From New York magazine:
After the announcement, he called Fox's executive vice-president Bill Shine into a meeting. Shine is the network's principal point of contact with Palin. Ailes told him she had made a big mistake. "I paid her for two years to make this announcement on my network," Ailes pointedly told Shine. ...
Shine was deputized to handle the matter. He spoke with Palin's agent, Bob Barnett, and told him that Ailes was furious with Palin's move and that she was at risk of being "benched." Fox still had to pay her, but they didn't have to give her air time. Barnett spoke with Palin and told her about the problem. After she apologized, he called Shine back and told him that Palin recognized the misstep.
Palin reportedly angered Ailes once before: when she ignored his advice to lie low after the attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in January. Palin, criticized by the left in the aftermath of the shooting for her firearms-themed political rhetoric, recorded her ill-received "blood libel" video in response.
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