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A Bridge (To Nowhere) Burned: Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin
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I bring you sad news from the tundra, patriots. Sarah Palin will no longer be offering her “analysis” on Fox “News”. Yes, they have dropped her. Or, as the PR people say, the contract negotiations did not result in her contract being renewed but oh, it was SO great working with her and they wish her all the best in her future endeavors (industry speak for “You’re going nowhere”).
The New York Times reported:
Bill Shine, an executive vice president at Fox, said in a statement, “We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
Sarah Palin is no longer employed by Fox.
The writing has been on the wall since Palin ignored the advice of Roger Ailes and made the blood libel video after the Gabby Giffords shooting. The last straw seemed to be when she didn’t announce that she wasn’t running for president in 2012 on Fox News. It seems the whole point of hiring her was so that Fox could cash in when she ran in 2012, but what the execs at Fox never anticipated was how perfectly inept Sarah Palin was at being Sarah Palin.
Her appearances on Fox constantly teetered towards disaster. Her one attempt at hosting a show on the network was so horridly unprofessional that a second episode was never aired. Fox News ended up paying Sarah Palin millions of dollars to hang out occasionally with Sean Hannity, but mostly to hang out with her BFF Greta Van Susteren.
Unlike when they dumped Glenn Beck, there was no pretense of maybe someday working together again. Fox News kicked Palin out, and locked the door behind them. Despite being the 2008 VP candidate for the Republican Party, Sarah Palin was barely an afterthought on Fox News’ 2012 election coverage. Without Fox News, Sarah Palin will fall off the right wing media cliff. Glenn Beck is still around and making tons of money, but when is the last time anybody mentioned Beck? When talent gets kicked off the Fox News island, they are out of sight out of mind for the conservative movement.
The days of bendy straws and jets might be over for Ms. Palin, but she still has her family’s taxpayer funded reality TV shows to live for. Also, too, she’s still being photographed grocery shopping in Los Angeles (so celeb!), while looking perilously close to the teeny Hollywood starlets she was once so offended by, so life is GREAT. No bitterness here! Freedom fighters should still donate to her PAC, though, because she is totally relevant and fighting Kenyans from her backyard.
America wants to know: Does she have to return her home studio equipment, and if so, how will the world hear the screech of freedom? No worries, comrades. Palin can still be seen posting from the wilds of her Facebook Page, or as it may be known among law enforcement, the best source for finding radical secessionists very likely willing to break the law — if only they weren’t so busy trying to save their Medicare from the tyranny of socialism. It’s the spirit that counts.
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91 Responses to A Bridge (To Nowhere) Burned: Fox News Dumps Sarah Palin
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Anne
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
It was only a matter of time before she outlived her usefulness even to FOX Noise. The only reason they dumped her was because of her stunning ineptitude that anyone who was paying attention to the 2008 election cycle could see from Day One. It’s also a measure of how slow they were on the uptake that they kept her for as long as they did and paid her so much money. Dumping her does nothing to change the fact that FOX is a negative, hateful propaganda machine that will continue to do what it does best even without her presence.
gilee
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Gee talk about a black negative hole, go look in the mirror!
Anne
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Aw, poor baby!! I guess you’re one of her lemmings who can’t handle the truth about her. As I’ve said above, any rational, thinking human being could see that she was a hot mess who had no business being anywhere near the White House except as a tourist. As for being negative, she has made millions precisely out of being negative, hateful and ignorant. She chose that path and has to live with the consequences of it. Deflecting by telling others to look in the mirror doesn’t alter that reality.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:37 pm
What is it with people that equate black with negative?
AFM
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Well I don’t know because I sure like the color black. It looks good on me. Makes me look slimmer.
Royella Jaynes
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
See ya’, maverick!!
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Not tonite.Please oh Please not tonite.In 5.4.4.3.2.1
The call has went out.We will need all hands on deck.Let the games begin
Tom
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
The only get upset when it’s pointed out that Sarah Palin can’t use a gun. Incompetence and lack of worth are a bonus with teatards. From what I can tell.
