This came out

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/u...itol-riot.html


and it got me to go and read this. This bit about the then head of Fox News is spectacular:


At some point after the 2008 election, something changed with my friend Roger Ailes. I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder. I didn’t expect this meeting to change anything, but I still thought it was bullshit, and I wanted Roger to know it.
When I put it to him like that, he didn’t have much to say. But he did go on and on about the terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, which he thought was part of a grand conspiracy that led back to Hillary Clinton. Then he outlined elaborate plots by which George Soros and the Clintons and Obama (and whoever else came to mind) were trying to destroy him.
“They’re monitoring me,” he assured me about the Obama White House. He told me he had a “safe room” built so he couldn’t be spied on. His mansion was being protected by combat-ready security personnel, he said. There was a lot of conspiratorial talk. It was like he’d been reading whacked-out spy novels all weekend.

And it was clear that he believed all of this crazy stuff. I walked out of that meeting in a daze. I just didn’t believe the entire federal government was so terrified of Roger Ailes that they’d break about a dozen laws to bring him down. I thought I could get him to control the crazies, and instead I found myself talking to the president of the club.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...excerpt-478506


also:



https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statu...06234808303617

https://dnyuz.com/2021/04/02/no-fede...ble-companies/

https://twitter.com/David_Leavitt/st...58980632748037


https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/...36038394646533



https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/s...68918902243329


https://twitter.com/allahpundit/stat...49539892391942



https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-i...tructure-bill/



https://twitter.com/allahpundit/stat...90287233560579




https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1379968698983841793