Go Ahead, Check Out Fox

Frank Rich of the NYT:

Only in the alternative universe of the far right is Obama a pariah and
Palin the great white hope. It’s become a Beltway truism that the White House’s
(mild) spat with Fox News is counterproductive because it drives up the
network’s numbers. But if curious moderate and independent voters are now
tempted to surf there and encounter Beck’s histrionics for the first time, the
president’s numbers will benefit as well. To the uninitiated, the tea party
crowd comes across like the barflies in “Star Wars.”