roger ailes dreamed up the idea of gop tv when he worked for president nixon.had nothing do with being fair or valid. and later, a look at late-night laughs this week. its gentle glycolic formula resurfaces at night for the smooth skin of a light chemical peel. sleep tight. regenerist, from olay. >>> sounds like a conspiracy here to toy say that fox news was dreamed up inside the nixon white house as a way to, "provide pro administration hard news to the major cities of the united states ". it is not. apparently the 15-page blueprint titled "a a plan for putting the gop on tv news" sitting on the shelves of the richard nixon presidential library in yorba linda, california, all these years. giving great credit, the bright idea to call them up and publish the memo yesterday. that memo along with other recently retrieved documents reveal in the summer of 1970 nixon aides wanted to circumvent the network news with their own version of the truth, proposed sending packaged edited news stories and interviews directly to local television stations, and they explained, "

nixon here's the roger ailes secret nixon era blueprint for fox news last month cook john cook found us in the nixon library the papers that laid this out ailes handwritten notes on the memo titled a plan for putting the g.o.p. on t.v. news and now fox news controls the g.o.p. britons are waking up to how the fox empire has been controlling their politics when are americans going to wake up. and. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question is the game up at fox so called news and choices are yes former fox news executive dan cooper is saying roger ailes at an underground bunker and may have illegally hacked phone calls or know who cares if i actually use illegally x. phone calls log on the target dot com let us know what you think will be open until tomorrow morning. coming up a government giveaway in texas goes horribly wrong they've been several people injured could this be just a glimpse of the chaos to come of republican seed succeed in cutting federal assistance to millions of baby americans. twenty four seven live streaming news tow

bush the roger ailes started his reign of terror as a media consultant for these two former presidents and the concept of fox news emerged that while he was working for the nixon administration it was in his peers wanted to create programming that was pro administration and then offer that up as an option to what he viewed as of course the liberal slanted media that was already all over the airwaves now this original concept was supposed to be filmed and aired out of the white house and written and produced to be news the documents are over three hundred pages long here but i think this paragraph or one of the first pages of the treasure trove really gives you the gist of what ailes was looking for and it's actually titled a plan for putting the g.o.p. on t.v. news else wrote the following today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers than people listen to radio than people read or gather any other form of communication the reason people are lazy or television you just sit and watch listen the thinking is done for you so ladies and gentlemen i think we found t

never a smarter guy to work with than roger ailes. never. i live in an apartment in new york city.t apartment hunting with my daughter in new york. they're closets. and usually rat-infested closets. i live in a nice apartment here in new york and it was surreal because i went home that night after seeing spider man and bono was there and sitting with my wife at spider man and i understand i'm no different than you. i've never been the cool kid, ever. ever. it was cool to be the cool kid for about two minutes. and get a text on my phone and i just laugh. i show it to my wife. we're watching the show and she laughs. it says, bono's backstage. would you like to meet him. i looked add her and went, this is ridiculous. this is ridiculous. so we went backstage and afterwards, we went home and we were standing in our apartment, and i had just a second where i'm like, well, now, wait a minute, how do you leave all this? at this point i was overlooking the skyline of new york. again, i'm a guy who, you know, i grew up in a small town in washington, son of a baker. in my high school yearbook

it sems like roger ails has been pulling strings for the last how many years?t word, real quick. >> one of the amazing things is that it is like a coach taking his play book from one team to the other. when he is working for nixon, or for bush, he advised, look, don't play too much golf because the media will go after you. now he is going after barack obama for playing too much golf. >> exactly. john cook, we got to go. we'll see you. for dentists, the choice is clear. fact is, more dental professionals brush with an oral-b toothbrush than any other brush. trust the brush more dentists and hygienists use, oral-b. [ male announcer ] introducing mio. a revolutionary water enhancer. add a little...add a lot. for a drink that's just the way you like it. make it yours. make it mio. >> this week president obama da press conference where he got tough with the republicans and said, look, you're looking out for the rich. which is true. what happenes with the republican afterwards? all they did is cry about it, watch. >> maybe if you just take a valium and come on down a

