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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If you become too independent, you isolate yourself and appeal to fewer and fewer normal people.
Onyx, thanks for post 14 so I did not have to say it!
Am in agreement, except I don’t let Tokyo Rove anywhere near my A.
I hope the candidate Sarah wants to support is..... Sarah Palin ;)
She told some radio host in Alaska that he would be the first to know so Roger, baby, you’re not alone.
LOL. *You betcha*, she’s not too bright. /s
Want to rethink that not at all bright statement?
Yer welcome of course! I wouldn’t actually put mine anywhere near him either! LOL.
>>Get a clue please! NO ONE in the MSM is a friend of ANY conservative. If you can’t grasp that NOW, you never will.<<
Reread for content. “Goodwill” isn’t “friendship.” And if my “enemies” want to throw 1 million dollars a year at me, I am not sure I would kick them in the butt.
You need to understand how the Industry works. This will bite her. Badly.
BTTT
Faux led the crusade with their idiot polls of less than 400 to *prove* that GOP folks didn’t want her to run. She was only praised and supported by Eric Bolling, Hannity and Greta!
No it won't but you can keep hoping.
Disinformation. There are TWO show hosts. She DID tell them first then announced publicly. The two hosts very proudly stated “See Sarah? We didn’t tell anyone.”
And yet, here you are talking about her.
I bet she never talks about you.
Kind of makes you wonder who is the dim one.
Unfortunately there are conservatives that don’t understand that Fox is not and never was conservative and that they need Palin a LOT more than she needs them.
>>No it won’t but you can keep hoping.<<
It is you who is the hopeful one. No point in pointing out reality to the fantasy-based.
Babble is right. Have you seen her lately?
What a waste of time and money.
How's that working out for you, Skippy?
The press can’t stop talking about Palin and trying to minimize her. They aren’t succeeding. Fox NEEDS her. She doesn’t need them. She has press coverage. She can’t sneeze without it being analyzed. All of you who bought the MSM’s bull have my sympathy.
Fox News needs competition from the right. Another conservative-ish cable news network would only make Fox better.
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