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144.
Richard Shea won
Putnam County Board of Elections,
http://www.putnamcountyny.com/board-of-elections/2013-elections/liveelectionresults/
.

145.
“He doesn’t want”
Author interview with a national Republican.

146.
“All progress is made”
Donald Baer, “Roger Rabid,”
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147.
“I don’t care”
Chris Ariens, “Roger Ailes on His Apprentices and His Legacy,”
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.

148.
“Right now”
Chafets,
Roger Ailes
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149.
“Most of the media”
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150.
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.

151.
Near the end of his book
Ailes and Kraushar,
You Are the Message
, 203–4.

152.
“If you can get the audience”
Ibid.

153.
He had two million
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