2fer: AILES continues vendetta on local editor. & a reader's true history of Mittens

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http://gawker.com/5863108/roger-ailes-takes-his-insane-small+town-blood-feud-to-court

Roger Ailes Takes His Insane Small-Town Blood Feud to Court

When we last checked in on Fox News chief Roger Ailes' campaign to transform his peaceful, adopted rural redoubt of Putnam County, N.Y., into the sort of cesspit of fear and dread that he's more comfortable with, he was publicly pushing, threatening, and mocking the 80-year-old proprietor of a local newspaper that rivals his own vanity papers. Now he's trying to sue the guy out of existence.

Donald Hall is the crusty, crotchety owner of the Putnam County Times and Putnam County Press. For years, his newspapers have been designated "official newspapers" by the county legislature, meaning the county pays Hall to run various legal notices. And ever since Ailes and his wife Elizabeth purchased rival papers the Putnam County News & Recorder and Putnam County Courier in fulfillment of Ailes' fantasy of one day retiring a gentleman publisher of small-town American news, they have also won the designation—pulling down $23,000 last year in taxpayer-financed ads.

Everybody wins, right? No. This is Ailesville. And because Ailes is a vindictive madman who can't peacefully coexist with a rival even in the small-town idyll he retreats to from the daily grind of perpetual war that is his television career, he decided to destroy Hall. That began with a behind-the-scenes attempt earlier this year to lobby the Putnam County Legislature to delist Hall's newspapers. (Not to mention confronting Hall in public, poking his finger in his chest, threatening to sue him, and darkly suggesting that if Hall ever retaliated, Ailes' papers would go public with damaging information.)

And now Ailes' newspapers are suing Putnam County to strip Hall's papers of the legal ad revenue, claiming that the county legislature relied on inaccurate circulation data in awarding the contract.

To review: Roger Ailes is suing the government to ice out a competitor and reserve a government contract for himself. Also, the problem with America is our litigious business climate and everyone is waiting on handouts from the government instead of creating jobs on their own and small businesses just need to be left alone and freed from onerous regulations NOBAMA.





http://gawker.com/5863133/mitt-romneys-dark-history-of-occasional-rage

Mitt Romney’s Dark History of Occasional Rage

(Linked article is skipped to feature the reader’s perceptive analysis of Mittens’ career, below: )

(by reader: ) atlasspanked
Uh, Romney did not 'organize the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics'. Dave Johnson and Jack Welch did all the hard work, and were then thrown under the bus for bribing IOC officials....exactly as they were directed to by church, state, and city officials. Both were disgraced, but later acquitted in 2003, once the Mo-lympics - as they were locally known - had safely finished.

In the words of one excellent Salt Lake writer, once the scandal broke, the squeaky clean Salt Lake Olympic Committee went looking for "the most qualified BYU graduate they could find".....namely Willard 'Mitt' Romney, budding politician. The SLOC handed Romney a done deal. All he had to do was sit back and let the machine run. Willard then leveraged his totally undeserved status as the Savior of the Olympics, (a common local media term for him at the time) in his carpetbagging run for the Massachusetts governorship.

Willard's screaming tirade at the Olympic downhill traffic jam made local news for several hours, but was squelched in eerily quick fashion. Letters to the local newspapers were flooded with Mormon comments supporting Romney and castigating the volunteer kid.

So now Willard is making a run for President, with the blessing and backing of the LDS Church hierarchy, in order to fulfill Mormon cult founder Joseph Smith's masturbatory 1832 prophecy that 'the one mighty and strong' (ie. his glorious self) would rise up and put the house of God in order. In 1844, Smith mutated that prophecy into 'the one mighty and strong' shall rise up and save The Constitution...as a build-up for his failed presidential candidacy that same year.

As a continuation of this prophecy, Romney has been aggressively groomed throughout his political career by the LDS church hierarchy, and the Mormon ward house social scene. He won the 2008 Utah GOP primary with 89.49% of the vote. (Edit comment)



(Comment by other reader: ) ParahSalin@atlasspanked
Ironic that the right wing finds Obama scary and different.

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