Posted on 04/20/2017 11:07:47 AM PDT by TBP
Like him or not, Roger Ailes built a ship at Fox News that could not to be sunk. Rupert Murdoch was part of that, but his children and wives hate Fox News.
They are embarrassed by the Fox News Channel. Theyre not conservatives by any stretch of the imagination. And the big thing when I was there was, as soon as Rupert is gone, the kids are going to take over Fox News and theyre just going to clean house and stop this nonsense, Glenn said Wednesday on radio.
He also referred to Roger Ailes as a giant bear in the doorway that didnt let anything disrupt it.
Without Fox News, we probably would not be here today, as a nation. I truly believe that. Without Fox News, I dont know if we would have weathered the storm of the economic crash, if we would have weathered the storm of 9/11, Glenn said.
Now that Roger Ailes is out and Rupert Murdoch has become weakened, what impact would Bill OReillys departure have?
You better make a decision, America. Because youre about to lose a big conservative ally and voice. And its not just Bill OReilly. Im telling you, Sean Hannity will be next. Then Tucker Carlson will be next. Until everyone complies with what they say is not misinformation, they will continue to go. And once you have the big bear of Fox News out of the way, then they come for TheBlaze. Then they come for The Daily Wire. Then they come for all of us, Glenn said.
TRANSCRIPT
GLENN: All right. So I want to talk to you about something. Im going to go into greater detail than I think Ive ever gone into on a story on our leaving Fox News. And Im going to do it for a reason today.
And let me just tell you what the media will say or what Media Matters will pump out to all of their friends, is that Glenns empire is crumbling. Hes just trying to get attention. Hes jockeying for a position at Fox. Whatever. Okay.
Im going to tell you the truth because I believe you have about 24 hours here before the conservative media dramatically changes. And you are going to lose a very important ally in the fight, even though you might not agree with the Fox News Channel.
As you know, no love lost between me and Fox News. And some of the players on Fox News. However, you better stand up now and figure out whats really happening with this OReilly thing, or youre going to lose Fox News. And Ill explain exactly how its going to happen.
In the old days, when I was there, the the lineup was a really important piece. And I mean the lineup, not on the air. Off the air. The second floor. It was a well-crafted machine. And what that machine did was honestly not necessarily protect the Constitution and constitutional values. That machine was built to protect the the ship. It was an empty cargo ship that Roger Ailes created. Whatever he wanted to put into that ship, he put in that ship.
But that ship was well protected. And you needed to have a well-protected ship because every other ship on the sea was against it because it was a G.O.P. machine. And I contend that its not a conservative news channel; it is a G.O.P. machine. But it is the closest thing we have in mainstream media. It makes a ton of money, and it makes a huge impact.
Without Fox News, we probably would not be here today, as a nation. I truly believe that. Without Fox News, I dont know if we would have weathered the storm of the economic crash, if we would have weathered the storm of of 9/11. After that, when it started all going crazy and everybody was talking about how, you know how bad George Bush was in, and Michael Moore was alleging that George Bush was part of the conspiracy. Without a balance to that, I dont know if we would have been be here today. And certainly, we wouldnt be here on talk radio because talk radio would have been the only target. It would have been the last the last beachhead. And we would have been gone. They would have put us out, but they were busy trying to put out Fox News.
So Roger Ailes, like him, hate him, lets know him for who we think he is no matter what, he built a ship that was not going to be sunk.
Rupert Murdoch was part of that. But Rupert Murdoch has children and wives lots of them that hate the Fox News Channel. They are embarrassed by the Fox News Channel. Theyre not conservatives by any stretch of the imagination.
And the big thing when I was there was, as soon as Rupert is gone, the kids are going to take over Fox News and theyre just going to clean house and stop this nonsense.
So it went Rupert Murdoch, his kids were not in the picture, Roger Ailes, who was a giant bear in the doorway and didnt let anything disrupt it. Then there was Bill Shine, who was, you know, the programming guy at Fox News who worked to execute Rogers vision. And then there was a guy called Brian Lewis and Irena Briganti.
