“Ailes was so mad, he considered pulling her off the air entirely until her $1 million annual contract expires in 2013.”
Could all be liberal disinformation.
I didn’t know she had such a grudge against (shut up) Karl. Up she goes another two notches in my opinion.
Good! The MSM is losing and FOX has been part of the MSM since Beck left.
That’d what I figured. Rove was leading the Republican charge to drive her out. He’s been against all or most tea party candidates from the beginning.
Strategic error for Sarah. She alienated her best allies, and put the damper on any future aspirations.
Sarah is toast...yesterday...forgotten.
She really is not too bright.
I can understand how Ailes would be ticked.
Maybe she wanted to announce her decision on a CONSERVATIVE show?
Suck it up, Roger. Sarah has played you like she ALWAYS plays the media.
If it wasn’t in her contract, she had no such obligation to Ailes who should’ve kept in mind that there are other presidential campaigns down the road.
Ailes pays her. He doesn’t own her.
A Palin adviser told me that she is planning to make an endorsement for a candidate in 2012. Palin, being Palin, is keeping it tightly held. "I have an idea of who it is," the adviser said, "but I'm not telling."
Deja vu all over again, only I'm not playing this time.
Very dumb and naive move by Gov. Palin.
He couldn’t take out his anger on her since she clearly is bringing eyeballs (if she was still in probationary period she would be GONE).
But memories in media are LONG. There will come a time where she stumbles and needs goodwill from Fox. And, across the board, it won’t be there.
You don’t throw a hissy-fit at people who are throwing a cool million a year at you.
And don’t rant about “principle.” The only principle here is you don’t screw your own company, even if you don’t 100% agree with it.
Dont bite the hand that feeds you, so to speak. They offered her a job with great pay and this is how she rewarded them. Cant blame anyone over there for being irked at not getting the scoop first. Personally, I was really surprised she didn’t wait till she was on Fox to announce her decision. Not that I expected her to say she was running, it took her so long to announce that by then it didn’t matter to many.
She told some radio host in Alaska that he would be the first to know so Roger, baby, you’re not alone.
Fox News needs competition from the right. Another conservative-ish cable news network would only make Fox better.
"She isn't happy with Karl," one Palin adviser told me. "From day one, he hasn't been very nice."
That's no surprise. Karl Rove's a Romney guy. Most of Bush's guys were Romney guys in 08 over McCain (and many backed Obama over McCain).
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Yep...stick it to the bastard who gave her a national platform.
Burn that bridge to nowhere.
Too bad, Roger. You’re just the latest to learn Sarah makes people who are rude to her pay for it. Gotta love that in a chick.
For those that continue to call her not so bright let’s just think about the fact that in this one it was Ailes that wasn’t very bright. He thought he could flash some $bucks$ under her nose, and use her for ratings, and still have more ratings with Karl “The Mouth” Rove as well. Cake, and eat it too.
ESAD Ailes. You should have paid more attention to her history. Had you, you would have known she is NOT the type you can buy for your purposes. She has goals for what she does, and if you stop, look, and think about what’s happening, who’s the sucker? Hmmmmm then again maybe that’s why you are pissed. You did finally do the brainwork.
First of all, is Ailes serious? Turning her announcement into some kind of hyped Fox special? That would have been sooo CHEESEY. I’m glad Palin had none of that!
Secondly, Fox has treated Palin like crap this past year... constantly belittling her and dismissing her on the network. They didn’t even air any of her speeches, including that important Iowa one (which CNN covered live!). And they’d only report on the most negative of polls regarding her. The all-time low point was when that vile Liz Trotta, who once loathesomely referred to Baby Trig as an “it,” during her weekly commentary, also went on air on her Fox Sunday gig, touting the McGinnis book and his outlandish smears as if they were unvarnished truths... snidely bearing her fangs and basically calling the Palins racist, promiscuous, adulterous, cocaine-snorthing dope-fiends! This was right on the air on FoxNews in September, before Palin made her announcement.
What the hell other network treats one of their ‘own’ people this way? Unbelievable! FoxNews has really taken a repulsive turn for the worst lately. I’ve all but stopped watching them the past two months. Which is really something, since I used to practically leave the channel on like a ‘default’ position for my tv-set!