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The Firing of Sarah Palin Signals the Ultimate Failure of Fox News to Defeat Obama
Many in the media are calling the firing of Sarah Palin the end of a conservative era, but what it truly represents is the ultimate failure of Fox News to influence elections and defeat President Obama.
The conservative media have been tripping all over themselves to eulogize Sarah Palin as a fallen media star. The Christian Science Monitor described Palin as, “Over the next few years, she became a political force of nature – stirring a tea party base that thronged to her appearances, scaring GOP incumbents deemed too willing to find common ground with Democrats, and building a very lucrative business that included (for one season, at least) her own “reality” TV show while launching one of her five children – daughter Bristol – on her own entertainment career.”
None of the Palin as a political force of nature narrative is actually true. Her approval ratings were on the decline before the 2008 election had even concluded, but the mainstream media kept pushing the Sarah Palin superstar myth. This unwarranted hype led Fox News to buy into the Sarah Palin myth, and make her one of the centerpieces of their defeat Obama campaign.
Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck were the two tent poles of the Fox News strategy of endless slurs, fearmongering, and conspiracy theories directed towards and focused on President Obama. In 2009 and 2010, Palin and Beck were the drivers of the Fox News anti-Obama strategy. Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are no longer on television, and their declines can be directly attributed to misjudgment at Fox News.
If the 2012 election revealed anything, it was that Fox News has no ability to influence elections, or the broader the electorate. The cable news ratings leader relentlessly waged war against everything related to Obama. Fox spent years pushing and granting legitimacy to every crazed Obama conspiracy theory that came down the pike. They spent endless hours of daily programming railing against this president, but they underestimated the president’s popularity. Like the Republican Party itself, Fox News misjudged the electorate. They thought 2012 would be just like the 2010, but they were proven wrong when Obama won reelection in a landslide.
When Fox News pushed Sarah Palin out the door, they were publicly admitting defeat.
Sarah Palin’s Obama obsession is so complete that she spent the last three years serving as his cable news stalker. Palin is the human embodiment of Fox News failure. Fox has two spheres of influence. They are able to influence the mainstream media, and the Republican Party. Both the media and the GOP appear absolutely terrified to cross them, but that limited influence was unable to prevent the reelection of a personally popular president.
Fox News paid Sarah Palin millions of dollars because they thought that she could be the tip of their anti-Obama spear. They mistakenly assumed that Palin would broaden their anti-Obama message. They thought they were buying access to a potential shadow president, and possible 2012 candidate. Instead, they got themselves a political never was who could never get past losing the 2008 election.
The big story isn’t the overdue expiration of Sarah Palin’s 15 minutes of fame, but that the Fox News emperor is wearing no clothes. Fox News went all in on defeating Obama in 2012 and lost. The demise of Sarah Palin as a national figure represents limitations and systemic failure of right wing media.
President Obama didn’t just defeat Mitt Romney. He also triumphed over a right wing media machine that was hellbent on stopping him. Obama’s 2012 win vanquished Fox News, and made Sarah Palin the forgettable footnote in history that she always should have been.
Fox News waved the white flag when they fired Palin. Obama and the left have won both the media battle and the political war, as the Fox News 2012 gambit may be be remembered as their ultimate failure.
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22 Responses to The Firing of Sarah Palin Signals the Ultimate Failure of Fox News to Defeat Obama
Lori
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 1:58 pm
From today’s Morning Joe:
Former Republican star and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and FOX news ended their partnership on Friday after three years, a source close to Palin told the Real Clear Politics Web site, the Morning Joe panel discussed Palin’s exit on Monday morning.
“Sarah Palin represented a time and place in American politics and not 2008 so much as 2010. And that time is passing us very quickly. Party leaders are finally understanding that,” Joe Scarborough told the panel.
Palin last appeared on Fox on December 19, 2012 when she spoke with the channel’s Greta Van Susteren about Benghazi and the two discussed TIME’s Person of the Year.
Scarborough called the move “important” because FOX News president Roger Ailes has been the “de facto” head of the GOP.
“He’s run the party; he’s run the conservative movement. And when Roger Ailes decides she’s not worth the trouble, it means conservatism is moving in a new direction,” Scarborough said.
Scarborough added that Sarah Palin, who famously ran in 2008 as the vice presidential candidate with John McCain, was “more theatrics than anything else. Saying stupid things politically. Going on Facebook after Gabby Giffords was shot and talking about blood libel. One mistake after another.”
