Fox News chief, Roger Ailes, spoke at the University of North Carolina to a group of journalism students last week. He said during that speech that "Sarah Palin had no chance of being president". Can you believe that someone at Fox News is speaking ill of a ratings-maker like Palin?
This isn't the first time Ailes has spoken in a derogatory manner about Palin. He said in 2011 that he hired her because she was "hot and got ratings". He also called her "dumb" and an "idiot", according to an anonymous source close to Ailes.
Palin isn't going to take this laying down. She has fired back in an interview with Breitbart.com where she asks the interviewer to send a copy of The Undefeated to Ailes. The film is a documentary about Sarah Palin's life. As if the world needed more of the same information that was spewed during the 2008 campaign, that has been published in her books, and revealed during her reality TV shows. It's a bit redundant at this point.
Why isn't she leaving Fox or at least taking issue with the sexism at Fox? Fox always has some pretty bimbo thrown in the mix, apparently for ratings from their small-minded viewers.
To make peace, Ailes clarified his statement as saying that when he hired his Republican commentators, none had any possibility of becoming president at that time. He goes on to give her false hope by saying she's young and that "nobody can predict the future".
America can only hope that this is a sign that Palin's rhetoric is fading and losing ground with anyone of relative intelligence. Until then, Republicans will continue to talk about Palin's good looks and empty head.
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Comments: 96 ( 2 removed by Lora Covrett )
Most people have gotten over it. Not Lora.
Her boss says he hired her because she's "hot".
And a very typical response on here to articles about Palin are about her looks. This post is the only one that even mentions looks yet her male supporters bring that up FIRST and then all this loving her country crap second.
Very fitting picture, indeed.
(1) She majored in journalism but there’s no evidence that she ever wrote anything.
Writing is a highly g-loaded task, so the lack of anything that she’s written could indicate her inability to write at a competent level.
(2) She had to hire an administrator to run the “city” of Wasilla.
Indicates she wasn’t smart enough to run the city herself?
(3) Interest in evangelical Christianity.
People who believe in the literal word of the Bible and get into evangelical Christianity are, on average, less intelligent than mainline Protestants.
(4) No intellectual hobbies.
Smart people have intellectual hobbies. Sarah likes to hunt moose.
(4) Proleness
I find this to be the most compelling indicator that Sarah’s IQ isn’t much higher than the minimum required to graduate from the University of Idaho. Social class is highly correlated with IQ. This correlation is much higher than the correlation between income and IQ or between income and class.
Both of Sarah’s parents are school teachers, the quintessential middle class jobs, but Sarah has clearly sunk to prole. Her husband hasn’t graduated from college, Track is not going to college, and Bristol gives no indication of being college-bound. Track getting arrested, and Bristol getting pregnant at 17 are markers of being prole rather than middle class.
taken from: http://www.halfsigma.com/2008/09/sarah-palins-iq-no-higher-than-110.html
I'm almost half curious as to who else you consider "a smart" person... Bachmann? Angle?
....geniuses I tell ya.....
lol
It's funny how you can smell desperation even through the rantings and insults of someone online. Psychology in motion without even having to be face to face with someone.
I'm sure there's a really good meme for this... but it would probably be wasted.
At any rate @Lora this was a great post, and I've stumbled it. I'm going to leave this post though as the level of intelligent conversation has died down to where you and I are about all that's left in the discussion. I've stumbled the post and "liked" it though.
Keep up the great work covering the stories you cover! Always a fan :)
She thinks her mother-in-law was not capable of beating her competitor?! Why the hell does she think she is so much better than her mother-in-law? She married that woman's son!
She's an idiot.
Just because you speak badly of the left and right does not make you have a "position".
I have a position and it's firmly on the left.
Don't take it out on me.
Palin is an idiot. She is where she is ONLY because of her looks. And they ain't that great...in fact, she loses appeal with intelligent people as soon as she starts talking.
The fact that her own employer thinks she's an idiot just goes to prove my point.
I looked at your posts --- these are posts with Obama's name in the title -- all within the past 30 days. And I didn't see any "nice" posts. Particlulary not in your "talking to the tree about conservative concerns" post.
Is Obama Just Brain-Dead?
Who the Hell is Barack Hussein Obama (A Needed Rant)
Obama OKs Oil Exploration Along Atlantic Coast, But Not Drilling
Obama Is Using Power That Is Not Granted To Him...Congress Simply Allows It
This Is Why We Should Not Trust Obama...Or, Any Other President...
Like I said, you can dish it out, but you can't take it. You make posts all month long that are critical of the president but if someone criticizes one of your conservative mouth pieces, you get your panties in a twist.
Double standard.
I am simply trying to educate those that follow her blindly. My hope, that some of you realize she is poison and you quit sending her money, quit going to see her and quit buying her merchandise. She's a phony.
