Pure Comedy: Even Faux News Head Honchos Think Sarah Palin Is An Idiot And The Republicans Are Out There Fawking Up

Poor thang! It might just be time for Sarah Palin to take her maverick a$$ back to Alaska, where none of us have to worry about her at all anymore.

Because even Faux News thinks she’s bad for business. In her defense though, Fox News chief Roger Ailes isn’t happy with any of the potential Republican presidential hopefuls out there right now.

Gabriel Sherman’s New York magazine cover story hitting newsstands Monday. Sherman, who’s currently writing a book on Fox News for Random House, looks at how Ailes — who built up a stable of possible presidential contenders after the 2008 election, including Sarah Palin — isn’t so pleased with their chances at beating President Barack Obama in 2012.

Ailes doesn’t speak on the record in the article, but several Republicans close to the Fox News chief describe his concerns going into an election year.

“He thinks things are going in a bad direction,” another Republican close to Ailes told [Sherman]. “Roger is worried about the future of the country. He thinks the election of Obama is a disaster. He thinks Palin is an idiot. He thinks she’s stupid. He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven’t elevated the conservative movement.”

Ailes, a television titan, has schooled past presidential candidates on how to handle the media. Before helping Rupert Murdoch launch Fox News in 1996, Ailes worked as a strategist for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (whom he still talks to regularly).

But Palin, a former Alaska Governor and current Fox News contributor, hasn’t always listened to Ailes’ sage advice, as Sherman reported a couple months back. Although Ailes reportedly told Palin to lie low after the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), she still went ahead with the infamous “blood libel” video.

So far, Ailes’ other presidential hopefuls aren’t exactly on the road to the White House.

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee recently decided to continue hosting a Saturday night show on the network rather than run again for president. Fox contributor John Bolton, the U.N. ambassador under George W. Bush, hasn’t ruled out running but also hasn’t built any significant campaign infrastructure.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), both of whom recently left Fox News, have already hit some rough patches on the campaign trail.

Kind of interesting how the Republican media machine starts working against itself right as a Black Republican tosses his hat into the presidential race, isn’t it?

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