Sarah Palin Slips Back Into The Shadows Where Some Say She Belongs
Before McCain picked her up as his running mate back in 2008 not many people had heard of Governor Sarah Palin from Alaska. Shortly afterwards we would come to realize that we wouldn’t be hearing of anything but Sarah Palin. From her teenage daughter’s pregnancy to a lost election and even a reality show. Palin took the U.S. by storm and whether you liked it or not, she was not going anywhere. She even signed a contract with Fox News to be a contributor and was paid $1 million a year. Now that the steam has started to run out it seems that Palin’s 15 minutes of fame are ending.
“People loved her. People hated her. She had transcended the narrow bounds of politics to become a larger-than-life figure, the woman portrayed by Tina Fey, the mama grizzly from Alaska. Every journalist in the country knew that if you put Palin’s name in an online headline or television segment, your clicks and ratings would soar.
Little wonder that Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes rushed to sign her as a million-dollar-a-year contributor and built a modern studio for Palin in her Wasilla home.
By the time word trickled out Friday that Palin’s contract would not be renewed, the reaction was a collective shrug. Her moment had passed. And therein lies a lesson — about the fleeting nature of fame but also about the nature of media commentary.
The exiled-politician-turned-pundit has been a growing staple of cable news. CNN began the tradition by returning Pat Buchanan to “Crossfire” in between his presidential runs. MSNBC is packed with such Democratic figures as Al Sharpton, Ed Rendell and Howard Dean.
And for a time as the 2012 campaign approached, the Fox payroll included no fewer than four potential presidential candidates: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Palin. The former vice-presidential nominee was both newsmaker and news commentator, staging a New Hampshire bus tour in the summer of 2011 to flirt with the idea of making a White House bid, though it was all for show.”
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Good riddance !
Bernice
January 29, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Good-bye mama grizzly…….
AMAZINGGRACE
January 29, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Glad she is gone, she is now where she needs to stay, although I hear they don’t really want her back there either, except her relatives. I got one for her, like to see her run as “Bear Catcher.”
Ann G.
January 29, 2013 at 11:42 pm
I’d rather see her as bear bait.
matt carmody
January 29, 2013 at 11:54 pm
Let’s hope when she climbs out from under the bus Ailes threw her she’s directly in the path of a bus with brake trouble.
matt carmody
January 29, 2013 at 11:52 pm
Good bloody riddance she had now business being in politics to begin with.
marcus davis
January 30, 2013 at 12:03 am
Hopefully she’s not taking this time to “reload” and then come back again to run for the Presidency in 2016.
wanda
January 30, 2013 at 12:45 am
I don’t get it, that woman has none nothing to anyone, she hasn’t hurt neither you nor I. I’m not a fan but I do respect her for being able to do all that she has, for goodness sake she was the governor of a state, she ran for the vice presidency of the United States, now compare her resume’ to yours.
How is it if someone simply runs for office in a different party we have to hate on and degrade them. I don’t know why you think the Dem’s will be in office forever, before this year is out President Obama will be called a lame duck. I understand no one holds a grudge like black folks, and that’s why we are still in the position were in as a people; We don’t understand that knowledge is power and knowledge can may you rich. But rather than speaking truth to power, we mouth here say, or mouth something from an opinion formed and based upon false assumptions.
That’s why we always get what we deserve nothing! You lemming you!
Onesilverbac
January 30, 2013 at 1:28 am
I agree with you 100%, all that hating is ridiculous and it’s a known fact hatred ONLY HURTS the HATER! So they can continue their political leanings and see where it takes them. Until some things in the black community change we as a people aren’t going anywhere but don’t tell the haters that, they think it’s the right thing to do. They simply follow white liberals wherever they lead them. They didn’t know to hate Sarah Palin until white people on the left told them they should hater her. She has not and did not do anything to blacks. She simply exercised her right to run for office when she was chosen.
RobNclt
January 30, 2013 at 7:04 pm
Senator McCain chose her as his running mate…This should really tell you something about McCain.
He is trying to hold Hillary accountable as though she caused the deaths of some US Citizens in Benghazi. He continues to be a sore thumb as a Senator and appears to be extrememly bitter. He needs to retire. He was a captured in a war and became a POW and some people appear to like him and allowed him entry to be a Senator and now it is time for him to step down. He is tripping too much.
I, too saw all this fame with Sarah and her family and I thought it appeared to be more lie a sequel to The Beverly Hill Billies. Sarah was Ellie Mae and her husband was more like Jethro.
She is gone and she will not be back. I am still concerned why she had maps with arrows pointing towards certain cities and then one particular map and one city you had a person with a weapon that went and killed several people and Sarah Palin was never held accountable for it. Oh, McCain said nothing to her..Hillary did not have a map nor did Hillary make comments like Sarah…
Toni
January 30, 2013 at 2:52 am
Palin’s face was her fortune.If she was considered attractive her 15 minutes would have been cut to seven. Did you hear anyone praise her intellegence? he compassion, or courage? Granted she has some brass balls and had made a lot of money telling people on the right the world sucks .
fred 5399
January 31, 2013 at 1:51 pm
I wonder if a network would give a black women with the same
intellectual limitations and exspouse the same venom as Palin a million dollars, am just asking?
GW
February 1, 2013 at 2:17 pm
Names like SARAH PALIN and RUSH LIMBAUGH should be eraced from the minds of men for ever.The same as JOHN MC CLAIN.
Haile
February 3, 2013 at 8:00 pm