Your daily doses of nonsense in the media and my takes on them. Today's headline comes from Miami Herald via the Tampa Bay Times, Is Pam Bondi auditioning for Fox News while still working for Florida taxpayers?
First, I saw her one day on The Five and yes, without a doubt she was auditing for a permanent role. Kimberly Guilfoyle recently left The Five to spend time working with her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., on the President’s campaign. That left the need for a female legal analyst on the show. Boxes Pam certainly checks. What’s more is that she was good, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she is offered the job. But, to the overtones of something being inappropriate about her appearance on the show.
How many Florida politicians were at the southern border for a day or three playing politics a couple of months ago during the peak of the immigration crisis at the border? How many of them were serving the interest of their communities or their state? Where were the criticisms then? So, how is this anything other than hypocrisy? You have the AG spending three hours during the week on a TV show that doesn’t address Florida specific issues and there’s a problem? Seriously? And this was significant enough to be the lead story for much of the day yesterday?
Additionally, the effort to attempt to assert that she wasn’t concerned about Florida issues because they weren’t topics on the show is also born of ignorance. Either yours or your reliance on the readers to be ignorant of how topics are decided. Having worked as a guest analyst for Fox News a number of times over the years, I can tell you that you have zero control over the topics and the direction of the topics.
In fact, commonly the topics you’re briefed on change as you go on-air without notice based on the direction the hosts or producers decide they want to go based on the cycle or recent coverage leading up to the segments. Where she did have control, on the final segment, One More Thing, she did pay tribute to our state including heroes within it. I guessed you must have conveniently missed those tributes.
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