Clear Channel not interested in hiring Sarah Palin.
By on Jul 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Clear Channel not interested in hiring Sarah Palin.
On Monday, Inside Radio reported that former governor Sarah Palin’s representatives “have been quietly testing the waters to see how much interest radio syndicators have for her.” While Palin isn’t committed to radio, she is reportedly open to it as “a possible next step.” But the interest in her might not be as great as some had speculated. According to Broadcasting & Cable, Clear Channel Broadcasting, the country’s biggest radio conglomerate, has already turned Palin down because of fears that she wouldn’t be able to “hold forth for three hours a day.”
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They must have heard her farewell speech.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pmLOL,, isn’t clear channel also home of the big rushbo an dif so wonder if he didn’t feel threaten lol
poor sarah just can not get a break from that liberal drive by media
July 30th, 2009 at 4:04 pmCould you imagine listening to Palin for 3 hours a day? At least there would be plenty of material for The Daily Show.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:04 pmHer future is in reality television despite her refusal to actually live in reality. Look for a winter replacement series (on Fox of course): The Wasilla Hillbillies. Todd can play the Jethro character, Bill Kristol will be Mr. Drysdale and Mitch McConnell can make a special guest appearance as Miss Jane Hathaway.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:05 pmMaybe she could get a gig as G. Gordon Liddy’s perky sidekick?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pmNot a voice for radio…or TV for that matter. Question: by resigning voluntarily from her job as Gov, does she forfeit any pension and healthcare benefits from Alaska that one would normally get, if one weren’t a quitter that is?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pmOn Monday, Inside Radio reported that former governor Sarah Palin’s representatives “have been quietly testing the waters…
– - Looks like dead fish DO just float downstream, eh Sarah?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:08 pmThis is Cosmic Justice. This woman is a bore. The MSM MADE her a star. Average people (not wing-nuts) practically wrote her off already. She is nothing but a whiner, a quitter, who has a lot of baggage personally and ethically. Now Clear Channel doesn’t want her. Pretty bad when Limpballs station doesn’t want you. Will the publishers still want to shell out 8 million for a book deal? Time will tell.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pmThat’s an awesome question, BuckarooBanzai. Is Sarah making COBRA payments on top of her legal bills?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pmIronic, asking for a job in the MEDIA. The same MEDIA she blasted. Yeah, they’ll lay out the red carpet for ya…wink wink.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pmI think she should give it a try….If it doesn’t work out after a few days she can always quit. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:10 pmLMRAO!!!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 4:10 pmClear Channel telling the world that Sarah Palin isn’t what America’s radio listeners–the so-called “real Americans”–want.
I wish there was a way to “vote up” a blog entry. I would click the button as many times as possible.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:10 pmThanks Pete? I’m trying to find out. If I were a citizen of Alaska, I would look too kindly on supporting someone who quit on the people. Anyone from Alaska and can answer this question?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:11 pmHas she applied to teach at Texas Tech yet?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pmSince I’ve been posting “predictions” in various places predicting any such show would be a ratings failure due to her bizarre word-salad speaking style and remarkable lack of analytic ability, I have to admit that I underestimated Clear Channel.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pmwonder if she will pay for Cobra insurance as she has a son with a precondition,
July 30th, 2009 at 4:12 pmhopefully maybe just maybe she will fine out just how bad the health care is.
DAMN!!!
July 30th, 2009 at 4:13 pmIt would be hilarious if she and her “advisors” overvalued her worth and she ended up with Absolutely Nothing!
Then she could get on whatever passes for public assistance in AK, sell her home and downsize.
Now that would be funny.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:13 pmYEAH, RIGHT . .
Watch how fast Palin ends up on FOX . .
Countdown . .
July 30th, 2009 at 4:15 pmShe’d have a three hour radio show and only show up for 2 and leave. Isn’t that her MO?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:15 pmfears that she wouldn’t be able to “hold forth for three hours a day.”
None of the right-wing radio rant-jockeys can “hold forth” for three hours a day.
