Pardon me while I don't believe this lying little creep, Gabe Sherman.
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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She is awfully good at playing folks.
Pardon me while I don't believe this lying little creep, Gabe Sherman.
Posts 28, 36 and 43 are vile and not made by the person that I’m familiar with either.
She said that she'd make a decision and she did. That is not "playing" anyone.
-PJ
The Palladin I knew was a gentleman — loving father and husband. Spoke respectfully of the women in his life.
Knock it off, idiot!!
I was certainly shocked.
I’ve tried to be reasonable.
The hatred is palpable and blocks any reason or logic.
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.
Am I to assume you would have changed your mind about her if she had handled this differently? LOL!
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!
He’s not himself!!!
-PJ
>>You have been VERY emotional when arguing against Palin.<<
No, just amused.
>>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. <<
I only said dumb and naive for this — because she was.
>>That’s emotion and not fact based.<<
I gave the reason why her decision was dumb and naive. If you don’t agree that doesn’t undo the reasoning. In fact, it is YOUR “argument” that was emotional. Mine was based on a lot of knowledge of the media industry.
>>And you still won’t make any Palin supporters turn to Perry by grossly insulting them.<<
Huh?
More garbage from dip*shit Gabriel Sherman...
New York’s Sherman writing Fox News book
New York magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman sold an inside account of the rise of Fox News called The Loudest Voice in the Room at auction to Jonathan Jao at Random House
Earlier that morning, Murdoch’s son-in-law Matthew Freud, the London PR executive who’s married to his daughter Elisabeth, had sent an e-mail to Murdoch’s BlackBerry (Murdoch only recently began using e-mail himself). “I’ve given a quote to the New York Times, and you’re probably not going to like it,” Freud wrote.
The quote lived up to its advance billing—and quite a bit more. “I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes’s horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,” Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund, had told the paper. Certainly there was personal animus in the remark; in the left-of-center London social circles where Freud and Elisabeth operated, Fox is particularly loathed.
But the quote was also a salvo in a battle that had been raging around Murdoch for years. Is Fox News a disreputable cash cow, its reported $700 million in profit something to be tolerated with a held nose? Or is it central to the News Corp. mission? And questions like these lead directly to others: Who is Rupert Murdoch, really? And what does he want now?
http://nymag.com/news/media/64305/
You can “be reasonable” about one post. Three is past that point.
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