# Fox News fires Sarah Palin, hires Dennis Kucinich **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439 "2013-01-26T15:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/21 "2013-01-26T22:54:26Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Let me go Google that… > Elizabeth kuci… > > HOLY MOLEY! Even better on Youtube. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/22 "2013-01-27T02:15:50Z")
One thing was made abundantly clear by the last Democratic convention - the Democrats have way more hot women on their side. Hot models, hot actresses, even their political pundits are way hotter (Krystal Ball, despite the name, is a pundit, not a stripper, though she could easily do very well in that profession). ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/23 "2013-01-27T02:31:30Z")
> [@digs](#): > > What does this mean for my 2016 dream team of _Bachmann/Palin Overdrive?_ Funny, my idea of a great bumper sticker for that election would be **Hillary Clinton / Hattori Hanzô 2016** _“Its What The House Needs”_ ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/24 "2013-01-27T05:15:06Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > Fox is interested in ratings. > > Lord help me, the picture of Palin in the linked article makes me want to cream my pants. Based on appearance only, Sarah Palin is my vision of the perfect woman. Once her mouth opens (other than to, well you know…) the situation changes. Overall a horrible woman. > > Kucinich is, whether you agree with his politics or not, an interesting and entertaining guy. I would watch him on Fox. [Mmm, yeah, get ya’ some of that buddy.](http://punchumgum.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/palin-cellulite.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/25 "2013-01-27T05:44:48Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > Lord help me, the picture of Palin in the linked article makes me want to cream my pants. Based on appearance only, Sarah Palin is my vision of the perfect woman. I have never understood this reaction. There’s no such thing as a GILF. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/26 "2013-01-27T05:53:59Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > I have never understood this reaction. There’s no such thing as a GILF. Apparently you’re unfamiliar with the work of Juliet “Aunt Peg” Anderson, who didn’t get into porn until she was 39. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/27 "2013-01-27T14:00:39Z")
I am a conservative, but I have always respected Dennis Kucinich for what I see as consistency and honesty in his political stances. I believe he truly believes in what he stands for, which is a vibe I don’t get from hardly any politicians these days, definitely not from any Republicans in leadership positions. And not from a lot of Democrats, either- Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, for example, seem more interested in grandstanding and playing games. I have never been impressed with Sarah Palin. She has lots of fight in her, obviously, but not the intellectual capacity to be a true leader of anything. She spouts buzzwords and platitudes and talking points with no capacity to back up what she’s really saying if challenged. As a conservative, I would want somebody as a spokesperson who could hold their own in a fight. Sarah Palin definitely couldn’t beat Obama in a debate if they had one. And I don’t view Obama as a particularly strong debater by any means. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/28 "2013-01-27T17:11:20Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Apparently you’re unfamiliar with the work of Juliet “Aunt Peg” Anderson, who didn’t get into porn until she was 39. I’ve met 29 yr old new grandmother. I’m gay, but I’m pretty sure most straight men would love to fuck her. ---
**Author:** ![26charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9d8465/32.png) [@26charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/26charlie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/29 "2013-01-28T01:35:57Z")
I think foxnews has always recognized that palin’s allure was going to be time limited because you can only be a potential candidate for so long. She wouldn’t be a candidate because the demands of running against other repubs in primaries would be too much (every innocent question would be a potential “gotcha”) so her only chance for recognition extension was if someone picked her for VP again. Foxnews is doing their part to ‘tailor’ their party’s acerbic image to the changing demographics, so palin will join beck, dick morris and the full presence of rove (lets see how hannity is handled down the road). I also think they wont see kucinich as another alan colmbs and may even write into his contract that he is expected to make provacative and controversial commentary about current events (something he will relish). Righties will tune in to him more to see what crazy things ‘the left’ is saying that week. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/30 "2013-01-28T01:42:08Z")
> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#): > > Lord help me, the picture of Palin in the linked article makes me want to cream my pants. I don’t think The Lord can help you with that. ---
