Which begs the question: where is this bar where Roger Ailes and Jon Stewart can be seen hanging out together? In a discussion yesterday at Ohio University, Fox News chief Roger Ailes blew the lid off the Jon Stewart‘s true ideology, apparently after being asked whether Stewart would do well without Fox News. The quote comes from a talk Ailes gave at Ohio University yesterday, where he spoke about the media generally and Fox News specifically, and how to run a successful news organization. Ailes said that Stewart "wouldn’t do well without Fox. Ailes commented that Stewart had more or less admitted to being a socialist while the two were in a bar. Among the other highlights of the talk are Ailes’ accusation that “Media Matters writes all of the primetime programming for MSNBC” and is “out of the news business,” meaning talent like Brian Williams “wouldn’t want to be caught dead over there.” He clarified that Fox News is not trying to acquire President Obama’s school transcripts and answered why he believed he could run Fox News: “One thing that qualifies me to run a journalism organization is the fact that I don’t have a journalism degree.” 
 
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– Ever wonder what would happen if Jon Stewart and Roger Ailes went for a beer? According to Ailes, the two actually did meet in a bar once—and the Daily Show host "basically admitted he's a socialist," said Ailes. The Fox News chief, speaking at his alma mater, Ohio University, described Stewart as a comedian who "wouldn't do well without Fox," Mediaite reports. The only difference between Fox and CNN or MSNBC, Ailes told the audience, is that "Fox invites liberal voices to engage in dialogue." MSNBC is "out of the news business," said Ailes, who also laid into the Associated Press, which he said "tips to the left," and the New York Times, which he called a "cesspool of bias" with reporters who are "a bunch of lying scum," reports the Huffington Post. Asked why he believed he could run Fox News, Ailes said, "One thing that qualifies me to run a journalism organization is the fact that I don’t have a journalism degree."