How Ugly Will Be The Sarah Palin-Fox News Break Up and How Soon?
By Auntie Em at NEWSHOUNDS
October 3, 2011
A recent headline at Crooks and Liars was guaranteed to catch my attention: “Palin Now Feuding With Juan Williams and Megyn Kelly,”
written by Tina Dupuy. It’s similar to some of what we do here at News
Hounds: it’s a few words to introduce a video clip, in this case one of
Lawrence O’Donnell from MSNBC. However, it dovetails nicely with a
hilarious and insightful post on Depuy’s blog I read about a year ago titled “Sarah Palin: America’s Full-Time Professional Duelist” in which she pegged The Quitter From Wasilla better than anyone else has, before or since:
“In fact, Palin is now our nation’s only full-time professional
duelist. She fights with everyone. Her entire post-quitting career is
centered on flame wars, most of which she starts. They are often petty,
sanctimonious, trumped-up jabs which do nothing but make the media talk
about her more. And she’s monetized the drama. She’s gone pro. Yes,
she’s found the formula Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian pioneered:
shameless and shallow sells.” Written eleven months ago,
nothing Sarah Palin has done or said has changed that impression. All
Dupuy has had to do is maintain her “Sarah Palin’s Enemies List,”
a compendium of all the feuds (whether one-sided or not) that Palin has
engaged in since she left Alaska in the lurch. That list now stands at
92 and, amazingly, has grown by two since I began this article!!!
The O’Donnell clip is about Palin’s feuds with Megyn Kelly and Juan
Williams, coming in on Dupuy’s list at numbers 89 and 90 respectively.
Palin using Fox “News” to engage in her petty feuds is nothing new.
What is new, however, is that her feuds are now with other Fox “News”
personalities.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/44737976#44737976
What’s really bothering Palin is that she’s no longer being given a
pass by Williams and Kelly. Previously her colleagues on The Five admitted to going easy on her so they’re not uncomfortable if they happen to run into her in the hallway (which they tried to take back as a joke
after the Blogosphere pointed out their hypocrisy). In fact Palin
actually told Judge Napalitano, “I think it’s nasty when a colleague
[Williams] takes a shot [at me] when they don’t know what they’re
talking about.” She told Greta Van Susteren, that Megyn Kelly was
pushing misinformation when, in fact, Kelly accurately summed up a
recent political poll that had Palin at the bottom. Increasingly Palin
is being shown as the lead character in a modern day remake of “The
Empress Has No Clothes If She Ever Did.” O’Donnell notes that Palin is
on very “thin ice” over at Fox.
O’DONNELL: Roger Ailes knows how to protect his
valuable talent. He wouldn’t be allowing Fox News to be getting all
“fair and balanced” on Sarah Palin, even for a minute, if he cared about
protecting Palin’s long-term value to the network. Roger Ailes has a
very good feel for when the Fox News Players are moving from just being
unfair and unbalanced to being utter absurdities. Just ask Glenn Beck.”
However, the Glenn Beck removal was done cleanly, with a minimum of
bloodletting. At the end of October, when it’s revealed that Palin will
not be a presidential candidate, her value to Fox “News” will be
practically nil. With Fox “News” personalities already taking shots at
Palin—and Palin already taking shots right back at some of the Foxers—a
Palin-Fox feud seems likely. The biggest downside for Palin? She'll
have to rely on other networks to spread her venom. If they refuse all
she'll have left are her laughable facebook and Twitter blasts. If Fox
"News" is the GOP Special Victims Unit,
Sarah Palin is Captain of the precinct. Considering how quickly Palin
creates a grudge, how long she holds them, and how the Palin-bots tend
to respond to her enemies, this feud could get ugly fast. Pass the
popcorn.******************
Lawrence O'Donnell explained what the hell Sarah Palin was talking about the other
day on Greta. Apparently she's miffed at Megyn Kelly for telling the
truth about where Palin is in the polls. Oh and then there was calling
out her colleague on Fox News, Juan Williams for calling Herman Cain the
"flavor of the month." It's like junior high only with more tooth
whitener and hairspray.
Look, here's the thing: this is all Palin does. She's a petty, myopic
mean girl who wants nothing more than to lash out at people she thinks
have done her wrong. She's has one trick and this is it.
