Sarah Palin and Fox News

The AP has reported that Sarah Palin has just signed a contract with Fox News to be a "regular contributor" to their network.

In a statement posted on Fox New's website she said "I am thrilled to be joining the great talent and management team at Fox News. It's wonderful to be part of a place that so values fair and balanced news."

Besides the fact that she is talking crazy when she says that Fox News is "far and balanced", this can't be a good thing for American politics. I make no quarrels that I do not like Sarah Palin. Despite my obvious biases, this . Her being under contract with Fox News as a regular contributor can mean only one thing....she wants to be President. While this in of itself is scary (Sarah Palin as President....still makes me scream in horror over a year later), this is not what really upsets me. Sarah Palin has set a precedent for all other hopeful Presidential candidates...she has signed a contract with a private corporation to become an employee. She is now an employee of the Fox corporation. Not only that, this particular corporation and the network she works for specifically has an agenda. Their agenda is to make money off of spouting an ideology.

This whole arrangement seems quite fishy to me. I simply don't like the idea of someone who works for and gets paid by an agenda-drive, profit-motivated MAJOR corporation potentially running for the most important position in the world (Don't tell me otherwise that President of the United States is the most important job in the world. It is.).

Some would argue that if Fox News has an agenda, so does CNN or MSNBC (they be liberal as opposed to conservative). That's fine. But my question to those is do you see Anderson Cooper or Keith Olberman running for President? Has Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama ever been a paid employee of these networks? No. The closest thing CNN has is James Carville, who at point in his career was a campaign manager for Bill Clinton. Running a campaign is different then making national policy decisions. Then again, Fox News has Karl Rove.

If Sarah Palin decides not to run for president in 2012 and instead sticks her new found career as a television personality, then more power to her. It would simply be a sign of the times that a former Republican Vice President candidate would just become another conservative on television. But if she does decide to run for President in 2012 AFTER becoming a paid television host for a corporation.... then that would be unprecedented.