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Jan 11, 2010 at 3:45 pmPalinpalooza officially Hits Fox News!
It’s not like you had to have a gig at the old Psychic Friends Network to have predicted Sarah Palin would eventually turn up as a Fox News commentator. And now, it’s official. The former GOP vice presidential candidate, quitter half term Alaska governor, has reportedly inked a “multi-year deal” with the unfair and unbalanced cable giant. Does this mean Sarachuda’s less likely to run for the top spot in 2012? We’ll see. But I always thought the former sportscaster was angling for a Fox gig. Hey, maybe she’ll eventually go head to head with that other ex-sports guy, Keith Olbermann. First she’d have to jump over Bill O. For now, she’ll only be a “contributor,” popping up on various shows and possibly hosting a “limited series” like Ollie North’s “War Stories.”
Maybe they actually found a gig that won’t be so easy to quit. Take a look a the clever montage Media Matters cooked up as Palin’s video welcome mat.
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My brother worked in a mental asylum a few years back as an intern. He said the functionally disabled residents tended to be rather helpful towards each other, assisting each other in getting through day-to-day trials and tribulations… I imagine the employees and managers at FoxNews functioning the same way–and accordingly, they’re assisting Palin in the ways they can, good Americans that they are….
It’s interesting to note, too, that the birth of the “asylum” was historically connected to the influence of the Age of Reason; prior to this time, in the Middle Ages, mysticism was revered, and the mentally ill were often seen as being mystics, themselves–their ravings being manifestations of the Divine, Himself. But when “Reason” became the law of the land, so to speak, the “mad” were sheltered away together in institutions, dividing those capable of reason from the sufferers of insanity and delusion…. And therein lies another similarity between FoxNews and mental illness; Fox is beginning to slowly separate the insane from the reasonable, by becoming a shelter for the mentally ill.