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Behind-the-Scenes Video: Fox News Colleagues Mocking Sarah Palin

Posted on | November 16, 2010 | 17 Comments

Fox News pays Sarah Palin as a contributor to their network. And apparently to be “fair and balanced,” they also pay Judith Miller and Liz Trotta to make fun of Sarah Palin:

Read the story at The American Spectator.

UPDATE: Here’s what was said:

LIZ TROTTA: “Alessandra Stanley [of the New York Times] had the best line [in her Nov. 11 review]. She said the new [Palin TLC] show was like ‘The Sound of Music’ without the Nazis, without the romance and without the music.”

JUDITH MILLER (laughing): ”Oh, the Washington Post hated it, too . . . [Post TV critic Hank Steuver] said [Palin has] the kind of sound of a voice when warning you to heed the bears – it would actually scare the bears. . . . He said you just get the sense that all she’s waiting for when she’s looking at this great outdoors is to get back to her SUV for enough bars to send out her latest twitter about the beauty of the environment.”

OK, that’s what was said during the commercial break. Here’s what was said when the show came back on the air:

SCOTT: She has gotten a lot of heat for that new show. Some lefty groups, Ellis, are pushing Discovery Communications to pull the plug. How about at that for freedom of speech?
[ELLIS] HENICAN: Strategic misstep on the part of the lefty groups, as you mentioned. Let the woman talk. Believe me, the more she talks, the better off they are.
(LAUGHTER)
[JON] SCOTT: Interesting that some of these folks who don’t like her — I mean, she puts eyeballs in front of television sets, right?
MILLER: Yeah, and she got a network to pay her a million dollars per episode to do this. But I found the most interesting review to come from Karl Rove, who is not exactly a left wing lunatic, who said this is not going to advance her presidential prospects. This doesn’t make her look presidential. I’d listen to Karl.
TROTTA: And the numbers keep going down every time she makes appearance, her popularity numbers. You have to keep track of those. The more you see her, the less you like her. And overexposure is something the Democrats have to pray for.
SCOTT: So you think that –
TROTTA: Plus the fact that they can bank on the timidity of most men, who are so absolutely spooked by feminism that they’re afraid to criticize her.
HENICAN: Give her something on the Cartoon Network.

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Comments

  • Lurker

    It’s okay, only old hags Miller and Trotta

    I’d be sad if it was someone like Megyn Kelly

  • http://twitter.com/ctiberius Chris Lockhart

    The fact that Judith Miller called it a “Twitter” reveals how in-touch they are with outside-the-bubble.

  • Herbjr1o

    Lets get them two fired LOL 2 old BITCHES and I wouldn’t listen to Karl ROVE because the person he help get into office f’ed up the economy and got the country going in downfall……and Obama putting the cherry on top!!!

  • Guest

    FOX can hire Cher to comment on the commentators. It’s all interesting in a stupid kind of way.

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  • Malclave

    “This doesn’t make her look presidential.”

    Someone proud of her state… how unpresidential! We need someone ashamed of the U.S. in the White House, who can be depended upon to go around the world apologizing!

  • Anonymous

    Or better yet: Report a state to the UN for human rights violations.

    This president is really treasonous in his actions … Sigh

  • Whipplejohn82

    Two cackling hens!

  • thirteen28

    You know libs are desperate when they start listening to Karl “Tokyo: Rove.

  • TR Sterling

    Consider: Judith Miller, Peggy Noonan, Kathy Parker, Liz Trotta, Sarah Palin. Which woman has made over $15 million on TV and books recently? Which woman was a major force in changing the politcal landscape in the Congress of the USA recently? Which woman can fill an auditorium with thousands of people just ot hear her speeches? Need we go on?

  • http://www.goldfishandclowns.com Jerry Wilson/Goldfish & Clowns

    How fitting one of them is wearing green.

    Bet they though Reagan was nothing more than “Bedtime for Bonzo” too.

  • http://www.singleissuezealot.com Loren Ibsen

    Did you catch Pinkerton? “What media bias?”

    Funny how the chicks want to snipe, Pinkerton wants no part, dude on the left looks uncomfortable and metro-Roger Sterling joins right in the laughter.

    Loren Ibsen

  • TR Sterling

    Hey Loren, Did your Grandad Henrick write a cool play about a wild duck?

  • Lesperado

    Yep… and the Nazi party had loads of followers too.
    Doesn’t make her smart. Doesn’t make her qualified to run for president. (Personally I want a president who has more than a BA degree in journalism after attending 5 different colleges.)
    Palin has ushered in the Great American Dumbing Down.

    Peggy Noonan has more smarts than all those women put together.

  • TR Sterling

    Lespo, I think you missed my point about the viewpoint of the clucking hens (Jerry put it well, that is they are green with envy).

  • Anonymous

    So sad. I am embarrassed for my gender. Miller is the personification of the ‘Mean Girls’ Hollywood stereotype.

    Judith, let me offer you a clue: disagree with her policy positions or political philosophy only. You degrade yourself and your argument when you indulge in petty bitchiness. Other than Liz, the rest of the on-air personalities, including left Hennican, looked very uncomfortable.

    You have revealed yourself to be petty, vapid, and quite possibly jealous. Worse, there was not a soupçon of wit in your remarks. For shame.

  • Anonymous

    Look how stupid you are. You went straight for the Nazi reference. Now your stupidity is on public display for thousands of people to point and laugh at.

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