By Leslie Larson PUBLISHED: 20:26 EST, 6 March 2013 | UPDATED: 23:02 EST, 6 March 2013 FOX News President Roger Ailes has never been afraid to voice his disdain for liberals and has called President Obama 'lazy' and said that while the president's second-in-command is lovable, Joe Biden is 'dumb as an ashtray.' His no-holds-barred assessment of the Obama administration came in a new excerpt released today from a forthcoming book about the cable news mogul, Roger Ailes: Off Camera,  by Zev Chafets. It's a well known fact that there is no love lost between FOX News and the left but Chafets' piece portrays a side of Roger Ailes that is rarely seen, the man as a father, husband and a human who lives with a very real sense of his own mortality.
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On Obama: 'He never earned a penny that wasn't public money'
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On Vice President Biden: 'I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray'
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On News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch: 'Our relationship isn't about love - it's about arithmetic'
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On his life expectancy: 'My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately'
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On the afterlife: 'If God's a liberal, that's his business. But I doubt very much that he is'
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