"I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News," Mrs Palin said in a statement on the network's website.
"It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news."
This made me laugh out loud. I then read it to my wife (who is an award winning reporter in Oklahoma) and her reaction wasn't laughter but frustration. She said that she couldn't believe Fox was still attempting the "Fair and balanced" schtick and how unprofessional and particularly biased -- not fair or balanced -- it was for journalists to be directly involved with politics as many of Fox's commentators are (Karl Rove, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin now, Newt Gingrich). And I quote, "That's not journalism."
For more on Fox being fair and balance, here's a great article from October that lists ten particularly blatant lies. Or you could watch the Daily Show with John Stewart calling them out, it seems endlessly, for being anything but fair and balanced.
Not that the other stations are any better though. TV news in general has the tendency to make me leave a room.