# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**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, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/41 "2013-01-28T21:25:23Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I woulda gone with Gallagher. Or Carrot Top. Carrot Top was my first thought! But Pauley is just a hair less funny, and I used to work for his mom. You and I agree on the broad brushstrokes, as it were, however. ---
**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, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/42 "2013-01-28T21:28:20Z")
Not fair! Carrot Top is only a hair funnier because he has so much more hair. ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/43 "2013-01-28T23:00:40Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Not fair! Carrot Top is only a hair funnier because he has so much more hair. But he doesn’t have an irrating mom, that’s 2 strikes against him. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/44 "2013-01-29T17:14:21Z")
> [@digs](#): > > What does this mean for my 2016 dream team of _Bachmann/Palin Overdrive?_ I dunno, but I’m designing the t-shirts! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/45 "2013-01-29T18:58:46Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > I’m glad to see that her 15 minutes of fame are finally up. Now she can join Victoria Jackson in the ranks of D-list Teabagger celebrities in the darker corners of the blogosphere. i think SNL should give the pair 5 minutes to say whatever they want every show. you would have to have the sound people bring up their audio and damp down the audience laughter so that you could hear them in the broadcast though. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/46 "2013-01-29T19:20:23Z")
Kucinich was a great choice for them and I’m irate that he actually agreed to it. He is not a photogenic guy, he has way-left wacky views, he doesn’t have a strong or commanding presence at all. He’s basically the PERFECT liberal punching bag for them, and I cannot fathom why he agreed to work for their network. He is stupider than I thought he was. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/47 "2013-01-29T19:49:49Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Like so many of us, Dennis clearly married out of his league. I feel that I must quote _Better Off Dead_ “Her? And Him? … That makes sense.” ---
**Author:** ![26charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9d8465/32.png) [@26charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/26charlie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/48 "2013-01-30T08:58:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > …but still, that purpose could have been served by someone a lot closer to the American center than him. But that would be TRULY balanced, even if they appeared on shows where they’re outnumbered Four or five to one. Foxnews already have their token quota and dont appear to want more, because centrists can only serve to damage the network’s carefully crafted narrative. They know dennis’s reputation (not just the ufo’s), so might think any risk can be neutralized by some character assassinating on the fly (if necessary). ---
**Author:** ![26charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/9d8465/32.png) [@26charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/26charlie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/49 "2013-01-30T09:06:03Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > …He’s basically the PERFECT liberal punching bag for them, and I cannot fathom why he agreed to work for their network… The money might have been appealing, specially since he needs a job - it would be easy money, whatever the sum. Face time on the airwaves can be useful if he’s thinking of running again. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439/50 "2013-01-30T11:45:06Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Palin’s insurmountable challenge is speaking in english sentences. I’m always shocked at what a bad speaker she is for a woman with a degree in communications. Maybe it’s because she attended so many different schools (two in that foreign country, Hawaii) in pursuit of her degree that her actual education just got lost in all the boxes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-fires-sarah-palin-hires-dennis-kucinich/648439.md?page=2)