Posted on 11/22/2011 11:30:30 AM PST by Southnsoul
Sarah Palin's announcement that she wouldn't run for president disappointed her legions of admirers — but it infuriated Roger Ailes. The Fox News chief wasn't angry about the decision itself. Rather, he was livid that Palin made the October 5 announcement on Mark Levin's conservative talk-radio program, robbing Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza. Fox was relegated to getting a follow-up interview with Palin on Greta Van Susteren's 10 p.m. show, after the news of Palin's decision had been drowned out by Steve Jobs's death. Ailes was so mad, he considered pulling her off the air entirely until her $1 million annual contract expires in 2013.
After the announcement, he called Fox's executive vice-president Bill Shine into a meeting. Shine is the network's principal point of contact with Palin. Ailes told him she had made a big mistake. "I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network," Ailes pointedly told Shine. Sources described the episode on condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the relationships.
Palin is said to have made her announcement on Levin's show because she's been upset that Fox News has given a platform to Karl Rove, one of her principal critics. "She isn't happy with Karl," one Palin adviser told me. "From day one, he hasn't been very nice." Levin had become Palin's biggest booster in the conservative commentariat, and Palin is known for rewarding loyalists, and punishing her detractors.
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The sad part is that you seem to actually believe what you wrote. Barnum was right.
Except for when she is on CNN at the Iowa State fair.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2763233/posts
PREACHING IT!
BTTT
“Pardon me while I don’t believe this lying little creep, Gabe Sherman.”
That’s what I thought.
>>You’re one miserable poster.<<
I am quite happy. And people like you make me happier. Your projection is interesting, though...
I think pissant said "goodbye" to FR with a statement very similar to yours.
What’s next? A new screen name?
ROTFL.
I updated the message on your FR profile page:
Stalk
FollowSarah Palin on Twitter:
lolol
Dang. I was beginning to wonder if Pissant was back.
Thank you!!! Don Adams loved that interivew! I’m so happy it’s added to this thread!
However, she was not a guest.
Sarah’s sooooo cool. Go, Sarah, go!
A FReepercide, if ever there was one. Unbe-freepin-lievable.
(I think lone was commenting on Palladin’s crappy remarks about Sarah, not your comment which was rather benign)
gabrielsherman POTUS does “pre interviews”? RT @TheRevAl Just pre interviewed President Obama for radio show. He spoke about the Super Committee’s failure
gabrielsherman Reading Frum am struck at how far to the right GOP has veered since the Bush White House. There’s been successful takeover by populist wing
gabrielsherman DAVID FRUM on the GOP: “A going-out-of-business sale for the baby-boom generation.” http://t.co/M66U7GdR
http://muckrack.com/gabrielsherman
I know that!!!
You have a nice day.
And you and her fans gobbled it up.
Sounds more like *you* are the one still feeling betrayed, on some perversely personal level. Maybe I'm wrong, but you do have a Sarah Palin Twitter link on your home page.
Yeah, well I almost hit the “Abuse” on those comments, then I saw Jim popped by at #88....
And let’s face it: Tokyo Rove doesn’t really like pretty girls.
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