![\"Sarah](\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3161\/2924045227_bd2355c1aa_o.jpg\")
<\/p>\nAfter the surprise victory by Christine O’Donnell in the GOP senate primary in New Hampshire, her role model, Sarah Palin, visited Bill O’Reilly to offer the candidate some advice on dealing with the press and her own staff, who O’Reilly asserts are keeping her off of his program:<\/p>\n
“So she’s going to have to learn that, yes, very quickly. She’s going to have to dismiss that, go with her gut, get out there, speak to the American people. Speak through FOX News.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The spectacle of Palin, a Fox News employee, offering her analysis that O’Donnell should “speak through Fox News”<\/em> is a perfect illustration of the built in bias that is at the heart of Fox News. Palin inadvertently let slip the fact that Fox is the PR arm of the Republican Party and that Republicans should be taking full advantage of that (not that they didn’t already know).<\/p>\n
Try to imagine someone like correspondent Lara Logan advising Democratic candidates to speak through CBS News. For that matter, try to imagine any network news correspondent with a role remotely similar to Palin’s at Fox. In addition to her network duties, Palin actively campaigns for GOP candidates, raises funds for the party and affiliated advocacy groups, and is herself a potential candidate for office.<\/p>\n
Palin is not alone at Fox as a partisan player. Former Fox News host John Kasich is presently running for governor of Ohio. Former, and possibly future, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee currently hosts his own Fox show. Contributors Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Andrea McGlowan, have all been, or are considering being, GOP candidates for office.<\/p>\n
Fox News is the place where Republicans go to nurture their political aspirations. They are the farm team for the GOP. And now Sarah Palin has admitted it in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After the surprise victory by Christine O’Donnell in the GOP senate primary in New Hampshire, her role model, Sarah Palin, visited Bill O’Reilly to offer the candidate some advice on dealing with the press and her own staff, who O’Reilly asserts are keeping her off of his program: “So she’s going to have to learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[26,33,381],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-HU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2742,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=2742","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":0},"title":"Christine O’Donnell Flunks Remedial Republicanism","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/18\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest Tea Party Mama Grizzly to ascend within the ranks of the GOP asylum is Delaware candidate for senate, Christine O'Donnell. Last Tuesday O'Donnell defeated \"moderate\" Republican, Mike Castle and will face Chris Coons in the general election in November. This should be fun considering her record as an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3260,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3260","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":1},"title":"Fox Spews: Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly And The Simpsons","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/23\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox Spews: An irregular column featuring selected morsels of regurgitated nonsense from everyone's favorite propaganda pit. Sarah Palin's Alaska Ratings Plummet \u00a0 After setting a TLC ratings record last week, Sarah Palin's reality show plummeted for its second episode. Sarah Palin's Alaska fell 40% on Sunday night to 3 million\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9558,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9558","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":2},"title":"Sarah Palin Is Pissed That She Couldn’t Get A Date For The Nerd Prom","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/28\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard to even know where to begin to respond to this: Sarah Palin calling anybody else pathetic is a textbook example of Acute Delusional Projection. But for her to direct that criticism at the White House Correspondent's Dinner that she herself has been affiliated with in the past reflects\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7782,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7782","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":3},"title":"Fox News Recycles The Sarah Palin VP Script – Changes The Name To Paul Ryan","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/16\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Professional marketers know that when you've got a winning product, stick with it. However that doesn't explain what Fox News is doing with their promotion of Paul Ryan. The Sarah Palin script was a non-stop parade of effusive flattery for her appearance, her stage presence, and the fresh invigoration she\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4307,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4307","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Ignores Donald Trump’s NBC Ties","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/25\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"For much of the past decade Fox News has been a virulent opponent of NBC. They have severely lashed out at its news division and many of the hosts on their MSNBC cable arm. The attacks have ranged from NBC being in bed with President Obama to being responsible for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Election"","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9095,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9095","url_meta":{"origin":2722,"position":5},"title":"Sarah Palin Look-a-Like Scott Brown Takes Her Place At Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/13\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The worst kept secret in cable news has just been confirmed. After having lost the senate seat he held for a mere two years, Scott Brown has been hired as a contributor by Fox News. Filling a role that was held by Sarah Palin until her recent dismissal, Brown is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}