Depending on your worldview, you took the death of Fox News founder Roger Ailes one of two ways. To conservatives, he was remembered as a media visionary, someone who took on an entrenched liberal establishment and gave the right the kind of honest programming and unfiltered news they deserved. If you were a liberal, well, it truly put to test the axiom that you can’t slander the dead.
One Breitbart writer, upset with how journalists on the left blasted Ailes for his various transgressions (including being forced out at Fox News for various instances of alleged sexual assault), spoke up in his defense on Twitter.
Liberal journalists get nasty, make jokes after Roger Ailes’ death https://t.co/nJGwBf5QFa
— Adam Shaw (@AdamShawNY) May 18, 2017
Expecting writers to be chastening by being included in his article, lots on the left instead jumped at the chance to have their dislike of Ailes entered into the permanent record.
hey adam, im a liberal journalist. roger ailes died choking on a diaper. please put me your article
— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) May 18, 2017
Hmmm, my sources are telling me he died while bobbing for turds in a public toilet.
— crisp mattman (@cushbomb) May 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/ShutUpAndrosky/status/865324200701050880
One pointed out that the founder of Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart, loved to blast people after they died.
your boss is here to posthumously own you pic.twitter.com/SHmDYz34ZH
— Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) May 18, 2017
It continued all dang day.
https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/865373727218958336
Statement from Roger Ailes’ wife Elizabeth on his death pic.twitter.com/lQYmI96ROK
— leon (@leyawn) May 18, 2017
Knock knock who’s there not Roger Ailes because he drowned in an inch-deep puddle of jowl drool hey you’re right it’s fun to joke about this
— Sean T. Collins is seantcollins.bsky.social now (@theseantcollins) May 19, 2017
Liberal journalist checking in, Roger Ailes died doing what he loved: forcing his bloated, repulsive body on women who were terrified of him
— K. Thor Jensen 🐀🐀 (@kthorjensen) May 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/crulge/status/865324140693159938
https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/865336443081826304
In death, Ailes taught us all a valuable lesson: If you use a Shop-Vac on your constipation, make sure you can reach the off switch.
— brx0 (@brx0) May 19, 2017
Some even called it a self-own.
https://twitter.com/LizardRumsfeld/status/865324944506408960
Shaw denied that it was anything of the sort.
Apparently some people said a lot of silly things about an article I tweeted out yesterday, and this marks an EPIC defeat for me. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
— Adam Shaw (@AdamShawNY) May 19, 2017
Well it just depends on your own point of view.
