Sarah Palin to Contribute to Fox "News"

[Ian David]

Source: NY Times

Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel.

The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Ms. Palin will not have her own regular program, one person familiar with the deal said, though she will host an occasional series that will run on the network from time to time. This person would not elaborate, but the network does have a precedent for such a series. Oliver L. North is the host of an occasionally running documentary series on the military called “War Stories.”

Many suspected that when Ms. Palin retired as the governor of Alaska last summer she was doing so to pursue some sort of career in television. The Fox News deal, however, would not seem to be all encompassing, and would appear to give her room for other pursuits, as well.



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Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/bjayhersh/statuses/7637384693



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[liberal N proud]

1. FAUX news, If you can't get elected, we will give you a job

maybe the will call the program:


You Betch ya'

[chelsea0011]

5. I guess she will have to dye her hair blond, wear shorter skirts, and wear

tight fitting sweaters. I think that is in the faux contracts for women working there.

[Gman2]

WRONG, she'll insist on chunky chics, with mousy hair and clothing.

[Webster Green]

2. Excellent!

That's exactly where she belongs. :puke:

[tridim]

3. She really is a perfect fit.

Uninformed, anti-intellectual liars are perfect for Faux and their viewership.

[Raschel]

24. That voice though - ugh!! Who can listen to that for more than a minute?

[SkyDaddy7]

28. I was going to say the same thing!

Her voice is just one of those "nails on a chalkboard" sounds that drive me insane!

[Amonester]

74. MoRans do.

They neveR seem to get enuf of that insufferable skreech!

[TrollBuster9090]

64. Actually, no

That's their AUDIENCE you're talking about. The people in FRONT of the camera are usually carefully selected to deliver propaganda. Palin fits the profile of a Fox VIEWER, but not a Fox COMMENTATOR. That's why I think she's not going to actually appear very often, and why they're not giving her her own show.

This is more of an effort to control Palin than to boost her.

[abluelady]

4. The Quest for Dumbing Down America Continues. n/t

[spicegal]

6. Well, we certainly knew that was coming.

She'll fit right in with Glenn Beck, not to mention all the other Fox clowns. How low can Fox go in terms of their credibility?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

7. Just like Huckabee....

[No Elephants]

8. I guess the NYT uses the word "contribute" very loosely.

[Pirate Smile]

9. Hopefully now the other outlets will stop acting like her stenographer and ignore her except when

she manages to make an even bigger fool out of herself then usual.

[Bette Noir]

35. That would make it all worth while.

[Auggie]

10. Why not hire this guy?

[SeattleVet]

17. Too late...

isn't he already the 'News' Director?

[peace frog]

30. Joe Isuzu: "You have my word on it"

Meaning: don't trust a thing he says.

[MrsBrady]

11. not surprised n/t

[FarLeftFist]

12. Palin's only goal in life has been fulfilled.

Added to the other list of amateur political pundits over at Fake news.

[Raschel]

22. And birthers/freepers celebrate that she has no desire to serve.. only to make $$$$

What idiots.

[DuckyCase]

13. She wasn't already?

[Rapanui1]

14. She actually would complement faux news

After being awarded the liar of the year award She actually would complement faux news. Its not like the new Faux news now 40% more false

[JimWis]

15. I wanted to post a reply, but I am sitting here with a total loss of

words. All I can think of is - you got to be shitting me. But on the other hand, it makes sense. She will fit right in with that fucking freak show they call Fox news.

[redwitch]

16. Like they need more stupid.

:eyes:

[benld74]

18. WASn't she working as a Weather Girl somewhere at sometime? Thought I saw video or pix b4

[Berry Cool]

41. No, she was a sports reporter for a station in Anchorage.

Somehow, this got twisted into "weather girl" in a viral email intended to point out the difference between her qualifications for vice president/president and Obama's. Either someone got it completely wrong, or they thought "weather girl" would make her sound like more of a bimbo than "sportscaster" and decided to run with the lie.

[XemaSab]

76. She was a sportscaster in a state that has no porofessional

baseball, football, basketball, hockey, soccer, or other sports teams. :P

[monmouth]

19. No wonder Rupert's kids are in war mode. This must be a Roger move...n/t

[Plucketeer]

20. When she winks at her audience,

there'll be more creaming going on across the country than at a large dairy!

[Bette Noir]

37. Ewwwwwww...

[Gman2]

21. She is too flighty to bank too much on. Best to commit to almost nothing, and fire at will.

[Haole Girl]

23. .

:puke:

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. More fodder for Olbermann, if he ever returns to the news.

( where the hell has he been, anyone know?)

[onehandle]

29. He was on the air 4 out of 5 days last week. nt

[Berry Cool]

36. Yeah. I just pray he doesn't devote his whole show tonight to this! n/t

[Bette Noir]

40. Christmas break.

He's popular enough to get the occasional vacation.