Doris~
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Ding Dong the witch is gone!
labman57
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:24 pm
Sarah needed to part ways so that she could begin to prepare in earnest for her bid for the 2016 Republican POTUS nomination.
Yeah, I’m joking. In fact, she’s going to undertake her next literary effort:
“Going Gas Range — 101 Moose Meals, from Tundra to Table.”
Unlike her first three efforts, this one will be non-fiction.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Not so fast.I’m not saying she is running for president but I dont think is giving up that gravy train that is her grift I mean her pac.
Older_Wiser
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Even the pac is drying up. Check out her latest FEC filing–contribs are waaaay down and she hasn’t been flitting around as much. “Speaking engagements” drying up, too.
FB is about all she has left to get her word salad out now.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:47 pm
I hope you are right.I am doing some heavy duty appealing over a plate of pasta right now.May his oodles of noodles rid us of this pest,this charlatan forever and ever.Pass the bolognese sauce
Mary Kaverley
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:32 pm
Yes! My prayers have been answered! There is a God, and she loves me!
dawgsrbtr
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Sarah Who? Fox has a news channel??
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Faux news
AFM
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
Yes Fox has a news channel haven’t you heard? It’s unfair and unbalanced. Made up of a bunch of coocooberries.
Sandra
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
FCUK News. Jason, I see you couldn’t resist inserting ‘also too’ in your blog…FUNNY!!!
Lets hope this is the last we hear from this sorry excuse for a human. Hopefully the Newt will invite her to his Moon Colony for a permanent holiday.
Dar Winn
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:27 pm
like the multi headed hydra, you can cut off caribou babbles head, and she will keep going… you know someone will need her to offer her brand of word salad…
Michael D
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Why do they refer to her as ‘Governor?’ She didn’t even complete one full term
UncaJoe
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:27 pm
She thought the Governor should have a more royal sounding name so she wanted to be called “Alaska’s Selected Savior, Ever Defying”. So I suggest we just call her…
Half-ASSED for short.
malinainalaska
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:54 am
It drives me crazy!! Being from Wasilla Alaska I have had Palin as a mayor, governor and embarrassment. WE call her the quitter. She didn’t start off a crazy teabagger after the Joe Miller fiasco it was all downhill from there. On another note I love Jason and Sarah so writing an article together was super cool. Thanks guys for always coming straight with it! I eagerly anticipate your opinion and articles!
wiley
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:37 pm
Anyone want to take a guess on how long it will be before her mugshot is news?
syracuseny
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Sarah was too stupid even for stupid Faux News. What an accomplishment.
Liegh14
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:05 pm
And your dear leader is an idiot. Sarah have more brain than what you have in the white house right now.
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
Then why isnt SHE in the whitehouse?
Shouldnt it be HAS more brains?
Wait, you are upset Obama hasnt quit yet arnt you
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:22 pm
I guess when you go around attending 6 schools for one degree the wizard did give her something.What I have no idea.
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:29 pm
LOL I was just thinking that! She dint like those dark skinned people did she
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
The right, when they speak just set up the punchlines
joe doggett
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:54 pm
if u cant speak or write properly, u have nothing to say that would matter to intelligent people.
Doris~
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 5:47 pm
And your ignorant stuck on stupid republican extremist party is stuck on stupid,by the way,take your talking points & chit on over to fakeNews.
Thomas Johnson
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Scarah always liked to talk about doors opening and closing. She was just shown the door and it leads off a cliff, wiley coyote style. Watch her spin her legs in futility after the door hits her in her bony ass and then… she drops out of sight. She can quote all the bible verses she wants, I think the female cherubic angels are singing tonight.
ivantona
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:13 pm
The best Palin can try is to return to her homeland Alaska. I’ve just watched this BBC documentary about her and it’s amazing haw much support people lend her there:
www.youtube.com/watch?fea...
