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Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« on: April 18, 2014, 07:47:02 PM »
Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me

 by Noah Rothman
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 10:50 am, February 20th, 2014

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Cannon began by asking Powers how she is treated by her Fox colleagues. He recalled that New York Times’ conservative columnist David Brooks was not well-received when he first started writing for the Times and asked if Powers had encountered a similar experience.


 â€œPeople are really nice at Fox,” Powers revealed. “It’s been good for because I – before that, I lived in a real liberal bubble.”


 â€œAll my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family,” she continued. “I had a lot of ideas about conservatives and then I got to Fox and just, I was like, ‘Oh, they’re not all evil and stupid.’”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/kirsten-powers-getting-out-of-liberal-bubble-at-fox-has-been-good-for-me/

 Think Powers is unique? Read on.


What I learned as a liberal talking head on Fox News

 By Sally Kohn
 CSMonitor.com
 4/15/14

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In the fall of 2013, I gave a TED talk on what I learned as a progressive, on-air talking head at Fox News, where I worked for two years before leaving and joining my current home, CNN. After all, one of the most frequent questions I was asked during my time at Fox was how I did it, how I was a fox in the henhouse – or a hen in the Fox house, if you will.
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My time at Fox News was marked by meeting and working with some of the kindest, smartest, and most talented people I've had the pleasure of meeting in life. As I said in my TED talk, Sean Hannity is one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet – and even now that I've parted ways with Fox, he remains a good friend and mentor.


For a radical progressive who once harbored negative stereotypes about folks on the right, it was a turning point for me to meet people such as Mr. Hannity, Karl Rove, Monica Crowley, Sarah Palin, and so many others, and see that – though we certainly disagree profoundly on political issues – they're personable and kind and human. Just like me.


It's strange to suggest that a seemingly simple realization such as that is in fact a profound revelation, but in our hyperpartisan era, when we often vilify the other side as being less-than-human, it is.

What I learned as a liberal talking head on Fox News (+video) - CSMonitor.com
 
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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2014, 07:55:22 PM »
Kristen Powers is more of a moderate to me.  There are some liberal talking points she follows, but then she turns around and starts sounding like a conservative on other issues.

I definitely get the impression she is not a fan of the Obama Administration.



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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2014, 08:17:03 PM »
Quote from: Dori on April 18, 2014, 07:55:22 PM
Kristen Powers is more of a moderate to me.  There are some liberal talking points she follows, but then she turns around and starts sounding like a conservative on other issues.

I definitely get the impression she is not a fan of the Obama Administration.





But .. Oh Boy, Sally Kohn is a whole nother story!

Look for her picture in the dictionary under Radical :rofl:
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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2014, 08:29:21 PM »
Quote from: mrclose on April 18, 2014, 08:17:03 PM
But .. Oh Boy, Sally Kohn is a whole nother story!

Look for her picture in the dictionary under Radical :rofl:

Haven't seen her on FOX in awhile.  They must have dumped her.






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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2014, 08:59:05 PM »
Quote from: Dori on April 18, 2014, 08:29:21 PM
Haven't seen her on FOX in awhile.  They must have dumped her.








Still there.

Might of been Hannity .. had her on within the last couple of days?
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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2014, 09:42:34 PM »
I have seen a change for the better with Kirsten over the years. I am happy for her that she is willing to be receptive. I would hate to have to see herbe mugged before she realized progressiveism's pitfalls.
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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2014, 08:40:08 AM »
Quote from: obumazombie on April 18, 2014, 09:42:34 PM
I have seen a change for the better with Kirsten over the years. I am happy for her that she is willing to be receptive. I would hate to have to see herbe mugged before she realized progressiveism's pitfalls.

Yeah, she strikes me as one of those for whom there is some hope that the scales will eventually fall from her eyes.
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Re: Fox’s Kirsten Powers: Getting Out of ‘Liberal Bubble’ Has Been Good for Me
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2014, 06:24:02 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on April 20, 2014, 08:40:08 AM
Yeah, she strikes me as one of those for whom there is some hope that the scales will eventually fall from her eyes.

It's obvious that she was never one of the bitter, hating left wing lunatics.  She never turned ugly like they always do.
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