She can't quit this. Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin

[TheBigotBasher]

The Queen of Quit can look forward not to trips on Air Force One but increasing irrelevance. The only trips she will be getting are those enjoyed by her other friends.

As Trump has ridden a media wave to the top of the GOP field, the decline in media coverage has resulted in Sarah Palin’s poll number with Republicans being sliced in half from nearly 20% to currently 10%. Trump’s coverage has been fueled by morning talk shows and Fox News, but since Palin refuses to appear on other networks for interviews, she is completely dependent on Fox News for her coverage.

Her Fox News dependency would never have been a problem, but Palin made one critical mistake. She crossed Roger Ailes.

Sarah Palin’s Fox News airtime decline can be traced back to one incident, blood libel. According to New York Magazine, Roger Ailes told Sarah Palin not to post the blood libel video, but Palin went rogue and bit the hand that feeds her. After this she was a lot less visible on Fox, and now a few months later, she has been replaced by Donald Trump.

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Her decline was made obvious by the lack of media coverage generated for her disaster of an event in Wisconsin, that is more infamous for Tea Party thuggery than notable for anything that Palin had to say. Team Palin has always relied on the media coverage that they generated from complaining about the media, but most other outlets have followed FNC’s lead, and banished Palin to second class status. Ironically, it doesn’t seem to matter to Fox that polls show Obama crushing both Palin and Trump by almost equal margins.

Gretchen Carlson made it official today. Fox News is off the Sarah Palin bandwagon, and now backing Donald Trump

http://www.politicususa.com/en/fox-news-palin-trump

Plain was going to make a comment but she quit half way through.

Fox has a new baby now.

[stubtoe]

1. So in effect, Roger Ailes is a GOP kingmaker.

Who woulda thought??

[TheBigotBasher]

2. Has been for years,

It is the only network Teabaggers watch.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. "Fox has a new baby now."...ahhh..but who is the REAL mother?

:evilgrin:

[BobbyBoring]

18. WooooooWeeeeeeeeeeeee

That's funny!

[golfguru]

26. Was the baby born in Kenya?

[yesphan]

41. Not exactly sure,

but I've heard her name is Rosemary.

[DFW]

44. I think the baby's mother was named Rosemary n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Can't wait until the response to this kind of story will be "Sarah who?"

[mopinko]

5. i suspected that trump's real purpose was to

suck the oxygen out of the palin phenomena. looks like it might be working.

[golfguru]

27. Yap, Trump has succeeded in drying up Sarah's fund raising.

[Keith Bee]

6. Sarah, Saaarah,

storms are brewing in your eyes. :cry:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Trump bought Fox News? Did I hear that correctly?? n/t

[shamocrat]

8. 2012 GOP POLL MUST SEE

Palin is Most Recognizable and of course not electable.
If you had to choose a Republican to lead our country an you couldn't choose a Democrat, who would it be?
http://americanintelligencereport.blogspot.com/2011/04/gop-2012-poll-is-interesting.html

[Trajan]

9. Well .... Todd always has that union job with great benefits to fall back on ....

And they get that free Alaskan oil money ....

When they get hungry; they can always shoot a russian moose from their windows ...

[wndycty]

10. Not to defend FOX NEWS or Sarah Palin but the linked story is irresponsible. . .

Palin has not been dumped. Obviously, he airtime has severely declined, but the implication with the headline is that FOX fired her. . .they didn't. As much as I'd like the headline to true this is irresponsible.

[TheBigotBasher]

12. Faux News created her

and made her the de-facto Leader of the Tea Party Terrorists. They served their purpose in 2010 which was to get the right excited for the Mid-Terms.

They now have a bigger election to work towards.

By cutting her out they have all but fired her.

[Keith Bee]

36. Bill Kristol "created" her.....

...by pushing her as a possible McCain running mate, thus adding more proof that this guy is never right about anything!

[Raine1967]

30. I read this story the other day, I agree.

Although it would be fair to say one a greater scale, her media celebratah has been somewhat diminished. I for one am glad for that.

[MadBadger]

31. How many people in this thread think Fox actually canned Palin

Id say 80%

[The Wizard]

39. Not so much fired

but marginalized. In essence they moved her office to a broom closet.

[cherokeeprogressive]

45. I didn't even know she was employed by faux. n/t

[TheBigotBasher]

46. There is no way they would directly fire her

they would just banish her to obscurity while keeping her on the payroll, otherwise the baggers would go crazy(ier).

