Roger Ailes Will Take Your Call Now... and Beat You to a Pulp

The most surprising thing about Roger Ailes is his availability. As much an advocate of open debate in person as he is on the airwaves, he's in favor of the face-to-face and the man-to-man. He's also touchy as hell, and so if you publicly criticize him, you might have the salutary if bewildering experience of receiving a call from him, asking you to clarify your complaint. This is especially true in Putnam County, New York, where he has bought not just a second mansion, but — to the extent that homeowners have played along — an entire road of million-dollar houses, on the apparent theory that the best neighbors are the ones whose houses are empty. Still, he is neighborly, especially in the advocacy of his own interests: The more time you spend in Putnam, the harder it is to find someone who has not had one-on-one discussions with him about issues of local governance, or who does not claim to have gotten a call from Roger after writing a letter to one of the newspapers he owns. That's the thing about Roger: Though he brags about the lethality of ex-Navy Seals assigned to his security detail and the guard dogs on his property, he's always around, and he's always ready to offer the Roger Ailes Experience, which goes hand in hand with the Roger Ailes Paradox.

The Roger Ailes Experience is simply the access — or even the intimacy — afforded by Roger Ailes when you engage him in argument, and the best example I heard in the interviews I conducted in order to write about him was provided by Simon Greer, who heads an advocacy group called Jews for Justice.

Greer was offended by Glenn Beck's incessant use of Holocaust references and co-signed a letter of complaint to Roger Ailes. "Within a week," Greer says, "we heard from Ailes, saying he'd be willing to meet at our convenience." So began Greer's Roger Ailes Experience: Not only did he wind up meeting Ailes along with a group of rabbis, he also wound up liking Ailes, indeed having a moment with him, in which humanity was revealed and sympathy presumed....

Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/roger-ailes-experience-4973621?src=rss

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