For how can a headline such as this not gladden the glummest heart? From Huffpost:
Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is "Stupid"
The source is a cover story by Gabriel Sherman in this week's New York magazine about Roger Ailes, Fox News, and the loonies from loserville competing for the Republican nomination who are making Ailes look bad.
[W]ith a...presidential election on the horizon, the Fox candidates? poll numbers remain dismally low (Sarah Palin is polling 12 percent; Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively). Ailes?s candidates-in-waiting were coming up small. And, for all his programming genius, he was more interested in a real narrative than a television narrative?he wanted to elect a president. All he had to do was watch Fox?s May 5 debate in South Carolina to see what a mess the field was?a mess partly created by the loudmouths he?d given airtime to and a tea party he?d nurtured.
Of which there was no bigger loudmouth than Sarah Palin.
Ailes may be soft-boiled evil, but he's astute at gauging the wind currents.
Ailes began to doubt Palin?s political instincts. He thought she was getting bad advice from her kitchen cabinet and saw her erratic behavior as a sign that she is a ?loose cannon,? as one person close to him put it. A turning point in their relationship came during the apex of the media debate over the Tucson shooting. As the media pounced on Palin?s rhetoric, Palin wanted to fight back. She felt it was deeply unfair that commentators were singling her out. Ailes agreed but told her to stay out of it. He thought if she stayed quiet, she would score a victory.
?Lie low,? he told her. ?If you want to respond later, fine, but do not interfere with the memorial service.?
Palin ignored Ailes?s advice and went ahead and released her now-infamous ?blood libel? video the morning Obama traveled to Tucson. For Ailes, the move was further evidence that Palin was flailing around off-message. ?Why did you call me for advice?? he wondered out loud to colleagues.
It was the "blood libel" comment that sent Palin's poll numbers into "freefall, opening up spots in the batting order for Pizza Man and the sequel to Eyes of Laura Mars:
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/05/cannibalism--conservative-style.html
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