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OH LOOK, ANOTHER ATTRACTIVE WOMAN ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL!
Righties see plenty of reasons Sarah Palin signing a contract with Fox News is good. Ed Morrissey sees the upside: “It’s a good move on Palin’s part. She gets more national exposure, which never hurts anyone’s political ambitions. Fox News may be already attracting her core supporters, but her appearances will receive a great deal of scrutiny from the Left as well. The regular to-and-fro on politics will allow Palin to expand her credibility and build a broader base of support for her political ambitions.”
The reaction on Conservatives4Palin is pretty enthusiastic: “LOVE THE IDEA THAT SARAH PALIN WILL BE ON FOX!!!!!! PALIN 2012!!!!!!!” (That’s 13 exclamation points, if you lost count.)
Newsbusters asks, “Can’t you feel all the seething going on in newsrooms across the fruited plain?” MarketWatch declares Fox News the big winner.
The Washington Times’ Amanda Carpenter is either a brilliant satirist or merely spotlighting the greatest example of life imitating the Onion, tweeting that Chris Matthews – you know, the guy who said West Point was enemy territory to President Obama – declared about about Palin going to Fox: “Ha! How can she be a pundit, she doesn’t know anything.”
As for reasons Sarah Palin signing a contract with Fox News is bad . . . well, not too many conservatives were speaking ill of the move, so allow me to play the contrarian: Bah. Sure, I’m sure the deal is lucrative and she’ll probably be ratings gold for Fox News, but this leaves her preaching to the converted. Think back to that convention speech, conservatives. We fell in love with what this woman could do, not just what she could say. A lot of conservative politicians noticed how Ronald Reagan used a column and radio commentaries to keep himself in the public eye after he was governor. But he had already been a successful governor. It feels like we’re reaching capacity with former GOP politicians on the airwaves: Palin, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, Bill Bennett, J.D. Hayworth, Joe Scarborough, Bob Ney (!) ] Mark Foley (!) . . .
Sure, Sarah Palin will make the arguments in a manner few other conservatives could. But talent like hers seems a little too good to be used as another cable news talking head.