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.
Ailes, who told Newsweek that he hired Palin when she was "hot," clearly hoped she would boost ratings. But beyond her prime-time commentary, Palin hasn't turned into the television asset Ailes had hoped. Palin's contract is up in 2013 and it's unclear what the current fracas will mean for her future on Fox News. Part of her appeal as a pundit was that every appearance on the network was turbocharged by the "will-she-or-won't-she run" speculation. She's now given up that chip to play. But Palin knows that she still has value as a gatekeeper to her grassroots base. A Palin adviser told me that she is planning to make an endorsement for a candidate in 2012. Palin, being Palin, is keeping it tightly held. "I have an idea of who it is," the adviser said, "but I'm not telling." What's clear is that Palin would be smart to make that announcement on Fox News.
None of this should come to much of a surprise to those of us who have been paying attention. We all knew that Ailes was pissed because Palin refused to heed his advice not to make the "blood libel" video, and her appearances on Fox have become fewer and fewer in number.
So now Ailes has buyer's remorse, and undoubtedly can hardly wait until he can kick the insanely bewigged lunatic to the curb. Boo Hoo!
Personally I feel little to no sympathy for Ailes, who has been instrumental in essentially destroying media credibility in this country, and provided Palin a platform to empower a group of people who have been so dedicated in their obstructionism that they have caused the government to grind to a virtual stand still.
So he arrogantly hired, what seemed from a distance like a hot chick and a sure ratings winner, only to learn that up close she is an emasculating harpie, with a penchant for destroying everything that she touches. They seem perfect for each other.
Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News:
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Ailes must really be pissed now!
Perez Hilton says Bristol's TV show has been axed.
ReplyDelete"I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network,"...
ReplyDeleteAn honest politician is one who stays bought. Those who don't stay bought are no better than prostitutes.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy,,,,,,,,,,,
ReplyDeletePlease let 2012 be the last year that woman has access to national audiences. I am so sick of her I have little momentary fantasies like stomping into her bedroom, yanking the crunchwrap supreme out of her hand, stomping on in, then stomping on her remote and both of her blackberries, grabbing one of her wigs and throwing it out the window, then going out to pee on her "patio." Not to mention my signature trick, putting sardine juice under the driver's seat of her vehicle. Okay, whew, I feel better now.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I am immature. But strong. That crunchwrap supreme will be really flat.
ReplyDeleteOldie but goodie, Sarah, trying to look as adult and serious as possible, seething at the public and the media for associating a shooting with her violent rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteShe has been such a waste of money, I can't believe they built an in-home studio for her, can you imagine how much she nickle-and-dimes Fox the way she did the State for unilaterally moving the Governor's office to her house?
Speaking of homes, she tells the public that it is a sin to live beyond their means, to own homes when you can't afford them. . .how did you come about your dwellings and other properties Sarah? And Todd of the magic hammer? And phantom 'buddies?'
You may have had a rocky relationship with Newt Gingrich Sarah, you distrust him and resent him as an elite good old boy but you lift his speeches. You are both grifters and sell-outs and part of the permanent political classlessness.
Roger, to put it simply - you were DUPED from the start by that duplicitous Palin.
ReplyDeleteFrom the moment that Palin opened her mouth on the national stage, it was so obvious that she was nothing but a canker sore on humanity.
Yes Roger, you were supremely duped. The best thing that you can now do is ensure that Palin is never again seen or heard from on the air waves, effective immediately.
Or Roger, you could somewhat redeem yourself by airing a special program revealing Palin's entire pregnancy hoax with Trig.
The grifter is feuding with Ailes and Rove! Does she have any friends at all?
ReplyDeleteWhat another year or two? I thought her contract was up the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteAh shit. 2 more years of her inanity?
ReplyDeleteGoing to get a razor...
Report card: Intellectually incurious; does not work or play well with others; likes to write on hand.
ReplyDeleteBristol show axed.. Sarah losing Fox gig...
ReplyDeleteLevi's show never got beyond planning stage.
Life is Good!
Hopefully are these redneck morons will just evaporate.
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ReplyDeletePerez Hilton says Bristol's TV show has been axed.
4:45 AM"
hey bustol, see what happens when you can't rid the outcome? The truth wins.
Now will you understand the only reason you got as far as you did on dwts because it was rigged? you should. Gawd knows you didn't get there because of skill or talent.
