Sarah Palin Signs Multi-Year Deal With Fox News

This post gives me a chance to report on two developments in the news today. I was thinking about putting up a post on Tucker Carlson's new website the Daily Caller. Carlson hired Jim Treacher, and he's linked my blog a bunch on Twitter, so I thought I've give him a shout out. Jim's new blog is the "DC Trawler." You can read all about it here.

I first heard about Carlson's new online start-up last week. I read somewhere that the Daily Caller was going to be like the right's Huffington Post. Well, if this frontpage screenshot is any indication, I'd say the early reports were on the money -- and I kinda love those huge banner headlines with the big pictures at HuffPo, even though it's a leftist site that I don't read or link. So, let's welcome the Daily Caller, where the first big story I'm linking is the news that Sarah Palin has signed on at Fox for a multi-year contract as a political commentator.

Checking Memeorandum, the Palin story is leading the headlines there. Howard Kurtz and Ed Morrissey have reports, and here's this from the latter, which sounds about right:

It’s a good move on Palin’s part ....

However, a multi-year deal may mean that Palin will wait to run for higher office. She could either go for the Senate or the presidency next, but either way, she’d have to start building a campaign no later than a year from now. Media outlets generally cut off analysts when they start building campaigns to avoid the necessity of giving opponents free air time for responses. A multiyear deal doesn’t preclude the possibility of entering into a campaign in 2011, but it indicates that Palin isn’t yet envisioning such a step.

That’s not necessarily a bad idea anyway. Palin is young and has plenty of opportunity to run for office, with 2016, 2020, and 2024 all being very realistic for her in terms of presidential campaigns. The Fox appearances will give her an opportunity to hone her craft while keeping expectations in check. Taking her time would be a smart move, and at least since her resignation from office, Palin has been making a series of smart moves.

I'd add though, that even with the Fox News gig, Palin could lose her "it girl of the moment" status, and thus the kind of popular momentum she'll need to make a run for the GOP nomination.

In any case, like Morrissey, I too suggested that Palin might do well to wait until later election cycles before making a White House bid. See, "Can Palin Win the 2012 GOP Nomination?" But having a year of developments since the Democrats took power, a Palin run for the nomination looks better than ever at this point. So, it's got to be a tough call on Palin's part to perhaps delay the big presidential run, at least if there's indeed a multiple-year deal in the works that puts a crimp on her campaign style. (Howard Kurtz above thinks the move's going to help Palin get situated for 2012, so this is all pretty much guesswork.)

I think rank-and-file conservatives are winners all around, in any case, as now they'll have Palin on Fox News leading the media charge against the Democratic-Obamunists.

More later ...

Mike Tyson's 'Disgusting' Comments Violently Sexualizing Sarah Palin on ESPN Radio

Well, I'm definitely late to this story.

Greta Van Susteren has the headline, "Tucker Carlson’s THE DAILY CALLER’s DISGUSTING POST." And the entry's still up at Daily Caller, with a disclaimer, "Mike Tyson: Sarah Palin met ‘the wombshifter’." I'd rather not link, only because I agree with Greta that Daily Caller's probably circling the drain and no need to prolong the agony at this point. This is the kind of stuff you'd see from TMZ types or folks like A.J. Daulerio at Deadspin.

Anyway, R.S. McCain's on the story, "HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP."

And Dan Riehl's in the thick of things with a number of posts, but read this first: "Link and Post Removal Notice." Also, "Daily Caller Runs For Cover Over Vile Palin Smear, Threatens Blogger With Lawsuit For Exposing It."

There's a Memeorandum thread, although this should be a bigger story than it is so far. Mike Tyson grotesquely and viciously attacks Sarah Palin. I don't even have the vocabulary to describe it.

More from Sissy Willis, "Greta Van Susteren takes Tucker Carlson to the woodshed."

Greta Van Susteren: Tucker Carlson Neglected to Tell Politico That Mike Tyson's a Convicted Rapist

Yeah, that does seem to be a significant omission.

See Greta, "Journalism and Judgment – filling in the blanks for Tucker Carlson to Politico":

Tucker neglected to include in his remarks to Politico this am – and which I am now completing for him – is that it is a convicted rapist (not Peyton Manning!) who is spewing the most vile violence against women. Maybe Tucker wants to troll the prison to see what pretty things they have to say about women? And he can call that news? I am sure he can find some really, really, really famous rapist in prison to get a quote or two about women.

