Palin's new show appears to be a bit misleading.

joepistole

joepistole

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Fox has given Sarah Palin a TV show of her own and they have been running promotionals advertising interviews with various celebreties. Just one little problem some of the celebreties were never interviewed and knew nothing about any appearances on her show.

Celebreties like LL Kool J and Tobby Keith, never did any interviews with Palin or Fox. As it turns out Fox and Palin lifted previous interviews these celebreties gave to others news channels and are just replaying them in Palin's new program and taking credit for it.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36120399

Is that ethical?
 
What do we expect of Palin or FOX?

No, it's not ethical. But what, really, do we expect of FOX News or Sarah Palin?

More specifically, though, I think it's a question of how FOX marketed the star power. Using interview footage in secondary productions is a common practice, but if, say, I'm using documentary footage of an old Pink Floyd interview, I shouldn't promote the show as featuring Roger Waters.
 
Ethics aside (it is F-news), it just shows incompetence. There was no reason not to do real interviews with Palin. I mean, she's hot, who wouldn't want to talk to her?
 
Lose-lose

Spidergoat said:

I mean, she's hot, who wouldn't want to talk to her?
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I would suggest the answer is anyone who doesn't want their head to explode from the heat of trying to process such monumental stupidity.

And, no. There's nothing "hot" about Sarah Palin. So it's kind of a lose-lose proposition in that context.
 
Can wankers be waspish? Duh! Of course they can.

Here's an interesting twist: FOX News got snitty about the whole thing. Tom Leonard reports, for The Daily Telegraph:

Fox News, a staunchly Right-wing network owned by Rupert Murdoch, responded to the criticism by removing the segment featuring LL Cool J - real name James Todd Smith – from the programme.

In a waspish statement, it said that "as it appears that Mr Smith does not want to be associated with a programme that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career".​

Ah, Britannia!
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Notes:

Leonard, Tom. "Sarah Palin's TV career hits early controversy". The Daily Telegraph. April 1, 2010. Telegraph.co.uk. April 2, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-Palins-TV-career-hits-early-controversy.html
 
Tiassa said:
...And, no. There's nothing "hot" about Sarah Palin. So it's kind of a lose-lose proposition in that context.
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You don't think she's hot when she wears those tall boots and the fascist leather jacket? I'll wager 90% of the American male public would disagree with you.
 
spidergoat said:
You don't think she's hot when she wears those tall boots and the fascist leather jacket? I'll wager 90% of the American male public would disagree with you.
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Quite possibly the rest of the male population would agree with you but I personally have never found her attractive, I'm not a MILF fucker.
 
Low standards?

Spidergoat said:

You don't think she's hot when she wears those tall boots and the fascist leather jacket?
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Nope. There's more to attraction than the superficial.

I'll wager 90% of the American male public would disagree with you.
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And Britney Spears has been a best-selling musician. In either case, I'm not obliged to answer for people's low standards.
 
spidergoat said:
I'll wager 90% of the American male public would disagree with you.
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I'd take that wager. There's a reason that mainstream American swimsuit calendars and porn movies don't heavily feature 40-something bespectacled grandmothers.

The appraisals of her attractiveness have to be taken in context. She's hot for a national politician. That most males might prefer her to, say, Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton is not much of a recommendation in absolute terms. But in a context normally devoid of any noticeable sex appeal whatsoever, she has an easy time standing out.
 
Tiassa said:
Here's an interesting twist: FOX News got snitty about the whole thing. Tom Leonard reports, for The Daily Telegraph:

Fox News, a staunchly Right-wing network owned by Rupert Murdoch, responded to the criticism by removing the segment featuring LL Cool J - real name James Todd Smith – from the programme.

In a waspish statement, it said that "as it appears that Mr Smith does not want to be associated with a programme that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career".​

Ah, Britannia!
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Notes:

Leonard, Tom. "Sarah Palin's TV career hits early controversy". The Daily Telegraph. April 1, 2010. Telegraph.co.uk. April 2, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...-Palins-TV-career-hits-early-controversy.html
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Well it just goes to further show what most unbiased observers already know, Fox News has no qualms about deliberate distortions of truth.
 
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