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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CowboyExpat
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:37pmI haven’t watched FOX in a while…. Sarah does her own thing and isn’t beholden to you, me or FOX.
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neverending
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:15pmThe statement from Bill Shines seems to tell the story – I sincerely doubt it was her that declined. I will believe that when I see it. She put a lot of negative on herself by going through all the motions and keeping the possibility of her making a run and then in the end backing out and that was after she said on several occasions she could be the sorry sob we are stuck with. If she is so strong and has the backbone to take on the msm and the establishment then my question has always been why did she decide against it. And no I don’t buy the crap about the lsm destroyed her – that is playing the victim and that is what the ******** do. She can probably still be effective but think we have far better choices – don’t know what will be left of this country by 2016 but guess we can hope we can somehow survive – never be the same – but somehow survive and she can go on with her book on fitness or whatever else she chooses.
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neverending
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:19pmcan I say liberals?
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Sharon Rose
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:09pmBest of luck to Sarah, a true patriot.
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sbgausa
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:06pmI really like Sarah Palin. I think she is beautiful, spirited, brave and strong. I think she is probably a lot braver than the Repubican party bigwigs and I think she has a lot more common sense than they do. I think she talks too much and doesn’t think carefully enough about what she says. I think the Republican party doesn’t care at all about conservatives but they absoutely THRIVE on whatever everyone else thinks of them. I think the Republican Party needs to hire a PR really smart and savvy team to reband them. I think with the right screen plays and writers they could brand their Republican politicians, some of them, in a survival type scenario pitted agains big government, the media, and public ignorance. I think with the right PR teams and messages this might actually help the Republican Party if those people have enough sense to even think about thinks. Please do!!!
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rfycom
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:06pmA now as a stomach turns. We see Sarah who petered out long ago crash and burn. This message was brought to you by Gold Rush,
Kathleen3
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:01pmFirst Beck, then Judge Napolitano, and now Sarah Palin. Still standing are the likes of Karl Rove, Bob Beckel, and Geraldo Rivera. For the past 5 years I’ve had FoxNews on 24/7. Today I tune in to FoxNews about every 24 days for 7 minutes.
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redrivergrl
Jan. 26, 2013 at 12:10amKathleen, I’m with you…Fox has changed. They scolded Beck for his reporting…on the left AND the right. Oh no, you can’t do that. Please! I’m tired of seeing the same pundits over and over. If they’re going to hire more progressives and let true conservatives go I don’t need em. I liked The Five at first but Beckel is ruining that too. He may just be one lib, but he’s an obnoxious one! When he talks about conservatives it’s alway nasty and I just don’t want to watch him anymore.You have Jesse Jackson’s daughter on there, Sally Kohn, who is a strait up George Soros protege’ , Beckel, Colmes, Kucinich, Jehma Greene, Juan Williams and I’m sure I’m leaving out several.
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cish60
Jan. 26, 2013 at 3:07pmJust about all I watch on FOX is The Five…and that’s only for cutie conservative Eric Bolling and funnyman Greg Gutfeld (though I don’t always understand his humor, I still think he rocks)!
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suzanne1229
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:57pmThe last 2 comments are just pathetic! What the hell is wrong with the Tea Party??? They are for lower taxes, smaller govt and biggest thing, fiscal responsibility. You who we have now is going to make things better???? If you do, i sure would like to know what kind of drugs you are taking because i would like to live in the fantasy world you 2 are so then i wont see our country going down the **** hole even farther. Take your jokes about Sarah and and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine!
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mecbb55
Jan. 26, 2013 at 10:22amlol…a little butthurt aren’t you?
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powedj
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:55pmHey Glenn, Sara is available. Hire her NOW!.
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Kathleen3
Jan. 25, 2013 at 11:01pmMy thought, exactly!
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wowjustwow
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:43pmIs she coaching girls’ basketball in Wasilla?
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flipper1073
Jan. 26, 2013 at 7:14amI Hear She pretty good at that TOO !
Along with her many other Accomplishments.
