Sarah Palin has been especially crazy in the past year. Her word salads have gotten more epic, she lost her mind when people criticized her for NOT telling her children to stand on dogs, her family got into an insane, bloody and tacky brawl in Alaska and even Palin’s most vociferous defenders were jumping ship after Palin spoke like a malfunctioning fem-bot at CPAC earlier this year. So is it any wonder why Fox News has canned Sarah Palin for the second time?
Fox News has not renewed its contract with Sarah Palin, a spokesperson for the network confirmed to E! News Wednesday. Politico, which first reported the news, added that Palin and Fox News amicably parted ways June 1. Palin, who unsuccessfully ran for Vice President on John McCain’s ticket in 2008, has yet to comment. The former governor of Alaska, 51, is expected to make occasional guest appearances on Fox and Fox Business, and will appear on other networks and cables. She also has a show on the Sportsman Channel.
Fox News first hired Palin as a commentator in 2010. Per CNN Money, her contract was reportedly worth $1 million a year, making her the highest-paid political pundit at the highest-rated channel in cable news. Her tenure ended after three years, but months later, Palin returned to Fox News as a paid contributor.
Don’t feel too sorry for Palin, who boasts 4.4 million Facebook friends and 1.15 million Twitter followers. To her followers’ surprise, she gave her Facebook page a makeover at midnight. It now features a cover photo and a quote from Palin’s announcement speech in Dayton, Ohio: “I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe but that’s not why the ship is built.” And though she is not running for political office herself, Palin will remain heavily involved in GOP congressional and gubernatorial primaries for 2016. Per Politico, SarahPAC is donating to 40+ candidates this week alone.
It is my hope that even Fox News realizes that the SS Palin has been a leaky, crazy, tacky and budget vessel from the start and it’s time to jump ship permanently. But I fear that Palin still has some die-hard fans and Palin will still make a ton of money from being a “pundit” on Fox and other conservative outlets.
After Palin was sh-tcanned from Fox, the Fivethirtyeight blog posted this amazing chart of “The Receding of Sarah Palin.”
Photos courtesy of Palin’s Facebook, Fame/Flynet.
Can I get an “amen”??
Amen.
Sarah has to be pretty messed up to be fired from Fox News a second time.
My thoughts exactly. And amen.
I guess the news of Bristol “abstinence” Palin’s second pregnancy without a wedding is not helping her conservative credentials at Fox
AMEN
Please let her and the whole lot of them be over.
AMEN!!!
I just tried to buy an RV and returned it a week later. The percentage of Palin fans who produce chemical plastic hydras in order to explore the outdoors are just not my tribe. The politcal wrongness just oozed off of every experience with that thing. The negative Palin JuJu was palpable. I’m going back to a tent.
Please, please, please let her be over.
She should have never been so…. yes please let her be over!!!
I will forever side eye McCain and his camp for bringing her into our lives…
imagine how McCain feels
He was questioned not that long ago–within the last year, IIRC–and said he had no regrets about his VP choice. He’ll never publicly admit what a boneheaded choice it was. Privately, who knows.
Oh I think he knows. I think he even knew during the 2008 debates when he had a painful, frozen smile plastered on his face half the time. He seemed ready to bolt at any moment. Yet his stubbornness would never allow him to admit all that, I think.
Still, to this day, I do NOT understand what the man was thinking. HOW does this happen? He had a chance, a real chance. With the right team and the right running mate … like it or not, he appealed to a huge number of voters. But then he unleashed this one on the country and watched his campaign implode. And her. Amazing. I wonder if sometimes he is stopped in hallways or men’s rooms and people whisper “How could you?”
I know. And the only logical thing I can come up with is that he must have decided he simply didn’t want the presidency anymore.
He wanted Lieberman, which would have been rather radical, but his advisors said he would lose the party base, as if they would vote for Obama, so he caved and left the decision up to them and they went with Limbaugh’s choice
I was going to vote for McCain until he put Palin on the list. I was a registered Democrat at the time. He lost my vote. Can’t have that crazy woman anywhere near the White House.
One of my friends, a pretty die hard Republican, claimed that McCain chose her very deliberately. According to her, McCain had not forgotten how the Bush campaign had repeatedly insinuated during the 2004 primaries that his adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actuallly his love child with an unknown black woman. Allegedly he also was angry about attacks related to his wife’s prior pain pill addiction. Because he felt so betrayed by his own party, he unleashed Sarah Palin on the world as revenge, knowing it would almost certainly lead to Barack Obama’s election in 2008.
