The Loudest Voice (TV Mini Series)

2008 (2019)

Seth MacFarlane: Brian Lewis

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• Brian Lewis : Killed it in the overnights. Beat CNN by 300K in the demo. I'm telling you, Obama is great for ratings.

  Roger Ailes : Yeah, says you, the Democrat.

  Dianne Brandi : [seeing news of a stock market dip]  There goes my 401k.

  Roger Ailes : You wait. See what happens with the markets if he wins. He wants to "share the wealth". That old chestnut. Take from the rich, give to the poor. He's a fucking communist.

• Roger Ailes : [after a conversation with Gretchen Carlson]  You know I've fucked two Miss Americas? Not that one yet.

  Brian Lewis : By the way, you can sleep tonight. I plugged the leak. You should have seen him, too. He was shitting himself. He was like, "Oh, my God, what am I gonna do? My wife is gonna kill me. Why am I such a simpering asshole?" It was beautiful.

• Marty Dibari : I just got a call from the Daily News asking me to comment on a story about me being fired.

  Brian Lewis : Okay, calm down. Just tell me what the reporter said.

  Marty Dibari : Just... that I'm about to be laid off. What am I supposed to tell my wife? She's gonna kill me. Fuck! I can't get fired, not now. I need this job.

  Brian Lewis : Look, sometimes reporters get bad information.

  Marty Dibari : So I'm not being fired?

  Brian Lewis : Well, not yet. But, um... leak again, and you will be.

  Marty Dibari : Brian, I didn't leak. I would never.

  Brian Lewis : You didn't leak? You didn't go down to Langan's and get drunk? You didn't tell that secretary in corporate you're trying to bang about O'Reilly's stalled contract? You didn't do that?

  Marty Dibari : She works with us.

  Brian Lewis : She works for News Corp, not Fox. Just because Murdoch signs all the paychecks doesn't mean we jerk each other off in the shower. Anyone outside Fox is the enemy. And we do not talk about what we do.

  Marty Dibari : I understand.

  Brian Lewis : Good.

  [straightening Marty's tie] 

  Brian Lewis : Lighten up there, buddy. It's a nice night.

• Roger Ailes : I need us to look into somebody.

  Dianne Brandi : I'll call Dietl. Who is it?

  [Roger hands her a manila envelope; inside is a picture of Rupert's wife Wendi] 

  Roger Ailes : I think she's fucking around on him.

  Brian Lewis : Okay, look, Rog, let's think fir...

  Roger Ailes : She's pushing him to the left. Bad for business, fucking dangerous. See all his new celebrity friends and his hair dye? She controls everything he eats, everything he drinks. But it's not about his health. Mind control.

  Dianne Brandi : I agree with Brian. This is an unnecessary risk.

  Roger Ailes : I don't care about the risk. I will not have her undermining the work we do here. For all we know, she already works for fucking Obama. Or the Chinese government.

• Brian Lewis : This is off the fucking record. We clear? There's gonna be layoffs.

  [scoffing] 

  Brian Lewis : Names. Yeah, I'm gonna give a fucking reporter names? What am I, Santa Claus?

  [listening for a moment] 

  Brian Lewis : Well, then, you know what? This just might be your lucky day. Marty Dibari in legal. Check him out. You remember this: I am *not* your source. All right? You fuck me on this, and I swear to God, I will fuck you back so hard, you'll be coughing up my dick.

• Roger Ailes : [the day before election day]  No fucking way. So they're not gonna run it?

  Brian Lewis : I don't know. Gawker's hard to get a read on. I mean, sometimes they slap shit up right away. Sometimes they sit on their asses.

  Roger Ailes : Half of what they run is just some no-name putz getting his knob polished. We've given them a Wendi Deng-Rupert Murdoch sex scandal. Should be fucking gold.

  Brian Lewis : We're the source. They're the journalist. We can't control when they publish what we want them to.

  Roger Ailes : Come on, Brian, for fuck's sake. You telling me how journalists work?

  Brian Lewis : Anything else?

  Roger Ailes : No.

  [Brian leaves] 

  Roger Ailes : You think they'd fucking run that shit, right?

  Judy Laterza : [giving him some materials]  Beck's agent sent this over.

  Roger Ailes : [looking at a headshot of Glenn Beck]  Jesus. Fucking armadillo with a hairpiece. Can't argue with the ratings. I mean, he took a black hole at CNN and turned it into $600K in the demo. I mean... and he hates Obama. Set up a meeting.