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Her tone is chill, unsensational, and her interviewees are lucid rather than sneering or vindictive.
She gives him the stature hes due, as the nearest thing weve had to a modern Citizen Kane.
We are, after all, born innocent.
What undermined the America in which he grew up undermined Ailes and vice versa.
As Mr.Spock would say, eyebrows gently lifted: Fascinating.)
I want to see faces.
He would teach them a lesson then and a bigger one two decades on.
Bloom suggests that nothing Ailes created Fox News included was wholly removed from the drive for vengeance.
Nixons fall at the hands of the liberal media was one unkind cut that had to be avenged.
Ailes told a colleague, Im going to fuck them like theyve never been fucked before.
He had, after that, the mentality of a pirate preying on the big ships.
And then, of course, were the legs.
He wasnt bellicose, like his future stars Bill OReilly and Sean Hannity.
He seemed thoughtful, like someone you could reason with.
He must have thought,I worked for this.
New and potential women hires were asked to stand up and turn around for Ailes: the twirl.
Those who turned him down werentalwaysdriven away and blackballed.
Only some, who show up inDivide and Conquerlike ghosts.
No, thats not quite fair.
They have full lives.
But they make it clear that something died in them the day they met Roger Ailes.
But Bloom has the videotape.
(Reel in the fucking fish, Mitch.)
Former police detective Bo Dietl who gathered intel for Ailes is always good for quotes.
He likes being on camera.
Crisis managers keep secrets.
They dont talk about what they saw inside the coops when chickens are coming home to roost.
The images they conjure up of those desperate last hours are surreal.
