Monday, July 07, 2008

A Clintonian at Fox - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

A Clintonian at Fox - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog: "A Clintonian at Fox

By Jim Rutenberg
Howard Wolfson and Karl RoveHoward Wolfson, top, will join Karl Rove as a contributor on the Fox News Channel. (Photos: Top, Karin Cooper, CBS’s “Face the Nation,” via Associated Press; Jennifer Simonson/Star Tribune, via Associated Press)

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 has long been associated with Mrs."

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