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UPDATE, 5:17 PM Thursday: Sarah Palin’s comments on Facebook about her Republican Convention speech being canceled may be part of an elaborate negotiating tactic, according to New York magazine. Palin’s contract is supposedly up in January, and Fox News is considering what kind of new deal they will sign, if they decide to keep Palin at all. At roughly $1 million a year, Palin is Fox’s highest-paid contributor, the magazine said. Additionally Fox execs have been underwhelmed by Palin’s ratings. And Palin hasn’t been happy when Fox hasn’t given her top billing. Sources cited by New York say things have been so touchy that all communications have been through her husband Todd Palin, currently one of the contestants on NBC’s reality series Stars Earn Stripes. Additionally, Palin’s Facebook commentary likely did not endear her to Fox News chief Roger Ailes, who values discipline and loyalty. For now though they appear to have made peace. Despite being suddenly removed from FNC’s rundown on Wednesday, Palin is now scheduled to be on with Sean Hannity tonight.
PREVIOUSLY, 4:44PM Wednesday: Sarah Palin took to Facebook today to complain about Fox News removing her as a talking head for the network’s GOP convention coverage. Fox News tells Deadline there’s no conspiracy theory. ”Our plans changed based on the fact that the RNC condensed the schedule of speeches from four nights to three. We look forward to having Governor Palin back as soon as we can,” FNC EVP for Programming Bill Shine said today. The Republicans trimmed their Tampa, Florida gathering by a day this past weekend after it looked like Hurricane Isaac might hit the city. Palin, a Fox News contributor since 2010, might be super sensitive right now because the former 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate wasn’t asked to speak at the convention. The former Alaska Governor gave no reason as to why she had be removed from FNC coverage. “I’m sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight,” wrote Palin today. McCain, the 2008 Presidential nominee, is scheduled to speak to the convention tonight. Though Palin has no political role at the convention, her name was mentioned as possibly being the mystery speaker set to take the stage before Mitt Romney on Thursday night. Clint Eastwood and a hologram of Ronald Reagan are also rumored to be that mystery speaker.
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Your 15 minutes is up, FINALLY.
I guess she let Sean Hannity and the noise machine convince her she actually had something to say!
Even Fox doesn’t want anyone to be reminded that they tried to field their own candidate and worse than that, they failed.
Yeah, never mind that she has helped to elect almost 80% of the candidates she has backed. No one on the left or the RNC can make that statement.
All these political talking heads are vultures. 1 million dollar contract? For what? Supposedly speaking about you want to help the country out. Patriotism is a wealthy business these days. And they say they do it for love of country. ha. love of dollar dollar bill.
That’s stupid. That’s not how the 15 minutes thing works. Her accomplishments are extensive and she’s been extremely successful.
Maybe in 2023 you can come back and post that her “15 years” are up.
Then you can feel good about yourself making a pithy comment.
Always the victim. Always.
Are they now the “lamestream” media too?
Fox News has always been part of the “lamestream” media.
Horseshit.
Tonight the GOP is nominating their VP!
THE very last person to live through this night is Palin!
Who better to comment on it.
Mittsy has banished her to the gulag.
Boo Hoo. Poor Sarah. Nobody likes her now. She should have run for President instead of becoming a reality TV star. This is her karmic punishment for being a phony she’s a snowbilly grifter who only cares about being famous. Your fame quotient expired a year ago when you did your big bus tour teasing everyone that you were going to jump into the race. Go back to Alaska and stay there you stupid ignorant woman.
Speaking of Karma, I would love to see Karma(in the lots and lots of water form)take out Ellen Barkin. Instantly. Samuel L Jackson too.
Maybe they could have kept her as a bobblehead instead of talking head.
i would rather vote for a hologram of ronald reagan than mitt romney
Exceptional, wish I had thought of it.
I would rather vote for a hologram of Mitt Romney than anyone with Sarah Palin as his running mate.
“Golly, don’t they know I’m Sarah Palin?” Her “contribution” to the GOP is so last year! LOL, NEXT! She does not understand the ride is over, how adorable!
Sarah Palin is a lightening rod for controversy, and frankly isn’t a good enough speaker or analyst to have on the broadcast team in Tampa. Her strengths are in communicating with smaller groups in a more informal setting and in utilizing her “maverick” image to create interest in candidates.
Fox has finally realized that they built a studio for and cut a healthy monthly check to one of the great political mistakes of all time. Fox has their pick of the best conservative commentators in the country, who have probably been cringing for the last four years while the “fair and balanced” network underwrites this lightweight.
It’s a new ballgame and Romney’s got a tough race ahead of him and the last thing he needs is the person who, in all probability, cost McCain the election last time. It will beg the question, is he the male Palin, attractive package but mental lightweight with no concern for anyone but themselves and their rich cronies ?
