Roger Ailes
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Sep 16, 2026
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I knew Roger Ailes.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I knew OJ Simpson came to my house.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bill Cosby came to my house.
Cody JohnstonHOST
Of course, he made lots of promises to people that he never intended to keep, like pledging to uphold collective bargaining rights for public employees, or feigning to be pro-choice.
Cody JohnstonHOST
From that point, McConnell followed in the footsteps of other family values conservative giants by divorcing his wife and partnering with Roger Ailes, who at the time was a former Nixon advisor.
Cody JohnstonHOST
You know, that guy Mitch was so concerned about before? Ailes, who of course went on to run Fox News, gave McConnell the ammunition he needed to move up in the political ranks, namely by smearing his political opponents as lazy freeloaders and drug addicts.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ever since this race began, Dee Huddleston has been running away from his record, but now Kentucky is closing in.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
And that's our hero.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
Fox News was started because Roger Ailes talked to Nixon, I believe, and said, we got to get GOP TV.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
Well, he was a Nixon staffer back
Sean Smith PierceHOST
then.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
Rupert Murdoch.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
Yep.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
No, no, no. It's OK. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
Exactly.
Ben MeiselasHOST
And we don't because that was part of the plan.
Ben MeiselasHOST
The plan was, and this was hatched by Roger Ailes and others, create a right-wing propaganda environment to insulate the next Nixon.
Ben MeiselasHOST
Well, you got someone a thousand times more dangerous and dumber than Nixon, and this plan over forty years that metastasized has shielded this from the right amount of scrutiny while you have the other media and institutions were like, "Whoa, what do we do here? Oh, Democrats and Republicans and election." It's like, oh man, this is existential, guy.
Ben MeiselasHOST
This is ex- this is existential.
Ben MeiselasHOST
You know, what we had during Nixon was at least Republicans who stood up and said, "You know what? That's wrong." And right now we don't, and we don't because that was part of the plan.
Ben MeiselasHOST
The plan was, and this was hatched by Roger Ailes and others, create a right-wing propaganda environment to insulate the next Nixon.
Ben MeiselasHOST
Well, you got someone 1,000 times more dangerous and dumber than Nixon, and this plan over 40 years that metastasized Has shielded this from the right amount of scrutiny while you have the other media and institutions were like, "Whoa, what do we do here? Oh, Democrats and Republicans and election?" It's like, oh man, this is existential, guy.
Ben MeiselasHOST
This is ex- this is existential.
Sean HannityHOST
B-
Trace GallagherGUEST
I, I was telling the story in the, in, in the book about Roger Ailes.
Trace GallagherGUEST
The first time I met Roger, Sean, and I walked into his office and he sat me down.
Sean HannityHOST
Sure.
Dave AnthonyHOST
...
Dave AnthonyHOST
in the mid-'90s, and Roger Ailes doesn't like how you look.
Dave AnthonyHOST
[laughs]
Trace GallagherGUEST
He doesn't like my hair.
Trace GallagherGUEST
There's a great story.
Trace GallagherGUEST
Roger Ailes, who, um...
Trace GallagherGUEST
Roger Ailes was the president of the company, and I interviewed in Chicago because I was the first Chicago correspondent, came here to New York, sat in Roger Ailes' office, and he looked at me, he's like, "Ah.
Trace GallagherGUEST
Ah." He goes, "You know what I do," goes, "I, I..." He goes, "I watch television, but I watch it with the sound down.
Brad StineHOST
He produced The Godfather, for crying out loud.
Brad StineHOST
Uh, I was there with Gretchen Carlson, who, uh, eventually went on and b- almost launched, probably launched the Me Too movement when she sued Roger Ailes, uh, at Fox.
Brad StineHOST
She was in the movie with me.
Brad StineHOST
We were friends.
Dave ScarlettHOST
Wisdom and discernment from the Holy Spirit is the key because I've asked a lot of generals that have come on his glory.
Dave ScarlettHOST
A couple of them were Fox News war correspondents for like 15 years under Roger Ailes, General McInerney and General Valley.
Dave ScarlettHOST
And I said, what's the difference between when you were generals and what the generals have to deal with today just in the art of war? And they said back in the time of when they were generals, you knew who your enemy was.
Dave ScarlettHOST
It was black and white.
Berny BelvedereHOST
A lot of our institutions are kind of saddled by the feeling that in order to compete on reach, to compete in this new marketplace of ideas… we can't really compete on accuracies terms as it were.
Berny BelvedereHOST
So like Roger Ailes, he created Fox news in the nineties.
Berny BelvedereHOST
It wasn't as a dominant player.
Berny BelvedereHOST
It was a kind of countervailing force, right? Uh, the, the, the, the media is captured.
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