I think we were all impressed with the level and standard of thoughtfulness and truthfulness that Lanny Davis expressed all throughout the primaries. Apparently, FOX News noticed as well.
Fox News’s newest contributor, to be announced today, may surprise the liberal crowd: former Clinton White House lawyer Lanny Davis.
“Fox has always treated me with respect and given me a chance to express my point of view,” Davis says of the network that the Democratic candidates refused to grant a debate out of concern that it favors Republicans. He will be a frequent guest, along with such Fox stalwarts as Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich.
A relentless surrogate for Hillary Clinton, Davis says, he felt “ganged up on” during appearances on the other cable channels. He says that Clinton was “demonized” by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, and that CNN’s primary-night panels were tilted toward the Obama side.
“Does Fox have a conservative slant on some of their programs? Yes,” Davis says. “They’re giving me a chance to provide a counterpoint, and that’s all I can ask.”
Once you realize that reality has a liberal pro-Obama bias, FOX News is a good match for you. Lanny Davis should enjoy pontificating from the ashheap of history with his pals Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove. I know that he will be an effective advocate for our nominee during this election, and a strong voice for our party next year.
It really isn’t so hard. When Lanny Davis lays down with the FOXes, it’s pretty easy to look back at his past employment and understand “where he’s coming from.”
So we have H. Clinton’s former campaign manager and husband each making millions by pushing “free trade” with Colombia, while in the streets of Bogota union organizers are being murdered. Now Davis is employed by FOX.
If you surround yourself with corporatists in your run for the President what does that make you?
In other words, Lanny had no better job offers after he burned his bridges with the rest of the Democratic Party.
This is what we call being a media whore, yes?
Lanny was deposited at Fox News by Hillary to snipe at Barack Obama during the Presiential campaign.She will continue to make noises about supporting Barack but her surrogates will have a megaphone and the “freedom” to say anything Hillary wants them to say without revealing herself.
leaving the Clinton campaign for Fox?
raising the intelligence of both in the process!
fox, clinton, incest?
Will wonders never cease?
Boo, I think you have a typo in your lede (see below).
Howard Kurtz: “Fox News’s newest contributor, to be announced today, may surprise the liberal crowd…”
Why should this news “surprise the liberal crowd”?
Considering the only other “liberal” over at the noise channel is Juan Williams, I think hiring Lanny is a good move.
you’re hilarious.
TPM reminds us:
only a few weeks ago, Lanny Davis admitted on FOX that he now knows what it feels like to be a Republican. Guess this was his audition for the gig:
what was it that Carville called Bill Richardson?
Hope the Clinton’s are proud.
“Knows …what it feels like to be a Republican” may not be an infinitival construction.