A post at Fox News
Jan. 12th, 2010 05:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I can't imagine what Sarah Palin thinks she's doing. If she is running for President, which I thought was certainly the case thus far, then I cannot see this as anything but a step backward; and not only because Fox News is a highly divisive outlet, but above all because I cannot remember a single case of a political commentator or journalist ever having a serious career as a politician. That is, I can think of one case, who was a professional journalist for many years, and that is not a good precedent. He was called Benito Mussolini.
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Date: 2010-01-12 08:14 am (UTC)Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
From watching Greta Van Susteren's show recently, the only difference in having Sarah Palin join the network as a pundit, is that she will be paid for her contributions. It has become very much the Sarah Palin show.
Having her on Fox news will make her appear much more 'middle of the road and noderate' than she is currently perceived to be.
Beside Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck anyone would appear moderate.
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Date: 2010-01-15 11:11 pm (UTC)I guess the main difference is in the degree of focused attention which he and his wife have been lavishing on Palin for the past few years, and that Coale crossed party lines to do it.
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Date: 2010-01-12 10:43 am (UTC)Beck and Hannity, in particular, are no longer mainstream Republicans and the 'Tea Party' movement, which Fox has really been pushing, has all the hallmarks of a new political party.
Palin may prefer to be the big (only) voice in a minority party than one of many voices within a larger one. I get the feeling that the compromise required to lead a party like the Republicans, which is almost as broad a church as the Democrats, does not seem to me something Palin would be open to.
The tea party movement reminds me a little of the early days of the DUP, all it would take to turn the teaparty movement into a small, but significent party would be a charismatic leader. Palin fits that bill. Add a TV network and you have the start of something. Something that could grow quickly.
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Date: 2010-01-12 10:48 am (UTC)P.S.: there is some sort of law of the Medes and Persians whereby so-called conservative parties harvest the Christian vote only to treat it with unmitigated contempt, in the certainty that it cannot really go to their left allies. It is so with Mr.Cameron, so with Karl Rove's Republicans, so with the so-called Christian Democrats of Germany and Holland, and so with Mr.Berlusconi's alliance. A hard-faced rebellion against being used and abused might be no bad thing.
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Date: 2010-01-12 03:08 pm (UTC)She does have a lot on her plate, with her large family and grandchild. Were I here, I would be looking at entering politics again ten or fifteen years from now, when her life is a bit simpler.
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Date: 2010-01-14 11:10 am (UTC)Even more convinced that this may be the start of a new right-wing group pushed by Fox News. You may be right Fabio, that it will be achieved through a takeover of the Republican party, or it may be a new party. Whatever happens the program last night was not in any way a new program.
It was polemic from start to finish.
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Date: 2010-01-14 09:54 pm (UTC)Mussolini was also a school teacher, or am I thinking of Salazaar. I suppose any teacher running for office should rethink it before they launch themselves down the inevitable road to evil.
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