Sarah Palin Got Scolded By Roger Ailes For Not Announcing Her Non-Candidacy On Fox News

New York Magazine:

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.

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[Robert Lee Harrington]

04:14 AM on 11/29/2011

...On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin’s selection surprised many people, especially because most speculation had centered on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney, Tom Ridge, and Joe Lieberman, none of whom have any sex appeal at all. Especially Joe Lieberman.

Reaction to Palin’s nomination was mixed, just the way you’d expect it to be: conservatives were psyched, liberals outraged, and the news networks excited to have something else to talk about after Hurricane Gustav turned out to be a big bust.

Most discussion centered around Palin’s relative deficit of experience, or surfeit of experience, depending on who you ask. Regardless, Palin demonstrated her ability to read a speech someone else had written for her off a teleprompter, and when push comes to shove, that’s really all she needs to be able to do....
Sarah Palin’s political views are totally cribbed from the "Focus on the Family" website. Pro-life, unless you’re talking about the life of a criminal; limited government involvement in people’s lives, unless those people have a uterus or are gay and want to get married; and guns for whoever wants them, as many as they like, unless they look Islamic, in which case they should be detained indefinitely, preferably naked and arranged in a human pyramid....

[Robert Lee Harrington]

04:10 AM on 11/29/2011

In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant, a feat that sounds a lot more impressive than it is unless you’ve ever met a girl from Wasilla, few of whom have either a full set of teeth or a vacant womb. She then finished runner up in the Miss Alaska pageant, a feat that sounds a lot more impressive than it is considering the state is nearly 75% male.

After attending Hawaii Pacific University for a semester—apparently it wasn’t enough of a party school for her—Palin transferred to North Idaho College and then University of Idaho. In 1987, she received a BS in communications, with a minor in political science. That’s right, a poli-sci minor. VP candidate Joe Biden’s 30-plus-year career as U.S. senator pales in comparison, and anyone who says different is sexist....

After a brief stint as a local sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Palin decided the next logical step was politics, winning two terms on the Wasilla city council.

In 1996, she ran as a Republican for the non-partisan position of mayor, highlighting such issues as abortion, gun control, and religion, each of prime importance for a town that, at the time, consisted of fewer than 5,000 people who mostly crapped in outhouses. Palin won. (Wasilla also boasts a 1:6 citizen-to-church ratio.)
As mayor of Wasilla, Sarah Palin went to work immediately fighting big government by cutting funding to the city museum ...

[Diablo Canyon]

12:10 AM on 11/24/2011

I don't think loyalty is one of Sarah's traits, Roger. It sounds like you think that, too.

[bcinu2]

06:15 PM on 11/23/2011

Wow, you mean she wasn't loyal? Could it be she has gotten past her need for the Fox thumbs up? Now that she has raised plenty of dough for a campaign she was never going to run, she can run around trying to capture headlines as she teases people who want her to give them money for their political race they want to run for.

Boy, how could she have done this to Fox news. Will there be a split or is she just another dog who will turn to bite her previous master?......bc

[Billyguitar]

01:03 PM on 11/23/2011

Ailes thinks she's worth $1 million per year until 2013? How can that be? She's worth nothing to anyone else, nada, zip. He waaaaaay overpaid. What a fool.

[SantaMonican]

12:44 PM on 11/23/2011

Sarah who?

[William Laporte]

03:37 AM on 11/23/2011

Fox are mad at Sara for the basketball black player not because she announcement on Mark radio show that she will nor running for presidente.

[Mort Adela]

02:46 AM on 11/23/2011

Man, that was the longest 15 minutes in history. So long, Sarah, it wasn't nice knowing you...

[l78lancer]

02:18 AM on 11/23/2011

He can still pull her off the air. She adds nothing of value to the discourse.

[ezdeath]

09:41 PM on 11/22/2011

hey Roger, you get what you pay

and looks like you overpaid for the trailerpark mom with delusions of grandeur

maybe you would like to buy a bridge to nowhere (another great Alaska boondoggle)

[leajazz]

09:15 PM on 11/22/2011

She robbed Fox News of an exclusive and a possible ratings bonanza. I'm LMAO!

[Okey Umez]

07:03 PM on 11/22/2011

After 3 years of practice, Ms Wasilla still hasn't learned how to pause when giving a public speech/interview.

[Okey Umez]

06:55 PM on 11/22/2011

Her contract with Fixed Noise is ficsin to expire. Any takers?.

[ezdeath]

09:42 PM on 11/22/2011

it would be ironic if it NPR picked up her contract but they have integrity

[l78lancer]

02:43 AM on 11/23/2011

She probably thinks NPR should be taken off the air because "public" is in the title. She'd think it must be part of a socialist plot.

[advocatusdiaboli]

05:11 PM on 11/22/2011

Substantial support for the idea that really this is all not about ideology but money in the end for both of them. At least we now know what really motivates them both.

[NoSillyName]

05:03 PM on 11/22/2011

"Not Announcing Non-Candidacy...)

What a PETTY bunch of freaks!!!