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mecbb55
Jan. 26, 2013 at 10:23amyeah, she just got threw the first few pages of “green eggs and ham” as well
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cbrian1978
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:40pmTo see all the negative comments regarding her not promoting Romney is disappointing. I thought for sure everyone had woke up and made the decision to seek out true leaders be it Libertarian or Conservative. I rather not vote and see Obama serve 1,000 years, with no blood on my hands, than make due and vote for a Rhino that is 6 degrees from Obama. Give me a true leader to vote for, or I stay home. I will not help destroy my country whether it be slowly by a Rhino, or quickly by a Liberal.
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bbyrdhouse
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:13pm@TOTO –
You are 100% correct FOX has consistently been going further and further left since before the 2008 elections.
I’ve only watched a couple programs in the last year because of this.
I so wish that Rush had a TV program … somewhere. I’d really like for him to start a ‘Rush TV” (similar to The Blaze TV).
The idiots over at FOX are not fooling anyone anymore … It is so obvious that they are Progressive Republicans.
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mecbb55
Jan. 26, 2013 at 10:26amRush has wanted to be on TV for years. Think about how often he discusses being fired from ESPN – and how much that still infuriates him. At the end of the day it never happened for him which is why he doesn’t support or speak highly of any conservatives on TV (Beck, Hannity, O’Reilly etc). He is 62 now and while he will prob be on radio till he diesa lot of his creative juices have been spent. Beck, on the other hand, is really hitting stride and I can’t see GBTV failing/going away anytime soon.
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revrnjim
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:05pmHere’s who Fox should get rid of: Imus, Colmes, Rivera, Jerrick, Rove, Williams, Crystal, Smith, Wallace, Henican, Kennedy, Ratner.
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bbyrdhouse
Jan. 25, 2013 at 10:14pm@REVRNJIM –
Right on … right on!
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sempek1
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:51pmPalin is a true victim. The republican bigwigs, to their peril, ignored her at their convention and LOST!!! Nearly everyone she has endorsed WON. I don’t know what part of success they don’t understand. Sarah is a star and would have made a fantastic V.P. not to mention she would have been a thousand times better leader than the sorry, arrogant, petulant little man we now have in the White House. She’s a person I admire and always will.
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redrivergrl
Jan. 26, 2013 at 12:13amThey also ignored Allen West! He needed their support and money to win that race and Soros was backing his opponet with big bucks…so was Pelosi and Boehner and McConnell did nothing…
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soybomb315_II
Jan. 26, 2013 at 1:39pmthey didnt ignore allen west….They flat out re-dicstricted him. They hate anyone associated with tea party
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redrivergrl
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:42pmI’d take Beck any day over Fox. I don’t want anyone looking out for me, that’s my job. O’Reilly prides himself on that and staying neutral. Beck told him a long time ago that everything Obama did was with a purpose and intentional. We have Beck to thank for getting Van Jones out of ‘our White House’. Sean continues to have the same people on week after week. Rove, Morris, McCain…always the established GOP. Done with that! I will give the Blaze a chance. He has big plans for a ’60 minutes type show as well as a ‘night-line’ show. Allen West is a frequent guest and he’s got lots of young talent to try to engage young people to our side. He knows that’s important. No one as BlazeTV except him and the viewers. No Rupert Murdoch who BTW as no clue what our 2nd amendment is about.
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loafer4952
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:42pmShame on Fox. She does tell it like it is.. Guess fox couldn’t stand the pressure
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tidyboyspike
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:37pmI think Glenn, you should hire Sarah…
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The Big Mick
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:29pmI concur with Soybomb at 8:19 “we don’t need no stinkin badges” That’s 50 points on the Big Mick Name That Classic Allusion Scoring list, SB, for the Treasure of Sierra Madre reference.
I agree too about a REAL Leader having Charisma in their Personality and Independence from Others’ Opinions in their thought. Perhaps the Greatest English Speaking Statesman that ever lived, Edmund Burke, once said to a group of voters: “Your representative owes you, not his industry [hard work and efffort] only, but also his judgement, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” The most endearing thing about SaraCuda is, as one Conservative Wag put it just after she was nommed: “She piszes off all the right people.”
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flipper1073
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:50pmI thought that was from Blazing Saddles
But then I’m having a little trouble following
everything you write.
Only thing I’m Sure of is WE’RE on the Same TEAM.
Sarah Palin is What America NEEDS !
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rick20033
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:28pmFox News backed Romney and he was ****-hurt by Palin’s OBVIOUS reluctance to endorse Romney while there remained any other options.