They just do the same five-minute show twenty times an hour . . . and then repeat the same drivel for another two hours . . . and then do the same thing five days a week.
Little Seanie Vanity, Limpballs, Bleeeeech!, P*ss-Ant Levin, etc., are the radio equivalent of soap operas. You can tune in once a month and keep up with them once you know the story line. The only thing that’s different is that the rant-jockeys have brain-dead fans who actually call in and display their own ignorance along with the hosts.
Unfortunately for Bailin’ Failin’ Palin, she couldn’t even “hold forth” for five minutes without drowning in her own word salad.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:15 pmSixth sign of the Apocalypse: Clear Channel develops standards
July 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pmHer farewell speech was a disaster. Based on the structure of her sentences and her bizarre choice of words it seemed as if she was on some sort of medication or drug. She’s always all over the place but this one was worse than all of her speeches put together.
In all fairness, the words she used were viable, its just the way she used them and the structure of the sentences. For example, Cheechakos (I looked it up) is a Chinook word for “Tenderfoot”, hence we can assume that “sourdough” is a word meaning “old timer” or something to that effect. Obviously she was bragging once more about how rugged she sees herself because she lives in Alaska (although I’m not sure shooting moose from the comfort of a climate controlled helicopter qualifies as “rugged”). So she was trying to say the cold “separates” (not splits) the old timers from the tenderfoots, and using local jargon to say it.
Additionally “North to the Future” and “Denali, the “great one” are both valid statements. North the future was a quote from William Seward regarding the purchase of Alaska, and Denali of course is known as “the great one”.
So she was making sense, sort of. It’s just how she put it all together.
:|
Of course, I wouldn’t rule out the idea that she’s been dipping into the cheechakos a bit.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pmI told you Sarah will have to earn an income the old fashion way, which is about the only thing she’s good at ask Pat Buchanan who is still hot in the pants for lady Sarah. The Foreign Leaders Sarah met at the United States told her she could always make money from them, as they made her an offer. Todd is use to Sarah hitting on other men as she even dated his former partner while married to Todd. Notice how we haven’t heard from Racist Republican Leader Rush Limbaugh lately. It’s because once Sarah was looking for a radio show Rush was scared he might loose his high paying job.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:17 pmFrom what I hear, Clear Channel did offer Palin a talk show, but accidentally offered it to Tina Fey.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:19 pmThe predicted Sarah Palin radio show:
1. Record all of the catchphrases and political rhetoric she knows (should take about five or six minutes).
2. Put on a loop for two hours a day, five days a week.
3. Profit!
This is the only format that is forseeable for Caribou Barbie.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:22 pm***
i see her on “the american sportsman”
going moose hunting with a bazooka.
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or “dancing with the stars”.
..
one or the other.
:)
July 30th, 2009 at 4:25 pmPurple@27, LOL! I can’t tell them apart. The sad thing is, people think Tina Fey is doing a parody.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:25 pm***
no trolls yet?
ok, i’ll take over.
“why are you libs so afraid of her?!”
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“blah, blah, blah.”
:)
July 30th, 2009 at 4:27 pmYeah Joe, In a way it’s sad. All that time on the radio could have saved dozens of moose because Sarah would otherwise be occupied for a couple of hours.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:27 pmSarah Palin is a compelling celebrity for much the same reason Zsa Zsa Gabor has been. No real talent, ability, or even intelligence — but a spectacle guaranteed to provide fodder for parodists and satirists. And they’re just kind of fun to watch, if for no other reason than to see what outrageous thing they will say or do next.
However, Zsa Zsa Gabor doesn’t have her own radio show. Part of this is because she’s at least as much a visual attraction as an audio one, but it’s mostly because too much of her and the novelty wears off.
The same can be said for Sarah.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pm***
pd,
what’s the plural of moose?
:|
let’s ask a troll!
