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Report: Roger Ailes Warned Sarah Palin To ‘Lie Low’ And Not Make ‘Blood Libel’ Video

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Might another Fox News contributor and rumored potential presidential candidate soon be on their way out from the channel? According to a report from New York Magazine, Sarah Palin’s “going rogue” against the advice of Fox News boss Roger Ailes, could have left her on thin ice with the channel.

The report suggests that during the days after the Arizona shooting tragedy, when Palin’s rhetoric was being blamed by some in the media as having inspired the shooter, Palin was eager to respond and called Ailes for advice. Ailes suggested she “lie low” and that there was “no need to inject [herself] into the story.” As many recall, Palin pursued an entirely different strategy, making herself the story for several days to come with a video message suggesting a “blood libel” had been waged against her.

Ailes, allegedly, was left wondering why Palin even called him for advice at all. Despite this potential rift, given that Palin is a consistent ratings draw across all Fox programming, it seems the only factor that could impact her future at Fox is if she does decide to run for President. Although after this, Ailes might not be so eager to help advise her on another decision.

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  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    just because you ask someone for their opinion doesn’t mean you have to take it.

    you have to do what you think is best, in the end. it never hurts to hear other opinions, but in the end, it was Palin that was being accused. it was her reputation, job or no job.

  • Atticus Draco

    Sarah Palin’s “going rogue” against the advice of Fox News boss Roger Ailes, could have left her on thin ice with the channel.

    Although after this, Ailes might not be so eager to help advise her on another decision.

    Jesus,, let’s jump to conjecture ,, shall we?!?!?

  • Atticus Draco

    sarainitaly said:
    just because you ask someone for their opinion doesn’t mean you have to take it.

    you have to do what you think is best, in the end. it never hurts to hear other opinions, but in the end, it was Palin that was being accused. it was her reputation, job or no job.

    no kidding!
    this is a BS story all the way around!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Atticus Draco said:
    this is a BS story all the way around!

    when it comes to palin, aren’t they all?

  • Atticus Draco

    sarainitaly said:
    when it comes to palin, aren’t they all?

    lol,, my badd,, you got me there,, lol
    indeed!

  • BatBoy

    Matt words that tell the real story about this story
    … rumored
    ….soon be on their way out from the channel? (Whith emphasis in the “?”
    …. New York Magazine
    ….report suggests
    ….Palin’s rhetoric was being blamed by some in the media
    ….allegedly
    …. it seems
    ….Ailes might not

    This is the kind of reporting that O’Keefe said he does what he does because NO ONE in the media is doing it. They are content to sit on their ass and write “hit” pieces.

    The result is their subscriptions are dropping lower every day.

    But hey, there is a silver lining….these writers get to be invited to the Socialistas “Whine & Cheezy” parties.

  • nutsofast

    Atticus Draco said:
    Might another Fox News contributor and rumored potential presidential candidate soon be on their way out from the channel? According to a report from New York Magazine, Sarah Palin’s “going rogue” against the advice of Fox News boss Roger Ailes, could have left her on thin ice with the channel.

    I thought it was informative with a little humor.

    Perhaps you should hangin out at someplace that gives you “your” talking points and “your” views
    sheesh

  • Atticus Draco

    nutsofast said:
    I thought it was informative with a little humor.

    Perhaps you should hangin out at someplace that gives you “your” talking points and “your” views
    sheesh

    I STRONGLY AGREE
    THIS IS THE KIND OF REPORTING THAT FAVORS YOUR WEAKENED MENTALITY NUTSO!!
    THIS IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU!!

  • Color Me Badd

    Atticus Draco said:
    lol,, my badd,, you got me there,, lol
    indeed!

    Tee Hee, bye Sarah!

  • tatboy

    “She injected herself into the story”. Really? I think that POS sheriff did the “injecting”. I hope the shooter doesn’t get off thais to the defense he handed him. Scumbag.

