Posted on January 27, 2015

Palin Hits "Quasi-Conservative" FOX on FOX, Dings O'Reilly For Calling Potential Candidacy "Reality Show"

SEAN HANNITY: You also got criticized in the speech by a lot of people, even some of the people in the crowd that tend to be supporters of yours, and then there was the teleprompter goes down? Did you have trouble with the copy? Was there any moment in the speech where you had any difficulty because people have been so critical?



SARAH PALIN: Well, you know, I don't read the praise and I don't read the criticism because I know how you guys -- or I know how the media in general works.



HANNITY: I'm not you guys. I don't want to be part of that group.



PALIN: Remember at the GOP acceptance speech back in '08, the teleprompter broke there, too, it didn't work and so I kept on going. So, no, I don't know, I received a standing ovation throughout, and at the end of the speech. So I don't know, I think a lot of this herd mentality of some reporters would -- that kind of exacerbates some of the criticism. But I don't know that it really would, when you talk about the meat, the content of the speech, would criticize when I talk about courage and integrity and a track record of any candidate that is needed in order to be able to sincerely serve the people of America who deserve real hope, and real change and not more of the same. Not more of the status quo, this old energy, if you will. But we need new energy, new ideas, and as I say, very, very important that we have a track record proving what works.



But what I also made a point of in that speech, Sean, and this is important is, knowing what the media is going to do throughout 2016, and my prediction, Hillary will be running, and she will be the knighted candidate on the left, and with the media, knowing what the media is going to do, it's going to take more than a village to beat Hillary. There needs to be unity, understanding that we have that -- conservatives have that strike against us right off the bat. Even there on FOX, kind of a quasi- or assumed conservative outlet. We have all day listened in to the tease of Bill O'Reilly, he's talking about the guests on his show tonight, or the commentary on his show tonight, and that would be, all these GOP contenders thinking about running for president, like Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, and he names them off. And he said, 'Oh, what a reality show that would be, yuck yuck.' Well, the left doesn't do that. Okay. They take this serious because this is war and hopefully the media, even the quasi right side of the media, won't be looking at this as some kind of reality show, a joke because maybe they have theirs so they're taking care of it fine. No. The people of America deserve the best, and competition through a GOP primary, whether a Bill O'Reilly or someone else who assumes it's a reality show or not, they deserve that competition to surface, the competitor, who can take on Hillary or whoever it may be and win for this country.