David Frum reads Gabriel Sherman’s new piece on Roger Ailes. Among his takeaways:
Mitt Romney has been plugging along, off-camera, raising money, building support among business leaders and county party chairs. He has been the unspoken target of Fox’s media campaign since 2009. Romney gets scant attention in the Sherman story, except as an example of a candidate whom Ailes finds “not compelling.” Yet by any conventional definition, Romney is the Republican front-runner. Presumably he has been working hard to woo Ailes, and unsuccessfully. Ailes remains unreconciled. If Ailes throws Fox beyond a credible opponent, say Tim Pawlenty, Ailes becomes Romney’s most lethal and important enemy. How Romney handles Ailes will tell a lot about whether he has the cunning and the toughness to be a successful president.
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