The Fox News makeup treatment is unlike any other in journalism. It involves false lashes, layers and layers of foundation and heavy applications of come-hither lip gloss.
.. Sexing up female reporters — even those from The New York Times — was part of the Fox News look as conceived by Roger Ailes
.. he had specific ideas about how women should treat him off-camera, as well.
While Mr. Ailes doled out attractive female anchors in revealing outfits as eye candy, his empire thrived partly on its audience’s widespread fear of the only woman who has ever had a real shot at the presidency, the person I was there that day to discuss: Hillary Clinton.
.. Over two decades, Fox News made Mrs. Clinton one of the longest-running villains on TV. Mr. Ailes would rewrite her part over the years:
- In the 1990s, she was a bra-burning affront to stay-at-home mothers;
- in her Senate race, she was an entitled wife riding on her husband’s coattails;
- by the 2008 primary, she was Lady MacBeth, desperate to star in her own production.
.. But Fox News also gave something to Mrs. Clinton: proof of the “vast right-wing conspiracy
.. If there was any poetic justice, it was that a woman caused the downfall of Mr. Ailes in the end.