Report: Sarah Palin cost Fox News Channel nearly $16 per word over run of contract

[struggle4progress]

Posted at 01:04 PM ET, 01/28/2013
By Lisa de Moraes

... Palin uttered 189,221words over 150 appearances on various FNC telecasts during her now-expired contract; word broke out late last week the cable network would not renew its pact with the former GOP vice presidential candidate.

That averages out to about $15.85 per word, according to the report issued by the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs the morning after Julianne Moore won the Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Palin in the HBO teleflick “Game Change.” Two weeks earlier Moore won a Golden Globe Award for playing Palin and she’d won an Emmy for same in September ...

According to the report issued Monday, Palin, not surprisingly, discussed President Obama by name 786 times on FNC over the run of her contract; she mentioned her favorite former president Ronald Reagan 41 times and Abraham Lincoln three times, the report said. She mentioned God 57 times ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/report-sarah-palin-cost-fnc-nearly-16-per-word-over-run-of-contract/2013/01/28/8d4b8a42-6971-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_blog.html

[PeaceNikki]

1. that poor schmuck who had to hang on her every word to catalog that...

[Ganja Ninja]

2. "Ya you bet cha also and in addition too."

That'll be $142.65 for those pearls of wisdom.

[LiberalFighter]

3. It's there fault for not getting their money's worth out of the contract.

They could had her as a guest more times if they had wanted. She was willing.

[joeybee12]

4. Does this include real words as well as wrods she made up?

[tanyev]

5. $15.87 too much.

[lpbk2713]

6. Does "refudiate" count as $15 worth?

Or any of her other made up bullshit for that matter.

[Initech]

7. So every "you betcha" cost $31.70.