During an interview promoting her book on Fox News last year, Jackson told Bill O'Reilly that while she had always been a Christian, she was apolitical until 2007 when she discovered an "underground conservative group of people" in Los Angeles that "educated" her about how a communist named Barack Obama was running for president. A Miami New Times profile of Jackson from 2012 tracing her journey from SNL to the tea party explains that while she refuses to name the "secret organization" that helped awaken her political side, she "is clearly talking about Friends of Abe," a group of conservative celebrities whose members reportedly include Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Pat Boone, and Gary Sinise.

After this political awakening, Jackson took to political blogging, making headlines in 2008 for writing on her website that Obama "bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ" and asserting that it was important to "ask if Barack Hussein Obama could be a Muslim terrorist sympathizer or a Marxist mole." Despite her extremism and nonsensical political views, she was nonetheless quickly absorbed into the conservative movement, appearing in an October 2008 National Republican Senatorial Committee ad attacking her former SNL colleague Al Franken.

Jackson's fledgling conservatism was apparently heavily influenced by Fox News and its fever swamp coverage of Obama's first term.

During a 2009 Hannity appearance -- which followed her presence at the first Los Angeles tea party rally, where she reportedly carried a sign with the slogan "We don't want no socialism" -- Jackson once again called Obama a communist, told Hannity, "I'm your biggest fan," and broke into cheer saying, "Fox News, yay! ... The only one with the truth. Yay!"