Fox News is parting ways with one of its most polarizing contributors - former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin . Executive Vice President Bill Shine told The Associated Press that the network "thoroughly enjoyed our association" with Palin, who came aboard in January 2010. "We wish her the best in her future endeavors," Shine added. Another source confirmed that the split was amicable, the AP reports. The Rise of Redneck TV Palin, who reportedly earned $1 million a year as a contributor, made her final appearance on Greta Van Susteren 's show in December, according to the AP. In recent months, her influence at the network appeared to be waning. In August, Palin was reportedly irked that Fox News nixed her appearance one night at the Republican National Convention , and in November, the network turned to her minimally for commentary on the presidential election. Fox News recently hired former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis

Enlarge Photo **FILE** Former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks ... more> Story Topics Entertainment_Culture Sarah Palin NBA Republican Party Rush Limbaugh Follow Us On Facebook Question of the Day Should Congressional Republicans let the sequesters take effect in order to force President Obama to make substantial spending cuts? Reports of Sarah Palin s demise are almost certainly premature. Oh, sure: Mrs. Palin and Fox News announced an end to their increasingly strained relationship last week, and yes, some observers have been quick to write her political and pop culture obituary, with one writer comparing her to a playground great who never made it to the NBA. Still, those who know Mrs. Palin best caution against writing her off. I think people underestimate her all the time, filmmaker Steve Bannon , who made the 2011 pro- Palin film The Undefeated, told ABC News . She has two things the factotums in the Republican Party cant replicate.

Sarah Palin / AP Sarah Palin addresses FOX News exit: We can't just preach to the choir Jan. 29, 2013, 3:12 PM EST By Tim Kenneally TheWrap Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has broken her silence after parting ways with FOX News, saying that she's ready to reach a larger audience and suggesting that she's ready to take on another media gig. Though it's not quite a "larger audience," in an exclusive interview with Breitbart.com , Palin tells Stephen K. Bannon, producer and director of the 2011 Palin documentary "The Undefeated," that she and other "believers in American exceptionalism" need to reach beyond the converted to spread their message. Bing: Palin's advisors react to 'Game Change' win at the Globes Asked what's next following her split with FOX News, where she served as a contributor until last week, Palin offered, "Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, pictured in this file photo, spoke out for the first time on her split from Fox News. Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel Just days after announcing her split from Fox News, Sarah Palin is opening up about the public breakup. In an exclusive interview with Conservative website, Breitbart.com , Palin said she left her contributor's gig at Fox so that she could reach a larger audience. "Short term: I encourage others to step out in faith, jump out of the comfort zone and broaden our reach as believers in American exceptionalism," Palin said. "We can't just preach to the choir; the message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience." Palin, who shot to fame after running for vice president alongside John McCain in 2008, offered no concrete plan on how exactly she planned to broaden her reach. The former Alaska governor worked as a contributor on the Fox network since 2010 and earned $1 million a year. Though Pal

Is Sarah Palin s political career really over? Youd sure think so by the tone of the mainstream medias coverage of her and Fox News parting ways. Many headlines on this story have employed the past tense What Sarah Palin Meant at the Washington Post s political blog The Fix , for instance. Our Decoder colleague Brad Knickerbocker wrote up a career retrospective for Ms. Palin after the news broke. If this is sounding like a political obituary for Sarah Palin, it may well be, he wrote . Look, we get that Palins own electoral prospects are dim, to say the least. It wasnt that long ago that one of the biggest questions in American politics was whether shed run for president. Now the former Alaska governor has been surpassed by so many other tea party conservatives that Fox News chief Roger Ailes cant be bothered to keep her on retainer. Her own actions damaged her political brand remember the episodic bus tour? The stop at Paul Revere s house, where she mangled the Revere story ? T

