The Pleasures and Perils of Chasing the Fox (News)

This past Monday was an interesting day. Not just because, if you don’t mind me tooting my horn a little bit, Crain’s New York Business came out with a profile of me and The Clyde Fitch Report, but because my colleague over at Fox News who oversees its version of the Huffington Post, called The Fox Forum, brought the charming words uttered by Miss California regarding same-sex marriage to my attention.

Well, not just to my attention but to a rather wide swath of contributors to the Fox Forum, of whom I am one. And I was stunned and not stunned and stunned all over again by what Miss California said. Well, not stunned so much as saddened and then sort of over it — there’s nothing that I or anyone else can do to change her mind.

I was stunned once more when I caught wind of Perez Hilton’s response to her response, courtesy of video on his site. And I was stunned a third time (or was it a fourth?) when Miss California, who really should be avoiding a bitch-fight with Hilton if she knows what’s good for her, went on the Today show try to cement herself as the darling, the icon, the she-bitch of the extreme far right:

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