Sarah Palin reportedly "infuriated" Fox News chief

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Sarah Palin's decision to announce that she would not seek the presidency on a talk radio program - as opposed to Fox News - "infuriated" Fox chief Roger Ailes and prompted Ailes to consider pulling Palin from the network, according to New York Magazine.

After flirting with a run for much of 2011, Palin went on conservative radio host Mark Levin's show in October to say she would not seek the Republican presidential nomination.

The former Alaska governor's choice of venue was striking in light of the fact that Palin earns $1 million per year as a contributor to Fox News.

A Palin adviser told New York that Palin decided to make the announcement on Levin's show because she was upset Fox News was regularly showcasing former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove. In October 2010, Rove questioned whether Palin has the "gravitas" to be president, and the two have long had a rocky relationship, with Palin dismissing Rove as a "professional pundit" seeking to "mislead the American public" in August.

Ailes was reportedly livid at Palin's decision to take the announcement to Levin, a Palin booster, complaining to a Fox executive that he had "paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network." He was angry enough that he even considered pulling her off the air, according to New York, despite the fact that Palin's contract runs through 2013 and Fox News would still have to pay her. Palin reportedly apologized after her agent made Ailes' displeasure known to her.

A spokesperson for Fox News did not respond to a request for comment on the anonymously-sourced report.

[naksuthin]

So Fox thinks it can put all the Republican candidates on their payroll and control their freedom of speech.

Hmmm. And we were always told that Fox is "Fair and Balanced"

[jcarob]

So according to the esteemed Karl Rove, Palin does not have the gravitas to be POTUS... but George W. Bush does/did...twice. Karl is a clever devil. No doubt about that. But I would like to see him behind the camera and off the stage. He is not helping.

[Robert_M1]

Palin is hot. Would I vote for her for president? No.

[unclebernies]

Would you expect anything less from a slezeball like Palin. Another name for maverick in her case is back stabber.

[hrapjagger]

IMO, Sarah Palin is the Kim Kardashian of the political realm. No substance, nothing more than a media creation sustained by a league of empty-head followers.

[davcor2]

Ailes hires people who can create ratings. He's not concerned about anyone that will come across as intelligent, compassionate and honest. He got his money's worth with Palin and Beck. He should just suck it up and start looking for some new idiots he can put in his programing like Perry and Cain.

[rbi149]

Why would a "news" network care where Palin made her announcement?

[formerusmcsgt1]

Where's that defamation lawsuit she said she would bring a couple of months back?

Just more hot air.......

[satiremadeadancer]

We can thank Sarah Palin for creating the failure in Congress. She spent her money and time to get Tea Bag members into state and federal government. We all know the failures that they created. Their failure to pass legislation resulted in our countrys financial downgrade costing our county trillions of dollars since we now pay a higher interest rate on the loans we pay on the national debt.

[SJames6621]

Pali, whosed gunsight advertisement probably incited that nut case to go to Tuscon and kill a little girl and about 6 others. Miraculously Gabriel Gifford survived. She was also on the gunsite website

And also Palins hubby belongs to the alaska independence party. A new civil war anyone.

With all this extremism on the part of the repubs you have to wonder what / who they are hiding. It oges far beyond Bush and the wall street banks. FAr beyond.

[satiremadeadancer]

What is more repulsive the lies of Sarah Palin or the misrepresentation of anything on Fox News? That is the question.

Sarah Palin is a paid lobbyist nothing more. She promotes big oil and acts like a PR firm misguiding Americans and the World on Global Warming. Most scientist in the world say the world is heating up but the PR firms are given plenty of cash by big oil and big coal industries to lie and create deadly spin to attach Pro Environment groups around the world.