:)
July 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pmYoungSloshee,
If the set playback to “random” it’d be just like her speeches.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:30 pmDanCaveman says:
Could you imagine listening to Palin for 3 hours a day? At least there would be plenty of material for The Daily Show.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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It wouldn’t be three hours a day. Given her track record, she’d be leaving the studio after the first hour and a half.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:31 pmSarah, you shouldn’t have quit your day job. I hear Fix is hiring, come on. They want Sarah, she is playing hard to get along with the X Miss California.
Lizard Cheney – Sarah Palien 2012
July 30th, 2009 at 4:32 pmPlease, please, please???
joe cantwell says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Just kidding.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pmOh she could probably talk 10 hours a day and not say ANYTHING! I found myself often wondering if a) She makes absolutely no sense. b)She is just supremely intelligent and way over my head. Or c) Might actually make a lot profound observations to someone under the influence of a strong dose of L.S.D.!
July 30th, 2009 at 4:35 pmOh well. Guess she’s gonna have to be a college professor instead. What about an endowed chair as professor of neurosurgery ?
July 30th, 2009 at 4:39 pmClear Channel Broadcasting, the country’s biggest radio conglomerate, has already turned Palin down because of fears that she wouldn’t be able to “hold forth for three hours a day.”
C’mon, Sarah would have no problem holding forth for three hours a day. No problem at all.
…oh, you wanted her to make sense? That’s a different kettle of fish.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:40 pmTalk abut getting smacked down! WOW! Now I know I am not the only person who can’t stand the sound of her voice.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pmWell, they could put William Shatner on, doing his renditions of Sarah’s “famous” psychobabble “speeches” and “Twitters”, rendering them into something (close to) listening to…just saying…
July 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pmShe couldn’t manage three MINUTES per day, much less three hours.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pmWilliam Shatner has been Reciting Sarah Palin to Jazz Music on Late nite TV.
She should enter a few Poetry Slams…to Hone her Skills.
But she shouldn’t Quit her Day job…Oh…nevermind.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:47 pmWhy are you picking on Zsa Zsa?
In her day she was a real beauty. So was her sister Eva (remember Green Acres?).
Zsa Zsa didn’t try to lead the free world and become commander in chief of the United States. Sarah did that.
Leave Zsa Zsa alone.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pmI dont know Wayne. Looking just at what she was saying she said she wasnt a quitter in a speech where she was quitting. That is pretty heavy duty delusion there.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:52 pmWAYNEBRO says
July 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Zsa Zsa didn’t try to lead the free world and become commander in chief of the United States. Sarah did that.
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True — Zsa Zsa never ran for public office of any kind, let alone at a national level. Moreover, she seems to know exactly what she is and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. And she has a sense of humor to boot.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:56 pmMaybe she could do some TV ads for bipolar medication.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pmWAYNEBRO says:
Well, heck, I knew what a “sourdough” was. I must be older than I thought.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:59 pmPalin couldn’t fill 10 minutes on the radio, she would probably replay her campaign speeches everyday.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:00 pmActually there is some room for creativity in a Palin radio show. She could call it the Lipstick Bulldog hour. Or maybe the Barracuda show.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:05 pmZsa Zsa is the only person I saw totally embarrass Johnny Carson when she brought her Kitty and, with said Kitty on her lap, asked Johnny if he wanted to “pet her pussy”.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm“Clear Channel not interested in hiring Sarah Palin.”
lol lol
July 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pmYou know, there might actually be some sexism at work here. Glenn Beck is AT LEAST as stupid as Sarah Palin, and right wing talk is all OVER him…
July 30th, 2009 at 5:18 pmMaybe they could hire her to do surreal Max Headroom style blipverts before and after actual radio programs. They could just have William Shatner read her tweets.
The problem with Sarah Palin is that she probably actually believes all the crap that spouts from her mouth while comedians like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter know they are playing a character. It’s like the difference between Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert, but amplified. Even O’Reilly knows that half the stuff that comes out of his mouth are lies.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pmYea but did you know what a Cheechako’s was?
:|
I was kicked in them once.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:41 pmAnd didn’t Johnny reply “Sure, if you move the cat”?
Or was that an urban legend?
