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Fox News reveals why they really hired Sarah Palin - VIDEO

Palin was hired because she is ‘hot’ says

DARA KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Thursday, October 6, 2011, 8:57 AM

Updated Thursday, October 6, 2011, 10:20 AM

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Fox News hired former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin not because of her intellectual ability or integrity, but because she is easy on the eyes.

“I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings,” Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News declared in a recent interview with Frazier Moore of the Associated Press.

“It was a risky move,” Ailes recalls.

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Palin, the 2008 Republican running-mate of John McCain, signed a multi-year contract with the conservative cable channel in 2010. There has been much speculation about her running for president in 2012.

Ailes went on to explain why Fox News has dominated cable news for so long.
"The consistency of our product," Ailes sums up.

"I think we do better television than the other guys, and no matter how we do it, they don't seem to catch up. We seem to out-invent them and think ahead of them, and have better story ideas, better graphics, better on-air talent. We just are better television producers."

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AengusOg | Oct 06, 2011, 08:30 PM EDT

Since all the other articles are on an Irish topic.

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AengusOg | Oct 06, 2011, 08:02 PM EDT

Perusing the articles in today's edition of IC, this Sarah Palin piece makes it quite obvious that IC is not a "no spin zone."

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peterson | Oct 06, 2011, 06:38 PM EDT

She has more upstairs than obumma!

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docmikey | Oct 06, 2011, 02:32 PM EDT

Where would Sarah be if she weren't good-looking?

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Nicomax | Oct 06, 2011, 12:30 PM EDT

That also explains why Ailes himself is seldom seen, not only on his own network, but even in public- It would just be all too hard on the rest of us.

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jacke47 | Oct 06, 2011, 11:25 AM EDT

You're such a hog Dara Kelly. Sarah Palin's being 'hot' means she is consistently in the news attempting to recover the America so many feel the current mis-Admistration is destroying. And, yes! She is also attractive-more so on the spiritual inside than the flesh outside. You should be so HOT dara.....YOU''RE NOT!!!! Go away!!!!! Stay away!!! FAR AWAY!!!!!!

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mayoman | Oct 06, 2011, 10:55 AM EDT

No one denies that Palin is great looking, however...

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IAPRINCESS | Oct 06, 2011, 10:39 AM EDT

She might be easy on the eyes but she is murder on your ears!!! Do not like Fox network at all.

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wjb1tex | Oct 06, 2011, 10:25 AM EDT

You can infer that "hot" means more than your description. Perry was hot and now Cain is hot. Palin was hot for a long time but has faded from that now. Obama was hot but he sure doesn't look so hotnow.

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Springfield9 | Oct 06, 2011, 09:35 AM EDT

Ailes is a senile old, two-faced coot. Sarah doesn't look bad though compared to Shepherd Smith.

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