Per the New York Times’s Media Decoder blog, “Gawker, the popular blog based in New York, is going to court to investigate the relationship between the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. …
The lawsuit has its origins in a New York magazine story in May which reported that Mr. Ailes had called Mr. Christie and “encouraged him to jump into the race” for president earlier this year. The report piqued the attention of people like Mr. Cook who believe that Mr. Ailes, a former Republican strategist who has run Fox News since its founding in 1996, still has a hand in politics. Mr. Christie has repeatedly ruled out running for president in the current election cycle.
Yikes. Seems like people are starting to wise up to the fact that just because a morbidly obese elected official is quick with condescending, bullying words, that doesn’t mean you have to cower in his presence. And, just because a former prosecutor who handpicked cases to keep a 90+ percent winning percentage alive claims his suckling of the FoxNews overlord’s teet was private correspondence, that doesn’t make it so.
Good on Cook. And good on Gawker.
These are going to be really, really fun to Tweet about, aren’t they, Gov. Christie’s $60K-a-year Tweeter?
Gov. Chris Christie Claims Fox News Chief as Confidential Adviser [Gawker]