July 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pmthe movie Fargo comes to mind when i hear her speak.
remember the scene where Marge is interviewing the 2 hookers in the bar? “They were kinda funny look’n.”
she would have been perfect for the part. “you betcha!”
July 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pmpete:
July 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pmIs it an urban myth that he asked her to remove the cat first?….
Sorry ralph. I should read more for content my doppelganger friend…
July 30th, 2009 at 6:08 pmI don’t know where she got that accent, LividLib. As an, occasionally, proud Minnesotan I’ve very familiar with the dialect. But I’ve never heard it from another Alaskan. Maybe she saw the movie and decided it sounded neat? Uff-da!
July 30th, 2009 at 6:11 pmI think he did ask her to move the cat. She didn’t bat an eye and he lost it, for a good long time with much blushing as I recall. Of course that was a LONG time ago so I’m open to other recollections.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:14 pmThree hours? How about three minutes?
July 30th, 2009 at 6:19 pm.
“…because of fears that she wouldn’t be able to “hold forth for three hours a day.”
How ’bout fears she would quit in the middle of a show? Not exactly a trooper, that one.
Not to mention a blithering loon and a mental midget.
I’d watch a hard-core intrusive family-busting reality show about her whole oxycontin-dealing clan. Or is that Klan?
But there’s much darker news.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:20 pm.
cut-n-run mooseyak.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:25 pmI don’t understand why not -she makes about as much sense and about as coherent as, say, Limbaugh, who can easily babble for three hours or more. Every day.
Intelligence and having informed opinions are obviously not requirements for this kind of job.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:26 pmClear Channel can’t afford too much stupid.
July 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pmEveryone repeat after me:
Sarah who?
July 30th, 2009 at 6:38 pmSarah Agnew> Some Greek dumped by the Party Of No for income tax corruption from the Veep slot. This was a long time ago, maybe no one remembers.
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Ed Schultz today (July30) on MSNBC’s ‘The Ed Show’ offered Sorry Failin a crack at an on-air audition, next week. It’s only one hour a day, with a lot of glitz and filler ‘file footage,’ so she’d have time to freshen her pancake rouge between takes.
He said they were looking for a replacement while he’s on assignment all week.
He sounded serious and authentic. Her people should call his people … unless HER is AFRAID !
July 30th, 2009 at 7:07 pmEven O’Reilly knows that half the stuff that comes out of his mouth are lies.
July 30th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Fletc3her?
July 30th, 2009 at 7:11 pmDon’t you think your being awfully generous with that “half” comment? The percentage is MUCH higher, and he also knows that!
(snark accomplished!)
Sorry Fletc3her, I couldn’t resist!
I’m pretty sure she could have a run-on sentence that says absolutely nothing for 3 hours a day.
My wife does it with ease every night….every single night.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pmDidnt Burger King just say THEY werent interested in hiring her either?
July 30th, 2009 at 9:18 pmPalin’s only hope is with Fox News. The addition of Palin to Fox News will create the highest concentration of whackos ever imagined. On the plus side, we will know where they are if we ever havt to round them up and send them to Gitmo.
July 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pmI think we will see her as a political contributor of the same talking points all the other political contributors contribute on Fox, but in moronese.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:01 pmActually I picture her laying low until closer to 2112 getting tutored on how to answer the predictable questions she will get during the presidential primary and general. She will be marketed as the Sarah you didn’t get to know because of the evil liberal media. She was “smart” all along.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:04 pmAnd didn’t Johnny reply “Sure, if you move the cat”?
Or was that an urban legend?
Sadly, ralph, it was an urban legend.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:33 pmBuckie Boy says:
I’m pretty sure she could have a run-on sentence that says absolutely nothing for 3 hours a day.
My wife does it with ease every night….every single night.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Ouch!
July 31st, 2009 at 12:36 amWelcome to the world of job interviews, Ms. Palin.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:53 amCut and Run Sarah Doll…. Somebody call Mattell!!!!
July 31st, 2009 at 8:46 am