Lookalikes

On Sunday night our cable channel surfing took us past C-Span and an interview with Fox News supremo, Roger Ailes (not the blogger). It's not like we needed confirmation that he's a reactionary lunatic, but he quickly provided it:

LAMB [interviewer]: What evidence did you have at that school [university that solicited donation from Ailes] that the teachers did not like America?

AILES: Everything is negative. Everything is about -- look, 95 percent of our people are working, the other 5 percent are basically pretty well taken care of by the government.

We'd love to take you on an economics detour to explain why his numbers are nonsensical on their face (5% unemployment does not mean 95% working, as he seems to think), but leave that aside and consider his worldview that you're either working or being taken care of by the government, which is quite a statement to make as the eastern half of the USA heads into its coldest period of the year so far.

But as we gazed at the smirking bulbous head, it was a look we knew we'd seen somewhere before, and then we remembered ... in Total Recall, the lead doctor who's f**king with Arnie's mind. Dr Edgemar, as played by Roy Brocksmith, RIP. There's another picture of the Doctor that we could have posted, after Arnie has put a bullet through his head, but that would be too hostile a gesture towards the repulsive Mr Ailes for the week that's in it.