**Author:** ![26charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9d8465/32.png) [@26charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/26charlie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/31 "2013-01-28T02:05:55Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > …She spouts buzzwords and platitudes and talking points with no capacity to back up what she’s really saying if challenged. As a conservative, I would want somebody as a spokesperson who could hold their own in a fight… Palin’s insurmountable challenge would be a the repub primary process, once the format is beyond just spouting the familiar partisan platitudes. A conservative that fits yours (or anybody’s, once they’re familiar with him) is david keene, a former leader of the american conservative union and present prez of the NRA. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David\_Keene](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene) Its very fortunate for that organization to have keene as a spokesman for them at this time in their history, to be a reasoned counter voice to their current polarizing spokesman, wayne laPierre. As we’ve seen lately, keene is very articulate and his stances on civil liberties gives him broad appeal across the spectrum. I will expect the repub powers to strongly recruit him to run for office again - unless those people believe he is too liberal for the current repub party?? (which would be a sorry state). ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/32 "2013-01-28T04:01:49Z")
Palin’s insurmountable challenge is speaking in english sentences. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/33 "2013-01-28T04:15:21Z")
Dennis “No Strings!” Kucinich is an analyst for Faux News now? That’s interesting. He got gerrymandered out, right? Now he’ll have more national exposure. Might be a good thing. He’s eccentric, but endearingly his own man. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/34 "2013-01-28T04:20:36Z")
Yes, obviously Fox is just doing this in an effort to get ratings. That’s no surprise. What _is_ a surprise, though, is that the political climate has shifted enough that the Fox execs now believe that the way to get ratings is to bring someone like Kucinich aboard. Yes, I know that he’s a token, and that his primary purpose on the network is going to be for them to say “Yes, see, we really are balanced, we even have a Democrat”, but still, that purpose could have been served by someone a lot closer to the American center than him. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/35 "2013-01-28T14:24:23Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Let me go Google that… > Elizabeth kuci… > > HOLY MOLEY! Like so many of us, Dennis clearly married out of his league. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/36 "2013-01-28T15:13:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Yes, obviously Fox is just doing this in an effort to get ratings. That’s no surprise. What _is_ a surprise, though, is that the political climate has shifted enough that the Fox execs now believe that the way to get ratings is to bring someone like Kucinich aboard. Yes, I know that he’s a token, and that his primary purpose on the network is going to be for them to say “Yes, see, we really are balanced, we even have a Democrat”, but still, that purpose could have been served by someone a lot closer to the American center than him. Good for him. Michael Steele is the conservative on MSNBC, and does a good job. Pat Buchannan used to have the job, but lost it due to one too many racist rants. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/37 "2013-01-28T17:27:30Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Good for him. Michael Steele is the conservative on MSNBC, and does a good job. Pat Buchannan used to have the job, but lost it due to one too many racist rants. “_The_ conservative on MSNBC”? There’s only one? Ed Schultz may have disavowed conservatism, but Joe Scarborough is still right of center, isn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/38 "2013-01-28T17:30:27Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > “_The_ conservative on MSNBC”? There’s only one? Ed Schultz may have disavowed conservatism, but Joe Scarborough is still right of center, isn’t he? Sorry, I meant that he’s the “go-to conservative guest”. He doesn’t have his own show, like Scarborough does, and I doubt Kucinich will be offered his own show either. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/39 "2013-01-28T17:37:41Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I have to share this wonderfully delusional opening sentence from a Christian Science Monitor story: > > “When the history of US politics in the early 21st century is written, two figures will stand out: Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.” > > [Why Fox News dropped Sarah Palin - CSMonitor.com](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0126/Why-Fox-News-dropped-Sarah-Palin) Isn’t that like saying “When the history of American comedy is written, two names will stand out, Charlie Chaplin and Pauly Shore.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/40 "2013-01-28T17:44:20Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Isn’t that like saying “When the history of American comedy is written, two names will stand out, Charlie Chaplin and Pauly Shore.” > 😃 I woulda gone with Gallagher. Or Carrot Top. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439.md?page=3)