Robert Reich: When Roger Ailes And I Didn’t Make A Deal – OpEd

Roger Ailes did more to degrade the tone of public life in America than anyone since Joseph McCarthy. 

In 1998, Ailes asked me to drop by his office in New York City. The Monica Lewinsky scandal was exploding, and Fox News’s prime-time ratings were soaring because of it. 

I had gone public in defense of Clinton’s...