It's taking me forever to get through her damn book -- it's torture. But, I like to know what I'm talking about so I am going to read on. (BTW - I only paid $1 so I don't think she profited from me purchasing her book. There's no way I would have paid full price for it.)
When I finish Palin's "Going Rogue", I intend to start on Romney's.
Know thine enemy!
There's not one word of truth in your posts. They are all conservative propaganda.
So, I'll go back and read your posts about our President. We can pick the conversation up there when I comment?
No I didn't read every word but what I did read sounded like typical right-wing rhetoric.
I will go back and read them completely. If I am wrong or I think you have any valid points, I'll say so.
Let's face facts though - we are on opposite sides of the spectrum here and we're not likely to agree. But I am willing to read through them and see what you have to say -- really see what you have to say.
The same criteria is applied to applicants in strip clubs.
Like I said, I'm reading her book. When she was first elected Mayor, the whole town was against her. Why do you suppose that is?
And her "explanations" about things she was vilified for, don't add up.
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''The One & Only BERF .. Apr 16, 2012, 7:55pm EDT
I guess this is one woman y'all don't mind there being a "war" against......
Now as far as Sarah resigning as Governor, we all know that Alaskan law allows any a-hole to lodge a meritless ethics charge without a speck of evidence, which forces the person being accused, to have to hire a lawyer to defend themselves. Sarah was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt with no end in sight. Of course, every single charge was found to be baseless and not a single charge ended in a single conviction. But, that's just what a-hole activists do, they act like a-holes.
For me it just as amusing to watch the lefties support the teleprompter reading, empty suit as if he was something special.
Wow.
So, John Macain, a war hero picks a female to run on his ticket and finds out when the rest of the country does that she is bat shit crazy, and deals with foreign countries from her front porch.
Can you beleive this. and to think, Sonny sixkiller had to go to Canada to play football!!! What was Macain thinking???
Albright speaks 7 languages fluently.
Clinton and Albright together have a higher IQ than the entire Republican party. Criticize their looks all day long. The country isn't run on looks and looks don't pay the bills -- unless you're a stripper, I guess. Palin should give that a try.
But, I do believe that many of those of the male persuasion only like her because they think she's hot. Put Whoopi Goldberg's face on her and suddenly the Palin stock plummets.
What I mean there is picture Whoopi saying all the things Palin says and does -- you still think Palin's great?
Scott, couldn't say it better myself. I do feel for those deluded left wingers. I used to be one, but then I grew up and got a job and worked for a living. That's all it takes for one to come to the right. The Libs have to get off the government "teat" and quit thinking the government owes them a life when they need to get their own life and go out and work for a living.
If I owned a strip club, I would be offering her major money to make an appearance. She wouldn't even have to get naked and the club would have record profits because facts are facts, she's just a pretty face with nothing between her ears and men LOVE that.
Are you kidding me?! I'm about 60 pages into her book and she's just as idiotic as I thought she was. I started reading it just to see if perhaps she WAS smarter than I gave her credit....nope.
I'd be happy to provide you with an autographed copy of my book when it's finished. :)
She doesn't sound looney to me...That statement indicates that she understands something most in Washington do not...
Bottom line is, those who hate Sarah Palin so much represent Communism. She apposes everything they are. EVERYTHING
It is not a wise person who attempts to speak to the attributes of a person whom he apparently does not really know. Nor, is it wise to attempt to defend a person on her intellectual standards and obtained knowledge which is on record as being indefensible.
It is also not wise to attack others who have an opposing view of something or someone than you, by accusing those adversaries of being "Communist". Doing so, can result in people such as me challenging your charges with known facts. Which then, only makes you as well as the indiviual you support, look ridiculous in the eyes of others reading your post.
The fact is, you can not oppose nor hate (as you claim Sarah Palin does) something which you do not mentally nor literally understand nor have knowledge thereof.
{i.e.} Sarah Palin has made the following inaccurate statements concerning foreign countries and communism.
1) Korea is a communist country (wrong, South Korea is a democratic country)
2) Russia is a communist country (wrong, it is a democratic country)
3) Cuba is a communist country (wrong, it is a socialist country)
Now, for the record, I do not dislike Sarah Palin, I only dislike and disagree with what she stands for as a fabricated, dishonest and insincere politician. Further, I honestly believe that she is/was neither educationally nor literary qualified for any of the present nor past jobs which she has been able to rangle her way into in her adult life. (other than motherhood, which she appears to have been fairly good at) She is very adept and conning at selling herself well. Unfortunately for her, it does not take one long to see through her false facade of mental comprehension and into a head full of confusion and the far less than normally obtained adult intelligence. Mental traits which would be expected of a prominent and supposedly experienced politician.
Her present boss and benefactor said it well "She is Hot, but Stupid "