[Berry Cool]

42. He wasn't on "Christmas break" last week. Friday was the only day he took off.

And he's taken off a lot of Fridays during football season while doing his Sunday-night job on Football Night. This past weekend he had to be on for a half hour on Saturday afternoon. I expect we'll see him back five nights a week after football is over, unless his father's health dictates otherwise.

[janet118]

66. I don't know for sure . . .

but I think his dad has been very ill. Remember his health care commentary when Keith spoke about visiting his dad in the hospital and meeting a friend from his hometown.

[DutchLiberal]

86. I wish he *were* returning to actual news, instead of kidding around with...

... people who deserve no attention.

[Dollface]

26. Maybe they'll have her mud-wrestle Carlson. Think of the ratings!

Beck will think his soul mate has arrived, Billy with buy a new loufah and Sean will just keep kissing his reflection in the mirror when no one is looking.

[LibDemAlways]

27. Right where she belongs and mutually beneficial. FAUX gets another

empty head to spout lies and nonsense. Palin gets a forum to spout the lies and nonsense. Perfect.

As an aside, I have an old high school acquaintance I'd always suspected was a right wing loony. This year her Christmas card letter included this gem. "My passion is politics and I keep informed by watching FOX news." Pitiful beyond belief, but I suppose some people enjoy being willfully ignorant and truly stupid. I'm sure she'll get many insights from the Alaskan whack job.

[Berry Cool]

44. She needs to correct her spelling. Doesn't she know, this is how you spell it:

[Stuckinthebush]

31. Eh. She'll quit in a year to better serve the viewers of Fox News

No worries. She has the attention span of a 2 month old terrier.

[KamaAina]

63. DUzy!!

:rofl:

[Kweli4Real]

32. Who Didn't See ...

This coming? I imagine that she will provide hours and hours of entertainment. I just can't wait for her to be split screened with some/any progressive talking head discussing some/any policy issue. She'll probably do fine ... until she opens her mouth.

[stubtoe]

33. Just perfect for her. Now she can get all the attention she wants.

nt

[RedEarth]

34. Gosh, I never saw that coming

:sarcasm:

[stanwyck]

38. Next, Hollywood. What Sarah REALLY, REALLY wants is to be

in movies. OR maybe a TV Movie of the Week. Politics was just her entry. Like Newt, she's failed up. (Newt was refused tenure while a college history instructor). She couldn't get a job in TV journalism. So, she entered politics. What she wants is to be a star. When she looks in the mirror, she sees Meg Ryan.

[Bette Noir]

43. She could be the understudy in "The Tina Fey Story."

Since she failed to get the job as John McCain's understudy, playing POTUS.

[Blasphemer]

39. Apparently "God's Plan" = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$... nt

[onehandle]

45. Anyone who thinks that this grifter will ever run for President, can stop now.

That includes the sheep who worship her.

Palin is about nothing but $.

[dixiegrrrrl]

46. Gotta admit I am torn....

Listening to her is the aural equivalent of chewing aluminum foil
but
the amusement factor of train wrecks is pretty high, in small doses.

[Crowman1979]

47. The show will consist of feeding a pig with lipstick some talking points.

Yeah that's right! I called that mindless, christo-fundie, rethuglican, tea-baggin bimbo a PIG WITH LIPSTICK!!!

If you don't like that, then here is a song for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rtdnI2VJM

[gratuitous]

48. Reporting live! from in front of a turkey abbatoir, I'm Sarah Palin

I can hardly wait. Hold it. Yes I can. I could wait until hell froze over for this.

[babydollhead]

49. will they be able to censor her?

It's like letting the cat out of the bag. My Father in Law will lap at anything she says.

[Botany]

55. Palin will be like Bill O'Rielly and Beck all done on tape.

Rupert and Roger would never let her "do it live."

"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus
by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So,
you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she
disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

[alp227]

50. Are you serious?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

So Fox News doesn't care about the smart working-class Americans who can't find work but will give a political has-been a job? Classy.

[Botany]

51. Good move Fox

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/588c5da16a/sarah-palin-sportscaster-from-that-happened



She is really bad ...... BTW @ :38 to 41 she talks about "a beaver round up." :rofl:

[nolabear]

52. Oh, this is gonna be fun. If they turn her loose she'll have that foot in her mouth so much

her breath will smell like sweatsox. If not, she'll show them the real meaning of the term "Diva"! I can't wait.

[ScottLand]

53. Where else would you go when your experience

consists of "spreading misinformation"?

[swag]

54. Message to Rich Lowry:

Time to start masturbating!

[nolabear]

56. EPIC Diva tantrum in 3...2...1...

:popcorn:

[tanyev]

57. I hope she wears her fetching Castro hat for all of her appearances.

[Laura902]

58. Ugh

why can't she crawl back into a dark hole where she belongs?

