{"id":489,"date":"2010-01-12T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2010-01-12T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T11:47:00","slug":"mooseolini-finds-a-fitting-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/mooseolini-finds-a-fitting-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Mooseolini Finds a Fitting Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I predicted this, but it mush have been in comments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/MooseoliniFindsaFittingHome_2307\/Fox_News_Nazi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"Fox_News_Nazi\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Fox_News_Nazi\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202010\/J-M\/MooseoliniFindsaFittingHome_2307\/Fox_News_Nazi_thumb.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that <strong>the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Palin, who resigned as governor of Alaska last summer, <strong>will appear as a commentator on various Fox shows<\/strong>. She will also host an occasional program that will examine inspirational tales involving ordinary Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Palin will join Mike Huckabee as a Fox contributor who was also involved in the 2008 campaign. The exposure can only help Palin if she decides to pursue a 2012 presidential bid.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">At the moment, Palin makes pronouncements mainly through her Facebook page. The Fox connection would give her a platform on the nation&#8217;s top-rated cable news channel.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">Palin is extremely popular with her conservative base, which has fueled the sales of her best-selling memoir. But she is a divisive political figure who not only draws the ire of liberals but some Republicans, including staffers who deal with her during her run as John McCain&#8217;s running mate\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/01\/palin-signs-on-with-fox-news.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The plus for Mooseolini is that her ignorance will not be an impediment, as <em>Faux Noise<\/em> values ideology over accuracy.&#160; The plus for <em>Faux Noise<\/em> is that they gain nationally prominent political figure, a sex-symbol to the rabid right, and a mind so oblivious that she will gleefully parrot Rupert Murdoch\u2019s lies in the belief that they are true.&#160; Palin could not have found a better fit than the GOP Reichsministry of Propaganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I predicted this, but it mush have been in comments. A Fox News executive says the network will shortly announce that the former vice-presidential nominee is signing on as a contributor. Palin, who resigned as governor of Alaska last summer, will appear as a commentator on various Fox shows. She will also host <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/mooseolini-finds-a-fitting-home\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}