  • skyfet

    Roger is trying to clean the house and sort the nuts out on his station. Beck has been out since that new york times article that was based on his firing and O’reiley is not pleased with Sarah giving him a speech she has made 50 times as an answer. The phonies are being exposed as what they are, and the ones that constantly back them up are also tired of pretending the like them or that they have any form of credibility.

  • Atticus Draco

    tatboy said:
    “She injected herself into the story”. Really? I think that POS sheriff did the “injecting”. I hope the shooter doesn’t get off thais to the defense he handed him. Scumbag.

    GOOD POINT MAN!
    I FORGOT ABOUT THAT SORRY S.o.B’in SHERIFF!!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    tatboy said:
    “She injected herself into the story”. Really? I think that POS sheriff did the “injecting”. I hope the shooter doesn’t get off thais to the defense he handed him. Scumbag.

    She was thrown in head first because of a stupid map that was over a year old, that Democrats have used forever, and were currently using featuring Giffords (Daily Kos).

    Meanwhile, have you heard about this:

    Time Magazine Headline: ‘Wisconsin’s Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?’

    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/03/13/time-magazine-headline-wisconsins-governor-wins-he-still-dead-man-wal

  • Atticus Draco

    tatboy said:
    “She injected herself into the story”. Really? I think that POS sheriff did the “injecting”. I hope the shooter doesn’t get off thais to the defense he handed him. Scumbag.

    Atticus Draco said:
    GOOD POINT MAN!
    I FORGOT ABOUT THAT SORRY S.o.B’in SHERIFF!!

    Dont forget about that ‘NUTSO’ Paul Krugman too!

  • Jerps

    The backlash against the left for trying to somehow blame Palin for the shooting had already begun. And even if she wanted to speak, her speech was designed to stir things up. “Blood libel.” Made her look very unpresidential when compared to the speech Obama gave at the funeral.

  • Atticus Draco

    sarainitaly said:
    Time Magazine Headline: ‘Wisconsin’s Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?’

    How about the picture accompanying the article,, jeeze,,
    how about that for civility?!?

    you know that there is a leftist wacko ‘NUTSO’ union thug out there just dying to make that happen!

  • Pablo

    skyfet said:
    Beck has been out since that new york times article that was based on his firing and O’reiley is not pleased with Sarah giving him a speech she has made 50 times as an answer.

    Does Beck know he’s been fired? It sounds like he plans on doing his show today. Does Ailes know he’s been fired?

  • timzank

    Here are the two most important excerpts from New York Magazine:

    1. according to a person with knowledge of the call

    2 .said a person familiar with Ailes’s thinking.

    Wow, what sources!!

  • BatBoy

    Pablo said:
    Does Beck know he’s been fired? It sounds like he plans on doing his show today. Does Ailes know he’s been fired?

    Good point…

    Skyfet and the rest of the lunitic left bought HOOK, LINE and SINKER, Obama’s “Hope & Change” slogans he used to get elected.

    Now Skyfet and his buddies can’t find work, the $8.00/hour jobs down at the wind farm manufacturing plant are no longer available, so they sit around and make up things, then post them on blogs hoping people will believe them.

  • BatBoy

    timzank said:
    Here are the two most important excerpts from New York Magazine: 1. according to a person with knowledge of the call 2 .said a person familiar with Ailes’s thinking. Wow, what sources!!

    Excellent example of Lazy Journalism and Lazy Journalist.

  • timzank

    Can you imagine an article on Obama citing that type of sourcing? The resident commies here would go apeshit.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Sarah, the next time Roger Ailes offers his advice,
    do not pass GO,
    do not collect $200,
    JUST DO IT!

  • timzank

    Let’s take a look at that, using “sources” exactly like New York Magazine used.

    “Obama preferred to strangle the puppies one by one instead of just shooting them, it was much neater said a person familiar with Obama’s thinking.”

    or

    “Obama then told the hooker if she didn’t swallow, he wouldn’t be showing up, this was a normal repsonse for Obama according to a person with knowledge of the call”

    See how ya do that? Damn, I could be a journalist too!!!

  • skyfet

    Pablo said:
    Does Beck know he’s been fired? It sounds like he plans on doing his show today. Does Ailes know he’s been fired?