the handwrite suggest that of roger ailes. can't compare him then to now >> he recognized when he created fox news channel there was a mighty media machine he believed leaned to the left. not to put out republican talking points, but to give the other side of the story >> we're asked the author of a book how the memo reflects the nixon white house's dealings. >> it said they did not trust the mainstream media and viewed it as an instrument of the political left. they believed they were never going to get a fair shake through the media >> what are a potential counter attack. the memo lays out every production cost and a schedule from videotaping interviews with republican congress men in the morning -- >> getting to the national airport to the cities. >> for shows me roger ailes had a great attention to detail, but this was an era before satellite interviews and you had to find a way to not only do the interviews with your own republican partisans, but to physically get the tape to television stations to play them in the same n

the house won't it would go straight to the heart of roger ailes, fox news and that's the case. >> whether the center of the house. republican bes in the house. >> democrats run the senate. >> from new york, he is interest fundamental there's evidence they did hack into 9/11 family members. he does want it -- >> he did send a letter, certain sport thats. chairman of new york, have a hearing. >> so many layers to this whole thing, karen. what we talk about obviously on this show is the dysfunction of relationships. the alliance is between business, between money and politics and how that distorts policy. watching this makes me feel like it's another example of the unholy alliance, in this case it's not business in government. it's media and government. and for that matter, has many layers to it. your thoughts as you watch. >> absolutely. putting aside my partisan feelings about fox. >> your personal thoughts this moment. >> i'll do the dance later. >> do you that later. >> but you know, at the heart of it, someone said to me, rupert murdoch and roger ailes at the end of the day are business

if you want to be a nominee if you want to be taken seriously you have to have the blessing of roger ailes and rupert murdoch that's absolutely correct that's absolutely correct he built that system out in the u.k. the blogs are go and he's nonstop for many years and had a similar insolence on american. our influence rich is what i'm. is it seems like that is fundamentally an ethical to to democracy i mean this is this this goes even beyond the old yellow journalism of william randolph hearst and his is same to back in what was in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven i think it was to two was the mckinley president mckinley you know given. said you want a war you want the spanish-american war will get pictures and he said it was part frederick remington was nobody asked he said give me the pictures and we'll have the wars of words that i mean this i thought that i think most americans think that it had been it's been a hundred years since newspapers had their county influence you know no well now it's tellers television networks still to this point even though the internet has taken race

we've seen a lot of fighting between his kids about who's going to take over but it's not will roger ailes get a big job you know we'll go to someone else it's which of rupert skewers or rupert murdoch's kids are going to take over the empire sort of very much as a kingdom it's interesting he gets any it's possible with all the news of the world was hacking we know they were they were hacking things about the same time that he stanley in a person is scientists got their emails act and some of the ad lib before yeah and some of their disparaging remarks about colleagues and just kind of backbiting normal stuff human stuff and then thoughts turn because i mean they just trumpeted this constantly and varco absolutely you know climate gate is right to destroy the entire the entire climate change movement right in every every significant investigation of the scientists at. it has come up clean i mean you know that's the way they've been vindicated but you wouldn't know that if you watch fox news or is it possible that it was the murdoch empire that hacked them because scotland yard was supposed

and for force fox to drop the word news from its name and call the network what it really is as roger ailes invision did back in the one nine hundred seventy s. when he worked in the nixon administration g.o.p. t.v. . that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit our website so tom hartman dot free space dot org and. also check out our two you tube channels there are a link to tom hartman dot com entire show is available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free tom hartman i phone and i pad app in the app store you send us feedback and twitter and underscore our on facebook it's all mothers who are on our blogs message boards and telephone comment line it's hard enough and don't forget democracy begins with you when you show up get out there get active tag your it. wealthy british style it's sometimes. a little. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no. the global financial headlines. report. the be. more news today. fled up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the str

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really the giant media apparatus that the right has built in rush limbaugh and then of course the roger ailes of fox news really is running the party or was it a question about that we really would i was a media rather circular prove that out of a number of years with with data watching the talking points kind of go with the other direction and rush limbaugh was worth four hundred million bucks or that was his last track is really worth more than. hannity's contract was two hundred million one back you know forbes they said he's made eight hundred thirty eight million bucks last yeah and so it's like millionaires driving the political dialogue in the multimillion is multimillionaires and then of course billionaires and the koch brothers which will escape the other incredibly incredibly powerful rich individuals in the shadows that are funding you know this is the this campaign that's been growing effort for almost three years to just rip apart the structure of the same suit with with hatred and racism and violence this is the way they think they're going to win the white house and amazing eri