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Robert999
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:22pmI think that Palin is leaving Fox probably indicates she will be running for president in 2016. I sure hope so. If not, I hope Beck can find a place for her. With Glenn and Sarah working together against the Commies, the eventual victory of American patriots over those who are working to turn our beloved country into a Soviet slave state will be assured.
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The Big Mick
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:33pmI’m a ‘ Cuda Rootah, She’s got my vote. Only reason I voted for Mack The Knife the Anti-Conservative was SaraCuda on the ticket.
I figure if you want the head bitten off Nanny Sammy the Federal Sow, you get a Momma Grizzly.
If you want the Inside the Beltloop Ruling Class Aristos SHREDDED you get a SaraCuda.
I’m ALL about DISempowering DC and ‘Cuda has the virtue of, as John Cleese says in “Silverado” “not being from around these parts.”
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truthnstuff
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:19pmFOX seems to be going the way of the Pravda outlets. They don’t deny some sense of reason but looks like their pandering to the left loons. The only show I still look in on Bret Bair and a couple of the morning shows. We need a real conservative cable network that tells the truth without letting the left simply spew their lies.
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BenFrank1791
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:15pmI stopped watching Fox after the horrific election coverage by Megyn Kelly. Some corporate exec over at Fox just thinks she should be a star, and pushed her into a seat right next to Bret Baier. It was an embarrassment . Palin was right to leave Fox. Let’s face it without Krauthammer, there is nothing there.
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sheila0405
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:14pmSarah Palin will land on her feet. She’s very savvy about choosing the best venue for her message. In the end, I thought she was a bit repetitive. But I her all the best. There is certainly a need for a voice of “true” conservatism in the arena of public debate.
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sempek1
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:53pmI agree. Sarah would have made a fantastic V.P. or president. So much better than the little man who resides now in the White House. Sorry day for America!
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woowoo8
Jan. 25, 2013 at 9:04pmSarah Palin has the grit and tenacity of those brave souls that settled the Alaska wilderness.
They did not settle the frontier overnight; and Sarah Palin is now working beneath the radar more than ever. ” Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not grow weary.” Jesus said “Those that are filthy let them be filthy still. Those that are righteous let them be righteous still. God will separate the sheep from the goats.
God speed Sarah
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56survivor
Jan. 25, 2013 at 8:58pm“Never retreat….reload.”
“Keep your powder dry”.
“Always be locked and loaded”.
“GAME ON.”
–Sarah Palin
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redrivergrl
Jan. 25, 2013 at 8:57pmSoy, I also wouldn’t bring the Mormon thing into it…that had nothing to do with it.
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soybomb315_II
Jan. 26, 2013 at 7:30amBeck and Romney belong to the same close-knit church. Because they are such big figures, they both probably know the same people in the highest circles of that church. I can find ZERO reason why someone like Glenn Beck would give Romney cover during the primary and not talk about Romney’s progressivism after talking about how bad Gingrich and Ron Paul are……
Do you have an alternative explanation? Unless you have a theory, i am going to go with elementary, watson
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flipper1073
Jan. 26, 2013 at 9:53amSOY
Wait a minute I’m of the same Religion as Glenn an Mitt.
Doesn’t Mean I can’t Spot a Progressive a Mile Away.
I have followed Newt Gingrich since the 80′s.
He was to the Right of Ronald Reagan !
He passed the only Ballenced Budget in My Lifetime.
Newt is an always has been a strong voice for Conservatism.
Not a Fan of his personal Life but hey everyone makes Mistakes.
an People in Powerfull Positions seem to make the Most.
Powerfull People took Newt out after South Carolina.
an Sarah’s half-hearted Endorsement.
The Establishment Republicans saw the Conservatives Gaining Ground.
an had to put a Stop to it at All costs.
They Nailed that Coffin Shut Latter at the RNC Convention.
Just My Prospective for what it’s worth.
back to the Subject at Hand;
Sarah Palin / Rand Paul 2016
that would Scare the Liberals Plumb to Death .
You Betcha !
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soybomb315_II
Jan. 26, 2013 at 1:41pmBeck and Romney were in cahoots….I laid out my theory. I dont know of any other explanation cuz as you said, Newt Gingrich had the 2nd best record as a conservative in Washington (Ron Paul obviously had the best record).
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