FEAR & UNbalanced: Confessions of a 14-Year Fox News Hitman

How Roger Ailes & Fox News Got Rich Scamming America’s La Z Boy Cowboys and Selling Out America’s Soul

16 min readMay 26, 2017

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Since his death, many folks have asked me about my 14 years at Fox News and my experiences with Roger Ailes. I can tell you he was one of the top 5 best public speakers I’ve ever heard. I can tell you like anyone who knew him he was funny as hell and the MOST competitive person I ever met in the business. He also prized loyalty above all else and repaid that loyalty in spades countless times.

BUT…in 2000 when I started at Fox as a paid contributor (aka “Hitman’) and asked my new boss (like my pal Joan Walsh from Slate.com

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Tobin Smith

Founder ChangeWave Research/14 yrs Fox Newser/NYT Contributor/Editor Transformity Investor TobinSmith.io & truemarketinsiders.io NYT Best Selling Author