A segment from the Sunday morning talk shows involving Arianna Huffington and Roger Ailes:
AILES: FOX News is fair and balanced. We had Geraldine Ferraro on for 10 years as the only woman the Democrats ever nominated. Now we have the only woman that the Republicans nominated. I'm not in politics, I'm in ratings. We're winning.
HUFFINGTON: Roger, you clearly are in ratings, but if you are in ratings, can you explain to me why FOX went away from the meeting the president was having in -- why did you go away, 20 minutes before the end?
AILES: Because we're the most trusted name in news.
This helps to understand why Republicans do their best thinking when expressed in the form of slogans: it is because the man behind the 24/7 Republican propaganda machine, himself, can only think in slogans.
UPDATE: Ahem...
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