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Why Fox News is souring on Sarah Palin: 3 theories (take it for what it's worth - trash)
The Week ^ | 9/28/12 | Examiner.com, Huff. Post, New York

Posted on 09/28/2012 5:59:42 PM PDT by Evil Slayer

Sarah Palin's increasingly testy relationship with Fox News took a turn for the worse this week, when she wrote on her Facebook page that the cable news channel had canceled interviews she had been scheduled to give during the network's coverage of the Republican convention. Palin was supposed to appear on Fox on Wednesday, the same night that Paul Ryan, her successor as the GOP's vice-presidential candidate, was speaking. Fox executives say Palin got cut simply because time was tight after the convention was condensed from four days to three in the wake of Hurricane Isaac. But this is far from the first public clash between the former Alaska governor and her employer. What's the real story behind the souring relationship? Here, three theories:

1. Palin is not the star she was when Fox hired her Four years ago, Palin was the darling of the GOP, says Scott Paulson at Examiner.com, but she threw that away when she quit her job as governor of Alaska. She's "not even a politician anymore." Face it: With her relevance in the Republican Party fading, Palin's "extended 15 minutes" of fame are running out. And fame is what made her valuable to Fox.

2. And her ratings don't justify her monster salary This is "a classic display of Sarah Palin being, well, Sarah Palin," says Gabriel Sherman at New York. But her Facebook outburst also "reveals something deeper" about Palin's rocky relationship with Fox. Palin is the cable news channel's highest-paid contributor at $1 million a year, but Fox executives are disappointed with her ratings. Her contract is up in January, and Fox is weighing what kind of renewal to sign, "if they sign one at all." Palin, disappointed that she's not getting top billing, is pushing back, but she shouldn't press her luck.

(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: foxnews; palin; sarahpalin; trashtalk
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To: cherry
if she's serious, she needs to hope that Romney wins and appoints her energy secretary

LOL, there's about as much chance of that as Obama appointing her. Let's not be ignorant about the "split" in the Republican party that's been there for at least 50 years.

61 posted on 09/28/2012 10:10:40 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: JediJones
Palin cares so much about you and this country that she.... has an aid post on Facebook sometimes.

Wonderful.

62 posted on 09/28/2012 10:59:26 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: Mikey_1962
She could have had a legal defense fund, she didn’t try because she was not serious.

When I saw your first comment on the thread, I sort of suspected you were talking out the side of your neck. Now I know you are.

Palin DID have a legal defense fund, but guess what? Liberals took her to court over it, and the judge ruled that her defense fund was illegal. Just like that, he took away her only source of defense funds.

Know what you're talking about before putting your ignorance in print.

63 posted on 09/28/2012 11:12:57 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 92nina

I hope you simply forgot your sarc tag on that comment.


64 posted on 09/28/2012 11:16:38 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
I did the math. The defense was being covered by the state's own atty office. She claimed she was worried about all the money it was costing the state, but that amount was, well, infinitesimal compared to the state budget and compared to the the tax increase she levied on oil production.

She wanted to cash in and was bored with the job. And she proceeded to cash in, milked the potential of a presidential run for as long as she could to maximize her book sales and speaking fees, and make fools of her boosters.

65 posted on 09/28/2012 11:19:32 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: 92nina
I did the math. The defense was being covered by the state's own atty office.

Where did you pop up from? DU? You can't come in here and start inventing 'facts', and not expect to get outed for it.

Your statement is pure horse hockey. The laws on the books in Alaska at the time, forbade ANY public monies from being spent by the Governor for defense against ethics lawsuits.

Try again, troll.

66 posted on 09/28/2012 11:27:23 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 92nina

And she endorses conservative candidates in primaries who almost always go on to win their primaries. Which is more than you know how to do.


67 posted on 09/28/2012 11:31:55 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: 92nina
I did the math.

All the way up to elbow I'm sure. Troll.
68 posted on 09/29/2012 12:01:26 AM PDT by PA Engineer (What if the rabbit hole is endless?)
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To: cherry
I wish Palin had stuck with her governorship....I know she was under constant attack....

Do you understand the military term "kill zone" or "k.z."?

