Sarah Palin is warring with members of the news media again. Only this time, she's taking aim at colleague Bill O'Reilly and Fox News.

According to the New York Daily News, the former Alaskan governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate appeared on Tuesday night's edition of the "Sean Hannity Show," where Palin wasted little time before blasting O'Reilly for recently labeling talk of her running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 "a joke."

O'Reilly went on to add neither Palin nor the likes of real estate tycoon/reality TV star Donald Trump have the kind of "effective organizations in 50 states" that will be needed to wage a serious campaign. O'Reilly did concede that the two well-known reality TV stars would "liven up the proceedings."

Striking back, Palin told Hannity: "the people of America deserve the best and competition through a GOP primary."

"Whether a Bill O'Reilly or somebody else assumes a reality show or not, they deserve that competition to surface the competitor who can take on Hillary [Clinton] or whomever it may be and win for this country," Palin said.

When Hannity tried to interject, Palin still had more to say.

"I along with many so many others on a deep bench, no doubt are thinking about it, but it's much too early to say," Palin added.

Before wrapping her remarks, Palin even took on the Fox Network as a whole.

"On FOX, kind of a quasi or an assumed conservative outlet, we have all day listening to the Ts of Bill O'Reilly," she said. "The left doesn't do that, 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 ... they're taken care of. They're fine."

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