This is the PR department. And I want to be really careful what I say here. But these were not good people, to say the least, in my opinion.
I will tell you that the only meeting that I ever had with Irena Briganti, I will keep to myself for right now. But I left that meeting, and it was on my first day. And I said to my then business partner, I said, I feel like Ive just had a meeting with the mob. And he said, I think we have.
It was a it was a department that let everyone in the building know, You screw with us, we destroy you. It was made very clear to me on the first day.
I was the only person at Fox News to have my own PR person. The only other person that ever tried to do that and did it successfully was Megyn Kelly, after I left.
And that Fox News did not like that. They didnt like that I owned my own company. They didnt like that I was independent. They didnt, quite honestly, like that I they couldnt find anything on me. And that too is another story that will remain for another time because its not important here.
What I want you to know is two things: This was a bulletproof shield for whatever cargo Roger Ailes wanted to carry 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And most of that, we appreciate.
Roger is now gone. Ruperts children are now playing a big role in the future of Fox. Thats not going to bode well. Those two things mean the end of the conservative Fox, as we know it, or have known it, is numbered. The end is coming. The days are numbered.
Bill Shine is the next target from Media Matters. And Im going to get into that in a second. Brian Lewis is already gone. Dont know what happened with Brian Lewis, but theres a book out about Rupert Murdoch. And at the last chapter on this book says: The only two men that Rupert Murdoch are afraid of is Roger Ailes and Brian Lewis. And Brian Lewis because he knows where all the bodies are buried. Brian is a guy who settled for $7 million, a 7 million-dollar settlement. At least thats what Ive heard, that he settled for a lot of money after Roger Ailes fired him. $7 million because he knows where all the bodies are buried.
Who brokered that deal between Roger Ailes and Brian Lewis? The head of the PR, which the PR is the one who did all of the fighting in the press, did all of the underhand stuff. Made all these things disappear. Brian Lewis and Roger Ailes. When there was a fight between them and they had to part ways, the media started to salivate because Brian knows all of Rogers secrets.
So who brokered that deal? Who sat in the conference room between those two and said, What do you have on him? What do you have on him? Okay. I think its worth this. Both go away happy.
That guy who brokered that deal was Donald Trump. Is it beginning to become clear at all why Donald Trump was treated the way he was by the Fox News Channel, at least when Roger was there?
Now, Brian is gone. Roger is gone. Rupert is weakened. And theyre going after Bill OReilly.
Tomorrow, the newspaper is telling us, front page of the New York Times today says that Bill OReilly is in his last 24 hours.
Now, I want to make this really clear: Ive heard I mean, I was not surprised by the by the findings or the rumors of Roger Ailes. But until Megyn Kelly came out, I didnt believe it. I thought Gretchen Carlson was pretty credible. But I still didnt know. It was one person. But I thought she was really pretty credible. And I had heard rumors like that while I was there. I had no evidence. I never saw anything. But it it didnt surprise me when Gretchen said that. But I dont want to you know, thats one person. The other people that started to come out against Roger looked really bad. But I didnt know any of them.
When Megyn came out and said, Yeah, it happened to me, now I had two people that I went, Okay. Its Gretchen and Megyn, I believe them. And only because Im judging it Im not judging it because I dont have access to anything else. So as an outside person, I didnt want to believe it until I had two credible people that I knew I believe it.
With Bill OReilly, Ive never heard that. We worked closely with Bill on the road. We would go on the road. And he had access to very beautiful women on our staff. And he worked closely with very beautiful women on our staff. We never saw him utter a word that was even blue humor. He was so buttoned up when he was around us, that I find these charges hard to believe.
And to me, it makes sense that he may have had this one sexual harassment thing that was settled from a producer. He may have they may have had, you know, some here and there. Somebody could have set him up very easily. Played into, yeah, kind of flirting back with him. Its just one person. And then she wanted to make a name for herself, make money, whatever. Thats what the suit alleged. And he pays out to silence Fox pays out to silence.
