Since when? I know that some people might get a check from FOX because they make regular appearances, like Dick Morris and Newt Gingrich, but Richardson? You realize that FOX does not even have rides, let alone limos for their guests. They are expected to get themselves to and from the studio, which is unheard of in the business.
I notice the difference between when they have a guest, and when they label the guest as a "Fox News Contributor," like they did with Gingrich and D'Amato when they first appeared after leaving office. Several months ago when he first started appearing, Richardson was being introduced as a new "contributor." They may not do that now, but they did when he first started appearing.
He wasn't being asked to defend his record, but was only being asked to comment on the news of the day. This is what I find appalling about what some people refer to as "the government/media complex." Having Richardson on the air and then not grilling him about his role in the Wen Ho Lee nuclear secrets fiasco, his subsequent denial that nuclear secrets were stolen during the Clinton administration, his promise to make changes at the labs, then the Los Alamos missing hard drives, not to mention his role in driving Lewinsky to New York for Revlon job interviews -- basically pretending none of this happened and that he was not a high-ranking Cabinet official overseeing the loss of top secret documents -- was too much for me to stomach.
-PJ