{"id":13934,"date":"2012-04-13T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-04-13T08:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:49:39","slug":"head-of-fox-news-uses-st-louis-as-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/13\/head-of-fox-news-uses-st-louis-as-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Fox News Uses St. Louis As Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked by the Hollywood Reporter if someone would hire fired Current TV commentator Keith Olbermann, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-TV\/2012\/04\/12\/Ailes-On-Olbermanns-Future-Itll-Be-A-Pet-Show-In-St-Louis-Or-Something\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News head Roger Ailes said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You talk about burning bridges. This guy really burns \u2018em. Now, I feel sorry for anybody who\u2019s out of work, so I don\u2019t want to trash him or say anything negative about him. He was great at sports, I thought. And everybody has some redeeming quality, so people find a job again. But it\u2019ll be, you know. A pet show in St. Louis, or something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, has Detroit fallen <em>below<\/em> the minimum threshold to be the punchline these days?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;ll talk down the city of St. Louis as a pit any day of the week, but when Ailes is speaking, he&#8217;s speaking as someone on the coast referring to a backwater, and the entirety of the St. Louis area is not that at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alternate quip:<\/em><\/strong> If only St. Louis spent millions of dollars procuring\/keeping a professional sports team of some sort.  Then it would be considered a big league city by people who matter to people who think people on the coasts matter.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/headlines\/archives\/2012\/04\/12\/video-but-itll-be-you-know-a-pet-show-in-st-louis-or-something\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a>.  I wonder what Breitbart&#8217;s Dana Loesch thinks about Roger Ailes trashing her hometown.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked by the Hollywood Reporter if someone would hire fired Current TV commentator Keith Olbermann, Fox News head Roger Ailes said: You talk about burning bridges. This guy really burns \u2018em. Now, I feel sorry for anybody who\u2019s out of work, so I don\u2019t want to trash him or say anything negative about him. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}