HAHAHAHA
You are left with shamelessly hocking your kid, your flat ass poked up in the air, as if you are waiting for the next daddy, your nasty homophobic trap, poor embarrassing acting, two men's acting careers shot and your crazy pissed off mom with another failure.
She's a smart woman. She knows what she is doing.
ReplyDeletewomenwithsardinecan @5:11AM
ReplyDeleteHilarious. Thanks for the laugh in the AM! So perhaps now we know about the origin of your pseudonym :)
Oh, another pot to stir. Can't you just see the peebots writing frantically to each other? "I think she will support Cain, because he's the most likely to want her to run with him, or name her Secretary of State." "No, it will be Perry. They have such similar views." "No, it will be herself! Sarah hasn't said she wouldn't run, only that it wouldn't be as a Republican!" Meanwhile, since her two 2011 candidates both LOST, I'm sure she will wait until the very last second to throw her weight around anyway.
ReplyDeleteJust because Fox is obliged to pay her until 2013 doesn't mean they're obliged to broadcast her, too. Unless there's some number of times specified in her contract that she's to appear on-air, it's likely up to the employer whether or not to give her exposure. Why would they do that now that she's pissed them off?
ReplyDeleteI'd bet that the sorrier she looks and the less relevant her "opinions," the fewer times she'll be asked to be on the air.
She already doesn't talk at events that she should, as a politician, I'm sure because her speaking contract specifies that she must be paid for every syllable uttered.
Trouble is, her price will be dropping so fast, by next summer even the Mat-Su Little League will be able to afford her fee for a few words at its banquet.
And then, all quiet on the Wasilla front. Without corporate and loony-bin sponsors, Sarah Palin will vanish like all the other once- relevant celebrities whose time has come and gone.
One more year? Ugh! Palin harping on and on and on. To harp on:
ReplyDeleteMeaning - to continuously carry on a discussion with a theme that has lost its relevance and interest to others involved in that discussion.
Example - Palin sloganeering, Obama's bad for the country.
My god, this yelping banshee has another year left on her contract???
ReplyDeleteThe only upside is that maybe Ailes will order her off the air, and she will not be able to "jump" to another station.
On a more positive note, her disloyal behavior is poisoning the well of her future employment options. I hope Franklin Graham is waking and taking notes.
$arah is going to do the endosement thingy again. Last time she handed the Senate to the democrats. I thank her! But I have to ask how that picky choosey thingy working for her. Is it better than eenie meenie minie moe.
ReplyDeletePoor Roger, didn't his mommy tell him that if you roll around with the pigs you will get dirty??? His karma payback has only just begun.
ReplyDeleteHey sardinecan........you aren't immature, you are human. If only some one had done some of those things sooner, we would not have had the misfortune that is SP. My fantasies involve slapping, pulling hair and liquid soap for her mouth. For the record, this was not done to me, nor have I ever done this to my kids, but somehow, it would be perfectly acceptable for SP.
ReplyDeleteJust read on twitter that Roger Ailes has been selling lots of his stock! Does he fear what I hope is the shrinking of his communication business? We can only hope. The investigation into his criminal network of so called journalists is ongoing and hopefully will result in his diminished presence and maybe we can, like the Canadians, be free of Faux News!
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah, Welcome Back!
ReplyDeleteQuick question, Where's Trigs Birth Certificate?
I doubt Sarah read her contract very well at all and I am wondering if she broke that contract by announcing/or not announcing on a non Faux show. Poor Roger, you bought and paid for that lame announcement and you didn't get it. Sarah better start a church or something, cuz even Faux is about done with her. Tawd may be able to announce the divorce pretty soon.
ReplyDeletePalin has NEVER generated any revenue for FauxNews. How can she? She has no show. Palin was merely one of the stable of potential GOP presidential candidates that Ailes hired. Palin had the distinction of being the only one capable of making "little Roger" stand at attention - although, sometimes Huckkkleberry could do the trick for Ailes as well.
ReplyDeleteAiles was betting that at least ONE of his buffoons would be the GOP nominee. He envisioned being a kingmaker who would then of have a vassal in the White House whom he could control. Palin was always a long shot, but she delivered cords and cords of good wood to Roger. Ailes seems to have been grateful to Palin for reinvigorating what had long been a moribund and lifeless appendage. Ailes loved revisiting that long forgotten sensation as Palin made "little Roger" snap to attention. But no more.