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
You see palin fanatics.Its just not us.Even morning joke said she’s stupid.Now please direct your tirades at him for a change
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
Palin was never any more then theater
Doris ~
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
The Giant has lost,DEFEATED…evil does not prevail.
Doris ~
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:02 pm
addenum…The Giant is FakeNews,not Scarah PaYme.
Pat Padrnos
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Good article.
Some sites such as this have been onto Palin since the beginning. Others have been afraid to cross her – but slowly the articles are starting to come out. Many of you have done your own Palin research and know that the most interesting stories have not yet come out.
Sugapea
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
As Mark Twain once said:
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or imbeciles that really mean it.”
Sadly, there are a whole lot of imbeciles like Sarah Palin in the current GOP!
Read Krugman’s latest: “Makers, Taker, Fakers”
www.nytimes.com/2013/01/2...;
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 3:05 pm
The kroog sometimes pisses me off not that I don’t believe in what he says just that he’s not pragmatic about achieving our shared goals.That being said when he s on he hits out of the park.Today he gets 2 thumbs up.Bravo
Steve Baker
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Palin was an attractive empty vessel. Fox displayed it’s venal, seditious mendacity by giving her airtime. Their idiot bagger audience rewarded them by watching, buying gold, believing the lies. Sad for America that so much time and energy was wasted on this strumpet’s self-aggrandizing bull. Good for America that, in the end, this bimbo is now in the dust bin of history. Will GOP choose to join her? Up to them.
Cheryl
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 4:10 pm
Its about time she walks on over to Russia(cause she can from her house lol). Maybe they’ll want her.
Floyd M. Orr
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 4:27 pm
What makes Palin such a threat to the sanity of the USA as a nation is that her political plan was designed from the beginning to control a large voting bloc of very misguided, yet relentlessly hardheaded people. She did not design the plan. It was created by Lee Atwater and Kevin Phillips decades ago and is financially supported by right-wing think tanks, The Koch Brothers, and the Council for National Policy today. The end of the Fox contract may get her out of our faces for a while, but ego maniacs like her rarely leave the stage quietly. It is a shame the media never really did its job to rid our national political scene of this disgraceful abomination. As someone above said, if you have seen only the MSM version of The Palin Phenomenon, you have learned only a small part of the ugly truth.
www.amazon.com/Paradigm-S...
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
hey Frank good to see you
You are right, she will be desparate to stay on stage
TigerLily
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 6:10 pm
my gawd..there is a GOD. Not even he liked Sarah. And God loves all mankind. :)
ThomasW
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Great article…she did make a lot of money . To bad we would never teach our kids how to be stupid to make a buck….
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 6:44 am
The Price of Palin: $15 per Word Spoken During FOX Contract
blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/sma...
UncaJoe
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 6:55 am
Was ‘Ya-Betcha’ considered one word?
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 6:56 am
It was two words but alas she said it only twice. $63.40.
UncaJoe
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 7:24 am
I didn’t see a count on “lamestream” but I’ll betcha’ it was in the top five non-verb, non-pronoun, multisyllable words.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 8:07 am
I couldnt find it eiher but when she said President Obama she pocketed Ca-Ching! $24,916.20!!!So I guess the President is redistubeting the wealth
UncaJoe
Jan. 29th, 2013 at 9:20 am
bit.ly/TUrXc :-)
Anne
Jan. 30th, 2013 at 10:00 pm
FOX Noise miscalculated badly when they took Sarah Palin on. Apparently, it was lost on them that her star began to fade very quickly during the 2008 presidential campaign, the more exposure she received. Her 15 minutes of fame should have ended with the defeat of the presidential team she was on that year, but FOX saw in her an attractive vehicle to continue their campaign of venom and misinformation about the president. However, 4 years can make a lot of difference, and the telling point was when she was not even invited to the GOP convention last year. I understand that FOX itself restrained her from even commenting publicly on that convention. It’s obvious that she would eventually outlive her usefulness even for them. I knew it would happen sooner or later.
Narodnik
Feb. 2nd, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Forget Palin. Let us have a close look at constipation-face Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand fetish. Note that ALL Rand’s heroes were based on the serial killer of children William Edward Hickman.
Rand was the person on whom Anton LaVey based his Church of Satan. So it’s rather HILARIOUS to see loon xians chanting “john galt john galt.” MORONS.
It’s also about time we get a Sec of Defense that takes on the JEWISH Lobby (yeah, it’s not just Israeli). The lobby includes the servile cattle known as “Chrisian Zionists.”
As for Beck, ha, he was a gonner when he exposed Soros.