Posted on 11/16/2010 11:48:26 AM PST by onyx
Fox News pays Sarah Palin as a contributor to their network. And apparently to be “fair and balanced,” they also pay Judith Miller and Liz Trotta to make fun of Sarah Palin:
UPDATE: Here’s what was said:
LIZ TROTTA: “Alessandra Stanley [of the New York Times] had the best line [in her Nov. 11 review]. She said the new [Palin TLC] show was like ‘The Sound of Music’ without the Nazis, without the romance and without the music.”
JUDITH MILLER (laughing): ”Oh, the Washington Post hated it, too . . . [Post TV critic Hank Steuver] said [Palin has] the kind of sound of a voice when warning you to heed the bears – it would actually scare the bears. . . . He said you just get the sense that all she’s waiting for when she’s looking at this great outdoors is to get back to her SUV for enough bars to send out her latest twitter about the beauty of the environment.”
OK, that’s what was said during the commercial break. Here’s what was said when the show came back on the air:
SCOTT: She has gotten a lot of heat for that new show. Some lefty groups, Ellis, are pushing Discovery Communications to pull the plug. How about at that for freedom of speech?
[ELLIS] HENICAN: Strategic misstep on the part of the lefty groups, as you mentioned. Let the woman talk. Believe me, the more she talks, the better off they are.
(LAUGHTER)
[JON] SCOTT: Interesting that some of these folks who don’t like her — I mean, she puts eyeballs in front of television sets, right?
MILLER: Yeah, and she got a network to pay her a million dollars per episode to do this. But I found the most interesting review to come from Karl Rove, who is not exactly a left wing lunatic, who said this is not going to advance her presidential prospects. This doesn’t make her look presidential. I’d listen to Karl.
TROTTA: And the numbers keep going down every time she makes appearance, her popularity numbers. You have to keep track of those. The more you see her, the less you like her. And overexposure is something the Democrats have to pray for.
SCOTT: So you think that –
TROTTA: Plus the fact that they can bank on the timidity of most men, who are so absolutely spooked by feminism that they’re afraid to criticize her.
HENICAN: Give her something on the Cartoon Network
The enlightened leftists would probably be happier if she treated her child to a lobotomy and locked her in a closet like the Kennedy's did to Rosemary.
They just didn't think these two would get "new media" scrutiny.
“I think the more America sees her the more likely America will be to recognize BS when it gets said about her.”
Palin is BS personified. Obama is an empty suit. And Palin is an empty skirt.
They post them on commercial breaks, too?
I never knew that, and I wonder why they
don’t edit that out.
I have a nick-name for that photo:
” President Palin as Lara Croft.”
More people responded to this thread than watch that show.
They will hear from me as soon as I can write a paragraph that doesn’t contain profanity.
I see that you can't go a day without your daily troll post, clueless.
Into the sunlight for you, too.
Annoyed that Jim Pinkerton didn’t say anything. What is the name of this show? I want to include it in my note to Fox.
I guess they’re “proud” of it.
Fox News Watch.
Their home page, which posted the two videos, solicits stories about media bias!
Doesn’t that beat all? LOL.
Check mine.
I still don’t understand. Was this part of the actual show or just something they did during a break that was caught on tape.
I need to know before writing.
Much ado about nothing
I’m okay with Fox having liberals on to discuss political issues and other news. They are fair and balanced, you know.
And if anyone thinks Fox is not fair and balanced they should listen to MSNBC as I was forced to do for an hour at the doctor’s office today. Those people are unreal.
However, my problem is the sneering and personal comments about Sarah. That is beyond the pale. Especially making fun of her voice.
Annoyed that Jim Pinkerton didn’t say anything
I watched it. He bashed her too. Im telling you it was pure awful. Every person on that panel was laughing and bashing Sarah, I believe even Jon Scott.
The videos are of them talking to one another about Sarah during the commercial breaks.
I have always wondered who cares what Judith Miller thinks about anything. She is shallow and I can’t stand to listen to her voice!
I tried to email that show and my mail was rejected because their box is FULL! Gee, I wonder why!
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