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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Who cares what liberal FNC has on. They will always make sure they have someone to counter them or the host will.
Bashing FNC, Bill O’Reilly, Hannity etc.... is just pathetic
i didn’t like the Half Hour show but some people are giving WRONG info
Total viewers in the beginning was like 1.4 or something like that then later shows were like in the 800,000 to 900,000 area not 250,000. FNC said the show was too expensive to make and not worth it at the moment.
Watch Red Eye instead
I saw Lanny’s BS yesterday too and that’s the same thing I thought. Guy acts like he makes the senatorial decisions.
There’s a guy that I’d gladly knock off a bar stool.
“Everyone should keep in mind that FOX is in Show Business first and foremost.”
In 2004, I did 2 appearances on Fox, 1 in New York, to promote one of my books. I was thrilled and said so to my agent as we were headed in a limo to their studio.
“Don’t get too carried away,” he suggested to me. “9-11 changed everything for them. 5 years ago, I was booking whores from Times Square for ‘in-depth’ stories of their lifestyles for Fox.”
At the time, I was too nervous to realize how truthful (and ironic) he was being.
It’s show business, baby!
Funny, I always thought it was Don Corleone who said that.
Regards,
GtG
He had his desk-and-tv show. It failed.
Check your facts. It didn't fail.
No, he just decided to stop doing it. I remember the talk he gave when he told on the radio he was giving up the TV show. I suspect it was too much work for him. Too bad, because he had clips of video and film no one else ever did, like the Slickster laughing at Browns funeral.
Apparently some of the folks here haven’t noticed that FOX has recently added shows by Laura Ingraham and Larry Elder, not my idea of lefties. And the journalism review show on the weekend has dumped the hard left Neal Gabler.
B-tch, b-tch, b-tch!
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