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Sarah Palin Is Out at Fox News

Jan. 25, 2013 5:31pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Sarah Palin Is No Longer a Fox News Contributor

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s contract as a Fox News contributor was not renewed, the network announced Friday. (AP)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Fox News have parted ways.

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee’s contract as a paid network contributor has ended and will not be renewed, Fox News’ executive vice president of programming said Friday.

“We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors,” Bill Shine said in a statement to TheBlaze.

A source close to Palin told Real Clear Politics, which was first to report the news, that it was Palin who “decided not to renew the arrangement.”

“It’s my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by Fox, and she decided not to renew the arrangement,” the source told Real Clear Politics. “She remains focused on broadening her message of common-sense conservatism across the country and will be expanding her voice in the national discussion.”

A Fox spokeswoman did not address those remarks in an email to TheBlaze.

Signs of friction between Palin and the network emerged over the summer when Palin took to Facebook and wrote that “Fox canceled all my scheduled interviews” during one night of the Republican National Convention.

At the time, Shine said the RNC’s condensed schedule made it necessary to bump Palin.

“Our plans changed based on the fact that the RNC condensed the schedule of speeches from four nights to three. We look forward to having Governor Palin back as soon as we can,” he said.

According to the New York Times, Palin was in negotiations with Fox News for a new contract last week. Her original contract started in January 2010 and ended this month; her last appearance on the network was in mid-December.

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Comments (597)

redrivergrl
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:51pm
Soy, don’t get your panties in a was… of course she shouldn’t have declined McCain. I was thrilled she was added to the ticket. I’m talking about now. She will not condemn anything he says or does. He’s a powerful man, he doesn’t need her to agree with everything he does.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:26am
  well she did write a book about all the foolish things mccain did, right?
  
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omega309
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:48pm
I quit watching fox the day of the election when they caved.

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- mecbb55
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:56am
  well then i suppose you still dig on rove…he went down with the ship…and he went down hard
  
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spfoam1
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:43pm
Put her name in a headline and every lowlife from the left comes slithering out to attack. I am beginning to think most of the people attacking her are muslims, who are afraid of a woman with a brain and a backbone.

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- mecbb55
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:59am
  lol at muslims being scared of strong women but not christians or jews or anyone else for that matter….because the history of christianity or judaism shows a real predisposition for encouraging strong minded female leaders…right
  
  its actually a really brilliant strategy categorize people who dont agree with you as being from a different religion. then your intolerance, bigotry and hatred is completely justified…well done sir…well done
  
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Case_Logic
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:36pm
Sarah is a great American and would be a great President if elected!

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SFsuper49er
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:35pm
The country is going into the crapper. She spreads common sense conservatism to us all but most are so caught up in this brainwashing liberalism meltdown you won’t listen . The sinful lives we lead with greed and corruption as the main factor will ruin us all. Life is not about has the most stuff in the end.

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Small World
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:35pm
Sarah should come to the blaze/gbtv. Love her.

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Hcall
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:32pm
and all I can say is in the words of Roy Clark…”Thank God and Greyhound shes gone”

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cish60
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:32pm
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The site is so hard to navigate….
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- Case_Logic
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:41pm
  Yes and too many commercials and adds hijacking the page loading process. And that stupid fly-out add that I have to go and close EVERY time. Infuriating.
  
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- cish60
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:23pm
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:26pm
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cish60
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:29pm
@ Tharpdevenport: I agree with you totally!!!
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It’s funny, I was just thinking about Sarah Palin the other day and was wondering why I haven’t seen her recently on FOX–now I know why.

