Fair and Balanced? CEO Ailes Stands Behind Fox News Slogan March 9, 2010

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/05/Uncommon_Knowledge_Fox_and_More_with_Roger_Ailes

CEO Roger Ailes rejects the accusation that Fox News is rigidly conservative. "We report, you decide," Ailes says. "We have as many liberals as we have conservatives on the Fox News Channel."

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Fox News CEO Roger Ailes talks about his recipe for a successful news network. "I recognized that the American people did not want to be told what to think about the information they were receiving...We just want a dialogue, and we believe the ideas and the issues will sort themselves out."

Is Ailes a conservative? Does Fox News shape the nation's politics, as many on the left claim? Ailes responds. He also offers up his expertise to our current commander-in-chief.

"[Barack Obama] is underexposed and overexposed. He said he was going to be transparent. He is not. So that is underexposure. Yet he is on television every time I look at the television set. He is overexposed, but he is not letting us in on any of the inner workings of what he is trying to accomplish." - Hoover Institution

Roger Ailes worked on Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, on Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, and on George H.W. Bush's 1988 campaign. In 1996 Ailes joined News Corp. to found a new cable network, Fox News, where his is now president and CEO.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.