Now I have no idea if this story is true or not, but it is one of the more logical explanations I have heard about why McCain – a seasoned politician – chose someone so clearly clueless and incompetent to be his VP running mate. On the surface it looked like an inspired choice: a younger conservative woman with gubernatorial experience and a seemingly stable marriage and family. But within days of her selection, it was clear that Palin was a huge liability for the party and by then, it was arguably too late in the campaign to convince swing voters and independents that McCain-Palin was the better bet.
I will say this for her: she has milked her 15 minutes for all they are worth and then some. But it is time for her to sit down and be quiet.
I’m sorry, I just have to leave these here:
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/john-mccain-foreign-policy-even-worse-bush
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/04/28/22422/mccain-children-hospital/
http://crooksandliars.com/2008/07/15/did-you-hear-john-mccains-womanrapegorilla-joke
Disclaimer-I did vote for O (as the lesser of two evils, sad to say) specifically because of my concerns about foreign policy.
His stance on Gitmo and drones is depressing as hell. It just goes to show that no matter the benevolent aspirations of a starry- eyed newcomer, the mill just churns out more of the same grist. It is terribly disillusioning.
That said, Sanders!! Warren!!
Warren!!!
I truly wish that we could see some real, viable Republican candidates. McCain/Palin was just sad, and was Mitt Romney REALLY the best that they could do last time around? The 2 party system doesn’t work if both sides aren’t producing real presidential candidates. My personal theory is that the Republican self-appointed “Kingmakers” are so unpleasant to deal with that they scare away the best potential candidates.
Bearcat Lawyer, I have never heard that, it’s intriguing but I don’t think it’s true. I think the ill-conceived choice of Palin was his team’s and not his. And they didn’t realize the extent of their error until it was too late. Although you could argue that they could have changed their choice of running mate once they realized what a dimwit she was, but I could see why they’d be reluctant to do that and stayed the course, disastrous as it was.
I think you’re right Bridget. Unless you play ball with the old GOP leaders and shy away from anything even remotely moderate, you aren’t going to get their support to get elected.
Of the GOP nominees that round I though McCain was the best choice, but when he picked Palin, my opinion of him and his team really tanked. I’ve always thought they imagined the Hillary supporters would flock to her just because she was a woman (never mind they are political polar opposites) and she was extreme right, a part of the party that didn’t love him. It was those 2 reasons, NEVER because he actually thought she’d be good at the job or would bring something to the table. She was an campaign tool, nothing more, and I found that very scary.
@ BearcatLawyer: Wow, what a theory. I have to say, it turns my stomach like not much else how First Ladies or potential First Ladies are often treated by the public/press.
I do think he was probably badgered into picking her and is now cursing the people who inflcited her on him and the public. They most likely just did a pi**-poor job of vetting her because the crazy was so close to the surface. How could they not see??? They probably overestimated her intelligence and their own ability to give her appropriate media training. It was such a spectacle.
In general, they made a good call trying to find a younger conservative woman who pulled McCain to the right on some issues but HER? You cannot convince me that there was nobody else.
What I will never ever understand is how a candidate can win or lose an election based on abortion and guns. Yes, those topics are very important to U.S. voters, understandably. But because we don’t have a gun problem and abortion – while technically not legal – is not subject to prosecution, we have such different election topics.
@lucy2: the irony is that the GOP Ballplayers are so far from the pulse of actual, normal Republicans that they’re making themselves unelectable. Remember when they thought they’d just skip the middleman and run in a true religious conservative like Huckabee? Or when Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani were supposed to be the political stars? Any whiff of “moderation” and they pressure Republican candidates to kowtow to the ultra-conservative talking points, and all that manages to do is drive more moderate voters toward the other side. I wouldn’t want to sink the time, money (actually, LOTS OF MONEY) and grueling effort into campaigning if I had to deal with Karl Rove & Rush Limbaugh all the time.
I know deep down he probably regretted listening to his advisors but he will never publicly admit it. His daughter literally went “WTF” in her book about the campaign. I’m sure the whole family did a head slap more than once during that campaign.
Honestly like many others McCain was a serious option for me when voting (even though I lean left). I liked a lot of his ideas and he’s actually pretty moderate on many things.
A huge reason for the Palin mom is because the GOP was trying to swing the female vote that was left disappointed when Hillary lost the nomination to Obama. They wanted the women vote so they brought a woman on the ticket. Too bad that woman is dumb as a bag of rocks. That immediately through my suport to Obama. Before that I had no idea which way I was voting (same with my roommate) and it was my first election so I was really into looking at every debate and such. But yea I wanted Palin no where NEAR the WH
But SNL was never funnier. Thanks Tina
She wasn’t fired. She’s clearing her schedule so she can run for president.
OMG.