. >> i started this program with a [ bleep ] with roger ails.ith a [ bleep ] about an hour ago. >> interesting, an nba show gets [ bleep ] over a chair. >> very strange and still in your 20s but you [ bleep ] like you're supposed to be 30 and i [ bleep ] like a woman.. >> the name alone makes you want to take a [ bleep ]. the dirty.com. >> can you handle [ bleep ]? >> yes, i can. >> heavy and in the rear. here's your first letter. >> [ bleep ]. >> is it [ bleep ]? wow, nice job. >> well, elmo, does a bear [ bleep ] in the woods? >> 75-year-old ed cole, who says it's never too late to follow your dreams. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i think it is toooo late. we have a good show for you tonight. green bay packers quarterback aaron rodgers is here. we have music tonight from 311. and we'll be right back with shia labeouf, so stick around. here at quicken loans, we take special pride in servicing clients that serve our country. my name is marjorie reyes. i'm a chief warrant officer. i am very grateful and appreciative that quicken loans can off

. >> fox news chairman roger ailes did ask beck to tone it down on a couple of oaks.ave he had the famous lincoln rally. and fox began to believe his television program, for which he was paid a fair amount of money was not a priority where beck felt reined in by fox management. that may have had to do with his departure has the controversies around his rhetoric. >> i agree with that. an anyone who multitasks to that extent is going to inevitably hurt the mothership. it is impossible for a person to do so many things and over a period of time an not have it affect what got you there in the first place. it is kmob for cable hosts to do tv. a lot of them do that. it doesn't affect them nearly as much. but when you have your finger in as many pies as he does, it can't help but affect it. >> glenn beck will launch this on-line program in september. it will have a subscription fee. you have to pay to see it. when you combine that with his radio show and other activities, will he still have a substantial impact? will people in the media talk about glenn beck six months to a

you don't ask roger ailes to tell you what to think? >> no. absolutely. you sample a variety of media and look for things that make sense to you. you may not be an expert in various policy area, but you have common sense and ask yourself, does this pass the smell test? i'm listening to fox, talking about obama is a racist and global warming is a hoax perpetrated by thousands of scientists around the world. does that make sensor not? if it doesn't, you have to ask, who's purveying that information? >> josh, some people want to be intellectually led. they walk around and say i am a dittohead after listening to limbaugh. why would anybody want to be a ditto anything? a ditto husband a ditto wife, a ditto anything? you want to be somewhat original? don't you? something that's self-determined. not something that's a derivative of what rush limbaugh was thinking or saying, put it that way the other afternoon? >> both the left and right have their own built-in shortcomings and on the right there is kind of an authoritarian mentality that prefers in some ways lik

. >> of course, just this past february, the glaring headline "fox news chief roger ailes urged employeeat was in reference to uncovered lawsuit documents that said that judith regan was encouraged to lie to federal investigators. nothing ever came of the claim, but newscorp did they regan $10.7 million in a wrongful termination suit settlement in 2007 what is the latest scandal involving "news of the world" paper? is this a scandal that could take murdoch under? joining me now is the senior adviser to media matters for america. great to have you on. >> great to be here, chris. thanks. >> elyse, you wrote a piece today about why americans should care about the scandal, and it's a good question. batting this around today, there is a question of does this affect us here, or is it fun to gawk at? why should we care? >> we should care because murdoch enjoys undue influence over u.s. media. and one of the things i think we need to learn is not to wait until the entire public is shocked by hacking allegations into a dead child's voicemail, before we actually start asking the questions about wh

roger ailes is far, far away from this. head down and creating a lot of distance and space between himself and this circuit in london. >> they feel murdock is going to survive? >> i think there's a lot of things to john's point. this is a company that is always under fire. this is a ceo who plays by his own rules and they can get themselves out of this. >> once it spreads to america, this is where the money is for him. this is where the profits are. this is where his business is now. england is for murdock. if he can keep -- if nothing spreads here and no wrong doing, he will still, i think, be able to survive. this is really where his business is now. as long as he doesn't get his license stripped or anything, i have to say, i think he will be running this company a year or two from now, unless we find out about the 9/11 fund. two sources of income revenue for this company. fox news and then what was the other? >> all of the tv properties and the film business. "avatar" made the company a being dollars. it's a movie produc