Sunday, January 27, 2013

Fraction of a Half-Wit

Howie "The Putz" Kurtz deployed one of my pet peeves in this recent post:
Fox News offered Sarah Palin a new contract before she decided to part ways with the network where she has held forth as a commentator for the last three years.
However, it would be hard to describe it as a generous contract....
The new contract offered by Fox, say people familiar with the situation, would have provided only a fraction of the million-dollar-a-year salary. It was then, they say, that Palin turned it down and both sides agreed to call it quits.
He did this again on his CNN show today.

The Putz uses "a fraction" as a synonym for "a small fraction."   $999,999/1,000,000 is a fraction of one million dollars.  It is, in the context of Sharia Plain, an insanely generous contract offer.  

I suspect that the Putz uses the term "a fraction" because no one will tell him what the actual offer was, or because he promised O'Reilly he wouldn't mention a specific dollar amount or percentage.  Most likely, the Putz is just assuming what everyone else is -- that FOX has wrung the last useful dollar out of Palin and would be insane to keep paying her at the expired rate.  As a media reporter, Kurtz is a joke.

28 comments:

Ken Houghton said...

If the fraction were "1/20th," she would still be making more than the median household income in the US.

Since it was likely a multiple of that, the "common woman" again proves that she believes Randy Newman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-e4rz-SkVk

Anonymous said...

I, too, hate it when people talk about "a fraction".

99/100 is a fraction. 3/2 is also a fraction.

So maybe FOX was offering her more, rather than less.

Emily

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