Breaking! From Talking Points Memo: Palin Joins Fox News
This is not a joke, it’s real. Although, come to think of it, it IS a joke.
Maybe, just maybe, this will remove any last vestige of credibility that this network has. And maybe, just maybe, someone in power will review whether this House organ for the Rethugs is living up to its broadcasting obligations.
She’s also one step closer to that reality show I predicted when she ‘resigned’. After all, would’ja rather watch the Kardashians or the Palins? If I had to choose, it’d be the Palinistas.
Of particular interest to moi and perhaps no one else, the Palins and the von Susterens have grown close:
She and her family have grown close with Fox News personality Greta Van Susteren, who often interviewed the Palins during and after the 2008 presidential campaign. Tripp Palin, Sarah Palin’s grandson, made his television debut on Van Susteren’s show. Van Susteren’s husband, John Coale, has consulted Palin. Todd Palin even went to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with Van Susteren after his wife declined to attend.
Hmmm, that reality show is really lookin’ goooood!
Tags: Fox News, Laying Pipe, Palin
Poll: Whose credibility is damaged more?
– FOX
– Palin
– Neither, it’s a marriage made in heaven
– They had credibility?
By the way – Greta drew the short straw.
They had credibility?
did anyone NOT see this coming?
Yeah, AP, I am actually shocked it took over a year to occur.
She had to negotiate the right price. Obviously she was focused on making money on her book first.
UI is right I think that Palin was looking for the right payday. But this will also benefit the so called journos who seemed to think that what Palin said on Facebook was worth reporting on. Now they get to use just an unreliable sourse, but they’ll be able to pretend otherwise.
I was really hoping that she’d run for President.
they had credibility? Nice to have an April Fool’s joke so early in the year.
I don’t blame Palin for cashing in on her fifteen minutes of fame. If the Republicans want to put her out there as their spokesperson and people are eager to tune in to hear her, then more power to her. Rake it in Sarah. If Roger Ailes can do it — see yesterday’s NYT article cited below — then Sarah can too. And, if the Murdock family is too busy making profit off this stuff to stand up for their supposed principles, then that’s how it rolls.
“And maybe, just maybe, someone in power will review whether this House organ for the Rethugs is living up to its broadcasting obligations.
And, this is what… a call for media censorship?
Well how interesting. Delaware Lib censors again. Its okay to go after republicans, but if a person posts something here in opposition to Obama..bingo! Its gone. I reported early there is a firestorm reported at Firedoglake re: Obama’s administration paying $780,000 to an economist Jonathan Gruber to make public policy for health care reform. Turns out Obama failed to report he was a paid economist? This is a huge ethical problem which undermines health care reform. Now lets count the minutes or seconds until the “censors” on this blog take this post down. Go, 1, 2, 3….
Your comment was not deleted, Just Kiddin’, it was moved to today’s open thread, where it belonged.
No, Miscreant, it’s a call for the FCC to apply the law if a publicly-licensed television network is crossing the line. Fox has demonstrably distorted news footage to suit its purposes, has ratcheted up rhetoric to the point where it’s dangerously close to calling for violence against elected officials, it has started and served as an echo chamber for crackpot theories masquerading as ‘news’, and has abandoned any pretense of being a ‘news’ outlet despite calling itself Fox News. There are no journalistic standards safe from evisceration by the Fox White Noise Network.
It is a propaganda machine. I believe it’s only fair for the FCC to determine whether it is in conformity with its licensing obligations.
That’s not censorship. That’s the law. Just like screaming ‘Fire’ in a crowded theatre is against the law.
wow JK, you’re more paranoid than usual today.
Anonone, whats to stop her from still running for president? she could use the whole network as her personal campaign channel. This could actually be very bad for our already reality TV based political culture. Now people will start ot see idiots like Palin as a perfectly normal and acceptable candidate. On the one hand, she will now constantly be giving soundbites that can be used against her. On the other hand, asinine comments may stop hurting candidates if she just makes them all the time. “oh, she said someone should assassinate Pelosi?… thats just Sarah bein Sarah”
The Spawn of Satan (Beck/O’LIEly) and a Succubus (Palin) on the same network. Now that’s entertainment.
Oh, and JK, stop being a JA!
One, public license does not equal the right to censor content, and two Foxnews is not publicly licensed because it is a cable outlet. Too bad for the censors.
i.e Fox has every right to call it self a “news” outlset, but is not obligated to “report facts” or even “tell the truth”. Thanks for clearing that up David. Good to know YOU know you eat up their BS and love it.
My favorite quote:
“Finally, Erika Bolstad in Alaska’s Anchorage Daily News notes: “Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will join Fox News as a contributor, a job that establishes her as an official member of the mainstream media she lambasted in her own bestselling memoir as ‘worthless as a source of factual information anymore’.”
right, but palin wasn’t talking about Fox. They line up to kiss her empty vapid ass and lie on her behalf. They are the ones fighting for truth. certainly not the liberals over at MSNBC who point out that she is nothing but a mildly pretty face on a hate filled female version of W.