Could you imagine Hillary and Sarah in a debate? That would be epic
Ok that debate would be AMAZING
She’s stupid, but not that stupid.
Yes, she is that stupid, but she’s not *that* stupid! 😉
More like she doesn’t want to spend her own money on a campaign.
Trump’s running mate. Bahahahaha
Jesus Christ.. The clown car will veer off into an embankment and Explode Michael Bay styles if that happened
LMAO. It’s driving pretty erratically already, so yes. So true.
QOTD!!!
Hush yo mouth, Mispronounced! 😉
I don’t think so. A run for president, even a faux run like hers would be, takes a lot of effort. She’s a lazy quitter.
Because every Republican must run for president this year
13 so far!
Let’s see how many by tommorrow.
Sadly that was my first thought. Glad they gave her the boot, but worried about what this frees her up to do.
Yup. Although she doesn’t have to even declare her “official” candidacy to start raising money with a Super PAC. She may just throw hints, give speeches and then ride off into the sunset with her PAC money. She’s a grifter and sees the promise of more $$ than she can make on Faux News.
I hope so, a Palin run would be a comedic blessing to us all and one more nail in the coffin of the GOP.
Because the GOP clown car for 2016 isn’t full enough yet!
I don’t know that Sarah Palin will ever be 100% over, because there’s always an audience for someone that tells people what they want to hear.
Sadly, this is the truth.
Much like the Duggars will always have a support base.
And so the best thing we can do is to just not take her seriously. When we actually argue with her we validate her as though she’s worthy of our time. But when we treat her like the joke she is we take away any power she could have.
Being a hate-monger is huge business right now. That, and humiliating yourself ala every reality loser out there. Since she covers both bases, I think she’ll find work.
Ain’t that the awful truth.
@Bridget, you’re right about that. Some think the country can’t survive without Palin’s words of wisdom. Sample of said wisdom:
“GOP leaders, by the way, y’know the man can only ride ya when your back is bent. So strengthen it. Then the man can’t ride ya, America won’t be taken for a ride.”
I’m sure she’ll either have a reality show or participate in one soon enough.
She does. Amazing America with Sarah Palin.
Well done, Kaiser! LOVE your continuation of her sea-faring metaphor! Lolz
I know, me too, it was genius. I spit my tea out at “SS Palin has been a leaky, crazy, tacky and budget vessel from the start…”
Too good, right?! That’s why I love it here sooooo much!
The more you hear from Palin, the more you question McCain’s judgement.
I will never forget the “hillbillies in Neiman Marcus”
He either had very poor judgment or trusted his people too much (in terms of proper vetting). More than five minutes of research and just talking to her should have raised some flags.
The problem was he never met or interviewed her before he announced her selection. His team poorly vetted her and half assed the background check. McCain met her after she came on board. This was documented in Game Change – a great book btw! I was never interested in politics until that particular election. The cast of characters were awesome and there was so much juicy gossip (John Edwards scandal).
I keep asking the same thing about the Kardashians. Vapid attention-seeking seems to have a long lifespan.
Thank god. I haven’t felt safe since she stopped monitoring Russia from her kitchen window. Now she can get back home, pour a cup of tea and keep saving America.
While reading ALL the newspapers
Lilacflowers! yes, ALL the newspapers!!! Dutch Harbor Online, to Le Figaro! 🙂
LMAO!
You win.
LOL!!! 🙂
I don’t know. Tea is for communists. She must be drinking good ole’ coffee.
Tea……party! 😉
But oh, maybe she CAN use it samovar style to wink at and flirt w Putin. “Yoo hoo, Mister Putin why dintcha come on over and talk, I got these nice bear claws!”
Sarah, you are not IN government; you haven’t been IN government for a long time; and you accomplished nothing when you were there. It is not difficult to balance a state budget when the Feds heavily subsidize everything.
No, you are in politics, which accomplishes nothing
I also was thinking that. Yeah, there’s a huge distinction between being in govt and being in politics. Not surprising she doesn’t really know the difference.
Excellent point.
Next up Dancing with the Has Beens. You know it’s coming.
I don’t want her to be over. She’s the gift that keeps on giving. I want more of that hopey-changey thing.
That cut-out-shoulder thing she’s wearing is so cheap-looking.
I am an avid fan of this site, but the liberal bias tends to counter my “loyal” status. There are many on this site who love Obama and I would challenge them to count off what he did to improve this country. He will not drill for oil in the US, the government has increased the debt to ranges we have never seen. He has race baited and not supported our police. He is a disaster of a president on so many levels, period. Palin wants to decrease government, drill for oil in the US and lower the debt.
