Who Is The “Tree-Hugging…Liberal Jew From L.A.” At Fox?

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by Steve Krakauer | 8:32 am, April 9th, 2010

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“I am what some might think would be the least likely person to be at Fox — a Berkeley graduate, tree-hugging, West Coast, free-market, liberal Jew from L.A. who puts bricks in the toilet to save water,” said the Beverly Hills native with a husky laugh that would make Mae West proud. “But I like the attitude and personality of this place.”

– Fox Business Network anchor Liz Claman tells the Los Angeles Times about her path to the network in a Los Angeles Times profile this week.

One of the first anchors from another network to join the young Fox Business Network in 2007 was Liz Claman, who came over from CNBC. This week the Los Angeles Times profiled the star at FBN, who revealed a bit about her “tree-hugging, West Coast, free-market, liberal Jew from L.A.” background.

She also talked about her interview style. Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz told the LAT: “As soon as I heard that Liz would be conducting the interview I signed up. Some people feel that they have to jump all over you but that doesn’t make for a good interview. Not Liz, she charms you into confessing everything.”

Claman agreed. “I do ask the tough questions, but I’m not in your face, I am not trying to make news myself,” she said. “I think a lot of broadcast journalists get confused, particularly in cable, about what is the real story. Is it you, or the people who made the news?”

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http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

Who ever said Liberal, cannot be conservative. Conservative liberalism is a more positive and less radical version of classical liberalism. Conservative liberal parties combine liberal policies with more traditional stances on social and ethical issues. They are generally supporters of economic liberalism and they often identify themselves as law and order-parties, which are tougher on crime and support higher levels of punishment and are more committed to fighting terrorism. Conservative liberals differ from social liberals because they place less emphasis on ethical issues and are often in favor of stricter control of illegal immigration and are usually less tolerant of multiculturalism. So it will be interesting to see where she falls into this category…
same2u

No offense Liz, but you are hardly the first sell-out to work at Fox News

P.S.
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http://mediaite.com Steve Krakauer

What’s dysfunctional about it? It’s new so we’re trying to make sure everything works properly.
same2u

Well, maybe I am misinterpreting the data. I thought it would show the number of comments I have made when I click on it. Rather it is showing 30,000+ comments which I assume is the total made to date by everyone.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

It doesn’t work. You click the link and just refreshes the page…
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

Probably need to update to WordPress 2.9.2.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

Ok I think I have it figured out…………. Nope! don’t work
Cecelia

Liz Claman is smart, beautiful, and funny, but she needs to update her look from the 80′s.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Stravinsky/1562906170 Bruce Stravinsky

Which FBN viewer didn’t already know that Liz was a tree huggging liberal (which actually contradicts the ‘free market’ self description)??? FBN and FNC hire lots of liberals. Anybody with any political experience or sensitivity can tell the keywords that people use which give away their biases. For instance, Brian Lamb NEVER uses an adjective which is perjorative towards either side and should be considered the standard and not Kronkite, Murrow or whoever else the Left loves.

Liz is an enviromental wacko. She doesn’t care what economics effects are created. She doesn’t even care about the science. She just wants us to stop drilling, logging, building or creating electricity (which will hurt TV ratings….). But she is a generally intelligent woman and she is photogenic even in HD so Roger Ailes hired her. The whole nonsense about Fox being so biased ought to be put into a hamper somewhere. There are lots of liberals at Fox and Fox Biz. They hire more than anybody else (because they have larger budgets from having higher ratings???).

You want some other liberals? Shep Smith, Jane Skinner, Whorealdo, Greta (although she is far less ideological now) as well as the out-of-the-closet Wall Street experts they have on all the time and the handful of Democratic campaign managers like Joe Trippi, Beckel, Caddell or Schoen. Which other network would pay to get those people? Apparently, nobody.
http://thedailybarb.com Jack Burns

Yah I love Greta! Love Shep also. I didn’t know Jane was a Lib though.. Cool! many of us Libs are conservative. We believe in conservation “and” cutting down trees. (thinning out the forest is good for us, and the animals!) Just going around us when we are having our tree hugging moments. LOL
Stephen

“The whole nonsense about Fox being so biased ought to be put in a hamper somewhere” Glenn Beck has enough bias for the country, Sean Hannity, and Billo take care of primetime when the network presents its face. I don’t see Geraldo as a liberal? The only lib is Shep. Alan Colmes but he is gone….