Tucker Carlson, Dana Perino Join Fox News As Contributors

Tucker Carlson and Dana Perino have joined Fox News as contributors, the Huffington Post has learned.

Carlson hosted the 6PM hour on MSNBC until March 2008, when his show, "Tucker," was canceled. Since then, he served as a senior campaign correspondent for MSNBC and has written for The Daily Beast.

Perino served as White House Press Secretary from September 2007 through the end of George W. Bush's second term. Last month, it was announced she'd be joining Mark Penn's public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, as "chief issues counselor."

Comments

[filmex]

It's about time Faux News hired a conservative voice!

[YLS2007]

I guess these two enlightened, open minded additions have doubled the collective intellect at Fox from 5 to 10. I mean I'm just guessing, or have I overestimated/

[SueInCA]

Way over estimated

[Paul]

Fox should start a special bonus-baby Republican roundtable: William Kristol, Tucker Carlson, Barry Goldwater, Jr, and Christopher Buckley. They could talk about how great things were for their fathers.

[damilitantone]

Funny how someone who was a press secretary for a president and who had no clue about the history of the Bay of Pigs incident is able to land a job at Fox. Affirmative action for white folks is alive and well at Fox.

[gnorrfa]

i think this is a splendid idea! unprintable characters on an unwatchable network! fox doesn't want to change anyone's mind, they prefer to play to the converted. fox says you can have any critter you want so long as it's a fox.

[Gil76]

Fox News serves as an infomercial for the GOP. I have watched their programs, but it's so biased, my tv leans to the right when I do. It's also the way they report, with a slanting of views. Fair and Balanced my you-know-what. Think I'm kidding? Just watch and see.

[bobokoko]

Big deal....th­is is a surprise??? And how many "journalists" or mainstream media people have joined the Obama administration the last 6 months??? This is Non-news.

[gnorrfa]

the obama administration is a news network?

[Jymac]

and the RNC is a Mad TV News Show. o.O

[cartunes]

NBC, GE, Goldman sacks, the largest propaganda team ever, and still no results.

[NewsCorpse]

HEY....

I reported Tucker Carlson's move to Fox back in March.:
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1225

It is interesting to note that Carlson and Fox have a rocky history. Their very public feud a few years ago ended with Carlson calling them, “mean, sick group of people.” Now, after he has failed on PBS, CNN, and MSNBC, he goes crawling back to Fox.

[roblabrousse]

These two little pseudo-pundits only have their notoriety to bank on. It's not their intellect that will save them but their resume. Perino esp will dine out and live off her Bush stint. But no one who watches these
people understands that they only know how to grind the meat one way and dress up the same boring meatloaf with little variations. They never say anything different. They're incapable of fresh thought or viewpoint. They 're paid to deliver their truth not the real one.

[openhand]

Anyone heard from Tucker since his thesis on Stewart being a partisan hack post Cramers Daily Show appearance?

[IrishLad]

Yeah, he went on Dancing With The Stars and danced the equivalent of his punditry..­hence was one of the first, if not the first to be booted off.

[DawnK]

Wow! I didn't think that Faux News could become more annoying but then they drop this bombshell on us. They should really get something insightful out of these two.

[cyoohoos]

I'm sure this site will continue to give Faux News plenty of free publicity.

[readreza]

Perrino the unqualified press secretary was only that because no one who was qualified was willing to step in and lie at the level required by the bush administra­tion... she'll fit right in at Fox where skilled (or not so skilled) lying seems to be the major job requirement. she probably doesn't have the imagination to make the stuff up herself, but they think her prior position at the bush white house will make her more credible to their (incredibly gullible but closed-minded) audience.

[grammy11]

News Flash! Is Dick Cheney is next?

[nickmantas]

Another set of "fair and balanced" voices to the right wing extremism!

[Badgirl]

Great, just what we need as the newspaper industry sinks into extinction. Biased, propagandists who will talk the unread masses into a 15th century mentality. And, just when everybody is good and ignorant - just wondering who will rise to power...