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:18 pm
Unfortunately she did a film with Bachmann this summer
Riding Lady Liberty
mjh
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:36 pm
Was that hard or soft-core? :)
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Basheert
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:47 pm
I wish. If only …
She’s hanging around down here in AZ – looking at cars she will never be able to afford being married to the pimp with the high voice.
PSzymeczek
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Oh, dog. When did she get back here? They said on the news this morning that she still has the house (fortress?) in Snotsdale. Here’s hoping for foreclosure in 5…4…3…2…
Basheert
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 7:15 pm
She was at Russo Steele last weekend – amazing … I’m surprised she could afford the entry fee. She sure couldn’t afford any of the cars – and it wasn’t one of the TV auctions.
Sammy
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:39 am
It might be a good idea if you read some of the AK newspapers and political bloggers to find how much the people in AK support palin. Many of them hope that she DOES NOT return to their state.
malinainalaska
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Hey hey!! Not ALL of us. Lots and lots of us are embarrassed by her. As governor she was well liked for her no nonsense way. Then troopergate and she quit. there are lots that still adore her but hey, Michelle Bachman gets re-elected too!
Sugapea
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Really enjoyed watching that BBC documentary, thanks.
I believe, if Sarah Palin had been born into a wealthy family, experienced class and worldly experience….she could have been a contender! She’s surely got a fire in her belly…but very little up-stairs to carry it through.
PSzymeczek
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
The fire in her belly is nothing more than acid reflux.
Sugapea
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 3:16 pm
Perhaps that’s why Sarah Palin regularly eats ‘baby food’, as was reported during 08-election…keeping her figure is far more important than working toward impressing America with great wisdom, brilliance or family values. (Children who divorce)
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
Hold on now.Lets give her credit.She did figure out it was a lot easier to eat baby food than to actually be prepared for an interview
Jesus Christ Interviews Sarah Palin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x...
terry
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:19 pm
mirror mirror on the wall, who is the the most useless of them all, you are sarah, without a doubt, thank you mirror, roger and out.
Peacepax
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
ok,now can we get serious about dairygate, housegate, babygate,and even that i/2 marathon that she didn’t actually. run.
Also, her online “murder for hire” Tucson massacre.
What else do you call it when somebody clearly posts the name & location of a specific politician on line. Places them in the cross hairs of a rifle scope and gives the order: Don’t retreat, reload?
Basheert
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:49 pm
Accessory to attempted murder/assassination? And she knows it. It’s why she had her RAM change the name from gunsights to “surveyor markings”. Who does that?
mathazar
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:59 pm
Well, she called them “surveyor’s marks”.
And let’s not forget, “don’t retreat, RELOAD”.
Basheert
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 7:16 pm
She did not call them surveyor’s marks until AFTER the Giffords shooting – when everyone focused on her map. Which is still available.
Sorry she walked into it – she can pay the price for her violent rhetoric.
Amy Dorknob
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Oh, how the flighty have fallen….
mjh
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Never fear — Lady Blah Blah will be the newest on-air “talent” at Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.
It’s where all former Foxies careers go to die . . .
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Basheert
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:50 pm
Does anyone watch that show? You have to pay don’t you? And we all know the Pee Pond can’t afford more than $5 per month….raiding the mattress so she can spend $250,000 on “postage”?
bluerose
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:52 pm
“so long, see you sucker, bon voyage, arrivederci, later loser, goodbye, good riddance, peace out, let the doornob hit ya where the good Lord split ya, dont come back around here no more, hasta la vista baby, kick rocks & get the hell out”
mathazar
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 11:07 pm
What, only three Sarahtrolls ?
They must be too busy at all the other thousand websites celebrating today.
Basheert
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 7:17 pm
There are only 3 left .. they post under multiple names and they are all Sarah and family. Since no Palin works, they hv lots of free time.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 12:22 am
The director of Sarahpac saw the writing on the wall after the inauguration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H...
majii
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 12:55 am
I hope the damn door she used for an exit is slathered with super glue, slammed shut, and has a sign affixed that reads “I closed this, God.”
