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Fox News chairman/CEO Roger Ailes referred to CNN’s Soledad O’Brien in a speech earlier this week to North Carolina journalism students as “that girl that’s named after a prison.” MediaIte, which reported Ailes’ remark, updated its report when O’Brien Tweeted a correction: “Um. I wasn’t named after a prison. Ailes is mistaken. I was named after the Virgin Mary.” O’Brien has addressed the issue before. Her name is Maria de la Soledad Teresa O’Brien. Her father chose the name Maria de la Soledad to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude — which in Spanish is soledad.
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien To Fox’s Roger Ailes: ‘I Was Named After The Virgin Mary’
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Education is a wonderful thing. When you have it.
Education is indeed a wonderful thing, and so is a sense of humor. Since the chances of any parent naming their daughter after California’s “Soledad Prison” are zero, an educated person would have realized that Ailes was joking, even if the joke was disrespectful.
If that’s how you wanna view it, power to ya.
Which means that Ailes was being an asshole.
The fact that ignorance still exists shocks and amazes me. But what shocks and amazes me more are the people like you who protect and proliferate it.
The only “ignorance” on evidence is your own, in failing to see that no, Ailes didn’t really think O’Brien’s parents named her after Soledad Prison (because they just LOVED that prison so much?), he was making a joke. Call it a bad joke if you want. I said Ailes’ joke was “disrespectful.” Someone else above said Ailes was being an “asshole,” and I will accept that as valid. But only an idiot thinks “ignorance” explains what Ailes said. Frankly, being an asshole is worse than being ignorant. Ignorance can be innocent. Being an asshole involves ill-will.
HOW do you know he was joking?! That’s what racists do. They say racists things, get caught, then p-out with “I was just joking.” Like that “jester” on FOX news, Eric Bolling, when told Maxine Waters to get off the crack pipe, then after commercial, Bolling p’ed out and said he was joking. You’re worse, That’s your right to do that. But know that I consider you a racist because of it. You have no idea Ailes was joking. And regarding education, wouldn’t an educated man like Ailes be smart enough to know NOT to equate Soledad’s name with a prison? Ever thought of that, asshole racist?!
You’re right. It’s a bad joke.
Just like the entire Fox News Channel.
Considering the terrible fact checking, proofreading and misinformation displayed by FOX News, I don’t think you can completely rule out ignorance.
Ailes is a prick and Ms . O’Brien hasn’t been a girl in a long time. She is a fully grown woman sir.
This is true, Soledad is almost 46 years old.
But let’s be frank, both O’Brien and Ailes are political hacks. No humans are involved, here.
Especially the one who wrote the above comment
And you’re Mother Theresa, right? Once you start denying the humanity of someone, you are heading down a precarious road…
How is O’Brien a “political hack”? She’s a competent newsreader and pretty good reporter. (The hour long investigative special she did about the Atlanta child murders for CNN last year was riveting.) As far as I can tell, she was an innocent bystander here who Ailes took a swipe at for being female and having a name with Spanish origins.
Simply appearing on television does not negate one’s humanity.
Calm down. O’Brien and Ailes are essentially the same, political hacks. She pretends to go left, he pretends to go right. For now, at least.
You seem to think O’Brien is your special TV friend. She is – as a commenter pointed out – a “newsreader.”
Soledad O’Brien reads whatever text is projected before her. She repeats whatever is said into her earpiece. And when she strays beyond these limitations, she panics on live TV because Soledad O’Brien doesn’t always do her homework. Look her up on YouTube to watch your newsreader stammer and stare and repeat whatever is shouted into her earpiece.
And if Ailes offered her enough money, she’d have Roger Ailes shouting in her earpiece. Media figures aren’t your special TV friends, they’re hacks.
Well, the phrase “Roger was mistaken” is a pretty good description of Roger Ailes any time.
You go, Soledad.
I wouldn’t watch her if she was the only thing on TV in prison.
Beauty and the Beast. Go, Soledad, go!
It’s odd that the people who want Public Schools to get less money say things like this.
I wonder what he named his double chin after?
Ailes has been owned
It’s like saying Santa Monica was named after Father Christmas.
What a loser.
More cutting-edge output from Fox.
Winning comment!
Better you be named after a prison then look like the human version of Jabba the hut.
Please don’t insult Jabba like that. And @moretears, since Ailes does not have a sense of humor, how would one know it was a joke?! He insulted women and showed his ignorance in one sentence. Now, that is the unfunny truth.
Oh my goodness, Roger Ailes is a bigot and a misogynist? Say it ain’t so! Either way, go Soledad!
