Imagine A Fox Version Of The Daily Show

Rupert Murdoch‘s recent cocktail party “unexpectedly featured Roger Ailes getting off a couple of Jon Stewart-quality jokes at the expense of the president,” Forbes’ James Brady says. “Ailes, a onetime talk show producer who used to hone the image of Republican presidential candidates and now heads Fox TV for Murdoch, is a jolly fellow and an acknowledged wit. But whacking Bush in public? Yet here he was, asking rhetorically:”

“Thirty years ago, the National Guard couldn’t find George Bush; how are they expected to find Mexicans?”

By the way, is Fox creating a show styled after Stewart’s Daily Show for FNC and/or Fox Broadcast?…

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