re: Maddow and Ailes were friends?

This isn't uncommon.

Most of all that shite is just for show and ratings man.

Hannity and Alan Colmes were the closest of friends and couldn't have been further apart politically.

One of Michael Savage's closest friends is Dershowitz.

One of my dearest friends years ago was a bisexual admitted Communist. I could call him a bone smoking proggie moron and he could call me an inbred hillbilly redneck and 5 minutes later it was all good.

That's supposed to be how it works in the adult world. People are supposed to be able to agree to disagree.