I compiled a list of Palin's feuds. Here it is. I'm now adding these two. So the list is up to 90 entries and it's only getting funnier.
- I posted the list that is linked above, for ease. You can click on any of these names to find the story behind it.
- David Letterman
- Wall Street Journal/Sudeep Reddy
- Senator Lisa Murkowski (R)
- Levi Johnston
- Shannyn Moore
- Katie Couric
- Nicolle Wallace
- Kate Gosselin
- The Fed/Ben Bernanke
- Pete Rouse
- Joe McGinniss
- Peggy Noonan
- Ashley Judd
- Congressman Spencer Bachus (R)
- Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten
- Joe Miller
- Politico
- Karl Rove
- State Department (Ahmadinejad’s birthday)
- Rahm Emanuel
- Family Guy/Seth MacFarlane
- Michelle Obama
- President Barack Obama
- Kathleen Gustafson
- Brian Williams
- Emily’s List
- Ed Gillespie
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
- Environmentalists
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R)
- Michael J. Gross
- Vice President Al Gore
- Maureen Dowd
- Bloggers
- Rachel Maddow
- 60 Minutes
- Mark Halperin
- John Heilemann
- Nick Denton/Gawker
- Barbara Bush
- U.S. Export Import Bank
- Blogger Jesse Griffin
- Blogger Dennis Zaki
- Andrew Sullivan/The Atlantic
- Keith Olbermann
- CSU students AKA “Dumpster Divers” Ashley Briggs and Alicia Lewis
- Blogger Jeanne Devon
- Palingates
- Linda Kellen Biegel AKA Celtic Diva
- Oliver Stone
- John Bitney
- Senator Scott Brown (R)
- Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green
- Andree McLeod
- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
- PolitiFact
- Bill Ayers
- Secretary Madeleine Albright
- Senator John Kerry (D)
- Jonathan Martin
- NPR
- Congressman Alan Grayson (D)
- Stephen Colbert
- Helen Thomas
- PETA
- Anchorage Daily News
- Kim Chatman
- Julian Assange
- Frank Gwartney
- Aaron Sorkin
- Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan
- Charles Krauthammer
- Rick Santorum
- TIME Magazine
- Westboro Baptist Church
- Michael Moore
- Taegan Goddard
- Kathy Griffin
- Governor Chris Christie (R)
- Hacker David Kernell
- Daily Caller/Chris Moody
- AOL
- Rapper Common
- Governor Mitt Romney
- Megyn Kelly
- Juan Williams
- Herman (Herb) Cain
Honorable mentions (by popular demand): William Shakespeare, President Ronald Reagan, President John F. Kennedy, American Idol contestants, that Caribou, the First Amendment and Paul Revere.
These are media feuds former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has
participated in from the last two years since she was launched from
obscurity. It should be noted they’re in no particular order. I’ve also
omitted people who just jab at her without her responding (e.g. Meghan
McCain) but those are rare.This is a work in progress – including typos. Check back as more
names are added. When I originally published the list in November there
were under 50 names. I’ve added more as people have sent me more names
that qualify. And then of course, she starts new ones. And then I add
those.This list started as an overflow of names that couldn’t fit into my column: America’s Full-Time Professional Duelist
Know of a feud I missed? Send me an email.
UPDATE – January 8, 2011: In the wake of the shooting in Arizona of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, it needs to be clarified that this list is of the media feuds
Palin has been involved in. The list of 20 congresspeople Palin had on
TakeDownthe20.com with riflescope graphics over their districts
(including Giffords) is not this list. That graphic has been scrubbed from Palin’s site and still available here.UPDATE – March 30, 2011: I’m thinking of calling this the Palin Squrimishes List.
Posted 1 year ago #2 votes of thanksDoes Palin even have any friends other than Greta?
Posted 1 year ago #No, but theirs is a very special friendship. Even 'the dudes' like each other.
Posted 1 year ago #Isn't that special. (-:
Posted 1 year ago #Great article, btw.
Posted 1 year ago #I'm sure that is a big part of the attraction. :-)
Posted 1 year ago #Uh-oh.
Posted 1 year ago #WHAT NEXT?
Posted 1 year ago #Great article...
Posted 1 year ago #Reply
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