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The Price of Palin: $15 per Word Spoken During FOX Contract
Smart Politics ^ | January 28, 2013 | Eric Ostermeier

Posted on 01/28/2013 1:16:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah Palin uttered more than 189,000 words over 150 appearances on various FOX broadcasts during her three years as an analyst at the network, or $15.85 per word

With the three-year contract now expired between FOX News and Sarah Palin, there is a wealth of commentary made by the former Alaska Governor and GOP Vice-Presidential nominee to dissect.

Palin, who was paid a reported $1 million per year as a contributor to FOX since mid-January 2010 when FOX announced her signing, may not have made quite the splash her employers had hoped during this three-year period, and would, on occasion go weeks between appearances.

So, did the network get their money's worth?

A Smart Politics review of the more than 150 FOX broadcasts in which Sarah Palin appeared as a paid commentator from 2010 through 2012 finds that she spoke 189,221 words on air during this span, for an average pay rate of $15.85 per word.

Palin appeared on the network in studio, by satellite, by telephone, or in a pre-taped interview an average of once every 7.2 days during this three-year period, with the vast majority of those coming on two particular programs.

Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren both interviewed Palin 55 times, combining for nearly three-quarters of her appearances on the network over the last 36 months. (Note: the latter total includes interviews by Griff Jenkins and guest host Martha McCallum on Van Susteren's On the Record program).

Though the number of appearances were equal, Palin spent a bit more time in the 9 pm EST slot, delivering 72,986 words on Hannity compared to 67,987 words while on On The Record with Van Susteren.

Overall, 74.4 percent of the words Palin delivered during her political analysis occurred on these two programs...

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TOPICS: Education; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: foxnews; minnesota; palin; sarahpalin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WTF? Seriously...WTF? I have looked several times, and I do not see ‘John Semmens’ or ‘satire’ attached to this anywhere...


21 posted on 01/28/2013 2:04:14 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: MestaMachine; The Cajun; onyx; 3D-JOY
The Repubs and Rats are so afraid of her its beautiful.

We are blessed to have such Great FReepers be her supporters :)

She also drives the PDS Freepers nuts too, like the ones above me and thats funny too.


22 posted on 01/28/2013 2:05:00 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: who knows what evil?

She’s been living in their heads, rent free, since 2008. Don’t look at what they say, look at what they do. The two major newspapers in this country not only flew crews of reporters to Alaska to dive into her private e-mails, they “crowd-sourced” their readers to help them. Remember that?


23 posted on 01/28/2013 2:10:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sure do.


24 posted on 01/28/2013 2:18:08 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I just did a quick calculation and it seems the debt increases by over $60B every time Obama plays golf.


25 posted on 01/28/2013 2:21:32 PM PST by sand88
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To: KC_Lion

Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.


26 posted on 01/28/2013 2:56:56 PM PST by Marathoner (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Marathoner

If she is irrelevant, why are you here?
(say to a commenter who says she’s irrelevant)

My favorite:
A worthless target attract no fire.


27 posted on 01/28/2013 3:06:25 PM PST by bicyclerepair (toodamtall1@yahoo.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jealousy is a terrible thing.
I'm sorry the people from the HSPA are so agitated to realize that Sarah Palin makes around 1800% more per word than they have ever earned, and she always will.
And Sarah worked and earned her salary in a voluntary agreement, not using the tax power of the government to take from all and give to some cronies.
TWB
28 posted on 01/28/2013 3:11:54 PM PST by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jealousy is a terrible thing.
I'm sorry the people from the HSPA are so agitated to realize that Sarah Palin makes around 1800% more per word than they have ever earned, and she always will.
And Sarah worked and earned her salary in a voluntary agreement, not using the tax power of the government to take from all and give to some cronies.
TWB
29 posted on 01/28/2013 3:12:29 PM PST by TWhiteBear (Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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To: TWhiteBear; bicyclerepair
Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.


30 posted on 01/28/2013 3:49:31 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: TWhiteBear; bicyclerepair; Marathoner
Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.


31 posted on 01/28/2013 3:49:54 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: woweeitsme
Well there you go, public edu thinks it's the quantity of words spoken that determine how important the thoughts are and how worthy they are. So now we know why those MSM talking heads blather on and on, it's to justify their salaries. I can think of a few quotes that weren't wordy but will always be remembered:

“Nuts”
“Come And Take It”
“Come quickly Mr. Watson”

It doesn't take a lot of words to make sense.

32 posted on 01/28/2013 5:37:29 PM PST by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why all the ranting over Palin again, do they fear her in 2016?


33 posted on 01/28/2013 10:09:53 PM PST by MaxMax
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