ROVE: Roger, you gotta' help me out here.
AILES: Anything, Karl, you know that.
ROVE: Okay, I--
AILES: Well, I mean anything in the sense that I can use the network to help you.
ROVE: Look, Rog, I've forgotten all about that night. It was a one time thing. For both of us.
AILES: Yeah...
ROVE: Anyway, this Foley thing could really kill us with the fundies. I mean, they are quickly figuring out that we covered for a queer pervert who molested boys just to extort money to funnel into other congressional races.
AILES: Brilliant plan, Karl, like so much of your work. And just to make clear: I'm not gay.
ROVE: Me neither. Anyway, you know how fucking stupid these fundies are...
AILES: Abso-fucking-lutely! They thought Terri Schiavo was coming back to life!
[LOUD LAUGHTER FROM ROVE AND AILES]
ROVE: Well, here's what I'm thinking...
AILES: Go ahead. I'm all ears. Just don't grab `em and pull my head down to your crotch!
ROVE: [LAUGHING] Did I hurt you last time?
AILES: Shut up. I think I bugged my own phone last week, but I was too drunk to remember if I really did it. Go on...
ROVE: Okay, here's the plan. Keep running photos and video of Foley but instead of putting the tag "R dash FL" for "Republican-Florida" under his picture, put "D dash FL" for "Democrat-Florida."
AILES: I... I don't...
ROVE: The fundies will think Foley is a Democrat!
AILES: Holy fucking shit! That's genius!
ROVE: Of course!
AILES Those dumbfucks will really believe Foley is a Democrat!
ROVE: It's on FOX News!
AILES: So it must be true!
ROVE: Exactly.
AILES: And that will make them turn out more, not less.
ROVE: Nevermind the work they do in get-out-the-vote.
AILES: Damn. You're good.
ROVE: Next time you see me, you can kiss my pinky ring.
AILES: You put a ring on it now?
ROVE: My baby finger, Rog, not my Karl Column.
AILES: I love that you've named your thing.
ROVE: Luntz ran a focus group and came up with it.
AILES: Among the male pages?
ROVE: Wait, did you or did you not bug your phone?
[AILES AND ROVE LAUGH]
AILES: Fuck if I know. I was trashed.
ROVE: So, FOLEY dash D dash FL.
AILES: Got it. Consider it done. And kick your boss in the nuts for me and tell him he's the dumbest fuck on the planet.
ROVE: I do that everyday.
[ROVE AND AILES LAUGH, THEN HANG UP]
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