{"id":4488,"date":"2011-05-22T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2011-05-22T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T17:22:00","slug":"fox-news-to-hire-judgment-day-preacher-harold-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4488","title":{"rendered":"Fox News To Hire Judgment Day Preacher Harold Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2501\/4122955558_20306f627a_o.jpg\" alt=\"Pray for Fox News\" class=\"alignright\" \/>With 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&#8217;s roster of pundits came this morning from Fox Vice President and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Sammon:<\/strong> 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&#8217;s faith-based community. He also has a predictive track record that fits squarely with the team at Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sammon is quite correct in that assessment of Camping&#8217;s history of forecasting. He is at least as accurate as the stars on the network. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bill Kristol<\/strong> predicted in 2003 that <em>&#8220;American and alliance forces will be welcomed in Baghdad as liberators.&#8221;<\/em> In 2008 he predicted that <em>&#8220;Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Glenn Beck<\/strong> predicted an economic collapse in November of 2009 and warned his viewers to <em>&#8220;find the exit closet to you and prepare for a crash landing. Be prepared, it&#8217;s coming. Most likely after Christmas, you&#8217;ll start seeing the effects of what they are doing to the economy.&#8221;<\/em> The Dow is up 25%, and unemployment down 10% since then.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Newt Gingrich&#8217;s<\/strong> prediction about a post-Iraq war was that <em>&#8220;once you don&#8217;t have Saddam Hussein in Iraq [&#8230;] the Syrians will start backing down and the Iranians will start backing down.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dick Morris<\/strong> predicted the candidates for the 2008 race for president would be Hillary Clinton vs. Condoleezza Rice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Palin<\/strong> predicted that the result of passage of the health care bill would mean that &#8220;my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama&#8217;s &#8216;death panel.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cal Thomas<\/strong> Predicted that &#8220;euthanasia is coming. You can call them death panels. That&#8217;s exactly what they&#8217;re going to be.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4379\" target=\"_blank\">a study was released<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Camping, a popular Christian radio broadcaster, could flow smoothly into Fox&#8217;s lineup. He shares most of the editorial slant favored by the network&#8217;s veterans. When reached for comment he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Camping should fit right in with the rest of Fox&#8217;s commentators. There is certainly nothing in his past that would indicate that he would lower Fox&#8217;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&#8217;s favorite subject matter. In fact, with a little make up, Beck&#8217;s audience may not even be able to tell the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 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&#8217;s roster of pundits came this morning from Fox Vice President and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon: Sammon: We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[15],"tags":[893,476,254,33,44,894,568,381,161],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-armageddon","tag-bill-sammon","tag-dick-morris","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck","tag-harold-camping","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-sarah-palin","tag-william-kristol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1ao","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1209,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1209","url_meta":{"origin":4488,"position":0},"title":"Meet Bill Sammon: The New Fox News DC Chief","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/26\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The \"Fair and Balanced\" network, Fox News, has just promoted Bill Sammon to VP And Washington Managing Editor. 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