[2banon]

32. Thanks for the fact checking.. I was skeptical about this report..

You saved me the time and energy posting a suggesting people do what you took the time to do, challenge assumptions as to accuracy of this report.. How weird to mislead people on this. I wonder what the point of posting this was?

[Exilednight]

11. Fox is dumping the extremeists faces like Palin and Beck. It's a slow

purge of the tea party types.

They're gearing up for the presidential run and don't want the Republican party to look like a bunch of extreme right-wing nut cases. They're going to start pushing the Tim Pawlentys and Mitt Romneys of the party.

[tblue37]

13. This paragraph makes evident the reprehensible role the RW corporate owned

MSM play in deciding who can even be considered for candidacy, as well as who the public will vote for. Basically, the low-information American voter is easily led by the nose to whatever candidate the MSM and their corporate owners favor.

As Trump has ridden a media wave to the top of the GOP field, the decline in media coverage has resulted in Sarah Palin’s poll number with Republicans being sliced in half from nearly 20% to currently 10%. Trump’s coverage has been fueled by morning talk shows and Fox News, but since Palin refuses to appear on other networks for interviews, she is completely dependent on Fox News for her coverage.

[vaberella]

14. "Blood Libel" comment was the best thing she did for humanity.

I figured nothing could get her off her pedestal. I never thought it would be something like this that would ultimately lead to her political demise. But thank God it was. She is closer and closer to ending up irrelevant.

[TheBigotBasher]

15. Faux News used the Tea Party and her for 2010

they have no use for her or Beck now.

[Kablooie]

16. Trump is the tea hero of the week. None of them last very long.

[BDavinciNY]

17. In the words of Nelson Muntz! to the Half Governor

Haw Haw!
<>

[skepticscott]

19. So will Trump be making

the campaign circuit with his Botoxed, nipped and tucked, trophy wife du jour waving vapidly at his side?

[lunatica]

20. FOX giveth a FOX taketh away

As much as I like not having Sarah Palin in my face 24/7 the fact that the media has fallen so far down the corruption hole is a very sad thing.

[ecstatic]

21. Does Fox News want a repub to win in 2012?

I mean seriously, first Palin, then Trump? It seems like such ridiculous picks would fracture the GOP, not unite them. They overplayed their hand to the extreme. There's no way ALL republicans are that stupid, and the "reasonable" ones are probably shaking their heads in disgust. Either way, I'm not complaining. They had the perfect propaganda machine for years, and thank goodness, they are now exposed for the clown/freak show they really are.

[madrchsod]

22. purging the party this year...

so they look reasonable next year. good luck with those kock republicans in the house and state capitals...

[paparush]

23. I love the smell of Republican in-fighting in the morning..

It smells like...VICTORY!

[Whisp]

24. I sure won't be missing that sorry sack of ripe shit

Opportunist flakey dumbass Sarah, you overstepped. you overconfidented yourself, you &^**$^$%#, but I despise that creature

[Demeter]

25. One More Stooge (and 5 more dwarves) to go!

[4dsc]

28. What will the mindless minions do now?

[Duval]

29. K&R one million times! :) n/t

[CRH]

33. Actually I wish she would win the republican nomination, ...

Talk about dead meat in the general election. I fear much more the appearance of reason in a moderate republican. Obama is vulnerable if the right republican with little baggage can be found. Challenge Obama on the economy, jobs, the continuation of the wars that Obama owns now, and pedal the old " are you better off now than you were four years ago", meme. Palin couldn't sell her ideas, and is totally incapable moving toward the center for the general. Her only calling is a fire brand for the far right nut jobs. Give me a Palin/Whoever ticket any day.

[craigmatic]

34. I almost feel sorry for her but I don't.

[Imagevision]

35. I wonder how Donald would have handled what Bush left for Obama

[Snoutport]

37. most excellent

[McCamy Taylor]

38. Trump did not get a Congresswoman shot, so he is "clean."

[The Wizard]

40. Does this mean we'll see Sarah

leaning up against a Wasilla lamp post, beaded bag in hand and trolling for sailors?

[progrocktv]

42. "I'm sorry, Sarah, you're fired!" (nt)

[Dulcinea]

43. Goodbye and good riddance.

OK, Sarah wasn't fired, but she's on the fast track to the obscurity she so richly deserves. She's an empty (woman's) suit.