After she went rogue on him, he had a big problem on his hands though. He couldn't outright fire her without bringing the roof down on Fox's head, and so he began scaling back her appearances (leading to her Facebook complaints), and when her contract came up to renewal, he only offered her a a new contract with an insultingly large pay cut. So she's walked away, as he intended, leaving Fox unscathed.
Ailes advice to her was insane, and one of the first clues that he never had her best interests at heart. The media’s effort to deliberately cast blame onto her for that Tucson mass-murder, basically dumping bloody bodies right on her doorstep, was about the most evil and incendiary depths I’ve ever seen the media sink to. The constant juxtaposition of imagery... video-footage of Giffords, the blood on the pavement, the photo of the little girl murdered, and then file-footage of Palin at a tea-party... all in a continuing loop for DAYS. Drumming an inflammatory connection into the public sphere by repetition akin to Soviet-era propagand films. Palin and her family reportedly received over 100,000 death-threats. The media was practically soliticing her murder.
And Ailes advice to Palin was basically “keep quiet; it’ll blow over; no biggie.” Add to that, virtually no one in the GOP even stood up and spoke in her defense. She HAD to. And she called it like it was: all-out blood libel. Never really trusted anything about Ailes ever since.
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She already planned on leaving. Why is it, some automatically think she left because of a pay cut. Show me anywhere SARAH was all about money. She known as a giver not taker and she doesn't toot her own horn.
Good story and it makes sense.
But Fox hasn’t been attracting conservative viewers, and those are the people who tune in to see Sarah Palin.
She is better off without Fox News.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done before the next two elections. Organizing takes time and huge effort, but most of all, it requires the involvement of a charizmatic person like Sarah Palin.