The interesting question is whether Roger Ailes is behind these attacks on Palin, or thought that he could manipulate her like a puppet.
BOR is simply behaving him like himself. Nobody needs to instruct him how to make himself obnoxious—he does it by nature.
It seems to me that Fox could have let Palin go when they let two other potential candidates go. That would have given them sufficient defense against attacking a woman. Besides, there isn’t a feminist anywhere who likes Palin anyway.
Does Roger Ailes want to be the Soros of the right? I find that hard to believe. What he has done best is make money for Fox News by doing what’s needed to increase their ratings. Hiring Palin certainly made sense from that point of view.
"The interesting question is whether Roger Ailes is behind these attacks on Palin, or thought that he could manipulate her like a puppet.
BOR is simply behaving him like himself. Nobody needs to instruct him how to make himself obnoxious—he does it by nature.
It seems to me that Fox could have let Palin go when they let two other potential candidates go."
I find the unsubstantiated speculation in this post to be absurd. If Ailes wanted Sarah to be a puppet and then found out that she would not be one, he most certainly would have let her go by now.
"Does Roger Ailes want to be the Soros of the right? I find that hard to believe. What he has done best is make money for Fox News by doing what’s needed to increase their ratings. Hiring Palin certainly made sense from that point of view."
That assessment makes a lot more sense. I have even heard speculation that he is eying her to be Glenn Beck's replacement and that the current "tour" is meant to gin up a ton of PR leading to such an announcement. Of course that is mere speculation as well, but it is logical given Ailes' business interest.