Malkin Gets a Show –updated below–
Michelle Malkin and the female version of Alan Colmes, Kirsten Powers, though
she\’s a lot better looking, are teaming up on FNC to target the blogosphere.
Fox News Channel is testing another pilot on Sunday that will air following
its experiment in news satire, \”The ½ Hour News Hour.\”\”It\’s Out There,\” a half-hour of stories derived from blogs, will
get a half-hour test run following Joel Surnow\’s satirical take on news.Show, fronted by conservative blogger-columnist Michele Malkin and former
Clinton administration operative Kirsten Powers, will take on political and
cultural issues enflaming the blogosphere. …
If you\’ve watched Laura
Schwartz in action, then you likely also heard Powers
on Fox \”News,\” too, giving out her brand of 20th century Democratic
wisdom. Of course, they\’re both blondes, because blondes just look great on camera.
Fox also can\’t have anyone who who could go straight at Malkin. That\’s not
what Fox \”News\” does. Interesting, however, that both Schwartz and
Powers worked in the Clinton administration. Murdoch has a thing about the Clintons,
I guess. (Update… Here\’s another video from C&L: Powers v. Coulter.)
But at least it\’s one more Democrat on Fox, right?
The Democratic Party is making peace with FNC, or a pact with the devil, whatever you want to call it. Fox is hosting the Nevada debate later this year, with everyone wondering Why? As I wrote yesterday,
if you asked our candidates for \’08 if they wanted the Fox audience I\’d bet
they\’d say YES! Anyone wanting to win in \’08 wants the biggest
audience possible, which means Fox has to be considered. However, that doesn\’t
mean it will end well for the Dems, though I hope our candidates show the wingnut
Fox crowd what real national security, coupled with diplomacy, looks like. I
would rather any network but Fox host the debate, but I think it just might
give the wingnut crowd a real shock. When they actually see how good our candidates
are…. Nah. Scratch that, I caught the Fox fever for a moment.
As for the Malkin – Powers half hour show called \”It\’s Out There,\”
it sure is, out there, that is. They\’re also launching on Oscar night, so lots of luck. However, I\’m really hoping they pull it off. Yes, you read that right.
Frankly, it\’s good to see two women headlining a TV show on cable. You don\’t
see that on CNN or MSNBC, for sure. Russert never invites women on his version
of \”The View.\” So I say good for Fox. Though to be clear, they\’re putting together a woman who believes internment is constitutional, and who also makes stories up out of whole cloth, with a woman who is still living in the 20th century, as far as progressive politics is concerned. So what we\’ll be getting on \”It\’s Out There\” are two women with regressive viewpoints, neither of whom have actually entered the modern era, let alone the modern media world. It\’s likely not good news for the blogs.
It\’s a show with two women who haven\’t said anything positive about
the blogosphere since they started testing their team with Bill O\’Reilly. If Powers does for Democrats what Alan Colmes has done, we\’re screwed. We\’ll
have to see if it\’s a serious effort by these Fox gals, or if it\’s just another
hit against the new media that is beating everyone, especially Fox, at the game.
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