So when given the opportunity to address the next generation of journalists, he took an immature pot shot at a competitor? Not a fan of Soledad’s work, but there’s a time and a place for everything. Oh well, at least he didn’t waste time extolling the virtues of accurate and responsible journalism, that would have been the real farce.
this is such a generic statement that is utterly inapplicable to this situation: he clearly insulted her, racially and personally for no apparent reason than just to be a jerk. And your being an apologist for this type of behavior is hardly worthy of the effort. IF you can only see the world as ‘them’ and ‘my team’, you’ve lost not only a great degree of what truly makes (and has made) America great: the ability for many points of view to meld together and form the nation. You’ve lost all sense of proportion and what is normal behavior. I’m not an extremist on either side, but I think this sort of ugly, insulting rhetoric ought to be just kicked to the curb, no matter who says it. And your blanket attack on liberals on anything that involves some conservative demigod does nothing to forward either the course of the debate or the nation but just adds fuel to an already raging and unnecessary conflagration.
Ailes is beating a dead horse… Soledad’s ratings are the worst in ten years at CNN in her timeslot.. She’ll be replaced by the end of the year..
CNN was replaced by FOX in the ratings a decade ago.
Do not insult Ailes!!! To do so is to risk becoming a victim of the almighty sarlacc…where you will be digested for a thousand years,forced to endure unending pain and suffering as you listen to endless broadcasts of the Rush Limbaugh radio show over and over until the end of time!!! I think Ailes himself said it best when he said-
“Han, mah bukee, keel-ee caleya ku kah. Wanta dah moole-rah? Wonkee chee sa crispa con Greedo?”
As opposed to Ailes who just flat out thinks he’s a Supreme Being who can do no wrong. Ms. O’Brien and a “few others” make CNN, a 24 hour news network, unwatchable. Maybe you should just tune in at differnt times of the day.
She’s a bore, he’s a pig. If she were a boar they would be related. That is all the interest I can up with.
Sorry, there’s no way to spin this as anything other than another in a long line of idiotic statements from the radical right that show both their stupidity and moral bankruptcy. And if that was supposed to be a “joke,” all I can say is, don’t quit your day job Mr. Ailes, you don’t have a future in standup.
Sure… because, as we all know, there isn’t an even longer line of idiotic statements from the radical (and the not so radical) left that show both their stupidity and moral bankruptcy. We could start with Bill Maher…
Rush Limbaugh called then-13-year old Chelsea Clinton a dog for no reason (and no, he didn’t mix up the slides).
He called Sandra fluke a whore for speaking her mind before Congress.
Ailes said Soledad’s named after a prison.
See a pattern here?
And let’s not get on the whole Bill Maher/Palin thing. While I don’t condone him calling her the “c” word, let’s remember that before the incident she had spouted years of lies and venom toward anybody remotely on the left. The same cannot be said of 13-year Chelsea, Fluke or O’Brien.
So every female named Mary, or Maria, or Dolores for that matter (on the same principle as Soledad) thinks she’s the Mother of God? I see logic and coherent thinking is not your strong suit.
I’ll say it again. The ones who protect and support ignorance and borderline, racism, like Ailes is truly mind-boggling.
What a moron Ailes is…hey nitwit…do your homework first before spewing off stupid crap from your mouth that makes no sense. CNN isn’t any better.
Glad to see all the liberal leftwingers here have had their sense of humor surgically removed. And she was named after the prison, only her parents made up the other story, so her feelings wouldn’t be hurt.
A racist who hires other racists and race-baiters to say racist things says something patently racist about a Latina news anchor. Why is anyone surprised?
O’Brien has always been one of CNN’s classier acts, which, naturally, made her a target for Ailes. He should address the bigger problem that NO serious journalistic entity takes Fox, or their people, seriously. How often does someone go from CNN to ABC, CBS or NBC ? All the time. How often does one of the major news(real news) organazations hire someone away from Fox……never. You simply can’t trust Fox. Plus, they have NO younger, minority or female viewers under 80.
I doubt it’s the first time she’s heard that comment. For her to explain the origin of her name makes her look overtly sensitive.
As much as I’m sure Alles intended the comment as a joke, to truly consider this a joke would be to insult everything that has ever been funny. In that sense, I prefer to think Alles is just an ignorant jackass which is not far from the truth. As for O’Brien, she shouldn’t have even dignified the comment with a response because anyone with a brain I’m Sure assumes his comment was incorrect. Makes her look kind of stupid, then again, I’m one of the many who already assumed she was named after the Virgin Mary