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Kurtz: "Doesn't Sarah Palin exploit the media fascination with her, especially from her new perch at Fox News?"

February 14, 2010 12:25 pm ET

From the February 14 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources:

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Previously:

Palin says she "would" consider running for president in 2012 "if it was the right thing to do for our country"

Palin puts on her Fox News "analyst hat" to guess who will be the GOP frontrunner in 2012: "I have no idea"

Fox News lets McCain and Palin give their very own State of the Union addresses

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    • Author by epkklk851 (February 14, 2010 1:06 pm ET)
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      As much as she bores me personally, I am quite pleased to have her hogging the spotlight and raking in the dough for her Pac, because as long as she does, her ilk isn't coming up with anyone who might be even more fringy. You betcha'.
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    • Author by overmars jr. (February 14, 2010 1:14 pm ET)
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      Gosh golly gee, ya think?!
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    • Author by DAWUSS (February 14, 2010 1:15 pm ET)
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      You betcha!
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    • Author by MickD (February 14, 2010 1:16 pm ET)
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      To ask this question is a silly "duh" moment. Basically the rest of the media turns their head because Sarah sells their media. Profit trumps integrity, its the American way.
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      • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (February 14, 2010 2:45 pm ET)
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        Exactly, I'm surprised he didn't answer the question himself. What doesn't she exploit?
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        • Author by TheDayV (February 15, 2010 12:03 pm ET)
             
          I'm not. Kurtz has again and again refused to make any kind of weighty statement about anything. In fact, he picked at Joe Klein for calling Limbaugh a liar, saying that that kind of language was too strong. Kurtz is a wuss who won't make any kind of judgement whatsoever in some overly-limp attempt at preventing any inference of bias from any kind of critic. His judgement is so timid that if someone came on and said 2+2=5, he'd thank them for a fascinating reimagining of mathematical realities before he called them on being wrong.

          This is more evidence that he takes the easy way out and avoids controversy at all costs. For a show that presents commentary on commentary, there's disappointingly little coming from the host that grants him any relevance whatsoever.
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      • Author by nativeofsf (February 14, 2010 6:16 pm ET)
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        Actually, the media turns its "collective" head, closes its myopic eye, then coughs...only to excitedly await another prognosis from
        -- 'Ol Doc Sarah's Glue Pot of Prognostications! --
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 14, 2010 1:25 pm ET)
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      Nah, she doesn't. There is no conflict of interest that Fuchs Noose doesn't like and exploit, as long as it involves promoting a republican or conservative candidate for public office.

      It would be a conflict of interest only if democrats were involved in a similar situation.
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      • Author by jimhum (February 15, 2010 12:29 am ET)
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        "It would be a conflict of interest only if democrats were involved in a similar situation."

        WOW, I am sure happy that MSDNC never has anything to say about the Demos, and the lefty liars.

        There is more hate heard any afternoon on MSDNC than heard on Right-wing radio in the past 20 years.

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        • Author by So Fain (February 15, 2010 11:09 am ET)
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          LOL! Absurd.

          Please post your evidence.
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        • Author by s3y3kwah (February 15, 2010 11:44 am ET)
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          Let us know when Fox gives a three hour morning show to a former democratic Congressman the way MSNBC has Morning Joe.

          The hate you must be referring to is all of the fact based refutation of right wing talking points which happens daily on a show like Rachel Maddow's. Thank goodness MSNBC is willing to give the three hours per night that they do to balance the daylong attack on our intelligence that is Fox News and AM right wing hate radio.

          Liberals wear a t-shirt that disagrees with dubya to one of the pre-screened town halls... Reaction? OMG!!! We had better arrest that America-hating terrorist!

          Teabagger brings a gun to protest an Obama event... Reaction? What a brave person standing up for his god-given right to shoot anyone and anything at anytime.

          You right wingers and your false equivalences are beyond comprehension.
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        • Author by jediknight65 (February 15, 2010 11:58 am ET)
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          really? name one person on msnbc who has agreed with either glenn "ed wood" beck or racist limbaugh.

          and as for liars.....was it president obama who lied us into the iraq war?

          keep drinking whatever it is you're drinking. might make the haze a bit deeper.
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        • Author by jediknight65 (February 15, 2010 12:00 pm ET)
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          oh and lets not forget to name one person on msnbc who actually agreed with the birther's and didn't call them out for being the racist cowards that they are.

          better change the bleach your using for your hood. it's affecting your brain.

          here kitty kitty kitty kitty.
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        • Author by kromecom48 (February 15, 2010 1:54 pm ET)
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          Positively absurd. What a dodo, what part of the South do you live in? Alabamy? Been to any tractor pulls lately? Please post more frequently here, we're in desperate need of posters representing all I.Q. levels, even those at the very bottom of the spectrum.
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    • Author by jjamele2880 (February 14, 2010 1:33 pm ET)
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      And while we're at it, doesn't the sun emit light and heat?

      I mean, as long as we're asking questions here.
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    • Author by Vaseal (February 14, 2010 2:12 pm ET)
         
      I give her a year before the GOP disowns her or pushes her aside. She can't win the Presidential election but she can siphon votes if she runs as a third party. SO her only option is to be the idiot filter for the GOP standing by the real candidate simplifying everything they say. "Obama bad! GOP good! America good!"
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    • Author by GreenLantern (February 14, 2010 3:30 pm ET)
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      She (palin) terrifies me!
      With all her calculated pandering to the fringes, she shows that she will do ANYTHING to further and enrich herself. glenda beck is pretty insane but could never possibly get the following it would take to do more then just minor damage to the country. She pushes the same agenda as beck. But with her, they keep giving her platform after platform, national coverage after national coverage and she has enough charisma that she could possibly start something really deadly serious!
      Watch out for her.
      Remember bush was mostly a figure head for neocons. And he got appointed for the first and fraudulently took the second. (when looking up voter fraud in 2004, there are enough statistics to show that he might not have even won the popular vote then either)
      Sometimes a small, vocal, energetic minority can overcome a lethargic majority. (just look at money in elections!)
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 14, 2010 5:54 pm ET)
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        Exactly right. All the more reason to watch her every move and expose her for the know nothing that she is. Based on her latest polls, the attention has done what it is supposed to do. And it may also be reflected in the barring of the press from her upcoming events in FL.
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    • Author by GrandpaMark (February 14, 2010 8:19 pm ET)
         
      Simple. Watching her is like watching a drunk weave through 40 mile an hour traffic. Does anyone here doubt that a spectacular crash is coming?
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    • Author by jediknight65 (February 15, 2010 11:53 am ET)
         
      like this isn't common knowledge already?
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