When Sarah Palin talks about media bias, she’s worth listening to.
The former Alaska governor, former Republican vice presidential candidate and current conservative commentator has been on the receiving end of establishment media attacks as much as any American besides former President Donald Trump.
And now, apparently, it’s Fox News’ turn to turn on her.
In an interview Friday with Newsmax host Eric Bolling (himself a former Fox News fixture) Palin described how her criticisms of Fox had reached a point where the “fair and balanced” network had simply decided not to have her around.
“As a matter of fact, Eric, thanks to you, I’ve lost another gig,” Palin said.
“It was just about a week or so ago, I was on your show … I told you what I thought about what Fox was doing.
“I had been booked by Fox for the next day, and a mutual friend of ours … had been listening. He texted right after my interview and he said, ‘OK, watch. In 3, 2, 1 … You’re gonna get canceled.’
“Yep! I got canceled from Fox and haven’t been invited back.”
Check out the whole interview here:
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Palin didn’t specify exactly what she said, but the liberal news site The Daily Beast speculated that it might have been comments she made on May 1 on Bollings’ program “The Balance.”
On that episode, Palin said Fox is no longer the outlet for conservatives it used to be, The Daily Beast reported, but was just one of “these corporate-owned, woke disconnected elites who call the shots in lamestream media and they look at us as just the peons, just the subjects.”
The network appears to be publicly shedding its conservative image — most notoriously by the still-unexplained termination of former Fox host Tucker Carlson on April 26.
The network has been in a decline ever since — and while a television audience can be a fluctuating matter, Palin said Fox is reaping the consequences it deserves.
“It’s not even economically smart, what they are doing. They’re losing audience, night after night after night …. People just want truth. They want facts,” she told Bolling.
“They don’t want that rehearsed [network] narrative via the talking points sent out by the Democrat Party. We know how this works, Eric.
“People just want who, what, where, when and why of journalism. I have a journalism degree. I started off my career as a reporter and as a sports reporter. I know how it’s supposed to work.”
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