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EXCLUSIVE: HBO appears obsessed by GOP Conservatives. There have been movies about the 2000 Bush vs Gore election standoff and Sarah Palin and most recently a TV series featuring George W Bush’s severed head. Now HBO has done a secret deal for an Untitled Roger Ailes Project. It’s based on the upcoming manuscript by media writer Gabriel Sherman who has written two cover stories for New York magazine on Ailes and Fox News, including his mammoth article “The Elephant In The Green Room” which came out a little more than a year ago and prompted complaints from the Fox News CEO. Last year, Sherman signed a book contract with Random House tentatively titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room: An Inside Account of the Rise of Fox News”. I’ve also learned that executive producing this latest HBO project are two of Ailes’ competitors: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of MSNBC‘s Morning Joe. NYC-based Hotchkiss and Associates made the HBO deal for the film rights to Sherman’s book on behalf of the Ross Yoon Agency. Scarborough’s and Brzezinski’s producing deal was negotiated by WME Entertainment, the Hollywood agency run by Ari Emanuel who is a Democratic activist (and the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former Obama White House chief of staff).
None of this has been announced yet because sources tell me Sherman is still researching the book and plans to finish writing it by the end of the summer for a 2013 publishing date. “Nothing much to say. No book yet to read. No script. We’ll wait to see what the script looks like and then decide whether to develop further,” a cagey HBO exec explained to me. It’s commonplace for Time Warner’s premier pay TV channel to sign up books before they’re published and then turn them into TV movies. In this TV movie, a source tells me, ”HBO prefers to take on Fox News through Ailes. The idea is that it should make Fox News look like a Mafia, and you get into this through Ailes, sidestepping Murdoch, not approaching the story head on.”
While Sherman works on his book, the New York Daily News recently reported that Ailes was helping conservative writer Zev Chafets fast-track a book about Ailes and the cable-news network “because he’s worried about the exhaustively reported book that New York magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman is writing on the same subject.” In 2010, Chafets published the praisery Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. “Given the author’s perspective and the cooperation he’s getting, one source characterized Chafets’ book ‘as a way for Ailes to scoop Sherman,’” the Daily News write. “The depth of Sherman’s reporting has ratcheted up the 71-year-old Ailes’ anxiety levels because he’s preoccupied with his legacy these days.” The Daily News reported that Fox News has granted extensive access to Chafets, whose book is being published by Penguin’s conservative Sentinel imprint in the fall.
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HBO sucks. They haven’t had a hit since the Soprano’s.
Game of Thrones? True Blood?
Who cares…..HBO is just another left wing hacked job channel. Liberals dont care about the truth or loving the USA…all they care about is undermining and destroying the west and this country
Dropped hbo do to the crappy content and lil boy bill maher. They are nothing but bullies and don’t like America.
Ailes’s Fox News appeals to the weak minded.
Prove it or retract your statement.
Hmm, Conservatives tend to be self-sufficient and “rugged individualists”. Weak people are dependent, lazy, and seek to absolve themselves of personal responsibility by looking to government (er, taxpayers) to assuage their bleeding hearts, pay for their housing, food, clothes, health care…
Grow a pair.
Good! Fox is no longer a “News” station like it was in the 90s when I loved it. It started as a great News Station and then became nothing more than an Entertainmet, knockdown dragout political station with same type ratings Jerry Springer had with furniture beinig thrown by insane guests.
Fox needs to be put in its place for the simple reason all talk radio is right wing and then Fox not a real news station so let HBO go for it and start to balance things out. We really don’t need political stations either way since it is only dividing the nation imo.
Fox needs to be “put in its place”? Wow. Maybe like taking away their right to free speech? “All” talk radio is right wing? You’re kidding, right? We live in a free market where ANYONE is free to talk. You can get your message out in newsletters, on the internet, buy radio time-our constitution allows it. If no one pays attention, that’s not the fault of the ones people do pay attention to.
Which is exactly the very thingHBO is doing with their Ailes movie. Free speech. And here are all your right wing cohorts pissing and moaning about the movie.
does anyone even watch these movies? the sarah palin one? etc? snooooooze. hope they get more viewers than MSNBC/CNN combined. Good luck fuckers!
Gotta love it when Drudge links and all the dipshits from hateville show up with their popping veins
There’s a psychology term for your type of comment its “psychological projection”. That’ll be $75.00.
Gotta love it when the Lefties feel so superior to anyone using Drudge for links. They all know the truth comes from HuffPo.
If you do not agree with the direction of HBO, than cancel them. I have, just like I dropped my Progressive Insurance. The CEO at Progressive is another big liberal. We, conservatives have to start playing the liberal game and stop supporting those who’s views are to radical for America.
I canceled HBO, but I wish I could cancel MSNBC. I can’t believe how Joe Scarbrough can change like he has, co-producing the Ailes project. They all just wish they had someone as good as Ailes working on their team.
It is really very simple. You can cancel MSNBC by blocking it on your remote.
You can cancel MSNBS by yanking your satellite from your roof and subscribing to Netflix.
Get your “newsfix” online.
Grow up Faux and get over it. You have caused division in the nation, are wrong about most things and whoever you support will always lose.
You say you are most powerful so no worries.
It is so clever when people use Faux instead of Fox. And not overused by the left at all! Score one for you.