Thats pretty bad, right? They paid money they settled.
Let me tell you something: Ive just settled a case in Boston that I will go to my grave, Im right. Im right.
My insurance company pressured me for over a year. Premier pressured me for over a year. Glenn, settle it. Settle it.
Im right.
Settle it.
When it got to a million and a half money of uninsured money that I had to pay out and it was looking at yet another probably $3 million I was willing to take it to the Supreme Court. My partners werent. Settle it. So I settled that. But I settled it with the stipulation, nothing is sealed. I want everybody to be able to see all the testimony, everything. Nothing is sealed.
Well, this guy, he was going to Saudi Arabia. He didnt care. Now, has anybody taken the time to read all of that? Its all public record? No. No. Theyre still smearing me
PAT: Some day well help them with that. Well tell you the story.
GLENN: Were going to help them. Were going to help them.
But its still being used to smear me. And how am I being smeared? He settled; he must have been guilty. So settlement in todays world and you know this because weve all worked for a corporation where they settle things, and you sit around in the hallway and you say, Why would we settle this? Dont. It just encourages more. Youre right. It does. It does.
But what are you going to do, when you have insurance companies and everybody else saying, Just pay the freight. Okay.
So far, I havent seen anything with Bill OReilly that that I believe. That doesnt mean that theres not something there. But I will tell you, even if there is something there, there is something more important going on at the same time. You want to fire Bill OReilly for sexual harassment, then good. Make that case. Make it very public. But theres something else. And you need to know about it. And you need to make the decision. Because in 24 hours, I think theyre going to fire Bill OReilly. And after they fire Bill OReilly, who is the next big dog on the ticket? Its going to be Sean Hannity. Sean hasnt done anything wrong. Hell be the next target.
Allegedly. According to her.
She actually recorded everything.
Have you heard the recordings? Or is that another claim?
I don't claim to know one way or the other. But we can't be destroying people based on allegations.
Why didn't Fox fire him then, if she's telling the truth?
Need real Conservative network—OOAN Nation wide! That or TRUMP NEWS—Ivanka in Charge. All the news that true! Now the British Daily Mail is more accurate than the MSM in this nation. We on the right need a news organ—Hell, even the Communist Party has a rag of its own—why not the Tea Party right? As Fox moved to center—we should fill the vacuum with a new (or old) news network. It would even make money!
Salacious, but again, ALLEGED. That’s why it was in court — to determine whether or not it was true. Only Mackris and O’Reilly know for sure.
I agree. If Beck has any sense of what is going on, he’d change his cable production of the Blaze to strictly the O’Reilly method of reporting. Perhaps going so far as bringing O’Reilly in as a partner. At this point I believe that Bill is no longer interested in the financial aspect but the essence of reporting the real news.
Not a bad idea
Don’t know about you, but I am not paying on $12 million to nobody when I am innocent. It’s like bring it on buddy. See you in court!
Assuming Fox goes full bore liberal, its ratings will sink to the levels of CNN and MSNBC.
Gary B. Smith isn’t on FBN but he’s still a regular on Bulls and Bears on Saturday. Not a bad show considering weekend TeeVee is about baking cakes, Coleman tents and fly fishing.
Then again If my wishes were dishes I’d have a service of 48.
. Trump should get his own station and get Ailes out of retirement.
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Agree.
Why don’t republican break up the free-TV lefty controlled networks? Or, at least their news divisions? They don’t serve 60% of the nation.
Lesson #1: Whoever captures the propaganda outlets controls the nation.
To be fair, they remain allegations. Unproven. Maybe true, maybe not. You seem to think you know. I don’t claim such omniscience.
There are other conservatives with money who could do this.
But I’m not sure the liberals who own them would allow it. When Beck tried to buy Al Gore’s Current network, he took less money to sell it to Al Jazeera.
How’d that work out, Al?
Years ago Bill OReilly wrote a novel, and there was a sex scene in it.
Knowing he wrote it kinda grossed me out at the time.
This was aver a decade ago.
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