8 Crazy Things You Never Knew About Fox News And Roger Ailes, 'The Most Important Republican In The Country'

AP

Zev Chafets' look at one of the most powerful figures in the conservative movement — Fox News president Roger Ailes — was released on Tuesday.

In Roger Ailes: Off Camera, Chafets was given nearly unprecedented access to Ailes, and their discussions revealed some untold factoids about Ailes and his network. Ailes and Chafets talked about everything from Ailes' mentorship of then-fledgling radio host Rush Limbaugh to an unlikely friendship with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who calls him the "most important Republican in the country."