Politico's Mike Allen reported last week that friends of Fox News chief Roger Ailes are urging him to run for president. Ailes is laughing off the idea, saying the country needs "fair and balanced" news more than ever and, besides, he couldn't afford the pay cut. Would Ailes stand a chance if he ran?
No way. It's too silly to even discuss: Roger Ailes "will never, ever be president," said Alex Koppelman in Salon. "The idea is ridiculous on its face." Ailes has a "position of power at Fox News," but he's still just "an acerbic right-wing hack" with "zero public profile." But Ailes isn't the bad guy in this story -- that honor belongs to the Politico guy "who somehow managed to turn an obviously bogus idea into a would-be legitimate piece of reportage."
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