{"id":11048,"date":"2013-01-18T18:49:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T01:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11048"},"modified":"2013-01-18T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T01:52:00","slug":"match-made-in-heaven-fox-news-and-dennis-kucinich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/01\/18\/match-made-in-heaven-fox-news-and-dennis-kucinich\/","title":{"rendered":"match made in heaven: fox news and dennis kucinich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the right wing source &#8220;Accuracy in the Media&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.org\/don-irvine-blog\/fox-news-signs-liberal-dennis-kucinich-as-contributor\/\">is saying about Fox News hiring Dennis Kucinich as a political analyst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Kucinich becomes the latest in a string of liberals at Fox, including former Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Bob Beckel, Sally Kohn, Jehmu Greene and Santita Jackson who have joined the network in recent years.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>In a statement, Fox News chairman and chief executive Roger Ailes said that he was always impressed with Kucinich\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fearlessness and thoughtfulness about important issues,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and that he is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153valuable voice in our country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debate.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/em><em>While Kucinich would have been a better fit ideologically at MSNBC, by joining Fox he gets a bigger audience in which to spout his left-wing views. It makes me wonder if Fox isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trying to siphon away some of MSNBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s audience by building a stable of liberal contributors to ensure it remains the king of cable news.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AIM at least doesn&#8217;t pretend Fox News isn&#8217;t &#8230; bending to the right?&#8230; in general \u00c2\u00a0Other than that, we can mock calling Evan Bayh &#8220;liberal&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2013\/01\/16\/1179544\/-Kucinich-Cashes-In-With-FoxNews#\">What the Daily Kos has to say<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>A Big FU to Dennis. \u00c2\u00a0He gets to play house liberal for $$$ so the conservatives can laugh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I know where Kucinich fits into a &#8220;silliness of liberal&#8221; scrabble for Fox News , but he is an interesting one nonetheless &#8212; prior to this, his biggest media fix was with a sort of &#8220;Pacifica Radio&#8221; arena. \u00c2\u00a0If war breaks out, there will be a liberal speaking out against it on Fox News, I suppose&#8230; as opposed to Evan Bayh as spokesperson for that&#8230; maybe he&#8217;d be booted by the time we get to a Republican Administration and leave us with Evan Bayh a-okaying anything for the National Defense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the right wing source &#8220;Accuracy in the Media&#8221; is saying about Fox News hiring Dennis Kucinich as a political analyst: Kucinich becomes the latest in a string of liberals at Fox, including former Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Bob Beckel, Sally Kohn, Jehmu Greene and Santita Jackson who have joined the network in recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11048\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}