The Loudest Voice (TV Mini Series)

2001 (2019)

Josh Stamberg: Bill Shine

Quotes 

• John Moody : There's another plane.

  Roger Ailes : Where?

  John Moody : United 93 is down in a field in Pennsylvania.

  Roger Ailes : [indicating a TV]  And we're watching that?

  John Moody : Well, thing... things are moving pretty fast.

  Roger Ailes : Look, just put up a shot of the tower. That's what everyone needs to see. Just run it on a loop all day.

  John Moody : We can't just show the same thing over and over.

  Roger Ailes : It's not a regular news day. This is Pearl fucking Harbor.

  Chet Collier : [on TV, the North Tower collapses]  Fuck.

  Roger Ailes : Do we even have anything else?

  Bill Shine : They, um, uh, shut down Pennsylvania Avenue, evacu...

  Roger Ailes : No, not words. Images, visuals. What do we got?

  John Moody : Uh, jumpers.

  Roger Ailes : What?

  John Moody : From the North Tower. Jumpers.

  Roger Ailes : Let's see that.

• Roger Ailes : I need you to back up Chet today. All right? You know I love the guy, but I think he's lost a step, so just make sure we don't drop anything.

  Bill Shine : I'm on it.

  Roger Ailes : Thank you.

• Roger Ailes : When they brought those towers down... I believe they thought they could inject so much fear into our hearts that they would shut us down. And that our great country would become impotent. That's not gonna happen. This is a war between good and evil, and we... we are not gonna be afraid to call it exactly that. And we should never be afraid of patriotism. Now, I want all of you to start wearing one of these.

  [pouring a bag of American flag pins onto the tabletop] 

  Roger Ailes : You step into the building, you're wearing a flag. You go on air, you're wearing the flag. You're screwing a hooker in a cheap motel? Wear the flag, Bill.

  Bill Shine : [laughter]  Okay.

  Roger Ailes : Now, I got this today. CNN have had a spike in the ratings, and that is just not good for us. Now, they have three times as many employees, they have five times as many foreign bureaus, but we have something that CNN don't have. Resolve. We're gonna be fair, we're gonna be accurate, and we're gonna put American values first. CNN are gonna want to please and appease the rest of the world. And we don't give a fuck. Let them do that. Let them do that, because we stand with America!

  Bill Shine : [applause]  Yeah!

  Roger Ailes : We're gonna tell people what they need to hear, we're gonna bring them the truth, and we're gonna fucking win!

• Roger Ailes : This is Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaeda.

  John Moody : None of us know for sure yet. We're... we're trying to get confirmation...

  Roger Ailes : Somebody just flew two jumbo jets into the World Trade Center. Another one into the Pentagon. The biggest suicide bombs ever. Who do you think it was, the fucking Quakers?

  John Moody : Roger... let the other networks say al-Qaeda first, like we did with Lewinsky and Clinton.

  Roger Ailes : This is not about blowjobs getting us ratings, John.

  Brian Lewis : We're under attack.

  Roger Ailes : He's right. We don't know what else can happen today. There could be more planes, could be subway attacks, dirty bombs. We have to be prepared for anything. It's not over. We need a new graphics package. Splashy. I want it to say, "America at War." Chet, talk to me about on-screen updates.

  Chet Collier : Uh...

  Bill Shine : There's a lot of noise, uh, panic. Flights grounded, Air Force scrambled.

  Roger Ailes : Get it all up there.

  Bill Shine : There's only so much room on... on screen, Roger.

  Roger Ailes : Well, let's do it like we do sports scores, uh, but keep it moving, like it's a Wall Street ticker tape.

  Bill Shine : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  Roger Ailes : Yeah, update after update. Everybody needs to know what's happening. Who we got coming in, John?

  John Moody : Uh, some phones are down. We're having trouble getting in touch with anybody in D.C. or south of Houston.

  Roger Ailes : You know what? Just get every NatSec expert we've got. You just put 'em on hold for the whole goddamn day. You make it an exclusive hold if you have to. This is gonna be a day that defines us, as a country and as a people, and we just all need to be at our very best.

• Brian Lewis : [after learning Geraldo Rivera lied about being at the site of a friendly-fire incident]  This is a fucking disaster.

  Roger Ailes : It's not that bad.

  John Moody : It is that bad. Tora Bora's 300 miles away from where that happened. Baltimore Sun's got it. Everyone's gonna run with it.

  Brian Lewis : We have to issue an apology. We have...

  Roger Ailes : No, no, no. What, no apology.

  Brian Lewis : Roger, he lied.

  John Moody : Worse than that, he got caught. It's journalistic malpractice.

  Roger Ailes : We don't apologize. If you need to get out in front of it, Brian, get on the offensive. Just say it's the fog of war. An honest mistake.

  Brian Lewis : [scoffing]  "Honest."

  Roger Ailes : Hey, Geraldo came here from CNBC because he wanted to cover the war. Because he is a patriot. Because he's loyal. Anybody in this room ever been shot at? Hmm? Anybody in this room ever covered a war on the ground?

  Brian Lewis : Fine.

  Bill Shine : Honest mistake, then?

  Roger Ailes : Yeah. He's our guy. Go with that.