Posted at 01:04 PM ET, 01/28/2013 Jan 28, 2013 06:04 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Sarah Palin cost Fox News Channel nearly $16 a word during her three-year contract, according to a report from the University of Minnesota. Palin uttered 189,221words over 150 appearances on various FNC telecasts during her now-expired contract; word broke out late last week the cable network would not renew its pact with the former GOP vice presidential candidate. That averages out to about $15.85 per word, according to the report issued by the universitys Humphrey School of Public Affairs the morning after Julianne Moore won the Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Palin in the HBO teleflick Game Change. Two weeks earlier Moore won a Golden Globe Award for playing Palin and shed won an Emmy for same in September. FYI, in addition to her 150 appearances on FNC, Palin appeared on ABCs Dancing with the Stars five times during her daughters most recent run on the show; also during the r! un of her FN

(CNN) One day after Fox News confirmed that it and Sarah Palin had parted ways, the former Alaska governor spoke out Saturday on why she decided to leave her gig as a paid contributor. In an interview with the conservative news outlet Breitbart, Palin said she wants to share her values more broadly rather than preach to the choir. The message of liberty and true hope must be understood by a larger audience, she said. Palins contract ended at the end of 2012, but a source close to Palin told CNN that the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee turned down a recent offer to renew it. Palin said the 2014 mid-term elections will be imperative and advocated for who she described as anti-establishment conservatives. Its going to be like 2010, but this time around, we need to shake up the GOP machine that tries to orchestrate away too much of the will of constitutional conservatives who dont give a hoot how they do it in D.C., she said. Palin was not specific about her long-term plans, say

Saturday, January 26, 2013 - 9:13pm WASHINGTON (CNN) (CNN) -- Sarah Palin and Fox News have parted ways. The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate had continued to speak out on politics as a paid contributor to the channel but turned down a recent offer to renew her contract with the network, according to a source close to Palin. Fox News confirmed that Palin will no longer be with them as a political analyst. The decision apparently ends, at least for now, a relationship which has hit rough patches in the last year. Reports said Palin angered network president Roger Ailes by announcing on a different news outlet she would not run for the White House in 2012. In August of last year, she posted on Facebook, "I'm sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight," raising again questions about her future with the network. A year earlier, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld said he had made a "joke" when he said "The only problem with talki

Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin is no longer under contract as a contributor at Fox News Channel, the network confirmed. 2011 file photo. UPI/Steve Pope License photo Published: Jan. 26, 2013 at 12:26 PM HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin is no longer under contract as a contributor at Fox News Channel, the network confirmed. Palin first became a contributor to the top-rated cable news network in 2010 after unsuccessful run to be vice president in 2008. Fox News Channel president and chairman Roger Ailes said the reason he brought her on board was because "she was hot and got ratings." Palin's screen presence on the network had diminished in 2012, and she hadn't appeared on air since mid-December, The Hollywood Reporter said Friday. Palin had publicly spoken out against the network in August on Facebook. "I'm sorry Fox canceled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight

NEW YORK Fox News Channel is parting ways with former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, ending her three-year tenure as a contributor on the network. While Palin's time at Fox was occasionally rocky, the network's news executive, Bill Shine, said Friday that "we have thoroughly enjoyed our association" with her. "We wish her the best in her future endeavors," said Shine, Fox's executive vice president for programming. A person familiar with discussions between Fox and Palin described the parting as amicable, saying that Fox and Palin had discussed renewing her contract but she decided to do other things. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. Palin's lawyer in Alaska, John Tiemessen, had no immediate comment on her exit. Palin's last appearance on Fox News was Dec. 19 on Greta Van Susteren's show. Palin signed to deliver commentary on Fox in January 2010, reported

Sarah Palin and Fox News Channel are going their separate ways. The former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee had been a staple on the news channel since 2010. But reports have surfaced that Palin and Fox News chief Roger Ailes clashed. Maybe one of them registered as a Democrat. "I'm sorry Fox cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight," Palin posted on Facebook last summer, leading to speculation there was a strain behind the scenes. Palin also has branched out to other networks -- including a reality travel show on TLC, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," that lasted one season. "We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin," Bill Shine, an executive vice president at Fox News, said in a statement. "We wish her the best in her future endeavors." STEVE WOZNIAK SAYS STEVE JOBS MOVIE IS WRONG: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says the film "Jobs," a biopic on the late Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutch

This interview was originally broadcast on April 13, 2011 . Tina Fey grew up in a household with parents she has described as "Goldwater Republicans with pre-Norman Lear racial attitudes." But, she says, her parents were always supportive of her career, even when she told them she was moving to Chicago to start a career in improv. "To their credit, they never said, 'You like entertainment. Are you sure you don't want to be an entertainment lawyer?' " she tells Fresh Air 's Terry Gross. "[They understood] me wanting to pursue this before I had commitments, before I had a family. And I think they knew that neither my brother nor I would ever come back to them destitute." Fey grew up to become Saturday Night Live 's first female head writer as well as the star and executive producer of NBC's sitcom 30 Rock . Now, she's also a published author. Her memoir Bossypants contains her thoughts on juggling her roles as actor, daughter, mo

For anyone who thought Manti Te'o and his people were beginning to take control of the girlfriend-hoax fallout, well, it's starting to look like Katie Couric still isn't just your average daytime talk-show host. After getting the on-camera interview ESPN couldn't and it turns out ESPN blew more than that Couric appears to grill Te'o on the still unclear timeline of events that seem to suggest Te'o was in on the lie. And in a teaser for her interview broadcast this morning on ABC, where Couric is also a special correspondent, she doesn't back down: "You stuck to the script, and you knew something was amiss, Manti," Couric says. "Correct," replies the Notre Dame star. "Why?" RELATED: Katie Couric Wakes Up Late; Palin Gets a 2008 Flashback So Manti Te'o has now admitted to lying albeit briefly about the December 8 interview when he talked about his fake girlfriend, her fake cancer, and support from her fake family, even th

No longer is eBay just an outlet for attic collectibles or Sarah Palins gubernatorial jet. The auction site is transforming into a full-service ecommerce goliath. John Donahoe stood before investors a year after being appointed eBay CEO with a bleak assessment of the companys performance. Our core eBay business simply [has] not kept pace with the changing competitive environment nor kept pace with our customers needs, Donahoe said in March 2009, before announcing his plan to turn the auction site around, a move that would pit it against goliath online retailer Amazon . This is not acceptable to me or to you. Ebay was one of the few major Internet companies impervious to the dotcom bust. It had been born with a business model so efficient that it had been instantly and consistently profitable--the now defunct Industry Standard once called eBay unstoppable . For the past five years, however, it had been spiraling downhill, its auction business failing to keep pace . Small wonder. The

Washington, Jan. 23 (ANI) Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has criticized President Barack Obama as being a 'hypocrite' for advocating gun control as a way to protect children while simultaneously supporting abortion rights. In a post on her Facebook page, Palin, one-time Republican vice presidential candidate, charged Obama with 'hypocrisy' for 'boldly highlighting children' in anti-gun violence speeches, while supporting an 'abortion agenda'. According to the Huffington Post, Palin wrote that 'using kids as the backdrop for his gun control speech, the President claimed his commitment to young ones'. She added that 'the hypocrisy of it all, however, is that while the President publicly acknowledged the value of "even one life", he has failed to acknowledge as much when it comes to 'protecting the lives of children soon to be born.' Palin continued that his commitment to the nation's children is selective. When childr

Sarah Palin used the anniversary of the Supreme Courts Roe v. Wade ruling to criticize President Obama on abortion, saying that he is a hypocrite for advocating gun control as a means to protect children while failing to protect the unborn. Palin made the claims on her Facebook page, saying that Obama is a hypocrite for his stance. She noted that Obama has said if even one life can be saved by gun control, it is worth the effort. She found this to be ironic considering his continued support of abortion rights. Sarah Palin wrote: The hypocrisy of it all, however, is that while the President publicly acknowledges the value of even one life when it advances his own political agenda, he fails to acknowledge as much when it comes to protecting the lives of children soon to be born. In that same speech, he proclaimed that when it comes to protecting the most vulnerable among us, we must act now. Well, who is more vulnerable than those who find themselves at the mercy of others to honor the