Palin is starting to show the strain of life on the national political stage - even if she's only been at the periphery. She is looking haggard and worn. She is confronting the painful reality that she is now the FORMER sex kitten of the nasty old GOP men. No longer can she captivate these disgusting aging goobers with her flirtin', winkin', and fancy pageant walkin'. No longer can she pump up the ol' Inflate-O-Bra and make these mephitic old coots' pacemakers skip a beat. Palin no longer delivers the good wood.
Ailes is stuck with a MASSIVE case of buyer's remorse as he is confronted with the reality of paying an increasingly less than attractive Palin $1 million dollarsper year to shriek and howl. NOW the mere sound of Palin's fingernails-on-the-chalkboard screech makes "little Roger" shrivel up and hide. Palin - once the dirty old GOP man's answer to Viagra - is now a certain and infallible CAUSE of erectile dysfunction.
Ailes is often touted as being some sort of media super genius in the way he runs FauxNews. How bright can he really be? He hired Palin, didn't he?
I hope he hear's Palin's whiny-assed harpy shriek in his sleep. I also hope that her voice has permanently shriveld "little Roger" into a useless, inert prune sized lump in his pants.
That Ailes hasn't yet benched Palin is proof positive that he ain't that bright.
2013?? Say it isn't so!
ReplyDelete"What's clear is that Palin would be smart to make that announcement on Fox News."
ReplyDeleteWhat's really clear is that she is so spiteful and undeniably stupid that she will be unable to resist doing just the opposite.
Watching her slowly unravel mentally is just so much goddamn fun.
I tried to work up a tear, but...um...nope. Not happening.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the turnout last night for the Unvetted with Bannon in Alaska?
ReplyDeleteAnybody know?
We all know here why Palin made her announcement not to run via a radio message read by Levin himself, and not on on Fox. She's too scared! She took the easy way out, the gutless not-having-to-face-the-gotcha-questions way out. A real leader doesn't mind, indeed invites vigorous questioning of the "gotcha" sort, because he/she has the fricking answers. Palin's got nothing in her brain but money, money, money.
ReplyDeletewell, the bad news is that she has another year at Faux until she is gone for good. Perhaps now the Fox News regulars will stop giving her passes on her gibberish.
ReplyDeleteOh boy! Are the c4p'ers gonna be pissed off when Palin announces her endorsement. They hate everyone but her and I can't see them being very happy about having to support anyone other than Palin.
ReplyDeleteShe's toast, burnt toast.
Love it!
@Gasman, superlative post, par usual for you!!
ReplyDeleteBack in January, Roger Ailes told Sarah not to respond to criticism of her cross hairs after the shootings in Arizona. She didn't follow directions, then.
ReplyDeleteSarah might think that it's cute to go rogue and do her own thing. The problem is that she is (was) aligned with a powerful political/business interest where everyone marches in lock step together and follow the party line.
For Ailes, it's easy. He may be losing a million dollars on someone who used to be hot, but he is still getting his money's worth in publicity. His voice is more powerful that Sarah's.
As for Sarah, she is very good at making enemies. At the end of her reality show, she promised to make her announcement on the Bob and Mark Show. She broke that promise. She teased those poor fans in the Pee Pond, hoping to extract more donations, knowing that she wasn't going to run. It's nice to watch her destroy herself.
With the way things are going for NewsCorp in the UK, there may not be a Fox News to honor any contract with Ms. Palin until 2013.
ReplyDeleteI'm telling you, Todd, Willow, Bristol, RAM - whichever one of you writes the book first makes the most money! If you wait 3 or 4 years noone will want to buy it, you have to do it while Sarah is still relevant and can grab a news cycle (she's become less able to do that these days, especially since she's pissed off Roger)
Roger, you knew she was a viper when you hired her. Please spare us any drama about the fang marks in your ass. Worse for you will be when she herds her sheeple away from your network cause we know you loves to tout them fake ratings to boost your ad rates. Just be careful tho, the poor old gal has had a rough year storing up mega revenge energy and you might just be the lucky one to get the full force when she finally blows her wad.
ReplyDeleteAiles, you've been palinized.
ReplyDeleteBristol Palin's Reality Show Is Dead!
ReplyDeleteFirst off, it has come to our attention via the National Enquirer that Bristol Palin's reality show, the one she was shooting for the BIO channel, has been scrapped, leaving Bristol without work in La La Land. No official reason has been given as to why the network put the kibosh on the series, but if we had to guess …. because one Palin reality show is really enough?
