The clown car

Fox News has had this growing tendency to resemble a clown car. (To be precise, we refer here to the literal spectacle of a colourful small jalopy that arrives under the big top with a circus' entire clown payroll packed inside. If you have other associations, shame on you.)

It seems to me that if you're going to have a clown car, the logical thing is to have all the clowns in the one vehicle. In that context I think adding Sarah Palin to the Fox roster makes perfect sense. What makes the decision hilarious is both the timing—on the heels of Game Change—and the wild inconsistency.

Even if you work for Fox, it's a little hard to make a buck lambasting the mainstream media when you are part of the mainstream media. But that's where the greasepaint, rubber noses and stunt cars come in handy.