Roger Ailes likes Rachel Maddow (and wants to start a new History Channel to teach "real" history)

[mota bhai 2,675]

Among your competitors, is there any talent you particularly admire?

I think Rachel Maddow has been a surprise to a lot of people. She wouldn't really work at this network because she wouldn't even come in the door, but on a personal level, I like her. I don't want to hurt her career, so I won't say we get along, but I've had dialogue with her, and she's very smart. She has adapted well to the television medium.

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Do you have any interest to work with Bill [o"Reilly] on other projects, like the assassination histories he's done with National Geographic?

I do. I would like News Corp to form a history channel and let Bill work with me. I'd run it for him because I'd like history done correctly for a change. They're not teaching the kids the real stuff. I think there is room for another channel, and I would love to do it.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/roger-ailes-fights-back-cnn-668765

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Yes. The real stuff, not the way liberals tell it.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I wonder what the 'real history' is. After people started pushing that creationism and intelligent design bollocks, who knows what the nutjobs will dream up next.

[GandD 5,966]

They should just tell the kids we're not sure where we come from. Either we evolved or poofed.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I wonder what the 'real history' is.

The victors get to tell the story. Who knows what really happened at places like Carthage and Thebes.

[mota bhai 2,675]

So we should let the slavers tell the story of slavery, just to be fair?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I think history should be taught by people with a decent education in the subject they want to teach. Not some wingnut idiot.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

So we should let the slavers tell the story of slavery, just to be fair?

Dialectic is important.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Dialectic is important.

Meaning?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Be sure to take an anti emetic before going to that lesson.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Meaning?

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds. And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience. -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Meaning?

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds. And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience. -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Um, okay? I was asking what did you mean by dialect?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Dialectic. He answered your question.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

My apologies, I thought the word was dialect. Carry on.