New York magazine peels off a layer to reveal the paranoid schizophrenia that is Fox News:
"Going back to the 2008 campaign, [Obama advisor David]Axelrod had maintained an off-the-record dialogue with [Fox News chairman Roger] Ailes. He had faced off against Ailes in a U.S. Senate campaign in the early eighties and respected him as a fellow political warrior and shaper of narrative. But early on, Axelrod learned he couldn’t change Ailes’s outlook on Obama. In one meeting in 2008, Ailes told Axelrod that he was concerned that Obama wanted to create a national police force.
“You can’t be serious,” Axelrod replied. “What makes you think that?”
Ailes responded by e-mailing Axelrod a YouTube clip from a campaign speech Obama had given on national service, in which he called for the creation of a new civilian corps to work alongside the military on projects overseas.
Later, Axelrod related in a conversation that the exchange was the moment he realized Ailes truly believed what he was broadcasting."
It's a very, very long and enlightening read, as is the sidebar article to it.
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