Fox News To Hire Judgment Day Preacher Harold Camping

Pray for Fox NewsWith his latest prediction of Armageddon behind him, Judgment Day Preacher Harold Camping is looking forward to his new position at Fox News as a politics and religion commentator. The announcement of this addition to Fox’s roster of pundits came this morning from Fox Vice President and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon:

Sammon: We are pleased to begin what we believe will be a long and fruitful relationship with this distinguished observer of American culture, religion and society. Harold has a keen insight into current affairs and a connection to America’s faith-based community. He also has a predictive track record that fits squarely with the team at Fox News.

Sammon is quite correct in that assessment of Camping’s history of forecasting. He is at least as accurate as the stars on the network. For instance:

  • Bill Kristol predicted in 2003 that “American and alliance forces will be welcomed in Baghdad as liberators.” In 2008 he predicted that “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary.”
  • Glenn Beck predicted an economic collapse in November of 2009 and warned his viewers to “find the exit closet to you and prepare for a crash landing. Be prepared, it’s coming. Most likely after Christmas, you’ll start seeing the effects of what they are doing to the economy.” The Dow is up 25%, and unemployment down 10% since then.
  • Newt Gingrich’s prediction about a post-Iraq war was that “once you don’t have Saddam Hussein in Iraq […] the Syrians will start backing down and the Iranians will start backing down.”
  • Dick Morris predicted the candidates for the 2008 race for president would be Hillary Clinton vs. Condoleezza Rice.
  • Sarah Palin predicted that the result of passage of the health care bill would mean that “my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel.'”
  • Cal Thomas Predicted that “euthanasia is coming. You can call them death panels. That’s exactly what they’re going to be.”

A couple of weeks ago a study was released that showed that most pundits are only right in their prognostications about 50% of the time. The numbers were even worse for conservative pundits who, according to the researchers, were wrong more often than liberals.

Camping, a popular Christian radio broadcaster, could flow smoothly into Fox’s lineup. He shares most of the editorial slant favored by the network’s veterans. When reached for comment he said…

“What? Fox News? Oh yeah. Me and Roger [Ailes, CEO of Fox News] had lunch and discussed the return of Jesus. The world is ending, you know? What date is it? Could someone shut the window?”

That’s why Camping should fit right in with the rest of Fox’s commentators. There is certainly nothing in his past that would indicate that he would lower Fox’s average for accurate forecasting. He might even be a good replacement for the departing Glenn Beck. His areas of interest (politics, morality, the end of all human existence) match closely Beck’s favorite subject matter. In fact, with a little make up, Beck’s audience may not even be able to tell the difference.

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15 thoughts on “Fox News To Hire Judgment Day Preacher Harold Camping

  1. I thought FNC was trying to shed their reputation as a punchline, guess not.

    They won’t understand the unemployment down 10% thing.

  2. Mark’s sense of humor is almost as worthless as Bill Maher’s. Check your calendar, dude. April 1st passed by several weeks ago.

    • You whine because you know its true.

      • No. It’s a lie. Camping has nothing to do with Fox News. I’m surprised MSNBC hasn’t hired him so they try to make conservatives look bad. Heck, they keep giving Orly Taitz air time. Why not Camping too?

  3. Camping should have made April 1st the date for his end of the world prediction, at least he would have had a ready made excuse when it didn’t happen. I predict the next person to predict the end of the world will be wrong.

  4. The “study” you reference in this post…well its not really a study, its a school project. A poorly done one at that.

      • College is school. And I left my comments under the post about the study.

        • Sean, you say you read the study and that it was mostly presidential or other political race predictions. In fact, they only give a few examples of the topics studied, many of which had nothing to do with campaign predictions. And again, those were samples, not the full extent. That axe you’re grinding must be pretty worn out by now.

          • No Sammy, the study has an attached spreadsheet that has all the quotes used.

  5. Really?! I mean, Really?! Apparently, Fox News employability requirements would be discredited whackjobs, homophobic morons, & hypocritical liars.

  6. “…discredited whackjobs, hypocritical liars…”

    Roger Ailes has already stated that he will NOT hire Keith Olbermann.

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