The Afternoon Scoop - Roger Ailes Responds to Media Drubbing

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JUNE 6, 2011

Roger Ailes Plays Nice The Fox News honcho responds to a media drubbing. In the current issue of Newsweek, Ailes talks to Howard Kurtz about Anthony Weiner and Sarah Palin while dismissing a Rolling Stone report about his bulletproof office as "fiction." Read it at The Daily Beast Breitbart Leaks More Weiner Shots Uh-oh! More alleged photos of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner have been leaked on the Internet. Andrew Breitbart's Big Government claims to have a disturbing photo initially sent through Weiner's AOL account via BlackBerry to a woman in early May. One picture shows the congressman on a couch next to cats, and the apparent subject line is "Me and the pussies." Another shows his naked torso. Breitbart claims the shots are part of a "cache of intimate photos and online communications" between Weiner and another woman, some of which are "graphic." Read it at The Daily Beast Syria: 120 Police Killed By "armed groups" in tense northern region. Iraqi Attack Kills Five Americans Deadliest single incident of 2011. Strauss-Kahn Pleads Not Guilty Maids heckle ex-IMF chief at courthouse. Will & Kate Moving to Diana's Old Home London's Kensington Palace to be official residence. Sign up for The Yes List email, our weekly cultural recommendations. For more of The Daily Beast, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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