I’ll miss you Sarah. Don’t stay away too long…

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redrivergrl
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:28pm
I like Sarah Palin but I also have issues with her as well. She backed two big time RINO’S, McCain and Gingrich. Everyone knows McCain is a RINO. He wouldn’t have gotten the percentage of votes he got without Palin. She brought life to his campaign and excitement. Newt backed the GOP establishment candidate in New York and cost the tea party candidate votes. He received a lot of flack over that one. He also got in bed with Hillary and Nancy Pelosi. His favorite president is FDR, the father of entitlement programs. I could never get past those issues. Yes, he could debate but that doesn’t matter if you’re a progressive deep down. Sarah would do herself well to not align herself with either one. She also said some comments in reference to Michelle Bachmann not being ready to be president. Bachmann, Allen West, Rand Paul, Louie Gohmert have all stayed true to tea party conservative thinking. Sarah would be better off teaming up with them.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:39pm
  McCain…..what, did you expect her to decline VP?
  Romney……obviously she was not a fan of Romney – good for her
  Gingrich……yea, Ron Paul would have been a better choice but Gingrich was better than Romney. I know glenn beck thought otherwise but that is cuz he is mormon
  
  Who knows what kind of backroom deals are made to get folk’s endorsements. Ron Paul only endorsed a few people, Ted Cruz being one of them. All the people Ron Paul endorsed won their election and are solid Constitutionalists
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:42pm
  by the way, it took real guts for ANY republican to endorse someone other than Romney….Cuz everyone knew the republican establishment chose Romney. Even the fearless donald trump got scared of ******* off Romney. Notice Romney didnt invite palin to the convention….What a jerk
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:28pm
  You’re right about those points Soy.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on January 26, 2013 at 7:01am
  Soy Sarah semi-indorsed Newt to stop the Coronation
  of Mitt All She said is keep the Process Going.
  
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Totally Domestic
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:26pm
Fox News: Palin Out……Rove In

That’s all I need to know about Fox!!!!

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- redrivergrl
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:52pm
  Not to mention them adding Tin Foil Hat Dennis Kucinich!
  
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katzkiner
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:19pm
We don’t need politicians, we need Generals.

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KernelOfTruth
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:16pm
HotAir is betting on TheBlaze to pick up Sarah Palin…

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/25/report-palin-parts-ways-with-fox-news/

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- redrivergrl
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:47pm
  I hope they do! I hope they pick her up and Allen West too!
  
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holsomlisa
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:10pm
Love Sarah and pray she is getting an even bigger and better gig! Best Wishes to our Mama Grizzly!

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wilsonj72
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:02pm
The Fake Ron Paul(Demorates) support are war path of bloging I see. Hey Demorates you are no support of Ron Paul so you can stop faking it your boy obama is in now. Go Home to your commie website and talk about in slaving the rest of USA with Gun control, Religion control what every low lives Demo-RATS talk about.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:20pm
  you had so many typos that i could not follow your post….Who are you referring to?
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:22pm
  WOW
  that was Weird
  
  Sarah Palin is NOT what’s wrong with America
  Ron Paul is NOT what’s Wrong with America
  Rand Paul is NOT what’s Wrong with America
  
  What’s Wrong with America is Corrupt Washington DC Politicians !
  
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Tankertony
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:58pm
Sarah Palin will win the Presidency of the United States of America in 2016.

She will crush the leftist sop hillbags.

Marco Rubio will be the Vice President of the United States.

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- drs1969
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:21pm
  But the RNC has already promised Rubio top billing!
  Palin will not get anywhere in the Rep. party. She was set up in ’08, by the DC establishment, to distract from BHO’s lack of brains and experience. That’s the only reason she was on the ticket.
  I’m glad she’s leaving the phonies at Fox. They will look even worse w/ Kucinich and Juan.
  
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fourfreedom
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:57pm
The lame stream media or PROPAGANDA machine has done nothing but smear her name.
The left is scared of her and they have a good reason to be, God Speed on her next adventure.
I pray that it is for the benefit of exposing the TRUTH and hopefully bringing into the light leaders of great MORAL and ETHICAL value to this nation. Two very important factors we have been LACKING for a long time.
If you believe everything you hear on T.V. you might want to rethink what you are hearing and seek out the answers elsewhere….

