Were either Gingrich or Santorum a threat to the status quo as Palin surely is? Was fox visibly hostile to either Gingrich or Santorum as they are to Palin? Both appear on Fox as often, or even MORE often, than they did before. Does either one of them generate the numbers that an appearance by Palin does?
Palin makes Fox a LOT of money.
I think it is you who is giving Palin short shrift.
Now your just making stuff up. The status quo has nothing to do with it. Fox is not conspiring to tie Palin down. In my previous post I showed you very clearly that her contract, that she signed, runs through 2012 (that means through the campaign season and election day 2012). Your claim about the election season starting earlier than she thought and whatever other contractual points you were trying to make are just not true at all.
Palin can announce, publicly or privately, at ANY time that she is running for President and Fox would suspend her just as it did Gingrich and Santorum. They have said so publicly and often. Whatever theory you've cooked up is just destroyed by the actual facts. It's time for you to let it go.