“Ailes also faced internal resistance to Beck’s rise. Sean Hannity complained to Bill Shine about Beck. And it didn’t help matters that O’Reilly, who had become friends with Beck and can’t stand Hannity, scheduled Beck as a regular guest, a move that only annoyed Hannity further.”

The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election. - NYMag