Watch your back when Fox News wishes well

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Watch your back when Fox News wishes well

DAVID BAUDER
Associated Press

NEW YORK - If someone at Fox News Channel wishes you well, watch your back. The seemingly benign sentiment is a creative signature of Fox's public relations, usually accompanied by a kneecapping. It's something like a kiss from a Mafia don.

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was the latest to visit the wishing well. When The New York Times recently asked Fox its opinion of Olbermann, who has repeatedly used Bill O'Reilly as a pinata on his nightly news countdown, spokeswoman Irena Briganti replied:

"Because of his personal demons, Keith has imploded everywhere he's worked. From lashing out at co-workers to personally attacking Bill O'Reilly and all things Fox, it's obvious Keith is a train wreck waiting to happen. And like all train wrecks, people might tune in out of morbid curiosity, but they eventually tune out, as evidenced by Keith's recent ratings decline. In the meantime, we hope he enjoys his paranoid view from the bottom of the ratings ladder and wish him well on his inevitable trip to oblivion."

Have a nice day, Keith!

Plainly, public relations is a contact sport at Fox News Channel - with, as Fox PR chief Brian Lewis explains, a sense of mischief sprinkled in.

"Has there ever been a more disingenuous phrase in the corporate handbook, or the PR handbook, than `we wish him well'?" asked Lewis. "`Earnings have fallen in the last eight quarters and we wish Joe well as he leaves the company to pursue other interests.' We know what they mean, so we just thought we'd have some fun and point out the hypocrisy of the term."


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[RevCheesehead]

1. Yeah, but Keith made her (aka BillO in drag) as WPITW.

I thought Keith handled it just fine. :)

[Berry Cool]

2. Yeah, and this is not even the first time Faux has wished him well.

I thought everyone was aware by now of that particular disgusting, vindictive habit of theirs. He just takes it and throws it back in their face!