If there was ever a fictional figure that Hollywood would find fascinating and multidimensional, it would be someone like Roger Ailes. Yet Ailes and his brainchild Fox News, one of his many wildly successful ventures, was broadly vilified by the Hollywood liberal elite. Ailes is not a black or white figure, and liberals who love to claim they view the world through a sophisticated, nuanced lens, often didn’t apply that standard to Ailes. Whether it was some Founding Fathers holding slaves, the multiple infidelities of Bill Clinton, or Martin Luther King, Jr., cheating on his wife, history is replete with figures who were forces for good in some areas of their public lives (Clinton, for example, worked with Republicans to lift millions of people out of poverty in landmark welfare reform) while in private they committed deep wrongdoings. Clearly the forces of Light and Dark reside within each of us. No, Hollywood, Dick Cheney isn’t Darth Vader, no Steve Bannon isn’t the Grim Reaper, no President George W. Bush isn’t Satan incarnate. Comedian Jon Stewart would mercilessly beat on Ailes and Fox News (while making a nice profit for himself and Comedy Central), with no regard for balance in his ruthless comedy. He justified…
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