SinghX
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 3:15 am
Maybe the door being closed on her will be more like the old TV show “Get a Life”* staring Chris Elliot where his parents bricked up the door/the walls any entrance to his living quarters in order to get rid of him.
*The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. He would never take the hints his parents gave for him to “leave home” and get a life. They would do things every episode, like bricking his door, in order to get rid…
Jack Silver
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 8:02 am
Sarah is wealthy and content from what I’ve seen and largely thanks to citizens such as yourselves.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 8:18 am
Thats a stretch.Are you saying because the ridicule she brought on her self,that we pointed out made her rich?I dont recall sending any money.Did you?Dont be shy if you saw starburst when she came on TV.Grifters have a knack for knowing their marks.So I guess stupid people will always rally aroind their own
mjh
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Are you saying because the ridicule she brought on her self,that we pointed out made her rich?
That’s what it sounds like to me. In fact, it sounds as though Jack Copper is advocating redistribution of wealth.
Funny how wingnuts don’t seem to mind that sort of socialist activity — when it’s being redistributed upward. I suppose they think if they give enough money to their heroes, it will eventually come trickling back down (which is what grifters such as Ronnie Raygun and Sister Sarah counted on, of course) . . .
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 9:11 am
Just to show I care .Here is a gift for you and all of klondike barbie’s fans
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Sugapea
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
I was shocked when I saw Sarah in the get-up…Unbelievably low class!
They can tell Palin what to say…but they can’t teach her class!
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
At a political rally at that.I know you want to keep it real but I guess thats as real as it gets for real murikkkans bussed in from sunnyview trailer park.
mjh
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Stuporwoman!
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Anne
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
She’s rich because of all the gullible folks she was able to grift money from because they loved her with all her nonsensical babbling. We certainly don’t love her, and we feel the end of her 15-minute run of fame should have ended back in 2008.
Basheert
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
Ruh Roh – Her Royal Krustyness is here – she pretends to “know” Sarah (I think they have a restraining order on her for stalking) – lives in NJ and is a total wackoff. Even the Palins hate this troll.
Jack Silver
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 8:28 am
Any chance we can get that in English? French would work too.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 8:55 am
Thats funny.So the answer is yes.You was a mark and the starburst was extra straburstery for you.See I know palinese too.
Jack Silver
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 9:08 am
And you are clearly a product of the Chicago public school system. Good luck.
Miss Jan
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 9:49 am
I watch Fox News. I liked Sarah. But she couldn’t analyze. She could only parrot the party line. O’Reilly tried her out and she couldn’t cut it. He called her out and never brought her back. So for all you who believe Fox is just the GOP mouthpiece, here’s evidence to the contrary. I watch Current and listen to POTUS. How many of you from the left consistently expose yourselves to another way of seeing things?
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 10:07 am
My sympathies are with you.We are exposed everyday to what the corporate owned media feeds you.The problem with faux is it is nothing more than a propaganda machine.Any story and I mean any story when the producers get together they do this
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The difference in how liberals get their news compared to faux viewers is like night and day.When he hear something we tend to seek out other sources before we come to believe it and our bullshit meter is always set to high.Faux viewers they hear something no mater how outrageous believes it.Case in point.Acorn stole the 2016 election even though there has been no Acorn for over two years.Here is another one Voter fraud.Its a myth www.jsonline.com/news/sta... But since faux says so its true.
