The Loudest Voice

What?

What?

I-I can't. I can't.

What?

I can't. I--

I ca-- I can't.

I can't do this.

I can't do this anymore.

I can't do it anymore, Roger.

I can't.

We can talk about that later.

Now, finish.

Come on.

I have to get back to the office.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe this has just run its course.

On one condition.

You find your replacement.

Fine. Fine.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

is now law.

Congress just adopted the most

fiscally irresponsible budget

in American history today.

What we are looking at is a conspiracy.

...receiving taxpayer bailouts...

He wants to transform private-enterprise America

-into neo-socialist... -I feel like we are

talking to the Germans after Hitler comes to power.

The "Overthrow America" movement.

Terrorists.

...fact that Obama is working from within

to bring down the U.S. capitalist system.

I mean, we uncover in the book

Obama's extensive ties to Alinsky,

including during the campaign, by the way,

where his first trainers were trained by those

from the Midwest Academy, which is an Alinsky academy...

Happy birthday.

Thank you, Judy.

What a beautiful cake.

Hmm.

69 years old.

You know, my doctor tells me

I'm old and I'm fat and I'm ugly,

but none of those things are gonna kill me straightaway.

And none of those things are true.

Mm, well...

Time for the candles.

Well, I'm gonna have to make a wish.

-Hmm. -Hmm.

What a lovely cake.

That's very thoughtful of you, Judy,

but we already celebrated at home.

- He's here. - Okay.

Okay.

Joe Lindsley.

Mr. Ailes. It's an honor.

This is my wife, Beth.

Mrs. Ailes, pleasure.

Now, I bet you're sitting there thinking,

"What the hell am I doing here?"

Uh, the thought had crossed my mind, sir.

Well, now, you see, Joe, recently, Beth and I purchased

a local newspaper upstate.

In Garrison, where we live.

The Putnam County

News and Recorder.

Now, I'm a TV guy.

Don't know a damn thing about newspapers,

so I reached out to Marty Singerman,

and in turn, he reached out to you.

And you put together that list

of conservative editors that might run the paper.

I liked that list a lot.

Thank you, sir.

And you went to Notre Dame?

That's right. I started my own paper there

because I felt the Notre Dame Observer skewed too liberal.

-Catholic? -Yes, ma'am.

My faith is very important to me.

Joe, I grew up in small-town America.

I knew the names of all my neighbors.

Never even thought to lock the door at night.

I want Garrison to be that kind of town.

But the people who live there...

Liberals.

Balding hippies.

Let's just say, you know,

they need to be educated.

Thomas Jefferson said,

"Education is the only sure alliance

for the preservation of our liberty."

Oh, I love that.

So?

Are you interested?

In...?

Becoming our editor in chief.

Garrison...

is a microcosm of America.

In these dark times, with this president,

we got to rebuild America from the ground up.

I am honored to help in any way that I can.

Well, I think it's settled, then.

Roger, we have a situation.

All right, Joe, why don't you, uh,

go up to Garrison with Beth, get the lay of the land.

Right now?

No time like the present.

First of all, I've got, uh,

one television station,

and it's entirely devoted to,

uh, uh, attacking my administration.

He's calling us out publicly.

Yeah, good. That means we're getting into his head.

We've just got to intensify the pressure.

Roger, this is not CNN, okay? This is the White House.

We have to be strategic here.

Rupert was very clear that we're...

Come on, come on. Fuck Rupert.

Fuck this White House.

I fought for editorial control, and I intend to use it.

If this Barry guy,

Barry O., my bro,

whatever the fuck his name is, if he wants a fight,

okay, I'm good.

All right, we'll-- we'll war-game it later,

see how it plays.

Want some cake?

No, I'm fine.

That's Our Lady of Loretto.

I play organ there on Sundays.

It's a wonderful congregation.

You'll have to come to Mass with us.

It would be my pleasure, Mrs. Ailes.

Joe, we're going to be working together.

Call me Beth.

Okay. Beth.

It's beautiful here, but...

you know, there needs to be a strong conservative voice

in this town.

Roger and I have high hopes that you and the paper

can be that voice.

I'll do my best, Mrs., um--

Beth. Beth.

Good.

There it is.

We're gonna turn this little paper

into a top-flight operation worthy of the Ailes name.

Everyone,

I want to introduce Joe Lindsley.

Joe is an old family friend,

and we have just hired him to be the new editor in chief.

Joe's gonna be implementing some changes

and taking the paper in a new direction.

We're very excited to have him on board.

And you should be, too.

Uh, uh, I just want to say, um,

I'm excited to be here, and I'm-I'm looking forward

to getting to know each of you so, uh,

so that we can work together

and make this paper into something great.

What a fine sentiment. Thank you, Joe.

So...

The staff work for you, Joe,

not with you.

I just-- I thought, um...

I'll remember that, Mrs. Ailes.

-Beth. -

After all, I'm not that much older than you.

This is exciting.

Like the first day of something special.

Uh, Fox News was undertaking a war against the White House

and said, "The White House will treat Fox

the way we would an opponent."

They're right.

Fox isn't a news network.

It's an opinion organization.

A very one-sided opinion organization.

This is bullshit.

This White House hates America,

hates capitalism, hate's anyone who's not

in lockstep with their way of thinking.

We're not gonna put up with them.

We're not gonna roll over for these fuckers.

Every time they bring up a talking point,

we're gonna counter it.

They say "progressive," we're gonna say "socialist."

They say "safety net," we're gonna say "welfare cheat."

They say "health care,"

we're gonna say "fucking death panels."

Just push the message. Socialist.

Muslim. Un-American. Just keep hitting those things

over and over again, keep hitting them.

You know, we don't even have any fucking proof

that Obama is a citizen.

Did you feed that to Trump?

He was just on The View questioning

Obama's birth certificate.