Jon Stewart opened up to Mehdi Hasan about a chilling interaction he had with former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. On an episode of his "The Weekly Show" podcast, Stewart noted he had "one of those bananas-type meetings in the bowels of Fox News" with Ailes after the comedian made an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor. UPI/Newscom/MEGA "I used to go on Bill O'Reilly's show. Every now and again, they would bring in the, you know, 'clownish liberal' - myself - and I would go on there," Stewart said. "And one day, one of the people came down and said Mr. Ailes would like to see you. And I thought, 'Why? Geez, I didn't even know he lived in the building.'" "We had to walk through the kind of 'Get Smart' - doors would open and shut. You didn't really know where you were until you got into this one part of the building that was colder than the other parts of the building," he continued. "You almost felt the hair on the back of your neck and the chill, and you could see everybody's breath in this one part. And he and I yelled at each other in the office for about an hour. He wanted me to show appreciation to him, because without him I have no career. And I wanted him to stop poisoning the atmosphere around the country." "And harassing his blonde hosts," Hasan quipped, referencing the allegations against Ailes. In 2016, Ailes stepped down from his position at Fox News after he was accused of harassment by several female employees including Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros. In 2015, Ailes opened up about Stewart, telling The Hollywood Reporter, "You can't say that many negative things about people unless you're really unhappy about something. ... I actually think he doesn't dislike me. We met once or twice. I talked to him for an hour once in my office. I think he's really smart, and he's got a great future." Stewart noted that the strategy Ailes used to build Fox has become common practice amongst the right. "His methodology was: 'I am going to discredit all of the institutions or any of the voices that may in any way harm my movement. I'm going to make sure that editorial authority is seen as elitism. I am going to exercise authoritarian control over my message machine,'" Stewart stated. "And that's, I think, the genius of that movement." "Liberals and Democrats and Leftists have got to understand that you are not on some ridiculous even playing field," Hasan chimed in. "I've been hearing this since Donald Trump came down the escalator in 2015: 'Just because they don't play by the rules doesn't mean we shouldn't.' No that's exactly what it means!" The post Jon Stewart yelled at Fox News boss for an hour appeared first on Wonderwall.com.