“Fox’s Roger Ailes says he hired me ‘to piss off the people that wanted her dead,’” Palin posted on her Facebook page Wednesday. “Hmmm. Funny. I accepted for the same reason!”
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin quoted Fox News’ chairman in revealing what prompted her return to the network.
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In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday, Ailes was asked why he brought Palin back “just a few months after not renewing her contract.”
He began by acknowledging her bad press, saying:
The only two people I knew who got worse press than her were Richard Nixon and George W. Bush — some of it unfairly, much of it unfair to her family. She’s recognizable, she’s attractive, and she still has the message of stop raising taxes. The Tea Party started as a group that [the government] could make go home to bake meatloaf at any point in the last three years by simply doing two things: Stop raising taxes and stop stealing their money. Congress can’t stop spending money. I’m not a defender of everything she says. I don’t hear everything she says. But I know she represents a certain group of people who rose up against their own party, which you rarely see.
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