Rachel Maddow Says Roger Ailes Wanted to Hire Her at Fox News

She headlines the number-one news program on the left-leaning MSNBC. So what could possibly bring Rachel Maddow to the conservative Fox News?

A tempting offer from the network’s embattled former CEO, Roger Ailes, who died last week after making headlines himself for sexual harassment allegations.

But Ailes was undoubtedly a savvy television expert, and Maddow once solicited his advice on how to improve her work, she revealed Wednesday on “The Howard Stern Show,” saying, “He was really, really kind about it.”

“I’m surprised he didn’t tell you to wear a mini skirt,” Stern cracked.

“He’s a smart enough guy to know how that would have ended,” she said.

Of Ailes’ insights, she added, “He was gracious about it and constructive. He gave me some interesting stuff to think about.”

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“Would you have ever considered working at Fox News if Roger said to you, ‘Look, I like you. I don’t agree with you politically, but I think this would be a good sort of mix, you being part of the Fox News team.’ Would you have taken that seriously and looked into it?” Stern asked.

“He once told me that he wanted to hire me at Fox, and actually, this is not that long ago, within the last few years, he told me he wanted to hire me at Fox, and then he told me he’d never put me on the air,” Maddow said, laughing. “So nobody else could put me on and [he could] put me on ice! I was like, ‘So you’d pay me a full contract to not work?'”

“Would you consider that?” Stern asked.

“Who would not consider that?” she said.