

1. This should be fun.