Anyway, now that she is out of job, Bristol needs to find something new to do. While her "dancing" did improve after ten weeks on DWTS, there's not much of a career for her in that. And, we think she's milked the cow dry, so to speak, on telling teens they have to be abstinent.
So what's next for Sarah Palin's prodigy child? That's easy! Cosmetology!
Sources reveal that Bristol is looking into some beauty programs in the area, as her new life goal is to be a Hollywood hair and makeup guru. A "friend" of Bristol reveals:
http://perezhilton.com/2011-11-22-bristol-palin-reality-show-dead
Sarah cooked her goose when she did that 'Blood Libel' video against the wishes of her 'boss'. She has been in a permanent slide ever since. She will be appearing less and less on FOX since she doesn't know how to manage her 'rogue' ways and all she accomplishes is pissing people off. She really isn't very bright.
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ReplyDeleteThis is pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard, "VICTORIA" from Twilight. She was a kick ass vampire...
She is also very pregnant...
And is talking about how she needed a permission slip to fly.
Guess Sarah Palin is even more VIP than 'Victoria', Ron Howard's daughter...
And apparently, Sarah's abs are VIP too....
shellyamberstone@yahoo.com
@6:01 I agree: Parasites are smart!MW should have Palin's face in their def.
ReplyDeleteDefinition of PARASITE
1: a person who exploits the hospitality of the rich and earns welcome by flattery
2: an organism living in, with, or on another organism in parasitism
3: something that resembles a biological parasite in dependence on something else for existence or support without making a useful or adequate return
If Ailes had any cojones he would've axed her after the blood libel incident. It's amazing, how she continues to get away with this infantile behavior. She makes Ailes look like a whipped puppy. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteShe isn't running because she knows that if she does, she will be unable to keep the lid on Todd's transgressions any longer. I firmly believe that his closet-skeletons are the true reason that she isn't running. She's too delusional to care about the ones in her OWN closet. This is all about him.
ReplyDeleteWow, womanwithsardinecan...awesome!
ReplyDeleteIs it fate, destiny, or just schadenfreude that the tone of Granny Grifter's voice is more strident and nasty than ever.
ReplyDeleteThere's a whine in it now, a backbeat of constant complaint and strife.
The harpy's shriek has more angst than ever, as the power of the dark side is dragging her down into the depths of political oblivion.
Some day, she'll meet the Balrog of politics himself if she delves any deeper. And it won't be pretty
"She's a smart woman. She knows what she is doing."
ReplyDelete@6:01 AM
Get a job, Todd. And, her endorsement is irrelevent. Her endorsement may be kiss of death later on.
She's such a child. Can you imagine Karl Rove having a fit because Fox kept Sarah around after she dissed him? Oh, right. He criticized her first. Nanny-nanny-boo-boo.
ReplyDeleteHer perceived value is so low that Ailes doesn't communicate with her directly and dared to leak this anonymously-sourced story. Any bets on whether (or how soon) we'll be treated to another 'limp, impotent coward' rant spewing from her crooked mouth?
So $arah's contract is supposed to run for another million dollars worth? Why? Does she have some kind of dirty information on Roger Ailes?
ReplyDeleteAiles is famous for his scruples, morals and ethics? NOT! If that man wanted to scuttle that contract, he has at least half a file cabinet filled with documents that could put this horrible woman in jail. There's something more at stake here than we're hearing about. As usual.
So wait a minute?!?
ReplyDeleteRoger paid her for TWO YEARS to make THIS announcement on HIS NEWS station?
What announcement?
That she WASN'T running?
THAT SHE WASN'T RUNNING?
?????
So all this time she REALLY WAS GRIFTING B/C SHE KNEW SHE WASN'T RUNNING!!!!
C4PARE YOU GETTING THIS? SHE NEVER WAS RUNNING NEVER HAD THE INTENTION.... is the way I see it.
Wow!
And that is why FNC never cut her loose b/c they knew all this time she was not running and waiting for her to announce on FNC that.
Wow.
WomanWithSardineCan -- Thanks for my laugh of the day. I am wiping the coffee spewings off my keyboard and still chuckling. You should write for SNL.
ReplyDeleteGryphen: PLEASE tell us you will have something about $arah's movie premiere in gravel land!
ReplyDeleteI just checked the Frontiersman and there is no mention of the movie 'premiere' of The Unvetted last night in Wasilla.
