Roger Ailes steers Fox News away from the hard right and back towards the middle, leaving Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin abandoned by the side of the road.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast:

The left has long branded Fox a propaganda arm for Ailes’s pugnacious conservatism, and while his journalists maintain they play it straight, the network has certainly provided ample fodder for liberal detractors. But as President Obama’s popularity has plummeted and the country has grown increasingly sick of partisan sniping, something unexpected happened. Roger Ailes pulled back a bit on the throttle. 

He calls it a “course correction,” quietly adopted at Fox over the last year. Glenn Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric—his ranting about Obama being a racist—“became a bit of a branding issue for us” before the hot-button host left in July, Ailes says. So too did Sarah Palin’s being widely promoted as the GOP’s potential savior—in large measure through her lucrative platform at Fox. Privately, Fox executives say the entire network took a hard right turn after Obama’s election, but, as the Tea Party’s popularity fades, is edging back toward the mainstream. 

While Fox reporters ply their trade under Ailes’s much-mocked “fair and balanced” banner, the opinion arm of the operation has been told to lower the temperature. After the Gabrielle Giffords shooting triggered a debate about feverish rhetoric, Ailes ordered his troops to tone things down. It was, in his view, a chance to boost profits by grabbing a more moderate audience.

As Joe McGinniss reported Roger Ailes was beyond pissed off that Palin made that taped statement after Giffords was shot, and essentially has been done with her ever since. (Gee, I wonder who Joe's anonymous source was for THAT story?)

Palin was a huge moneymaker for Fox News, right up until her crazy started to blossom, and her beauty started to fade.  Now she is just a tenacious dingleberry refusing to let go until Ailes can finally shake his fat ass hard enough to dislodge her.

I have to wonder if Palin attorney John Tiemessen will have yet ANOTHER Palin enemy to sue now.

Okay the idea of little Johnny Tiemessen going up against Random House AND News Corps actually made me laugh out loud.

But you know Palin would pick fights all day long, just so long as SHE did not have to fight them, or pay for them, or have any of her secrets revealed to the media because of them.

So no, she's not suing ANYBODY!