Roger Ailes claims Obama has a 'different belief system than most Americans.' Ailes: Obama unsuccessful socialist

Fox News President Roger Ailes says in a new interview that President Barack Obama is failing and has a "different belief system than most Americans."

“The president has not been very successful,” Ailes told The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz. “He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it. He had to be told by the French and the Germans that his socialism was too far left for them to deal with.


“He just has a different belief system than most Americans," Ailes added.

But Ailes defended former President George W. Bush, whom he dubbed as a "poor guy" forced out of the national spotlight but regaining popularity for having left it.

“This poor guy, sitting down on his ranch clearing brush, gained a lot of respect for keeping his mouth shut," Ailes said. "I literally never heard an Obama speech that didn’t blame Bush.”

In the interview, Ailes also addressed Fox's relative silence on a controversy at rival network MSNBC, where anchor Keith Olbermann was suspended after donating to the campaigns three Democrats even though many had been critical of the political giving of Fox News hosts before the Olbermann news broke.

“If they went to get the guy, they were going about it fairly stupidly,” Ailes said. “It isn’t like we don’t know the guy supports left-wingers.”