[BadGimp]

59. wow

[TrollBuster9090]

60. Ms Palin will not have her own regular show--NO S#!T

Ya think?
The more Palin talks, the more of an embarrassment to movement conservatism she becomes. Therefore, do you really think anybody at Fox News would PAY Palin to blather on like an idiot for an hour a day?

This is a bribe to shut her up, pure and simple. My guess is she's getting a HUGE check from the corporate welfare machine, for which she'll only have to make a token appearence on Hannity's and O'Reilly's shows maybe once a month. She'll appear on screen, not in the studio, because that way she can be reading her talking points off of a teleprompter. Under absolutely no circumstances will she be permitted to "wing it." That will be stipulated in her contract.

She'll get this money in exchange for:

NOT speaking off the cuff to reporters while hillbillies are slashing the throats of turkeys in the background.
NOT making up cute Palinisms like "only dead fish go with the flow."
NOT shouting spontaneous answers "across an area" that directly contradict her party's official position on various issues.
and above all
NOT running off and forming a third party that will syphon votes away from the GOP.

If all these years of Palin acting like a complete idiot, and running around being an embarrassment to the GOP were designed to get her a fat contract from Fox News to STFU, I applaud her cunning.

[totodeinhere]

61. She will undoubtedly draw good ratings, and that's all they care about. n/t

[Ian David]

62. Right now, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are doing the happy dance.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

65. No beef.

It's a fair placement.

[old mark]

67. I never watch anything on Fox, so she is now on permanent "Ignore" for me. nt

[shawcomm]

68. To be renamed FNCTA

[steven johnson]

69. More business for www.politifact.com/

http://www.politifact.com/ named Sarah Palin "Liar of the Year."

The Truth-o-Meter is going to get a workout here.

http://sarahpalintruthsquad.wordpress.com/ will also be busy.

[Ticonderoga]

70. Her "contribution"

will come by way of the casting couch.

[damntexdem]

71. She may contribute to Fox.

She'll contribute nothing to news.

But, then, the same is true, of course, of Faux News itself.

[Xipe Totec]

72. Good fit, second only to Victoria Jackson

Too bad the video of Victoria Jackson on SNL Weekend Update is not available on Youtube.

This will have to do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RkGm4-KSDU

[Gregorian]

73. The secessionist patriot might even be able to see real journalists from her window.

Oh my god.

[Mythbuster]

75. Maybe they will give her and Karl Rove a show together!

This ignorant ho is determined to keep providing comic relief while she chips away at whats left of the GOP. She's kinda like a perfect storm!! :rofl:

[superconnected]

77. That station has always been desperate. The woman can't even formulate intelligible sentences.

[Raine]

78. TERRIFIC she will expose herself as the IDIOTIC

morAn that she is and give us some new material to laugh at all the old stuff was getting ... well ... old. :rofl: :thumbsup:

edit: spelling

[lakercub]

79. I plan to ignore this completely

It's no big deal. She will either try to be buddy-buddy with her wingnut pals or she will try to out-stupid the stupids (Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity). Who cares? Considering how loathsome Fox already is, she really can't make it that much worse. She is not as good at anger as O'Reilly, she can't trumpet talking points with the righteous indignation of Hannity (though they are equally mindless), and Beck has shot himself into a whole new crazy galaxy (he beat her to it). She will come on, spew some nonsense just like Gingrich, Morris, Coulter, Malkin, or North, and then be gone. We'll all be disgusted by what she says, but we already were anyway.

If she was hoping to use this as a way to stay in the public eye for a presidential run, it won't work. She will be preaching to her choir, but she won't be doing anything to help her cause with the centrists. I actually think this means she has no plans to run in 2012. I think somewhere someone with some sense informed her she would be crushed. Better to go to the shrill network and make some money for being nuts than get destroyed in an election.

[MadMaddie]

80. We should get a pool on how long she will last in this role!

She does not want to follow any rules, she couldn't follow the Repug rules running for VP.

[marshall]

81. If she runs in '12 she'll have to quit around the summer of '11

Don't they have some rule about face time on the air during a campaign?

[panzerfaust]

82. Meet the Next President

"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news," Ms Palin said in the Fox News statement.

Brilliant move on the part of the Regressives. This keeps her in the limelight, and, with someone talking into her ear, she will appear less ignorant, intolerant, and stupid than she is.

It can always get worse.

[thereismore]

83. That should read , Sarah Palin to "contribute" to Fox "News." nt

[Permanut]

84. Palin "Retired" as governor?

The spinning never ceases, even at the NYT

[DutchLiberal]

85. What do you expect from a channel that employs criminals like Oliver North?

I'm surprised people are even surprised by *anything* Fox does, including all of Beck's antics, after they hired Iran-Contra criminal North. Even seeing his name in the article makes me mad. North and Karl Rove: how many criminals can one network employ?