It's a good question. What in the world had the Wright been doing since the Ted Cople's

James Baker's of the world left the scene? What had gone so wrong to get them to this point?

The answer is simple. It got what it wanted. A large part of this, as Cople correctly keyed in on,

is Fox News. Although the Wright's journey to

becoming what it is today involve far more than just one infamous network, it provides a good

place to start. While Rupert Murdoch wouldn't launch his soon-to-be-juggernaut TV network until

late 1996, more than a decade and a half after the beginning of the Reagan Revolution,

the right-wing elite had been dreaming of a staunchly conservative news network for decades

leading up to that point.

This had always been less of a strict political necessity than it had been something that

they desired to massage their perpetually wounded egos, which means that it could

have only originated from one place, the Nixon White House.

Nixon just wasn't satisfied with a press that helped grant him overwhelmingly positive

approval ratings until he sent a group of young men with white boozy fades and dreams

of being born early enough to defect to the Vermacht to try and

rig McGovern's turnal neck collection with Semtex. The administration would relentlessly seek

ways to put outright pro-Nixon propaganda on TV, laying the foundation for everything modern

right-wing media would eventually become. These ideas would start small at first.

In June 1970, incensed by a CBS report critical of the administration's failings in the Vietnam War, the Nixon administration would look into covertly producing a pro-war

documentary to get their message out.

On this team of budding TV scientists was a strapping young hemophiliac and

Hagen-Daz enthusiast named Roger Ayles, who had found his place in Nixon World as the

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