I am a fiscal conservative who supports pro-choice and gay marriage, There are many boxes that we all fall into regarding politics. There are many on this site that find it troubling for all who support this president and knee-jerk reaction to anything fiscally conservative or reads as “Republican.”
Palin was eviscerated by the press with misnomers. SNL had a skit that said “I can see Russia from my back yard.” This was all taken as truth by the media. Sarah Palin never said this, but the sheep who follow the non-news shows quote it as gospel.
You can do so much better as a representative of the Republic party. She’s not it – she’s in it for herself, always has been, and her story line about the unfair liberal media is old and sorry.
Palin DID say that Russia was visible from parts of Alaska in her first interview with Charles Gibson and for that reason, she should be credited with foreign policy experience. SNL merely parodied that and the news media was picking up on Palin’s actual quote, not the parody. Palin has tried to pretend ever since that she never made that ridiculous statement.
As for drilling for oil in the US, sure, but only if the oil is nationalized and kept here instead of allowing multi-nationals to take our oil and sell it elsewhere in other countries, which is exactly what has happened with every single previous oil drilling/pipeline proposal
Technically, Palin is right. There are two very remote islands in the Aleutian chain that are theoretically visible to each other. One is American territory and the other is Russian.
I wasn’t disagreeing about the proximity of Alaska to Russia; a cousin was stationed in the Aleutians for two years but living that close to Russia didn’t make him an expert on foreign policy and it didn’t make Palin one either, which was her claim.
I said this about Donald Trump the other day, but it seems fitting here too: you know how you’ve gone too far into partisan politics? When you think Sarah Palin has a point.
Also, Sarah Palin did indeed say that her foreign policy was that she can see Russia from her back yard.
Now, had you name-checked Alaskan and Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski I’d think you were interested in a real discussion. But instead you used the phrase “race baited”.
Is Fox really the highest rated cable news channel??
Yes ,it always beats msnbc and cnn in the ratings.
It does but the demographics are interesting. Very few people get their news from cable television now. Just as the internet and Twitter have pretty much destroyed newspaper circulation, they’ve done the same to television news but with less attention. Fox News pulls more viewers, and mostly for its commentators, not its actual news reporting but the majority of its viewers are over 65 years old.
“I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things.”
Uh… she left government because it was becoming unsafe and hard for her, especially with the various investigations starting to bloom or the threat of them.
I doubt Fox News is going to let her go completely. I’m sure they’re going to ask to come back from time to time to explain complicated political issues in over 5000 misused words or more…
She is a white trash idiot using what is left of her womanly wiles to stay in the ‘spotlight’. White Trash Family.
The once highly respected John McCain should hang his head in shame for an hour every day as penance for foisting this Alaskan Hillbilly grifter on us.
Oh, my God.
“Bristol Palin just threw cold water on what’s supposed to be a joyous occasion … being pregnant.
Palin’s in the early stages of her second out of wedlock pregnancy, and this time she’s full on grumpy, saying she knows it will be “a huge disappointment to my family, to my close friends, and to many of you.”
Bristol says she’s “trying to keep [my] chin up on this one.”
Sarah Palin’s daughter was engaged to U.S. Marine veteran Dakota Meyer, but they broke things off last month. Bristol didn’t say if Dakota’s the dad.
Bristol was full of piss and vinegar, saying, “I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy.”
I guess that “abstinence is the only 100% effective form of birth control” rhetoric has a serious flaw.
I can’t believe how unhappy she sounds about this. I wonder what the deal with Dakota is. Is he not the father, or iis he father and bailed when he found out she was pregnant? Man, I actually feel sorry for her.
Isn’t this a big surprise (not really). Makes the recently canceled wedding all the more interesting.
I guess I shouldn’t be taking such cynical glee at the news. But the hypocrisy just….burns. Coupled with the fact that she gets $262K a year to lecture others about “abstinence” while defiantly claiming that SHE doesn’t want to hear any lectures directed at HER choices.
It does raise certain interesting questions about her abruptly cancelled wedding, doesn’t it?
Wow. She really pimps abstinence? How did I not know that? I take back what I said about feeling sorry for her. What a hypocrit. I wonder if she practiced abstinence with the ex-fiancé and got pg by somebody else. This is going to get good.
“I do not want any lectures and I do not want any sympathy.”
Well, I’m definitely not going to give her any sympathy, she deserves none, but she has a real nerve whining about lectures when she has been taking money to lecture people about abstinence WHILE opposing real sex education in schools.
Bristol is pregnant again. The hypocrisy is astounding.
What will the Candies Foundation say now? Of course, she made that quarter million five years ago. Is she still their speaker?
More to the point: What Would Jeb Bush Do!!!??? 😉 is this a part of the reason why Foxed News showed Sarah the door?