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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Freakin’ ditto!
It’s comments like his that make it hard to be a female FReeper sometimes.
>>Youre liberal. When you repeat the liberal lies about anyone youre liberal. <<
I see the Palin-bot playbook is still being used. Rule #1 is to play the liberal card with the same abandon as barry supporters play the race card.
The difference is we now have a specific history. Gov. Palin strung out all her supporters, kicked them in the teeth, then laughed. That ain’t liberalism — that’s FACT. And what ideology recasts facts to make them fit a predetermined narrative...?
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Yep...stick it to the bastard who gave her a national platform.
Burn that bridge to nowhere.
I used to read your posts. And then you became very emotional and out of control. I stopped valuing your opinion on anything. That's a shame. But you're too angry and emotional to feel any regret about it.
The one thing you obviously never learned in your supposed 75 years, is how to behave like an adult. Maybe you were too busy studying others behavior instead of focusing on your own.
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.
I’m far from any bot, but how was anyone kicked in the teeth? She never said she was going to run.
I'm so sorry! Hit abuse.
NO! Palladin's vile sexual comments are over the line and you know it. Leave that to DU. FR is above that.
>>But you’re too angry and emotional to feel any regret about it.<<
I am neither angry nor emotional. My feeling can be best described as “mildly amused.”
There is certainly nothing to regret.
Honestly, I'm acquainted with many teenaged boys who are more gentlemanly than this guy. If he's unable to behave as an adult, I'd prefer he at least aspire to be a well-mannered juvenile.
>>Im far from any bot, but how was anyone kicked in the teeth? She never said she was going to run.<<
You are kidding, right? Maybe you weren’t noticing that she made it SEEM she was going to run — for a VERY long time. She could have announced much, much earlier. But she was having too much fun.
I did, on two of his comments.
I think so, too. ":^(
NOT the Palladin I'm familiar with.
You have been VERY emotional when arguing against Palin. You don’t even debate any stands that she takes on issues. Your comments are simply that’s she’s “ dumb and naive” along with trying to insult her supporters. That’s emotion and not fact based. And you still won’t make any Palin supporters turn to Perry by grossly insulting them.
Good on you! I hit abuse on one and will go back to look to see if others are still standing.
Unreal outbursts of vile slander.
All Palin said what that she was going to make a decision by a certain time, and that's what happened. It wasn't the decision you wanted. TS.
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