Rush Limbaugh in the movie says of the legacy media, “I think that they spend so much time trying to destroy or discredit, they don’t want to debate us, they don’t want to get into the arena of ideas and actually talk about what we believe. They really try to discredit us not only with our own audiences but with people who haven’t begun to listen or to watch yet. They try to take you out. It’s not that they want a level playing field, they don’t even want us on it.” In a similar vein, New Gingrich added that the media’s goal is “not to win the argument, but to destroy the arguer.”
These were the realizations that animated Ailes and were the basis for the success of Fox News.
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