And Tucker's a friend of Greta's! Who needs enemies??!!

And Josh Painter has a huge roundup of reactions, at Texans for Sarah Palin.

The Politico story's at Memeorandum.

There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done...

Remember HillBuzz last month, describing Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, et al.?

Honestly, we thought the extent of the attacks would be more of the same thing these people usually do, which is to say bad things about this site, to fill our voicemails up with nasty messages, to send more hatemail to our email telling us how much they want us to get AIDS and die, or how they’re going to find us in Boystown and beat us up. These are the people who threw rocks through our windows in 2008 because we had Hillary Clinton posters in them, and who’ve called us racists consistently for not supporting Dr. Utopia, as either a candidate or the Socialist in Chief he is now. That’s what the Left does to anyone who defies them: they call you a racist, harass you, and threaten violence against you.

And more recently at Whiskey Fire on S.E. Cupp and Tucker Carlson:

... there are in fact no such entities as "S. E. Cupp" or "The Daisy Call-Girl" and that nobody is dumb enough to believe you could ever get rich by banking on the likability of horrible halfwit dishwater failures like Tucker Carlson .... Fuck fuck fuckely fuck fuck fuckbooger fuckbananas fuck.

And then Andrew Sullivan on Sarah Palin:

She is Coughlin with boobs – except with a foreign policy agenda to expand Israel and unite with it in a war against Islam ... Do not under-estimate the appeal of a beautiful, big breasted, divinely chosen warrior-mother as a military leader in a global religious war.

Then Demon-Machine on Tiger Woods' recent public apology:

Tiger Woods addresses a waiting nation and declares that he LIKES TO FUCK. A lot."

And Doug-e at Brain Rage:

... UPDATE ... NEWSFLASH! ... Dick Cheney and Bob Dole are both hospitalised. Bad batch of Viagra suspected?...

And a self-descriptive David Hillman projecting his deep-seated eliminationist hatred onto conservative "reactionaries":

... reactionary ideas and talking points have infected public discourse to such a degree that it is poisoning how we treat each other in our daily lives. It is a political subculture that shuns dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas in favor of outright elimination of the opposing side through suppression, condemnation, ostracism, or extermination.

Radical leftists are filled with rage and hatred and death-wish determination to destroy the ideological other. The left's hatred is not difficult to find - "it's easy". They should chill with some Beatles, for a little while, at least:

Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.
Love, Love, Love.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need.

All you need is love (All together, now!)
All you need is love. (Everybody!)
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need (love is all you need)
(love is all you need) (love is all you need)
(love is all you need) Yesterday (love is all you need)
(love is all you need) (love is all you need)

Yee-hai!
Oh yeah!
love is all you need, love is all you need,love is all you need, love is all you need, oh yeah oh hell yea! love is all you need love is all you need love is all you need.

Cross-posted from American Power.

Anita MonCrief to File Federal Election Suit Against Obama Machine

At Emerging Corruption, "The Obama Donor List"

For a number of years traditional print media has been on life support, but after the revelations from Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller, it looks like someone finally pulled the plug. The expose on Journolist, a now defunct, listserv that included hundreds of liberal journalists, detailed:

the Journolisters’ attempt, during the 2008 presidential campaign to kill and bury stories about Obama’s relationship with “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright;

their push to deliberately smear innocent conservative journalists and politicos as “racists” and “bigots”

their twisted passion to see Rush Limbaugh killed off and dead;

their intolerant desire to have the government censor and shut down Fox News; and

their baldly partisan effort to coordinate liberal talking points that would discredit Sarah Palin and John McCain, while helping to elect Barack Obama president.

Considering that Journolist included journalists from Washington Post, the New York Times, National Public Radio, New Republic, and Time, one has to wonder if the biggest story covered up in 2008 was the illegal coordination between ACORN and the Obama campaign ...

And check the video at Big Government, "Breaking: Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration."

Also, at No Sheeples Here!, "BOMBSHELL: EmergingCorruption.com Has Released The Kraken On The White House."