Sarah Palin may not be the most polished commentator needed to highlight the convention coverage, but she is far more professional than the farce on display over at rival network MSNBC. Tuesday night they cut away from speeches made by minority speakers Mia Love, Ted Cruz and former Obama booster, Artur Davis. It is obvious to anyone who isn’t a complete moron that MSNBC has long passed the point of simply being biased but is actually attempting to perpetuate the myth that Republicans are racist. The buffoonery on display Tuesday night was embarrassingly juvenile for the once proud NBC brand. When will Comcast pull the plug on their band of idiots?
Palin is what kept McCain from losing by more. She excited the 40% of the electorate that self-identifies as Conservative.
When Palin got the nomination and made her speech at the ’08 convention, the cumulative audience was 37 million. For Ryan it was $20 million.
McCain/Palin got 60 million votes in ’08. I guarantee that most of the votes were for Palin.
She may not be an intellectual, but she had an 80% approval rating in Alaska and in 2 1/2 years as Governor she reformed the corrupt political system that was Alaskan politics.
And then she made 12 million dollars selling millions of books and making speeches. I’d call that Brilliant!
Maybe she’ll follow her daughter on DANCING WITH THE STARS.
If Ms. Palin was going to be discussing how McCain was treated so unfairly by the media and sing his praises, I’m glad she was cancelled. Get over it and move on! I really liked Palin but had much reservation for McCain as my party’s nomination for president. I don’t want to listen to what happened 4 years ago… I want to hear about this election.
Ditto.
if you go to her web site you will see she is not complaining at all. She is sorry that she will not be speaking but praises John McCain as her speech replacement. This article picked a few sentences from a full paragraph that misrepresents what she actually said.
Spot on!!!
To everyone who is bashing Sarah Palin on this article: you are serving the Obama campaign. If you are a Democrat, I understand. If you are a Republican, you are just plain stupid.
Double Dittoes
I still think Sarah Palin may be the Romney ‘mystery presenter’. The GOP knows they created a monster in Palin…better to keep her under their thumb or she could easily create havoc for all The GOP…plus FOX&FRIENDS!
Finally, the RNC did something smart.
I’m a conservative, and I despise this women. A total fraud. She is only popular with Mark Levin who drools over most women in Politics. He’s a smart man, but a sick man. But I want to correct you, the RNC did not do anything. This complaint was about FoxNews canceling her scheduled appearance on their panels.
But here is what is sooooo fraudulant about Palin. On her facebook, she claims her only goal on that Fox panel was to praise McCain. I’m not kidding– that’s what she said she was unable to do. It’s on her facebook page. But it gets worse. Palin said she wanted to defend McCain over how the liberal media has treated him, how they lie about him. BUT today — Wednesday, McCain was only on CNN!!! He was interviewed by Candy Crowely, and he was effusive. He was kissing Cropwley’s ass. It was totally McCain — I mean I really can’t stand McCain. But to hear Palin get all upset because she couldn’t go on Fox bashing CNN, while McCain is on CNN kissing their ass.
Total fraud. Palin…. Go away!!!!!
If it is a hologram of Ronald Reagan he won’t be the one we all remember, the can-do president with an optimistic, gentlemanly demeanor. If they ‘resurrect’ him he’ll be a venom-spewing ideologue, a rewritten version of one of our greatest presidents.
We were the Grand Old Party once, we really were.
Please let her be an annalist on FNC, If you don’t she will wind up back in Alaska and we were tired of her in 2007. The more work she has at being famous, the likelihood of bumping into her is greatly diminished.
Funny how MSNBC and CNN fit all their regulars into the talking head panels.
She is finally learning that when someone is created by the neo-con political machine and rockets to fame in the lamestream media, when they no longer have any use for her they dump her as fast as possible. She exploited the media and they used her for ratings. She’s no longer ratings material and the neo-cons have moved on they have Paul Ryan now they will shape him the way they tried to shape her but she was so stupid and so dumb that it was an impossible task. “Game Change” was a very accurate movie it showed her exactly as she is and I hope Julianne Moore wins an Emmy for her portrayal of Palin.
“Complains?” When you read the words, she expresses regret that she wasn’t included but that is a far cry from “complaining”. This is not the first time that a headline about a republican does not reflect the reality. While I am not a big supporter of Palin and would not vote for her for president I think that there is something very anti-female about the language of people who don’t like her.
Fox is for all practical purposes the propaganda wing of the Republican party, so even though they know she’d boost their ratings out of novelty and situational drama, the convention goes beyond their usual preaching to the choir: undecided voters may be watching. The last thing the Republicans want is for those critical viewers to associate Romney/Ryan with the losing Keystone Cop act of Palin/McCain. Maybe MSNBC can give Palin her own show… for three days.
I for one love Palin and she is often given a raw deal by the media. But not in this case. Prime time coverage of the conventions is likely to (at least attempt to) pull in viewers who are not routinely daily political talk watchers. She is polarizing, so it was probably a business decision to court to the masses in viewers as opposed to the uber-conservatives who are likely to pick FOX over CNN or MSNBC anyways.
Oh, poor little Sarah, everyone is always picking on her.
Whine, whine, whine about the past and unfair treatment. Stop already! Go away.
I liked Sarah until she starred in her “reality show”.
That makes no sense. Did you actually watch it?