by:Duane Lester
"Some things...that I haven't talked about publicly..."
Her sudden exit surprised quite a few people, yet there was never an explanation why she was let go from her role as a contributor to Fox News. Now the former governor of Alaska says she has an idea why her job was eliminated.
Speaking to the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Palin said she was fired because she “called someone out.”
She was on CBN to discuss her new book, “Sweet Freedom: A Devotional” when the discussion turned to her abrupt dismissal from the leading cable news outlet in June of this year.
“Some things happened that I haven’t talked about publicly, mentioned a little bit about them in the book, things like getting canned from a job I really liked, kinda sort of out of the blue, because I called somebody out,” she said.
Quite a few are assuming that “someone” is none other than Megyn Kelly, who Palin took to task for her interview with the Duggar girls.
“These girls are being re-victimized, for shame on the media for, under the guise of ‘Hey, gotta let them have their say anyway. Let’s interview them and put them there, back into the fire, and let them explain,’” Palin said on Fox News’ “Hannity.” “They’re innocent! And these girls, yeah so humiliated.”
As Talking Points Memo pointed out, the only “media” that interviewed the girls was Fox News. Talking down Kelly’s work could have been enough to give Palin the boot. She told CBN it took her by surprise.
“It was a shock, but more power to Fox News. As a private enterprise they can fire somebody for wearing the wrong color tie that day,” she explained. “I have a great relationship with them. It was just kind of a little bit of a shocker of knowing that the haters are going to love this one.”
When Palin was kicked to the curb by Fox News executives a few months ago, People magazine dug into the dismissal and reported: “Fox has yet to provide a reason for her termination, but a source not at Fox who had worked closely with Palin in the past tells PEOPLE that ‘she [can be] a nightmare’ to work with and that she was often ‘paranoid that everyone had an agenda against her, even the people who were there expressly to make her look good.'”
The source adds that Palin “was rude and a diva, and thought that everyone else paled in comparison to her intelligence and savvy.”
[oped: The same can be said of Diva Megyn Kelly and Bill O'reilly]
BizPac Review reports that Fox News declined to comment, but a spokesman did direct them to an article which said Palin’s contract was just not renewed. A story at Politico reported that “executives consider her less relevant now, and her appearances were sometimes hampered by the vast time difference with Alaska.”
While that’s the official line, many people then, and still today, believe Palin’s correct when she claims she was fired for challenging the work of Fox News star Megyn Kelly.
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