Roger Ailes accuses President Obama of class warfare and racial divisiveness. Has he EVER watched his cable news station?

Fox News Latino. Nothing openly kiss ass about this right?

Courtesy of New Republic:

Roger Ailes is kvetching. “The president likes to divide people into groups,” he huffs into the phone. “He’s too busy getting the middle class to hate rich people, blacks to hate whites. He is busy trying to get everybody to hate each other.” With that off his chest, Ailes gets back on message. “We need to get along,” he says. 

It’s an unexpected plea from the Fox News CEO considering his impressive record of provocation. But recently, “getting along” has become an imperative for the conservative movement. Mitt Romney lost the Latino vote by nearly 50 points, and now almost everyone agrees that the Republican Party needs to improve with Hispanic voters to have a shot at the White House in 2016. That could also be Ailes’s last year at Fox News: His contract expires then, when he’ll be 76 years old. So if Roger Ailes wants to see a Republican win what may be his last presidential election as a major player, he’ll need to try to make conservatism more palatable to Latinos. Which, of course, he will. 

“The fact is, we have a lot—Republicans have a lot more opportunity for them,” Ailes says. “If I’m going to risk my life to run over the fence to get into America, I want to win. I think Fox News will articulate that.” 

Sadly for Ailes however is the fact that the audience for, and the talking heads representing, his cable news channel (Which is infamous for creating racial strife) are not quite so ready to embrace the pro-Latino love fest.

Old habits die hard, however, and some of the delicacies of the immigration debate are lost on these recent converts. Just after the election, O’Reilly chose as one of his show’s best moments a clip of himself saying: “I’m not committing a hate crime by saying ‘illegal aliens’ are just that.” Similarly, Hannity tells me: “I’ve used ‘illegals’ all these years I’ve been on TV....I don’t see it as an offensive term.” 

Neither do many Fox viewers. A National Hispanic Media Coalition survey in September found “a consistent pattern whereby Fox News audiences are indeed more likely to hold negative stereotypes about Latinos.” For the average Fox News anchor—not to mention fan—immigration reform is a harder sell than Ailes and other Republican elites admit.

Okay so who is it again "trying to get everybody to hate each other?"

Yeah if Ailes thinks that firing Dick Morris and Sarah Palin will fool the brown skinned people in this country into believing that Fox News is no longer in the business of racial division he has another think coming.

For one thing as long as he allows his anchors to launch ad hominem attacks against the President, with little or no evidence to back them up, he will continue to drive away the African American and Latino community in droves, as they see this President as the future of this country, and rich old fat men like Roger Ailes as its racist, oppressive, and lily white past.

On the right is Mitt Romney appearing on Univision and attempting to appeal to the Latino vote. I expect Roger Ailes approach to be very similar.