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Kirsten Powers joins CNN from Fox News
CNN ^ | 8/22/2016 | Brian Stelter

Posted on 08/22/2016 7:53:31 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Kirsten Powers, a regular on Fox News for the past decade, is switching channels.

Powers is joining CNN as a political analyst, effective immediately, CNN announced Monday morning. She will continue to write columns for USA Today. Her first appearance will be on "Anderson Cooper 360" Monday night.

Powers is the fourth Fox personality hired by CNN in the past 18 months, joining co-host Alisyn Camerota, liberal commentator Bob Beckel and conservative commentator Mary Katharine Ham.

The timing of her move is newsworthy because it comes one month after the founding CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes, resigned under pressure amid a sexual harassment scandal. There has been press speculation about a potential "talent exodus" from Fox in the wake of Ailes' resignation. Some of Fox's biggest stars have clauses in their contracts that allow them to leave because Ailes left.

Powers brings an unpredictable set of views to television news discussions. Last year The Washington Post described her as "an antiabortion, antiwar evangelical liberal who works for Fox News."

She is also the author of "The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech."

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Bad move, IMHO.
1 posted on 08/22/2016 7:53:32 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

She is a better fit with CNN, right? Bad career move, though.


2 posted on 08/22/2016 7:55:10 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Black's jobs matter!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

If she’s seeking anonymity why didn’t she just join a monastery?


3 posted on 08/22/2016 7:55:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
She is also the author of "The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech."

So now she's joining the censors?
4 posted on 08/22/2016 7:55:44 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

She was one of the more reasonable and thoughtful Liberals on Fox.


5 posted on 08/22/2016 7:56:17 AM PDT by Borges
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

There goes her Catholicism!!!


6 posted on 08/22/2016 7:56:27 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

That’s were libtards like her belong. Good riddance.


7 posted on 08/22/2016 7:56:37 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: The_Media_never_lie

As far as liberals go, she didn’t bother me so much. I wish Juan the Whiner Williams would have gone instead.


8 posted on 08/22/2016 7:56:49 AM PDT by Trumplican
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“Evangelical liberal” is right. She evangelizes the liberal viewpoint.


9 posted on 08/22/2016 7:57:07 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Bad move, IMHO.

Perhaps. Prefer to wait and see.
10 posted on 08/22/2016 7:57:12 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Texas Eagle

More money in her pay check might be a reason.


11 posted on 08/22/2016 7:57:44 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

When did Mary Katherine Ham jump to CNN?


12 posted on 08/22/2016 7:57:46 AM PDT by markoman (If one gun is justified.....they all are.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

She once dated Anthony Weiner, so her judgment has never been her strong suit.


13 posted on 08/22/2016 7:57:53 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: Borges

You are correct. I may not agree with her but she seemed more thoughtful. Fox News is stuck with Juan Williams.


14 posted on 08/22/2016 7:58:57 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Perfect, just what CNN needed, another liberal.


15 posted on 08/22/2016 8:00:20 AM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Kirsten Powers perhaps felt her liberal credentials were in danger while at Fox, and she was clearly in danger of being converted to an almost libertarian point of view, a paradigm shift which is anathema in her social circle.

I thought she was almost persuaded to have a change of heart a couple of times. But no, she would retreat in obvious confusion.

CNN will rescue her from that heretical line of thinking.

If she is thinking at all.


16 posted on 08/22/2016 8:00:20 AM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

"Good. Good. Let the hate flow through you, young fool."
17 posted on 08/22/2016 8:00:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Trumplican

Juan is just plain annoying. Only thing good I can say about him is that he raised a conservative son.


18 posted on 08/22/2016 8:00:48 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Black's jobs matter!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; upchuck

Too Bad, her and Sharyl Attkisson had an incredible interview last year about the Intolerance of the Left.


19 posted on 08/22/2016 8:01:44 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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To: Borges
She was one of the more reasonable and thoughtful Liberals on Fox.

That's the persona she took on because she was on Fox News. Watch her change now that she'll be unfettered.

20 posted on 08/22/2016 8:02:21 AM PDT by Salvey
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