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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Foxy Judy

Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller to join Fox News.

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Monday, October 20, 2008 09:59 AM

I view her entire NY Times career as just...

..one long audition for her current position.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:05 AM

See, this would be embarrassing for FOX

If they were a news organization. Since they aren't, well, I'm sure Judith has to eat to.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:08 AM

In the spirit of bipartisanship...

Let's send her a new set of knee pads to replace the pair she wore out while working for the NY Times.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:14 AM

What took so long?

Seriously, shouldn't this have happened years ago?

And, back to the scheduled snark: doesn't this actually raise the journalistic level of Fox News?

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:17 AM

Maintaining non-reality

Who's next -- "Curveball," the Chalabi source Miller relied upon, as a Fox News polling expert?

Yes, quite likely he is next. Once the GOP is swept from power, and their worldview is dismantled and shown for being intellectually and morally bankrupt for all the world to see, maintaining the pro-GOP worldview is going to require some very creative energy. I expect Fox is working to set up a completely alternative reality that goes live November 5.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:21 AM

Neocons unite!

Curious. Seems the rats are running towards the sinking ship...

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:26 AM

@normanx

Curious. Seems the rats are running towards the sinking ship...

I was thinking more of a collapsing star, about to shrink past the event horizon and become a black hole. It's either get out now or get dragged in and trapped forever!

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:26 AM

Judith Miller needs to DIAF

That's it. All I have.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:35 AM

I thought MSNBC....

....had cornered the market on black conservative commentators and republican strategists.....sometimes they appear two at a time bashing Obama.....maybe that will be the new trend if Obama wins.....that way they can criticize (right or wrong) and not be accused of being racist.....

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:47 AM

"whatevs". Really?

Schaller, your self-referential mental wankery that can barely be called "writing" is embarrasing and execrable.

Other than Paglia, you're the worst thing about this site.

Monday, October 20, 2008 10:55 AM

Good old Bernie!

I moved from Vermont a little over 2 years ago, and so was not able to continue my long time support for Bernie. But I am sure he would be embarrassed by being placed into the same sentence as the Connecticut turncoat. Can you say opposite ends of the political spectrum? I am sure Judith will have nothing nice to say about him. And will Fox's falling viewing stats cause the loss of anyone who costs too much? Or will Rupert pay the bill?

Monday, October 20, 2008 11:04 AM

But can she shoot a gun

seriosuly soon the resume will need to include your NRA membership and at least one big caliber pistol

The bar has been raised

Monday, October 20, 2008 11:10 AM

Once again

Once again proving that in journalism, the key to finding steady, consistent, long-term employment is to absolutely, totally, suck at your job. Even achieving a level of mediocrity is too much. If you want to get ahead, you have got to suck with every fiber of your being; you must make it your total mission in life to get everything wrong, 100 percent of the time.

Monday, October 20, 2008 11:12 AM

Not surprising

This is the network that puts a criminal like G. Gordon Liddy on. Next to him, Miller practically looks distinguished. The whole network is a bunch of thugs and low-lifes.

Monday, October 20, 2008 01:08 PM

Why not Chalabi?

Miller is an embarrassment. Who's next -- "Curveball," the Chalabi source Miller relied upon, as a Fox News polling expert?

I expect them to get Chalabi himself?

Monday, October 20, 2008 01:48 PM

What's Even More Perverted

Is she's going to cover "First Amendment" issues as if she really went to jail for not disclosing a source instead of being a tool for Libby and Cheney.

Monday, October 20, 2008 04:45 PM

Probably no on Chalabi

I think most Fox viewers would take umbrage at an Arab telling them what to think...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 05:36 AM

Safire next to join Foxy Judy. Again.

Bill Safire was Judy's silent partner at the Times, and slipped off the Op Ed pages without anyone noticing that he's led the way in carrying slippery liquids for Republican administrations for decades. Do some googling and you'll see that Safire not only was the first to bring news of the phonied connection between Osama through Atta to Saddam Hussein, he singlehandedly led the Cheney chorus on this, the major false message rationalizing the war, until Judy had one foot in her cell. He visited her, of course - along with John Bolton - certainly her (and possibly their mutual) direct link to Cheney's disinformation operation.

Then, just as Fitzgerald was closing in on the Times' role in allowing what many Times readers (although, shockingly, not the Editors) recognized as packaged propaganda, Safire slid off the Op Ed page without notice or a last huzzah. He continues to evade scrutiny for his role in cheerleading the biggest of the Bush-Cheney Big Lies.

He also continues his pro-Repub and anti-Dem messages, albeit a tad more subtly, in his etymology columns. Now that he has a new book to promote, I'm betting he'll join Foxy Judy on Rupert's set for more than a quick review.

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