128. As they spoke Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
129. Fox executives dubbed Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
130. This was especially Brian Stelter, “Fox’s Brit Hume to Stop Anchoring ‘Special Report’ After Election,” “Media Decoder” (blog), New York Times, July 15, 2008, http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/foxs-brit-hume-to-stop-anchoring-special-report-after-election/.
131. On Thursday, October 16 “Glenn Beck Joins Fox News” (press release), Business Wire, Oct. 16, 2008.
132. In late September, McCain had suspended Michael Cooper, “For the Nominees, New Roles and New Risks,” New York Times, Sept. 25, 2008.
133. “He was so angry” Author interview with a person familiar with the situation.
134. Ailes told executives Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
135. A few days before Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
TWENTY: COMEBACK
1. The week after Obama’s 2008 election William K. Alcorn, “Fox News Chairman Ailes Comes Home, Discusses Obama’s Tasks,” Youngstown (Ohio) News, Nov. 11, 2008.
2. It was unseasonably cold http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/OH/Warren/2013-11-11.
3. The Aileses were in town Author interview with Warren attorney Ned Gold. See also Alcorn, “Fox News Chairman Ailes Comes Home, Discusses Obama’s Tasks.”
4. During one eighteen-day Author interview with Michael O’Brien, former mayor of Warren, Ohio.
5. The municipal government Author interview with Mayor Michael O’Brien.
6. They chatted for Alcorn, “Fox News Chairman Ailes Comes Home, Discusses Obama’s Tasks.”
7. “If you want a helping hand” Larry Ringler, “Fox News Chief Returns to Warren,” Warren (Ohio) Tribune Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2008.
8. He liked to tell Website of the Ailes Apprentice Program, Ailesapprentice.foxnews.com.
9. “If every company did this” Chris Ariens, “Roger Ailes on His Apprentices and His Legacy,” TVNewser, Nov. 15, 2012.
10. It was cold and damp http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KYNG/2008/11/12/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Warren&req_state=OH&req_statename=Ohio.
11. Hundreds of people Author interview with Ned Gold.
12. “You see that fountain pool” Author interviews with Warren residents who attended the dedication of the veterans memorial.
13. He told the audience that Alcorn, “Fox News Chairman Ailes Comes Home, Discusses Obama’s Tasks.”
14. Webster’s life Biography of Douglas Webster on website of A-4 Skyhawk Association, http://a4skyhawk.org/?q=3e/va56/webster-memorial.htm, accessed Nov. 15, 2013.
15. Ailes went to Alcorn, “Fox News Chairman Ailes Comes Home, Discusses Obama’s Tasks.”
16. An hour later Author interview with two Warren residents who were present at the country club lunch.
17. “I grew up” Junod, “Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 2.”
18. Ailes told the Monsmans Author interview with Chris and Danella Monsman.
19. Three years later Brenda J. Linert, “Tribune Plans Year of Anniversary Events,” Warren (Ohio) Tribune Chronicle, Oct. 16, 2011.
20. “I left there in 1958” Author conversation with Roger Ailes.
21. “We are in a storm” Author’s transcript of speech given by Roger Ailes at the Kennedy Center, June 12, 2013.
22. Rick Santelli “Rick Santelli’s Shout Heard ’Round the World,” CNBC.com, Feb. 22, 2009, http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701.
23. prime-time ratings jumped Daniel Frankel, “CNN: A Fall from Glory, or a Much Better Story?,” Variety, April 13, 2009.
24. Fox personalities Michael Calderone, “Fox Teas Up a Tempest,” Politico, April 15, 2009.
25. “There would not have been” Author interview with national Tea Party Express cofounder Sal Russo.
26. In July 2008 Brian Stelter, “Fox’s Brit Hume to Stop Anchoring ‘Special Report’ After Election,” New York Times, July 15, 2008.
27. Then, two weeks after Chris Ariens, “David Rhodes Leaves Fox News for Bloomberg,” TVNewser (blog), Nov. 19, 2008, http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/david-rhodes-leaves-fox-news-for-bloomberg_b21839.
28. Rhodes’s brother, Ben Mark Landler, “Worldly at 35, and Shaping Obama’s Voice,” New York Times, March 15, 2013.
29. David, for his part Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
30. He cringed when David G. Savage, “Legal Challenges Have Slim Chances,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 8, 2008.
31. a few months after Rhodes’s departure Michael Liedtke, “New Venture to Introduce Fees for Online News,” Associated Press, April 15, 2009. John Moody would return to Fox News in June 2013 to serve as executive editor and executive VP.
32. “They used to tell Roger no” Author interview with a senior executive at Fox News.
33. One Christmas Author interviews with Fox News executives.
34. Bill Sammon John Eggerton, “Fox News Names New VP and Bureau Manager in Washington,” Broadcasting & Cable, Feb. 26, 2009, http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/179936-Fox_News_Names_New_VP_and_Bureau_Manager_in_Washington.php.
35. Days after Obama’s inauguration Author interview with a former employee in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Fox News.
36. Later, Sammon caused problems Ben Dimiero, “Fox’s Bill Sammon Problem,” Media Matters for America, March 29, 2011, http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/03/29/foxs-bill-sammon-problem/178036.
37. Moody’s replacement Fox News, “Michael Clemente Joins Fox News from ABC News,” Business Wire (press release), Feb. 24, 2009.
38. Early in his tenure Author interviews with Fox News executives.
39. The most potent Richard Huff, “He’s Beck Again, with Commentary, Not News,” New York Daily News, Jan. 19, 2009.
40. Within weeks “Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star,” New York Times, March 29, 2009.
41. Only Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity Ibid.
42. “You are probably the most” Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
43. “I see your show” Ibid.
44. He conceived his program Ibid.
45. With the Dow plunging http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5Edji+interactive#symbol=%5Edji;range=20070101,20090918;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined.