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From Dan Cooper’s new book on Fox News and Roger Ailes, Naked Launch (via Johnny Wendell and Eric Boehlert):

“I already know the ansa. I got a phone call from Roger Ailes an owwa ago. He told me that until I drop you as a cloyent, any demo tapes I send ovah for talent jobs will sit in the cawwna and gatha dust”. Drop me as a client? Threatening to damage my agent’s business if he didn’t drop me from his client roster? Tapes gathering dust if he didn’t cut me out? This was certainly pure Roger, icing the poison cake with a darkly comic visual metaphor. Roger was part Don Rickles and part Don Corleone. He was going to leave the tapes there for years maybe, and never have them dusted. And maybe send photos of them to Richard. Unless Richard stopped representing me.