Blockbuster: Christie Had Dinner With Roger Ailes

This was already information known to the public, but apparently some gadflies decided they need attention.

Just pathetic.

In apparent reaction to a lawsuit filed by Gawker and the American Civil Liberties Union, the office of the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, on Monday released a record of a meeting last year between Mr. Christie and Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News Channel.

John Cook, a reporter for Gawker, had filed the suit to inquire into Mr. Ailes’s relationship with Mr. Christie as part of a series of stories about the political engagement of Mr. Ailes and his cable news channel. He asserted in an interview that Mr. Ailes, a former Republican strategist, continued to act in that capacity informally and behind the scenes.

The suit came about after Mr. Christie’s office resisted Mr. Cook’s request for public records of any meetings, phone calls or correspondence between the governor and Mr. Ailes. The governor’s office cited “executive privilege,” which Mr. Cook found to be unusual given that Mr. Ailes is the head of a news channel.

The suit was filed Monday morning. Within hours, Mr. Christie’s office sent Mr. Cook a letter that reaffirmed the “executive privilege” defense, but shared the schedule record of one dinner Mr. Christie and Mr. Ailes had on Sept. 11, 2010.

That dinner had previously been reported by New York magazine, which also reported that Mr. Ailes had, at a later date, encouraged Mr. Christie to run for president.

So what was the meaning of this pointless exercise other than a pathetic obsession with Fox News?

'Roger Ailes Will be Indicted — Probably this Week, Maybe Even Monday'

Sure, this will probably happen. Right after Karl Rove is frogmarched from the White House.

Here’s what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that Ailes was scheduled to speak at their event in March, but canceled. It appears that Roger’s people, ostensibly using a clause in his contract, said he “cannot appear for legal reasons.”

I asked “What, precisely, does that mean?”

The response: “Roger Ailes will be indicted — probably this week, maybe even Monday.”

H/T Jedi.

Background here.

If you think Fox News Derangement Syndrome has been pervasive the past few years, if this goes down it'll be out of control.

I'll believe it when I see it.

Olbermann Reacts to Van Jones Resignation with the Usual Class and Dignity

The very reasoned and respected newsman today reacted with his usual dignified manner to the resignation of Barack Obama's communist Truther, Van Jones.

I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes.

No, even now, I refuse to go all caps.

No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up rumors.

Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push).

Oooh, Keithy and the Koz Kidz are coming to get you, Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes! Run for the hills!

It would be curious whether anyone in the hierarchy at GE and NBC are aware that one of their overpaid employees is planning to investigate and likely smear members of an opposing news organization.

Is this how they want to conduct business? And would Olbermann really want people poking into his past?

Via Ace.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the link.

Murdoch and Ailes Prepare for All-Out War

The bedwetters from Moveon.org, Media Matters, Kos, and the rest of the sniveling left who caterwaul and whine 24/7 about Fox News are in for some sobering news.

These pissants think they can bully some advertisers and flex their muscles whenever they score some mythical victory. Well, they're playing with the big boys now and stand to be crushed like the insignificant little worms they are.

With The Wall Street Journal and a new business network, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News chief Roger Ailes plan their next move: all-out war

But the war for the future of journalism is just beginning. When combined with News Corp. properties like Fox News and the soon-to-be-launched Fox Business Network, Murdoch's purchase of the Journal will create a juggernaut whose influence ranges far beyond the world of financial news and information. With plans to expand the Journal's political and international coverage, Murdoch is itching for a fight with the nation's presumed newspaper of record, The New York Times, as well as the Financial Times of London.

Read the rest.