As pro-choice advocates and abortion foes alike marked the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, Sarah Palin criticized President Obama for advocating gun control as a way to protect children while simultaneously supporting abortion rights. In a post on her Facebook page, the former Alaska governor and one-time Republican vice presidential candidate charged Obama with "hypocrisy" for "boldly highlighting children" in anti-gun violence speeches while supporting an "abortion agenda." "Using kids as the backdrop for his gun control speech, the President claimed his commitment to young ones," Palin wrote . "The hypocrisy of it all, however, is that while the President publicly acknowledges the value of even one life when it advances his own political agenda, he fails to acknowledge as much when it comes to prote

Washington, Jan 14 ( ANI ): Julianne Moore has revealed that she had a tremendous amount of nervousness and fear , playing politician Sarah Palin in ' Game Change .' The 52-year-old stopped briefly on the red carpet ahead of the Golden Globes and asserted that when one's playing someone so well known in the news, it's a big hurdle to get over, the Huffing ton Post reported. She also said that they worked really hard and did a lot of research to be as accurate as possible. Moore's performance as the failed vice presidential candidate earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie against Nicole Kidman for 'Hemingway and Gellhorn'; Jessica Lange for 'American Horror Story: Asylum'; Sienna Miller for 'The Girl'; and Sigourney Weaver for 'Political Animals.' (ANI)

An adviser to Sarah Palin chided the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on Monday for awarding several Golden Globes to the HBO political drama "Game Change." The film, based on the book of the same name by the journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, was a critical portrait of Palin's tumultuous role in John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. The movie picked up three Golden Globes Sunday evening, including one for best mini-series or motion picture made for television. Julianne Moore also won an award for her portrayal of Palin. Ed Harris won for playing McCain. Palin aide Jason Recher called the film a work of fiction. "It comes as no surprise that the Hollywood Foreign Press recognized another Hollywood group, HBO, for their work of fiction and awarded a prize for best fictional filmmaking," Recher told CNN. "The reality was an original American story, not a screenplay by people who only imagined events to fit their fiction." Recher and

On his radio show this afternoon, Rush Limbaugh slammed last nights Golden Globes for giving awards to HBOs cartoon version of Sarah Palin s 2008 VP run and thus allowing its cast and crew to have a platform with which to repeatedly bash the former Alaskan governor. This show [ Game Change ] won three Golden Globes last night, and you know why? Limbaugh asked. So that everyone involved could walk up to the stage and once again bash Sarah Palin, knowing full well there wouldnt be anyone there to defend her. Knowing full well there isnt going to be anyone today to defend her. He continued: Once the left targets anybody for destruction, theres no standing in their way. So this is the procedure, this is how it happens. - RELATED: Conservatives Whine About Liberal Hollywood And Palin Bashing At Golden Globes, Ignore CIAs Big Night Limbaugh also went after Golden Globes co-host and former SNL cast member Tina Fey , lamenting what he sees as her inclusion on Barbara Walters 2008 Most Fasci

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- The taut political thriller "Homeland," the coming of age comedy "Girls" and "Game Change," the movie about Sarah Palin 's rocky campaign for the vice presidency in 2008, were the big television winners in the Golden Globes . The biggest losers? Commercial broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox none of which aired those shows. One award for PBS saved broadcast television from a complete shutout. Premium cable rivals HBO and Showtime battled for supremacy throughout Sunday night's telecast. In the end, HBO pulled out a 5-4 victory. "It's the only place to have made a show like this," Lena Dunham said backstage after the series she created for HBO , "Girls," won two Globes. "Cable television is the only place where I'm going to get the kinds of stories I want to tell funded." "Girls" was named best comedy and Dunham, who stars as Hannah Horvath in the series about y