The Loudest Voice (TV Mini Series)

2009 (2019)

David Cromer: David Axelrod

Quotes 

• David Axelrod : Look, we can work together on this. Quid pro quo. You promise to back off, we'll reinstate your press access...

  Roger Ailes : With an apology.

  David Axelrod : ...grant you a couple of exclusive interviews with the president, but we select the reporters.

  Roger Ailes : Does your guy not understand that he doesn't get to pick and choose his coverage? That a free press does not necessarily mean a favorable press? Does he get that?

  David Axelrod : And... you get Hannity, O'Reilly, and Beck to ease up. Especially Beck. That man is unhinged.

  Roger Ailes : Unhinged? You're the one who works for the guy who wants to create a national police force.

  David Axelrod : You... you can't be serious. Where did you hear that?

  Roger Ailes : He spoke about it.

  David Axelrod : Roger, he's never said anything like that ever.

  Roger Ailes : That's what I heard.

  David Axelrod : I'm asking you as a friend to pull back.

  Roger Ailes : And I'm telling you as a friend... no.

• David Axelrod : Let's call a truce.

  Roger Ailes : Why? We're winning.

  David Axelrod : Mmm, I don't think so.

  Roger Ailes : Well, I think you fucked it up. I think you pushed too hard and you did us a favor. We got every news organization on our side. Even Jake Tapper is defending us. Journalists look after their own.

  David Axelrod : When you met with the president during the election, you promised you weren't out to get him, gave your word...

  Roger Ailes : I didn't meet with the president that day. Don't mistake me for Rupert Murdoch. I've never said we won't cover what's there, like this ACORN thing.

  David Axelrod : Exactly my point. You created that out of thin air. Spun a web of controversy where none existed.

  Roger Ailes : We didn't create ACORN. We covered it. ACORN is an organization riddled with corruption, and it's about time that Congress and the American people heard about it.

  David Axelrod : You really believe that?

  Roger Ailes : Not a matter of what I believe. It's the truth.