Roger Ailes: "We're the most trusted name in news."

Update 2:  Harpy Arianna has posted a video comparing Roger Ailes' Sunday "This Week" Glenn Beck comments and Beck's actual comments.

Update 1:  MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Mike Barnicle:  "Roger Ailes ought to be invited into the Oval Office for a dialogue."  Joe (multiple times):  "Fox's numbers have absolutely exploded over the last year."  Bloomberg's Al Hunt:  "He's no J. Edgar Hoover.  I know he doesn't wear pumps." Both Barnicle and Hunt pointed out Ailes makes a reported $23 mil a year - but Barnicle observed Ailes knows his poor Ohio "roots" and is still "hungry."

Babs Walters wrangles the roundtable at ABC's "This Week" and couldn't get in a word edgewise as the annoying, unintelligible Greek wretch Arianna Huffington ambushes panelist Roger Ailes over Glenn Beck and his "inciting" "paranoid" language. The other "roundtable" panelists sit there like potted plants as Arianna hijacks the roundtable "discussion."

Arianna: "Aren't you concerned about the language Glenn Beck is using?"

Roger: "I think if we start to run around around as the word police in this business it will be--"

Arianna: "it's not about the word police it is something deeper... The paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there."  [Two words, Arianna:  Keith Olbermann]

Roger: "I agree with you. I read something on your blog that said I looked like J. Edgar Hoover, I had a face like a fist, and I was essentially a malignant tumor."

Arianna: "Well, that was not by anybody we approved of--"

Arianna:  "Can you explain to me why Fox went away from the meeting , um, the meeting the president was having..."

Roger: "Because we're the most trusted name in news and we believe, two liberal polls have now proven it, and the reason is we cover everything--"

Babs (cutting off Roger): "Gotta go!  I gotta go..."  [Keith Olbermann Worst Person theme music out....]



H/T Mediaite