Sarah Palin's Advice To Christine O'Donnell: 'Speak Through Fox News' (VIDEO)

Sarah Palin spoke with Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday night and advised newly minted Tea Party-backed Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell to stick to Fox News in order to brand herself over the course of her campaign.

"She's gonna have to learn very quickly to dismiss what some of her handlers want. Remember what happened to me in the VP. I used to have to sneak in my phone calls to you guys to say, 'Hey, I'm here,' Palin said. "She's gonna have to dismiss that, go with her gut, get out there, speak to the American people, speak through Fox News, and let the independents who are tuning into you, let them know what it is that she stands for, the principles behind her positions.

O'Donnell, whose controversial views have been the talk of the current news cycle and have created some friction within the GOP, appeared to heed Palin's advice shortly thereafter, appearing on Sean Hannity's Fox News program. Hannity, however, noticed that she had made the rounds on non-Fox affiliate networks earlier that day.

"Today alone, just this morning, you were on the "Today" show. You were on "Good Morning America." You were on the "Early Show". You were on CNN. You were on all those liberal shows?" Hannity asked O'Donnell. "[W]hy have you decided to subject yourself to the -- what I would argue probably biased, tough questions and obviously the advancement of some of the attacks against you?"

O'Donnell responded, telling Hannity that her choice to appear on supposedly less friendly networks was necessary in order to defy the narrative that the "liberal media" is supposedly creating about her.

"I found that when the viewers get a chance to meet me and hear me present my positions and my ideas, they can see for themselves that I am not the person that the liberal media is trying to paint me as," O'Donnell said. "So I see it as an opportunity. I'm going to have to face that same hostility in the U.S. Senate. They are no different than some of the people that I will be serving with this November."

Network news shows are hardly the most liberal forum that O'Donnell has found herself taking part in. In the 1990s, she appeared on "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher as "Christian activist Christine O'Donnell."

O'Donnell is also scheduled to appear Friday at the conservative Value Voters Summit in Washington D.C..

Watch Sarah Palin speak with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly:

Comments

[talkingheads]

11:36 PM on 09/30/2010

A dolt is advising another dolt....

[Photon55]

02:20 PM on 09/20/2010

Where else would she appear but on a fake news site? She seems to be faking most of what she says and wants to avoid saying it without the security of those who are bigger fakers.

[kevcom64]

02:19 PM on 09/20/2010

NO CLASS IDIOT,THE PEEPARTY TAKING AMERICA BACK AND GETTING IT BACK ON TRACK FROM WHO THE BUSH YEARS,REMEMBER THE TWO WARS THAT TOOK MONEY IT WENT ON SO LONG OUR NATION STARTED TO SLOW DOWN JOBS WAS CUT THEN IT HAPPENED IT TRICKLED TO SMALL BUSINESSES THEN MASSIVE LAYOFFS AND BUSH DID NOTHING AND NONE OF THE REPUBLICANS DID NOTHING THEY SAT BACK AND LET WHOLE THING COLLAPSE ALL AROUND US ALL.PEEPARTY WHAT A JOKE.

[nicnic]

01:48 PM on 09/20/2010

"yeah Honey, put that head into that hole until after the elections and... hope for the best!"
"ya never know!"

[AvgPlumber]

01:36 PM on 09/20/2010

"Sarah Palin's Advice To Christine O'Donnell: 'Speak Through Fox News' " I'd have to say, "Sorry Sarah, that ship has sailed." You should have gotten to O'Donnell eleven-plus-years ago, before she went on Bill Maher (unfortunately Sarah was still dabbling in small town politics in podunk, er ah Wasilla). Ya gotta' love that Sarah and Karl Rove are infighting though.

[VietVet67]

01:12 PM on 09/20/2010

Uh-oh. $arah where are you?

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/odonnell_cited_palin-backed_bridge_to_nowhere_as_p.php?ref=fpb

[IAmNoOne]

01:07 PM on 09/20/2010

When this dimbat says speak through fox news, O'Reilly doesn't even flinch. He takes it as a given that that is what she should do.

[FantasticFourFan]

12:52 PM on 09/20/2010

Sarah, your not supposed to ADMIT that they are working with the GOP! You'll blow their cover!

[marbletown]

12:37 PM on 09/20/2010

The most revealing part was her forgetting the name of another candidate she endorsed when O'Reilly kept trying to ask. She just kept blinking.

[PorgieTyrbeiter]

12:10 PM on 09/20/2010

Um...she has to show up first

[L3ftofC3nter]

12:05 PM on 09/20/2010

Did anyone else notice that neither of them could think of the name of the guy in New Hampshire that Palin supported??

[zunklives]

11:31 AM on 09/20/2010

Yes talk through the biased Faux News, and dont do debates, because look what happened to Brewer, when she was faced with the question of what her agenda was. They are all empty suits for big business

[pepimartinez]

11:21 AM on 09/20/2010

Fact of the matter:

Republicans will vote for any one with an (R) next to their name, no matter how hateful, racist, stupid, corrupt, or bad for them they are.

I could win any election south of the Mason Dixon line on a platform of universal health care, public works projects, and increased school funding if I put an R next to my name, and changed the names to "Bald Eagle Health", "Southern Workers Pride", and "The American Youth Plan"... you know, American sounding names.

[synchronicity2]

09:36 AM on 09/20/2010

Because they are a 24 hour a day mouthpiece for republican and wingnut agendas.


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[IM4REAL]

08:58 AM on 09/20/2010

“The Hill: get it right, please; I did NOT tell O’Donnell to only speak to Fox News. Where do u all get this stuff? Pls report truth. This was twitted by Sarah on her Blackberry. In the mental health world this is a classic sign of Schizophrenia. The many faces of Sarah?