That is what the 'Rat Lege up there had turned public office into, with Sarah's name written all over the legislation. They were absolutely -- with Rahm Emanuel's and Barack Obama's and the Rahmmy 'RatRoots' collaboration and conspiring -- to mummify Sarah in office, just tie her up and lynch her and break her family -- as in bankrupt, bust, ruination.

We owe those b*stards, but meanwhile, they successfully drove her out of office -- and nobody in U.S. politics could have stayed in that offices with that combination, with those tools available, teaming up to destroy the incumbent governor. Press, Lege, courts, 'Rats, AnkleBiters -- it was a "k.z." for sure, by design.

Get it now?

69 posted on 09/29/2012 12:12:09 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: JediJones
....if Romney loses, everyone who backed him in the primary will be doing some major soul-searching, ....

Everybody except Karl Rove. He has no soul.

No reflection in a mirror, either.

70 posted on 09/29/2012 12:17:50 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Timber Rattler
She had a legal defense fund, but the ankle biters were successful in having it declared illegal....

A serious, academically rigorous book about her governorship would be timely about now. It would also send about a dozen people in Alaska and a few in D.C. to prison.

71 posted on 09/29/2012 12:23:57 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Evil Slayer; sickoflibs

Sarah What? It’s been at least a month since I’ve heard this name.


72 posted on 09/29/2012 1:15:50 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Impy; Evil Slayer

Maybe her usefulness to FNC has come to an end.
After all she outlived Glenn Beck by well over a year.
After the election they may call her back, if O wins.

Her FNC contract was the reason I knew she had zero intention of running early last year yet scores of fools (cultists) here lived in a dreamworld for well over a year and refused to read the flashing billboard that told them,.


73 posted on 09/29/2012 1:27:00 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is still a liberal. Just watch him. (Obama-ney Care ))
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To: Evil Slayer
Examiner.com is a blog that you or I could sign up for in 2 minutes and become an "author" just like the jackwagon mentioned in the article. They make it sound like they're quoting some reporter at the Variety, The Los Angeles Times, Des Moines Register or CNN! What a laff!!
74 posted on 09/29/2012 2:05:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: JediJones

I agree that if Romney loses, an enraged Tea Party will initiate the purge of a lifetime. But even then, you support someone like Rubio and he comes out for a bunch of lib positions. And, there are other problems I’ll discuss in private mail.


75 posted on 09/29/2012 3:34:21 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: Windflier
When I saw your first comment on the thread, I sort of suspected you were talking out the side of your neck. Now I know you are.

Ad hominem. Nice work.

I didn't know she had a defense fund: guilty.

Don't confuse ignorance with stupidity. Ignorance is easily fixed stupid is eternal.

I stand by my original statement: Sarah Palin is not a serious politician, and her resignation, among other things, proves it.

She IS serious about promoting Sarah Palin, and proves it regularly.

76 posted on 09/29/2012 6:22:48 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Mikey_1962
I didn't know she had a defense fund: guilty.

Don't confuse ignorance with stupidity. Ignorance is easily fixed stupid is eternal.

You claimed in no uncertain terms that Palin had no defense fund, as though it were absolute fact. Your knowledge of her life and career are so weak, that you didn't even realize you were stating a falsehood, but you're so intent on maligning her, that you risked being ridiculed to do so.

I'm afraid that isn't just ignorance. It really is stupidity.

Stand by your ill-informed viewpoint of her if you will, but it's now been seriously discounted.

77 posted on 09/29/2012 9:03:42 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Evil Slayer; All

Well .. Sarah’s not the only one .. my complaints are many - which I have emailed to FOX.

If they don’t want my viewership .. fine with me .. they’re not the only game in town.

Too arrogant hosts, and too many liberals as program managers who always give us the most radical leftists who are so rude and talk over everybody .. can’t stand it.


78 posted on 09/29/2012 2:04:27 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth".)
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To: Windflier
When she quit her office to cash in on being a celebritard, she cited the expense to government as a reason. Here's your citation. http://bit.ly/SrV5oj.

Is defending Palin on the internets the FR version of Cialis?

79 posted on 09/29/2012 7:41:47 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: 92nina

You quack like a liberal, Nina.

Get off my lawn.


80 posted on 09/29/2012 8:33:54 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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