In an interview with Variety published Tuesday, Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said he isn’t shocked that one of the most popular Fox News anchors — Megyn Kelly — isn’t affiliated with any political party.
“We have the largest segment of independent viewers of any news channel,” Ailes told Variety. “So that doesn’t surprise me at all.”
“There are Libertarians. There are Conservatives. There are Republicans. There are Democrats. We have Liberals.”
“We even have a few Progressives.”
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“We have Liberals or Progressives under contract here, so no, I don’t try to tell — and I don’t want to tell — anybody how to vote or what to think. They can think what they want and say what they want.”
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When asked about what he thinks the next generation of Fox News viewers wants to watch, Ailes said he won’t chase millennials.
“I don’t think there is a broad herd of, like, buffalo out there that we’ve got to capture and shoot, because they grow out of that phase and move into another phase. You tell the truth in the coverage and I don’t know how that falls.”
“I mean, everything that the federal government is currently doing is broke. That’s a fact.”
“Is that a conservative statement or a liberal statement? Liberals would say, well, that’s how conservatives think. No, it isn’t. It’s broke. Social Security is broke. The veterans are broke. The Army’s broke. Everybody is broke. Nobody really says that, but we tend to say what the truth is, and it’s so shocking, they attack us.”