Fox News has caught the ire of some political commentators after its decision to dismiss Tucker Carlson last week. Former Fox News contributor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin took aim at the way the network operates and shared an anecdote of her time there.
During an appearance on Eric Bolling The Balance on Newsmax Monday, Palin claimed that when she “got canned” by the network in 2015, no one from the network ever reached out to her.
“I don’t want to interject any of my bias in the way that they operate, but I will tell you one thing about the way they operate,” Palin said. “When I was informed that I was no longer working for them, I wasn’t even informed! They didn’t have the guts to call me. They called my now ex-husband. And I thought that was really weird and weak. And I just said I wouldn’t speak ill of them, but I just spoke ill of them, yes.”
Palin’s comments came after she said Fox News and other “woke, disconnected elites who call the shows in lame-stream media” have underestimated the size and scale of what American news media consumers are looking for.
The former Alaska Governor worked as a contributor to Fox News from 2010 to 2015, before the network severed ties with her. She was hired by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, who once claimed “I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings”. The two had a tumultuous relationship, that included Palin claiming she felt “uncomfortable” during a meeting with the disgraced former executive.
Bolling –a former Fox News host who departed the network after sexual harassment allegations he has continually denied — argued that the network “always represented a gamut of conservative voices”, but has now “gotten greedy” by trying to court a wider audience by shifting to the left.
