A Clintonian at Fox

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 03:08 AM

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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.”

Good news for balance...which means I fully expect Woflson to be treated as a traitor...

foundit66 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 01:33 PM

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 would love to get his opinion on "fair" in a hypothetical scenario where Clinton had won, during the time when Clinton would be facing McCain.

They were "fair" in that in a DEMOCRATIC party run-off, they favored the democratic contender that the REPUBLICANS wanted to win.

It's like a tournament where you want one team to win a specific match, but in the end it's because you think your team has a better chance to win against that one...

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Good news for balance...which means I fully expect Woflson to be treated as a traitor...

Considering how often the term "traitor" and "treason" gets tossed around on "your side", I wouldn't be making complaints...

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