    He is taking a step back from the attention that was focussed on his phony behind, getting out of the heat in the kitchen.

  • justanotherconservative

    skyfet said:
    The phonies are being exposed

    just like you.

  • azgrandma

    palin has proven herself to be an arrogant, egotistical person and the more she opens her mouth the more she proves what a moron she is. Of course she isn’t going to take anybodies advice which in this case she should have because it turned out to be the disaster her video was. She has simply become a obama in a skirt. If she isn’t trashing somebody she is coming back out to explain what she initially said. Just like obama she loves to turn around and slap anyone who does not agree with her. Many of us have had our fill of her. Please do us a favor and crawl back to Alaska.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    skyfet said:
    He is taking a step back from the attention that was focussed on his phony behind, getting out of the heat in the kitchen.

    You are standing on the base now ! Many American foxes who are on the Fox channel with their big American bosses are telling the the truth of that of which they know !

  • timcajun

    Mr. Tea Party, is it ok, to say tea party spin on your tea party network? No, shut up! WTF

  • mibwilso

    Sarah Palin = Republican Howard Dean.

  • ProObamaAgenda

    Ohhhh Shit……if roger fires sarah you wingnuts are going to be stuck with wackin off to bachman only……what will you do???? I say spin off, form ya own party and challenge Obama, thats a sure winner…..i’m looking forward to seeing the wisilla hillbilly and her dysfunctional klan loading up the family truckster and moving to washington…you betcha!!!!!

  • OxyCon

    The report suggests that during the days after the Arizona shooting tragedy, when Palin’s rhetoric was being blamed by some in the media as having inspired the shooter

    “Some in the media”? Really? It was a giant media shitstorm, which is why Palin felt the need to stick up for herself. It was a high-tech media lynching of her character. And as the vile behavior of the democrats in Wisconsin has proved without a shadow of a doubt, the mainstream media in this country is ridiculously biased. On the one hand they try and convict Sarah Palin of murder because she used a cross hairs map on her website, meanwhile every Republican and their families in Wisconsin have received explicit death threats, Scott Walker’s body has been outlined in police chalk lines all around the capital, targets have been drawn over his face and the media calls the Democrats “peaceful”.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    ProObamaAgenda said:
    Ohhhh Shit……if roger fires sarah you wingnuts are going to be stuck with wackin off to bachman only……what will you do???? I say spin off, form ya own party and challenge Obama, thats a sure winner…..i’m looking forward to seeing the wisilla hillbilly and her dysfunctional klan loading up the family truckster and moving to washington…you betcha!!!!!

    Next year at this time Obama won’t be able to beat an illegal alien working at a Taco Bell.

  • skyfet

    BatBoy said:
    Good point…

    Skyfet and the rest of the lunitic left bought HOOK, LINE and SINKER, Obama’s “Hope & Change” slogans he used to get elected.

    Now Skyfet and his buddies can’t find work, the $8.00/hour jobs down at the wind farm manufacturing plant are no longer available, so they sit around and make up things, then post them on blogs hoping people will believe them.

    I bet you are talking about yourself and your buddies. By the way does it makes you feel superior looking down at those who worked $8phr? what happened to tying your boot strap?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Inboca/1829370356 Dave Inboca

    azgrandma said:
    Many of us have had our fill of her. Please do us a favor and crawl back to Alaska.

    She’s living there raising her five kids [oops, one is serving overseas!] and has her comments air-mailed over the media, which are sooooo…. happy to try to parse and deconstruct [stupidly] her outspoken and forthright positions. It’s her ability to speak out and point to the ridiculous idiots on the left and their lies that makes her so popular with a giant segment of America. And why don’t you crawl back to Mexico, d-baguette?

  • nutsofast

    Here are some Great Quotes from CONSERVATIVES.

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51218.html

    ‘She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition’

    Palin’s politics of grievance and group identity, according to these critics, is a betrayal of conservative principles. For decades, it was a standard line of the right that liberals cynically promoted victimhood to achieve their goals and that they practiced the politics of identity — race, sex and class—over ideas.

