Joan Rivers: FOX Can 'Go F**k Themselves' Over Sarah Palin Controversy

By Rob Shuter Posted Jan 19th 2011 11:15PM

Joan Rivers says FOX News can "go f**k themselves" after canceling her Thursday appearance on the network's morning show for what she claims is retaliation for some biting comments she made about FOX contributor Sarah Palin.

Why so riled up, Joan? It all started when the loud-mouthed legend told TMZ over the weekend that critics were "right" to blame Sarah Palin for the tragedy in Tucson, Ariz. Reports surfaced on Wednesday that FOX heard the diss and nixed Joan and daughter Melissa's visit on 'FOX & Friends.'

"We get a call this morning," Melissa told me on the set of my HDNet show. "You're canceled on FOX because of what you said about Sarah Palin."

The top-rated news network denies that Joan's comments had anything to do with the cancellation, rather, the morning was simply overbooked.

But Joan tells me exclusively that she's willing to take a lie detector test to prove FOX canned her over her Palin comments, which also included calling the ex-governor "stupid and a threat" and blasting her use of the term "blood libel" in a video statement on Jan. 12.

The situation begs the question: Did Sarah herself call this one in to her FOX bosses in order to punish Joan? The comic certainly hopes the presidential contender has better things to do than listen to her. "If Sarah is listening to what we say, we're in trouble," Joan says.

Asked whether she'll accept an invitation to come back to 'FOX & Friends,' Joan went hardcore, saying they can "go f**k themselves."

Joan has another reason for being upset, namely that this brouhaha has led her to regret voting for Sarah's daughter Bristol on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

"I actually voted for her terrible daughter over David Hasselhoff," she says. "I should've voted for David; they both sucked as dancers."

Watch my interview with Joan and Melissa on Saturday night at 7PM on 'Naughty But Nice With Rob,' only on HDNet.

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Wednesday 19 January

By Celeste

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You may not like her (Joan) but seriously there is truth to her statement. Sarah Palin and her ilk are a threat to all of us regular hardworking Americans. They don't care about us. They have theirs and us be damned. We will be the roadkill. Mark my words. Just wait all you people. Wait until you see what will happpen when politicians like her take over. Our lives will never be the same and neither will America..........

Thursday 20 January

By Ruth

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Joan Rivers will never read this I'm sure. However she really
hurt herself and me deeply when she made that remark about
Jesus Christ Monday night on E. No one on stage had the gumption
to speak up to her.

By Lee

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You really don't know who Joan Rivers is? How old are you, 10?

Friday 21 January

By Jumpmaster

Neither is Fox!

By markleedom

...right on, Joan! Sarah can, indeed go f*ck herself...

By toffeenutte

I must say I agree with you! While I'm not a fan of Joan Rivers, I CAN'T STAND Sarah Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Lori walker

Who raised you you a** You kow nothing about Sarah Palin to get on here and spew the media hate You have no business voting either

By milliebsp

Hey Lori walker ... it's illiterate idiots like you who love Sarah Palin, and yet you can't even put together a proper sentence! And just what do you think YOU know about her that makes YOU such an expert???

By riddlemethisone2

Hey Millie B,you are part of the fools who think sarah had anything to do with the shooting..I guess you forget all the kill bush stuff the dems said when he was in office. The maps the had targeting districts.Do you think you know Sarah Palin? Loan has a big mouth it doesnt matter what party she is with. Just wanting to stay in the limelight.Regular Americans are worried about family jobs closing the border not bashing politicians.But if we did I think they should all go because they live a different lifestyle than the regular person.

By ZAN

AND YOU CAN DO THE SAME. OH, YOU JUST DID!!

By derrick

GO JOAN!!!!! U hit it out of the ball park!!!!

By clarkappraisals

Hey Joan, why don't u go F*!@# yourself. Nobody cares what your plastic face has to say anyway.

By John

I care. And, so do millions of others. Do you really think a great, great talent (in MANY areas) like Joan Rivers cares even tiny little bit what a moron like you writes. What have you achieved? Nothing. Joan is aomething I am and you are not--an intellectual....oh, now you can go f--k yourself, too. I wish I could do it to myself!

By steve

I didn't know Rivers was able to get her plastic face contorted enough to make an F sound.

By pjcc

I think Fox usually tries to book the more intelligent people - and Joan - well I guess that just leaves you out! Run on off now and go get another facelift.

By donnie

AMEN!!!!!!!!!

By Sue

If you think Sarah Palin is smart, you must not know her or what she stands for. Oops!!! I forgot, she WAS savvy and smart enough to quit the governorship and make bigger bucks as a "celebrity". Yep shes a great example of a greedy quitter. If thats the smart you think can run our country, then i must be really stupid.

By CorrineK

Palin not smart enough to take keep her foot out of her huge lipsticked pie hole.

By gree

...Fox must not be too keen on getting "smart" interviews if they interview PAlin and allow Beck to have his daily rant-fest on their network...

By Melissa

If Joan gets one more facelift, she's gonna have a goatee ;>} There is barely anything left in her shoes as it is!

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