Mark, you silly goose. If telling the truth “divides the nation,” then tough shit. And I doubt that you really believe the rotten tripe that you’ve posted — you just want everyone else to believe it.
Who cares except the stupid “sheep” that watch the garbage these HBO idiots produce these days. I hope come November we will put these morons in their place and they will be sitting on park benches begging for money. Our society doesn’t need them and only the stupid “sheep” think the world revolves round these morons and their FOLLYWOOD counterparts.
Take this comment. Replace “HBO” with Fox News and “Follywood” with Talk Radio and I agree completely.
I cancelled HBO. Hit them where it hurts the most-the pocketbook.
Fox/Ailes/(Hell, even the internet…) are hated by liberals because they exposed (and therefore destroyed) the liberal MSM oligopoly that essentially operated as a state-run, skull-f**king propaganda arm of the DC establishment.
If Hollywood had the brains to peer behind DC’s pontifications and simply observe the actual *results* of DC’s policies – it would be a hell of a lot less “liberal”.
(Anybody out there ever wonder why higher education and medicine – the two most heavily subsidized social services have gone through *decades* of insane inflation? DC *funds* corruption – it doesn’t end it.)
But too much of Hollywood is about appearances – literal and figurative.
Stupidity and poseurs result in an industry that believes new era billionaire oligopolists like HBO (between tit shots and blood spurts) really sides with the “little guy”).
Add HBO to the list of networks I will no longer watch or care about. Going left is not in your best interest HBO when most of the Country is center – right. Bad move.
I love that commentators are criticizing HBO for being partisan – in their defense of FOX news. FOX NEWS!!! Ha, ha, LOL.
Oh, you’re serious. Never mind.
When did HBO become a left-wing news station?
I would think for entertainment value the “Outing of Anderson Cooper” or “Who slept with David Letterman” would probably give them a bigger ratings boost. Typical liberals when they can’t compete they ridicule.
I just dropped HBO about 2 weeks ago! I am very tired of the Leftist, moronic slant to most of their shows. i have decided that I will speak with my wallet from now on! I will also start boycotting their sponsors and their products. My money – MY CHOICE!
Proman,
They don’t have sponsors. They’re a subscriber based channel – which you would know if you’d ever subscribed.
As a consumer, YOU are Captain of the Economy. YOU decide which companies succeed and which ones fail. It’s an awesome responsibility and an awesome priviledge. Congradulations, my friend! You’re wielding your powers well.
I would like to watch True Blood this season,but I can’t send my money to the DNC.
Very simple. The Left likes boycotts. I say call your cable provider and cancel HBO.
Roger says thanks: “Well done, my minions…”
If the conservatives of the world would just not subscribe to this trash they would either change or go broke. They make all their money by their subscribers…they don’t have advertisers.
Wow, someone hit a nerve.
Now that’s what I call INTEGRITY in journalism (NOT)!!!
This l’il pearl of wisdom from someone who identifies himself as Looneytunes. ‘Nuf said.
WOW — the repugs are out in full force defending their minister of propaganda. The notion that the liberal media is embodied by CNN or MSNBC is laughable. Anywhere else in the world these organizations are seen as far to the right of center, whereas FOX is so extreme it can only be characterized as Hate Speech. It should be criminally sanctioned and taken off the air. I find it really sad that America has left democracy behind and worse still that all of you are so delusional as to not see just how infected by bile and venality you’ve become. America used to stand for compassion and human betterment, I read these posts and cry shame shame shame. History will judge Roger Ailes and it will not be kind. Here’s hoping HBO has the strength to do him justice. Happy Independence Day.
Just keep thinking everyone with whom you disagree politically is a “repug.”
As for your rant, have the stones to support your assertion that Fox News — and I presume the opinion programs, not the news slots themselves — is so extreme that is hate speech.
If you cannot or won’t, then retract the statement.
Personally, I won’t bet a used Kleenex that you have either the character or integrity to do that.
Typical Democrat/regressive/liberal/leftist: When you’ve got nothing to say, throw out the slander or ad hominems or do whatever else to distract.
Wow, I am not a member of any political party and I am not tethered to any political ideology. But, your post is ridiculous.
“It should be criminally sanctioned and taken off the air.” (that’s a simple cut/paste). Are you insane? You have just defined “liberalism” and/or “progressive”, as you folks have decided to define arogant selves, in a nut shell. If doesn’t agree with you freaks it needs to be stifled? “CRIMINALLY SANCTIONED”????? Achtung dude. You would disgust a maggot!!
Anything that exposes your ideology as complete and utter idiocy is “hate speech” which must be silenced…interesting point of view, Herr Fuhrer.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -Sam Adams
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -Patrick Henry
I’ll stand with my “Haters”, you can have Maddow, Mathews, and Maher.
Silly folks. Roger Ailes is a hack and is in the business of misleading the uneducated. Thank Darwin someone is shining a light on it. Fox isn’t even remotely a news channel. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just misinformed.
You know, you didn’t have to make your remark and show that you are both ignorant and stupid.
Show the data, not your opinion, that Fox misleads anyone, but especially the undereducated.
And point-by-point, show that Fox News Channel “is not even remotely a news channel.”
If you lack the character or integrity to do that, then withdraw the statements.
And have to stones for being either “just misinformed” or a liar.