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<\/p>\nRUSH: You know, this is a little inside baseball, but I want to mention this. Showtime, the cable network, has been promoting out the wazoo this miniseries they\u2019re running called The Loudest Voice in the Room, and it is about the tyrannical reign at Fox News of Roger Ailes, and Russell Crowe stars at Roger Ailes. When I first heard that this was in production, I told everybody I knew, “This is gonna be a bomb. This thing is gonna flop. It doesn\u2019t have a prayer!” “Why do you think that?” I said, “This is easy.” “Well, then come on; tell us why,” and I didn\u2019t tell \u2019em why.<\/p>\n
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I said, “No, you just wait. I could have told the Showtime people, ‘I don\u2019t know what you people think you\u2019re doing, but this thing is gonna flop on you. It\u2019s gonna bomb,\u2019 and it\u2019s not hard to know why.” “Why? Why won\u2019t you tell us?” “Because it\u2019s so simple, everybody ought to be able to figure it out!” Anyway, the first episode aired Sunday night. I think it follows a new Showtime show called City on a Hill with Kevin Bacon. By the way, watch that in advance. Kevin Bacon is excellent in this show. I just have to tell you he\u2019s excellent in this show.<\/p>\n
Now, he\u2019s a big New York lib, too, but I don\u2019t care. I think I had to say that. The whole cast is really good in this show. But again, it\u2019s about Boston and corrupt racial politics in the seventies and eighties. But the Ailes show, I think it\u2019s a seven- or eight-episode little miniseries thing, and it\u2019s based… It\u2019s based on something… Here\u2019s the reason. I\u2019ll just tell you: It\u2019s based on something that nobody cared about. It\u2019s based on something that nobody — as far as the general public is concerned — cared about. The media was obsessed over Roger Ailes because he beat them.<\/p>\n
The media was driving itself crazy! They hated Ailes. They hated Fox News. They couldn\u2019t beat Ailes. They couldn\u2019t beat Fox News. Ailes got George H. W. Bush elected in 1988. He revived Nixon\u2019s career. They hated him! They despised Roger Ailes because he beat them every time he went up against them. So they start trying to categorize Fox News as the home of racism and bigotry and all this stuff, and the sexual harassment stuff came up. Folks, it\u2019s a great example of what I constantly tell you. They think…<\/p>\n
Particularly in the American media, but also in the Democrat Party, they think that because they think something, that everybody does. Because they\u2019re interested in something, everybody is. Because they hate somebody, everybody does. Roger Ailes wasn\u2019t on camera. Roger Ailes created a culture at Fox News — and this is a difficult thing to do. You have a broadcast entity that\u2019s gonna be on the air every hour of every day, every year — and no matter when you tune in, you\u2019re gonna get what you expect. Do you know how hard that is to create?<\/p>\n
It would be like me having my three hours here and then having to fill the other 21 hours with people that you would think are mirror images of me or at least within the same general region. It\u2019s a very difficult thing to do, particularly when you aren\u2019t on camera. But you are directing, you are producing, you are influencing, you are mentoring, you are instructing. It is an incredible thing, and they could not beat him. CNN, MSNBC never, ever got close. The culture that Ailes built survives his death. They still can\u2019t get anywhere near it, and so what do they do?<\/p>\n
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They claim, “Fox isn\u2019t real news. Fox isn\u2019t legitimate. Fox isn\u2019t this; Fox isn\u2019t that.” It\u2019s everything they can\u2019t be, including a winner. Fox News, when it started, had the same problems getting advertisers because the advertising agency buyers are all liberals in the basements of the agencies refusing to send money to Fox in the form of advertising, trying to hurt it. He had to find a way around that. (We found it. Ahem!) But as far as…<\/p>\n
Okay. So they run the story. “Roger Ailes this Roger Ailes that. Wow!” They think the whole of the country\u2019s population is outraged over Roger Ailes. They think the whole country hates Fox News (chuckles), despite the fact that they can\u2019t touch it. To me, folks, it is an indication of how out of touch they really are. Despite the fact that they look like they\u2019re the majority, they look like they represent the majority, they don\u2019t. They\u2019re out of touch. They couldn\u2019t stop Trump!<\/p>\n
They still can\u2019t stop Trump. No matter how hard they try, no matter what they throw at him, they can\u2019t stop Trump, despite their belief that everybody hates him like they do. But obviously they don\u2019t, and obviously very few people hated Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes wasn\u2019t on camera, in terms of the direct reason why people watch Fox News. Roger Ailes was like the brilliant Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain, the reason you do things and you don\u2019t even know he exists other than you see his name in the news.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s the real reason you watch, but you never know it, \u2019cause he\u2019s not interested in that kind of credit. He wants his on-air talent to get the credit for drawing the audience, and they do! The people he put on the air drew the audience! His role was finding the right people and letting them be who they are. This is not complicated. This is Media 101. It\u2019s Marketing 101. When you go to watch a Disney movie (let\u2019s say, Avengers: Endgame) are you sitting there thinking, “Wow, this Bob Iger is great”?<\/p>\n
Some of you say, “Who\u2019s Bob Iger?” He\u2019s the CEO of Disney. Does that matter to you? Who cares? Other people in business care. A lot of people would love to be Bob Iger. A lot of people out there think they can do it better than Bob Iger. But nobody is. Bob Iger runs Disney. Bob Iger runs ESPN. When ESPN does something controversial, are you out there cursing Bob Iger? No! You\u2019re cursing whoever you see do it — and, if somebody in management speaks up, you get mad at them. The point is… This is what\u2019s different about Apple, by the way.<\/p>\n
Apple, one of the largest corporations in America, is still seen by its ardent fans as a startup that\u2019s run by one mercurial guy, Steve Jobs — or was — and now they think it\u2019s run by Tim Cook! When, in fact, it never was totally run by one guy. It\u2019s always been a collaboration of great people in all kinds of great things. It\u2019s just the way people choose to market themselves and to present themselves. But when it comes to Showtime… What do they think they\u2019re accomplishing here?<\/p>\n
Okay, so they\u2019re gonna run a hit piece on Roger Ailes after he has passed away. They\u2019re gonna run this hit piece; put it on Showtime. For what purpose? Why? What would they possibly hoping to accomplish? Is this supposed to kill Fox News? ‘Cause if so, it won\u2019t. It\u2019s senseless. It\u2019s absolutely senseless, and if anybody at Showtime… There should have been somebody there who should have known that this was gonna bomb, and maybe they did and didn\u2019t care. Like CNN apparently doesn\u2019t care that most people don\u2019t watch it.<\/p>\n
Apparently, CNN is not alarmed over the fact that their audience can be put in a thimble, \u2019cause they don\u2019t do anything to change it. And they\u2019re out there giving themselves awards for who knows what. But they\u2019re getting awards, announcing awards. The people who win, the people who are number one, the people who are on top? They don\u2019t get any recognition at all. They get ripped to shreds. They get tarnished. They get destroyed, even after they\u2019ve died and can\u2019t defend themselves — and, even after they\u2019re dead, the left can\u2019t beat \u2019em.<\/p>\n
Even after they pass away, the left cannot defeat what Ailes started and what he assembled, what he put together — and they think they\u2019re gonna do that with a miniseries on Showtime at 10 o\u2019clock on Sunday nights? The Loudest Voice in the Room. The guy wasn\u2019t even on camera! So what? We are supposed to now hate CEOs of conservative media networks? Is that the new target? This is senseless. Even if this thing was getting good ratings — which it doesn\u2019t stand a chance of doing. Even if it did, what would be the point? (impression) “Well, we want people to know!”<\/p>\n
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