Posted on 07/08/2008 5:17:22 AM PDT by safetysign
Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel.
The network is expected to announce as early as Tuesday that it has signed Mr. Wolfson as a contributor who will appear regularly on its programs.
Mr. Wolfson is joining a network that Democrats shunned for a time, complaining that its coverage was unfair. But aides to Mrs. Clinton came to view Fox News as distinctly fair to her in a news media climate that they believed favored Senator Barack Obama.
“I thought that Fox’s coverage during the primary was comprehensive and fair and evenhanded,” Mr. Wolfson said Monday in a telephone interview from Liverpool, England, where he was vacationing. “It’s a huge audience, and it is important to have a strong, progressive voice on the network.”
Mr. Wolfson’s decision to join Fox represents a general feeling among Clinton partisans that the network treated her more fairly than did other networks it viewed as overly friendly to Mr. Obama.
Mr. Wolfson becomes the latest in a succession of political professionals who have signed on with television news networks as regular commentators providing insider analysis this election season – the sort of role that was once met with alarm within newsrooms but now hardly raises eyebrows. Mr. Wolfson said he especially relished the chance to take on another Fox News analyst fresh from the political battlefield, the Republican strategist Karl Rove.
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I love to hear Rove on Fox but he generally has no one to debate. I think if Wolfson and Rove go head to head Rove wins because he articulates the Conservative position so well (and he’s always right!). There’s no need to fear the opposing view as long as there is someone on to refute it.
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
Sun-tzu
Chinese general & military strategist (~400 BC)
...anything.
Murdoch does not sell "fair and balanced," he sells ads for viewer numbers. Period.
So who would you put on that has this brilliant conservative message?
McCain hacks who're afraid to say boo to Obama? Fred TompsZZzzzzzzzon? Duncan Hunterin around for a message other than immigration?
Instead of Clinton hacks with an axe to grind against Obama, he could put on the brightest conservative contributers with the most popularity ever...like RUSH LIMBAUGH AND ANN COULTER.
Oh. No, wait. He tried that. "Half Hour Comedy Hour." Most. PAinful. Show. Ever.
Murdoch is in the advertisement selling biz. Not political fairness.
What I used to like about FoxNews is that is was the balance (as Rush often says). Instead of patsies that other networks called ‘Conservatives’, Fox actually used Conservatives that could shut down Liberal arguments. And I like the use of Libs that aren’t just patsies to do it.
But the place is becoming overrun with Clintonistas. It’s one thing to present the Liberal argument in a coherent and compelling way (think Mayor Ed Koch), it’s another to provide haven for destroyers of America.
Sigh, I presume Fox and Co are looking for a way to give the Clintonistas a perch from which they can swoop down and peck at Obama. It may sell ads but it has nothing to do with “fair and balanced.”
How “fair” of Fox to give exposure to another American hating leftist KKKlintonoid. After all, there are so FEW of them on the air that we never hear their point of view on other channels. Seriously, all this does is dilute the already thin layer of conservatism on Fox. This is another example of a Fox caring more about what its competitors say about it than beating them into bankrupcy.
Uh, How many Liberal view points does Rush promote?
Trying to play both sides? Fox News has been sliding to the left since 2004 election. There is already out and out libs on the news. Fox does the best job in presenting both sides, but they still lean to the left.
Why is it necessary for the networks to hire professional political shills to spread propaganda to their viewers? What’s the difference between so-called “news programs” and the campaigns they’re supposed to cover? I guess journalism is a thing of the past.
Wolfson reminds me of Roy Cohn.
“Murdoch is now trying to play both sides!”
Clinton man.
The Dems want to pick the judges when they’re in power, and when they’re not in power. The Republicans, if they had testicles, should simply say they’re not voting for any person the Democrats nominate.
Wolfson is just one of those sleazy reptiles that slither along in Hilary’s wake, with Lanny Davis, The Forehead, The Snakehead, Lisa Caputo, Anne Lewis, inter alia.
So who would you put on that has this brilliant conservative message?
Rush, but he wouldn't take the job because he already does it 3 hours a day! Maybe, JC Watts or Mark Levin.
Hey Sherlock, it's not about conservative vs. liberal, it's about truth vs lies, and biased reporting. As Fox moves further left, if it does, watch the audience dwindle!
Rush and Ann had a great thing going...I'm not sure why it was cancelled, are you?
OMG!! People bashing FNC makes me sick!!!!!! If you are not 100% to the right then you are $hittt.... Same mentality as liberals.
It is just absurd to not have liberlas on the channel. Then it would be a joke like Keith Olbermann.
From what I can see they don’t really have liberals hosting their shows. Greta, Geraldo...
Fox & Friends (morning) is actually pretty good. The ad lib comments from Brian Kilmead, Steve Doucy, and others are spot on.
However, their prepared news coverage often tries too hard to present both sides.... which ruins the show's impact.
After all, most Bush-hating comments and lib accusations are so bombastic and fantasy-driven they are not even worthy of repeating... yet Fox increasingly feels the need to present "balanced" news.
Exactly. Most comments from the rabid and deranged Bush-hating left are not even credible enough to make National Enquirer, much less Fox News.
Yet, Fox for some reason thinks it OK to promote these delusional ideas by giving these US haters a platform.
The ratings went from 1.4 Million viewers for the first show to 250,000 for the rest.
The show sucked. It was painful to watch. And if Ann and Rush can't pull conservative viewers, then Murdoch has to try something else.
Get a grip KavMan.
It’s not just that the Liberal point of view is presented on FoxNews, it’s who is doing the presenting. Strong Liberals with real arguments should be on FoxNews debating with Karl Rove. But do the Clintonista snake-oil salesmen really represent the viewpoint of principled (such as they are) Liberals or the viewpoint of the Clinton cabal?
Rush works on radio. Rush DOES NOT work on TV.
He had his desk-and-tv show. It failed. He had the Half Hour Comedy Hour. It failed.
Rush works on talk radio. Rush is talk radio.
The question is...can conservatism work on cable TV today the way Rush makes it work on radio today.
So far, I can't think of a prime-time TV audience that has been sustained with conservatism the way Rush has done it on radio.
It's because they are. Everyone should keep in mind that FOX is in Show Business first and foremost. That explains a lot when it comes to their methodology and fear mongering tactics. They are constantly trying to scare the populace on one thing or another. Just look at the wild fire or the fish storm Bertha coverage recently. Jeez Looweez! And for the record, screw fair and balanced. I see little point in providing equal time to lunatics and communists. I want to see ADULTS with adult opinions.
America not only needs a common sense conservative point of view, but also a channel that gives at least a quarter of its coverage to what its Editors would deem good news devoid of politics. America desperately needs to hear some good news on occasion, and they deserve it.
This would most likely be a grass roots effort, but I'm confident it would prove itself to be worthy of big time investment if run principally. And I'll tell you the person who is most qualified to pull it off - Rush Limbaugh. I think Rush could wax the floor with Murdoch if given half a chance. The others commie America-hating networks would continue their slide.
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