Quote of the Day: Stop Calling Roger Ailes Fat

Elspeth Reeve 45 Views Jan 18, 2011

"I know what you're going to write about me ... I can pretty much pick the words for you. Paranoid, right-wing, fat. I love that. I'm the only guy in America who's fat."

--Fox News head Roger Ailes, on what reporters--and mean people on the Internet--always say about him, to Esquire's Tom Junod.

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