    Just remember the Mediaite article the other day.
    Looking at BOOBS keeps you healthy.

  • nutsofast

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Next year at this time Obama won’t be able to beat an illegal alien working at a Taco Bell.

    Dónde está el fanático

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Inboca/1829370356 Dave Inboca

    sarainitaly said:
    Time Magazine Headline: ‘Wisconsin’s Governor Wins But Is He Still Dead Man Walker?’

    Sara, that is the fervent wish being father to the “thought,” or rather hysterical emotion on the left over being throttled and crunched by Scott Walker, PBUH. He’s a Tosa guy like me and should run for Vice POTUS just to stick it in the faces of the union thugs and their slacker/layabout rank-and-file.

  • nutsofast

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Next year at this time Obama won’t be able to beat an illegal alien working at a Taco Bell.

    Dónde está el racismo

  • ProObamaAgenda

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Next year at this time Obama won’t be able to beat an illegal alien working at a Taco Bell.

    well im sure the secret service will be successful in keeping your dumb redneck ass a safe distance from the President

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    nutsofast said:
    Dónde está el racismo

    Quantos anos usted?

  • stoogedudes

    I don’t think she will get fired over this. She brings ratings, and Fox loves its ratings.

    Also, I don’t defend Sarah a lot, but if I was in her shoes, I would have defended myself as well. I thought then, and still think now that it was ridiculous to blame Sarah Palin for what happened in Tucson. Sure, she probably could have done without the “blood libel” comment, but I don’t think she was wrong in defending herself.

  • Cactus

    Atticus Draco said:
    How about the picture accompanying the article,, jeeze,,
    how about that for civility?!?

    you know that there is a leftist wacko ‘NUTSO’ union thug out there just dying to make that happen!

    Yeah, I know… kinda rabble-rousing on NewsBusters’ part. Civility!

  • WillP

    Talk about outright stupidity. Roger Ailes, one of the most successful media executives, gives you media advice that you ignore. You just had to push the politics of grievance and persecution didn’t you Sarah. You couldn’t “lie low” and not “inject yourself into the story” as Ailes wisely counseled. Have you ever risen aboven criticism in your life Sarah? Nope. I don’t think so.

  • Armageddon T Thunderbird

    Gawd she is so hot!!! I’ve got to get one of my shot guns out and jack off her photograph in the article!

  • HuskersLoveBo

    When Palin went on Hannity’s program for her softball interview, the real problem she had was not the defense of her blood libel statement, but that she confirmed she was a fool. Hannity threw her a bone about attempts to tie her cross-hairs web page and the shooting. She clearly simply regurgitated several talking points she had memorized and then lost her train of thought and started in on the deficit. Seriously. This clearly demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the situation and lack of intellect.

  • my dogs gone

    Speaking of going rogue, it seems that Palin must be advising “Wisconsin Republicans to GO Rogue.”
    That’s a rogue’s job they done killing the teacher union.

  • nutsofast

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Quantos anos usted

    Ajá, la grasa viejo feo es un racista.

  • Garth

    Sarah Palin and this what and but it is all about, especially here in Alaska with that tree stump notsofast but of course, and there it is but that’s what we like to say is America and such that we all can and that too it is also.

  • VoiceofReason

    nutsofast said: Just remember the Mediaite article the other day.Looking at BOOBS keeps you healthy.

    Then glancing at your avatar and screed should make me immortal.

  • VoiceofReason

    Armageddon T Thunderbird said:
    Gawd she is so hot!!! I’ve got to get one of my shot guns out and jack off her photograph in the article!

    Why don’t you just jerk off the shotgun and do the world a favor.

  • nutsofast

    Matt Labash, a longtime writer for the Weekly Standard, said that because of Palin’s frequent appeals to victimhood and group grievance, “She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition.”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51218.html#ixzz1GhDhZj1u

    Al Sharpton Suggests GOP Has ‘Lost Control’ Over Sarah Palin

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/03/al_sharpton_doesnt_think_he_an.html

    I heard a better one though…

    Alaskan Snooki

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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