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- catty
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:43pm
  Scared? More like entertained!
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:43pm
  Yep. They are afraid of anyone who speaks out and calls them what they are without back peddling. If one of the RINOs should accidentally speak out, they are attacked, and then they apologize. Palin stood her ground and was smarter than the whole lot of them.
  
  If not for her McCain, the moron, would have been beaten like rented mule.
  
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sparky239
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:55pm
I think it would be to Sarah’s political career to leave the RNC and join the independents party.I bet she would do better there,since the RNC has shot themselves in the foot and ruin that party…

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dodgedart1966
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:41pm
Sarah, file your papers for a national office run. Senate? House?
We need more people like you in office.

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Harry19
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:38pm
Sara is an American HERO. She did not kiss any -ss . She will be OK.

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labman57
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:27pm
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.

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JeffMT
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:24pm
Here’s a thought for you – this August will be Rush Limbaugh’s 25th anniversary on the radio. As long time and regular listeners of his have noticed, he is taking more time off than ever before. I would guess it is directly related to his new wife and her telling him he needs to be spending more time on things other than his radio show – namely her. There is nothing wrong with that at all and he has certainly earned more time to himself and his family. And most of his substitute hosts are bad, to say the least.

Palin is now out at Fox and will likely be looking for some other platform from which to continue to get out her conservative message and do so to large numbers of viewers/listeners/supporters/fans.

So, don’t be surprised if Limbaugh brings her in as some sort of permanent substitute host and the new host-in-waiting when he decides to retire. Since his 25th anniversary is only about 6 months away, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he makes some sort of announcement about his future plans this fall or by the end of the year at the latest. That would give he and Palin ample time to work out a deal and to start getting her on the air on his program on a regular basis for a trial period of six months or so to see how it works for both of them.

She would draw large audiences, she could do the show from Arizona or Alaska if she wanted to and it would certainly give her a strong platform from which to state her conservative views.

We’ll see!

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- Tankertony
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:00pm
  Rush has repeatedly said that he’ll continue his show until everyone agrees with him, or he assumes room temperature. I believe him.
  
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- JeffMT
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:39pm
  Yes, I have heard Rush say that many times also. But, things have seemingly changed with his priorities since his most recent (3rd or 4th) marriage. I don’t recall him starting a new business venture like Two If By Tea for any of his previous wives.
  
  I just sense that he is going to start transitioning out of full time radio but needs to find someone who wants to transition into full time radio at the same time. That other person also has to have the name recognition, conservative values/background, and radio personality to maintain his audience levels, which Palin does.
  
  Actually, I think she is the only one who could transition into Rush’s shoes but she would need some time to learn talk radio and what it takes to do a show for three hours every day – if that is what she decides she wants to do. I think she is done with politics for at least the next 10 years, until the 2024 election cycle, and maybe permanently. By then her special needs child will be 16-17 years old or so and presumably will need much less attention such that she would then have time to be a presidential candidate again. I think that is why she did not run in 2012 and won’t in 2016 or 2020.
  
  That, and the fact she is making millions of dollars a year just by being Sarah Palin. Why would she take that big of a pay cut to put up with all the grief she will get the second she re-enters the political arena, if she ever does. She’s a smart woman, despite what her haters say.
  
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Dkoonz
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:23pm
Good luck Sarah. I have nothing bad to say about her and i did enjoy watching her on fox.

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Wat Tyler
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:22pm
Apparently she isn’t neo-con Bilderberg JWO Wall Street enough for Murdoch and his stooges there at Fox News.

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KSperson
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:19pm
Oh well, FOX news is becoming one of the progressive stations. O’Riley has voted for Obama twice I never watch the network any longer! I have given up on the RINO’s they have nominated us two unelectable candidates!.

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- Wat Tyler
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:25pm
  Amen. Now the GOP is more RINO than ever. It’s now Democratic Party #1 and Democratic Party #2, with main emphasis being on rich people not paying taxes.
  
  What a losing platform. Soon it will go the way of the Whigs.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:31pm
  With her departure, it should be even easier for the sheep to see that Fox is a Tool of the DC establishment.
  
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