ReplyDeleteWas it cancelled 'due to weather?'
Someone, anyone know?
Instead of canning her or benching her ailes should make her appear on Billo's show once a week. He toys with the little moron and gets her so riled up when he goes off script and asks her not prescreened questions. I've never seen her as flustered as when Billo puts the screws to her. Mark my words she would hand in her resignation in two weeks flat. Now let's see if roger ailes is as smart as me. :) he wouldn't have to pay out her contract if she left of her own free will. lol
ReplyDeleteJust wait and see tonite her BBF Greta will spin this and say its not true.
ReplyDeleteShe's not winning employee of the month. LOL
ReplyDeletejcinco @ 10:37 am
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love your suggestion. Hope you send it in to Fox Shrews and also to ol' Roger himself.
O/T but wasn't SarahPAC quarterly report due Sept 30th? Is any info available?
ReplyDeleteRoger, Roger . . . when you pay for a prostitute, you should get screwed.
ReplyDeletePalinsHoax @11:59 I forgot to mention how much I enjoy Billo's smug smirk when he has her pinned in the corner squirming and stuttering with his big old paw. It's priceless. As effin' dumb as she is she's knows better than to backtalk him as he would then proceed to eviscerate the twit. You can tell by her flared nostrils and clenched teeth that she can barely contain her anger. I feel sorry for tawd on those nights as he's the weak sister she lashes out at. Both Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert hate palin as much as us and they have a platform to put the bitch in her place. Every once in awhile we are allowed to see justice served in real time...
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ReplyDeleteShe's a smart woman. She knows what she is doing.
6:01 AM
Uh...."smart woman" and Gov Dirty Wig do not go together troll.....I would describer her more like...."cunning woman"..."Voldermortish woman"...."Freddy Krugerish woman"..."hands like a Lobster clawish woman"..."possible herpes infected lip woman"..."has a black man fetish woman"....
"smart woman" = Gov Dirty Wig
*vigorously shaking my regular size head no....sorry troll...not buying it!
Actually, the Masseys have some good offers coming in because they were both charming, intelligent, professional, and good-tempered, not to mention exceedingly patient -- plus they both have real talent.
ReplyDeleteFortunately Bristol wasn't able to pull them down into the muck because the two guys have way more integrity, class, and smarts than little scummy Bristey.
Media Insider
(I TOLD you Bristle's show would never make it to air. :)
$arah is LONG past her expiration date and she KNOWS it. No front headlines, no leading stories on political shows, and one LOOK at how haggard her physical appearance has become belies anything her cult and handlers/advisers try to make people believe.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the c4p reconsider effort goes, if they are that delusional then let them drain their bank accounts. If she did declare, which she won't, out comes Steve Schmidt with EVERYTHING he knows from 2008 and it's a LOT.
Sucks to be YOU, $arah, doesn't it? Run along now...we didn't want you in '08 and SURE as hell don't need you now.
Lay down with a dogs, wake up with crabs.
ReplyDeleteHollywood is tough so I guess it's not surprising the Massey brothers jumped at the chance for a reality teevee show, even if it was poisoned by the no-talent Bristol Palin.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear they have other opportunities.
OMG, Womanwithsardinecan, you're on a roll! "Sardine juice" is the aroma I'll always associate with Sarah Palin. I was looking for the perfect words and you nailed it!
ReplyDeleteBrava!
ps
Is that sardine juice under the car seat a patented thing, or can I use it on my sister in law this thanksgiving?
Another year of Abreva smeared lips on Fox News? Poor Roger, was thinking with his little Roger and paid millions for a hooker without ever being kissed, at least on the mouth.
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked to hear Bristol's show got axed. She flunked "reality" and or quit, just like her mommy.
It's fucking bad enough that this prick tease flaunted her fetid canal in front of her anueploidic underlings. Now she presumes that the world is holding its breath for her to initiate the doom of whoever it is she decides to endorse?
ReplyDeleteLook cookie, nobody gives a shit about your opinion anymore. And besides, you gotta be some kind of stupid to get fired from, of all places, an idiot factory like FOX News. (Yes, I know this hasn't happened...yet.)
Yes, instead of handing her off to a drooling limp bag of nothing like Hannity as he pretends that she knows what she is talking about, Ailes should hand her over to O'Riley who will get her goat.
ReplyDeleteTwo bets to one, the idiot resigns after she has a HALF dozen ignorance and stupidity airings with Bill?