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. Ailes commented that Stewart had more or less admitted to being a socialist while the two were in a bar. Which begs the question: where is this bar where Roger Ailes and Jon Stewart can be seen hanging out together? 
 
 
 
 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. Jim Romenesko rounded up tweets from journalist Jonathan Peters, who was at the event, and among the highlights was his apparent answer to a question on whether Stewart would fare well without his organization. The short answer? No: 
 
 Jon Stewart is a comedian. He wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist. 
 
 So that settles that. 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.” 
 
 [Photo via] ||||| Roger Ailes' latest comments about Jon Stewart will surely raise a few eyebrows. The Fox News chief claimed that Stewart once admitted that he was a socialist when the two men were at a bar together. 
 
 Ailes made the remark at a talk at Ohio University on Monday night. He touched on a bevy of topics, according to journalist and media lawyer Jonathan Peters who tweeted Ailes' key points. 
 
 Ailes said that Stewart "wouldn’t do well without Fox. And he basically has admitted to me, in a bar, that he’s a socialist." 
 
 He has made his feelings about Stewart — whose favorite target might be Fox News — clear in the past. Ailes made similar remarks in 2010, when he called the comedian "crazy", and said that he "makes a living by attacking conservatives." 
 
 On Monday, the Fox News chief also criticized other outlets for bias, saying that "Media Matters writes all of the primetime programming for MSNBC." He also said that MSNBC "is out of the news business" and that "Brian Williams, a sincere newsman, wouldn’t want to be caught dead over there." 
 
 He alleged that the only difference between shows on Fox News and CNN or MSNBC is that "Fox invites liberal voices to engage in dialogue." 
 
 His other targets included the Associated Press, which he charged "tips to the left," and the New York Times, which he called a "cesspool of bias." He said that Times reporters were "a bunch of lying scum." 
 
 He later walked back his attack on the Times. On Tuesday, a top Fox News executive told the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz that Ailes regrets his language, and believes that the paper has been fair to the network under executive editor Jill Abramson. Kurtz also explained the controversy that prompted Ailes to condemn the Times. 
 
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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."