You keep being insane in the membrane that is your choice but don’t ever think liberals think in lockstep because we were told to do so.
paulabflat
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 10:29 am
agreed! djchefron.
i hear something that piques my interest and i hop to it and find out. in the course of finding out, i hear even what fox news has to say about it. often, it turns out that i’ll only be seeing how close they actually came to just saying it without extraneous distractions, which is rarely. and. their intent is rarely only verbal.
it’s only fair, as well, to point out that the left, in response no doubt to the right’s penchant for it, have begun to editorialize and berate. though i might get a real jolt for a lefty to pommel a rightie, i can’t help but think we shouldn’t do it just because they do. i don’t want that false equivalency to made true. and i don’t want to be made THAT angry. usually doesn’t end well.
don’t get me started, huh?
hell. i remember laughing at victoria jackson, but in a good way. i have two of her movies.
so. most of the liberals i know, know exactly how fox presents the news because we check there as well.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:00 am
I havent had a chance to really get into it yet but from what I have read makes me sad for our Republic
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Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 10:44 am
All of Sarahs interviews on Fox were prepared questions that she read the answers off the teleprompter. She just said what she thought would rile people up. And never made sense to anyone but the tea party who were already indoctrinated.
Iused to watch Fox until I realized it was a comedy routine. Now I read from European or Asian rags. I wont watch Fox for information
mjh
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
How many of you from the left consistently expose yourselves to another way of seeing things?
Hey, I’d LOVE to be able to see things the way Fox, FoxNation.com, Rush Limpballs, Glenn Belch, Michael Savage Wiener, et. al. do.
Unfortunately, I can’t get my head that far up my ass . . .
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djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:48 pm
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Bill
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 10:03 am
Ever since 2008, Fox has basically become a sheltered workshop for failed Republican candidates and operatives – but there are so many of them now that even Fox can’t find work for them all.
mjh
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
Well, CNN (aka “Fox lite”) has hired Erick Erickson and Dana Loesch — perhaps they’re taking up the overflow . . .
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Basheert
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 7:21 pm
Isn’t Dana Loesch’s nickname “Atlas Jugs”?
david johnson
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 10:43 am
How’s that Fox-ey Pundit-ey thing workin’ out fer ya, Sarah?
Corinne
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 1:44 pm
Wait. you’re telling me that Sarah Palin only had a limited appeal to the conservative base while she was selling the fantasy of a perfect white christian majority in america?! and now that it is very clear that demographic is either imagined or so weak as to not be able to turn out enough support to win seats, she’s no longer relavent to the very network that was created to sell cognitive disconnect to scared white retirees?! Get the fuck out.
Jeffrey
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:07 pm
Good riddance to the snarky grifter Governor Half-Term.
bigdog
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
“…but what the execs at Fox never anticipated was how perfectly inept Sarah Palin was at being Sarah Palin…”
Actually, she is very good at being Sarah Palin. Someone who is an inept Sarah Palin would be intelligent, insightful, compassionate, and certainly not a Republican!
Kev
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Bye bitch!
..and thank you SOOOOO much Sen. McCain for visiting this blight of a charlatan onto the American people for so long.
Enjoy Trailer park Oblivion you fraud.
Dan
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Sarah Palin: FAIRly stupid AND unBALANCED!
inez
Jan. 26th, 2013 at 11:20 pm
Now she can look at Russia from her house 24/7. Next we’ll see a Pa-in bobble head doll. She can become a guide for caribou hunter or work on a fishing boat. I can’t imagine what she;ll do next. Maybe just be a mother to her young son.Oh, an afterthought,,,,,the bridge to nowhere should be named after her. HER LEGACE!!!!
lynn greer
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
Fan are not you have to admit the girl went from governor in trouble to multi-millionaire in a couple of short years. And as long as people crowd halls to see her the millions will keep piling up. We should all be that unlucky.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 4:08 pm
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B.J. Tilton
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
You it never seize’s to amaze me, how much hate comes from the Liberals. My question is why do they all hate Mrs. Palin and her family so much. Are you all afraid of her or what? You guy’s need to look at your own self before throwing stones at so many people. I hope Mrs. Palin and her Family someday comes back to bite you all in the butt. In stead of hating so much , why not try and spread God’s love.That is the hope we have for our Nation. God Bless America , again.
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 5:30 pm
“hope Mrs. Palin and her Family someday comes back to bite you all in the butt. ”
“why not try and spread God’s love.”
Hmmmmmmmmmmm