“Makes FOX Look Biased”? FOX is biased. That’s a simple fact. No one makes FOX look biased.

It’s kind of silly for Medved to worry about Fox NEWS losing credibility at this point. People who religiously watch Fox NEWS’s punditry are in it for the same reason that people watch MSNBC’s punditry: they like hearing people they agree with.

Let’s be clear. If information consumers REALLY WANT to critically assess things in the age of information, the educated among them should know that it’s extremely naive to count on one source to deliver all the facts devoid of any political agenda.

It’s funny of Medved to think that there might be Fox NEWS viewers tuning in post-Palin-hire and saying to themselves: “Well, now…I’ve been watching Sean Hannity and Bill O’ for years, and Sarah Palin’s fair and balanced assessments just don’t match up to theirs.”

Come on, now.

Oh Joe you just wrote the most common sense post I have ever seen on this site. CONGRATS

Interesting, when FOX News hires a conservative, all hell breaks loose. But, when they hire a liberal, everyone is quiet as a mouse.
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Joe Trippi Becomes FOX News Contributor
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/joe_trippi_becomes_fox_news_contributor_146532.asp

There has been some interesting and comprehensive polling of Palin lately that seems to affirm what many thought would happen. Her own book and her book tour, drawing out thousands of crazed fans, had the effect of turning Palin into a shameless huckster and self-promoter in the eyes of a substantial majority of Americans, including conservative Americans. Other books providing analyses of the 2008 election have further eroded her credibility and electoral desirability. Few Americans, including few Republicans, want her to seek election and few would support her is she were to do so. That, plus her ridiculous demeanor and content vacuum in her initial FOX appearances seem to suggest she has transformed herself into a human Popeil product. I find very little to commend her although I am pleased she is sticking it to the (White) Tea Party Conclave organizers. I am only sorry she is not going to be a candidate. Such an easy victory that would have been.

A very good analysis, Joe. Thank you.

Stewart III, I think we all recognize Trippi will be given very little air time, as is the case with any moderate on FOX. If he does get some air time, we may see a ripple across the pond.

To Stewart III’s point, why isn’t there an uproar when CNN/MSNBC hires another liberal?

To be a genuine populist requires that Palin not only know the people’s common interests, but be better informed, more politically savvy and steadfast in the defense of core principles than they are. Successful populism requires enlightened elite leadership.

This is what Mrs. Palin lacks. It is one thing to be the mayor of Wasilla or the governor of Alaska; it is quite another to be the leader of a broad-based ideological movement. The problem with Mrs. Palin is not her views – and certainly not her middle-American background. Instead, it is her incompetence and poor judgment.

She is a product of our narcissistic celebrity culture. Instead of doing the heavy (and unglamorous) political lifting required of a national leader, she is embracing the luxurious life of a TV talking head. She has abandoned the very basis of her populist legitimacy: her outsider status.

For all her sound and fury – and at a moment of American crisis – Mrs. Palin has fatally chosen a conventional and lackluster path: to become an integral part of the media class. Her mystique will evaporate as she becomes overexposed and too familiar to be enchanting. Rather than going rogue, she has gone establishment.

What an excellent post, DEO. Thank you.

I totally agree and thanks for the insight DEO. By the way I saw 6 Republicans on MSNBC today as commenters. Even that crazy woman from Tennessee. See they do let Republicans speak there.

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