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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...
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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.)
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.
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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)
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?
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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?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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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.)
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.
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posted on
01/28/2013 2:21:32 PM PST
by
sand88
To: KC_Lion
Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.
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posted on
01/28/2013 2:56:56 PM PST
by
Marathoner
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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.
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posted on
01/28/2013 3:06:25 PM PST
by
bicyclerepair
(toodamtall1@yahoo.com)
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
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posted on
01/28/2013 3:11:54 PM PST
by
TWhiteBear
(Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
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
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posted on
01/28/2013 3:12:29 PM PST
by
TWhiteBear
(Sarah Palin...The Flame of the North)
To: TWhiteBear; bicyclerepair
Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.
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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)
To: TWhiteBear; bicyclerepair; Marathoner
Boy for someone so irrelevant she certainly lives rent free in their heads.
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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)
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.
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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!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why all the ranting over Palin again, do they fear her in 2016?
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posted on
01/28/2013 10:09:53 PM PST
by
MaxMax
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