Fox News Signs Former Senator Evan Bayh as Contributor

[last_texas_dem]

Source: Huffington Post

>>>Fox News officially announced on Monday afternoon that former Democratic Senator Evan Bayh is becoming a contributor to the network.

Michael Clemente, the network's senior vice president for news, announced the move in a statement. He said that “Senator Bayh’s decades of experience in the political arena and his participation in key decisions in Washington will lend a valuable point of view to the entire Fox News lineup.”

“I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox,” Bayh said in the statement.>>>

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/fox-news-evan-bayh_n_835521.html

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I was going to make a crack about Zell Miller apparently not being available, but then I checked his bio on Wikipedia and saw that they already have him....

[MNBrewer]

1. gross

:puke:

[curiousdemo]

21. What happen to him with going back to

Indiana. This guy is a fraud and a joke. Fox News is a lying propaganda network, so he'll fit right in with them.

[tabatha]

2. Always knew he was a jerk.

[dennis4868]

3. It's Obama's fault

[atreides1]

5. Let it go!

:silly:

[No Elephants]

31. Never gets old.

[OHdem10]

4. I hope Fox does not refer to him as a Democrat or if they do

they call him a Conservative Democrat.

[displacedvermoter]

7. No, they will say that he is a bipartisan Dem who is a model for

what Democrats should be. And they will even call him a liberal with a straight face.

[meegbear]

9. If he's attacking anything with a "D", he'll be labelled a Democrat ...

otherwise he'll be a "Fox News Commentator".

[Supply Side Jesus]

6. not suprised

pandering for the ditto dollar

[Hubert Flottz]

8. He's a natural...

True Blue Dog!

[AngryOldDem]

10. Guess the cushy Wall Street job didn't work out.

But I'm glad he's finally showing all of his true colors.

[Kingofalldems]

11. He is ready to agree any time Fox claims Dems at fault

[disillusioned73]

12. Right where he belongs..

f*cking corporatist.

[otohara]

13. Millions More Don't Get Their Propaganda From FOX

so have your job at FOX Mr. Bayh - enjoy the loons, liars and greedy fucks at that organization.

How sad and pathetic - wimp of a man.

[mistertrickster]

14. Of course. Maybe now he can tell us where Saddam hid the WMD's . . .

[1776Forever]

15. Keith O just tweeted: Wow. Evan Bayh joins Fox News. I'm utterly shocked.

And when I say "utterly" I mean "not in the flipping least"

:rofl:

[No Elephants]

29. +1

[CTyankee]

16. Yup! I saw that coming a mile away. He was on Morning Joe, acting the part of

the "moderate democrat" for Joe Scar not too long ago. Sometimes I just hate it when I'm right...

[No Elephants]

33. Many DLC types play that role for ole Joe, including Mika and regular

Mike Barnicle, former Globe columnist who got caught making up stuff. And, frequent guest Ford, of course.

[CTyankee]

37. Poor old Harold Ford, Jr. He's been trying for his big gig for some time now. It seems to have

passed him by. He's "teaching" which I am sure he's eager to get beyond so he can make the big $$$. Well, one day his ship may come in...

[hamsterjill]

17. Not a surprise.

Although it is disappointing.

NOW, at least, he's publicly sitting on the appropriate side.

[Bozita]

18. Shocked, shocked I tell you!

KO beat me to it.

[bvar22]

19. Bayh....a stalwart pillar of the "Centrist" DLC.

A wonderful example of how the once Pro-Working Class Democratic Party has been infested with Conservative Republicans, and now bears little resemblance to the FDR/LBJ Democratic Party I joined 44 years ago.
I am no longer sure there is anything left worth trying to save. :cry:



Who will STAND and represent THIS American Majority?
Rhetoric, broken promises, and excuses mean NOTHING now.
"By their WORKS you will know them,"
and by their WORKS they will be judged.

[Bob Loblaw]

20. What took so long? See below, note date.

Bob Loblaw (138 posts) Tue Nov-02-10 07:33 PM
Response to Original message
9. What an f'ing lightweight POS

Look for this traitor-to-his-father's-(still living)-memory to end up as a Fox employee or as a lobbyist for PHarma.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

22. I always said he was a GOP plant

[DURHAM D]

23. MSNBC should hire Senator Birch Bayh to oppose the little fucker.

[No Elephants]

30. +1

[janet118]

24. I wonder if he'll have to call his former party . . .

the "DEMOCRAT Party."

[valerief]

25. Like there'd be any question? He was a DINO. nt

[Recursion]

26. Wasn't there at one point at least a decent interval before the payoff?

What a jackass.

[progressoid]

27. Aww, isn't that special? A lost dog finally finds his home.

[Faygo Kid]

28. Another fine Democrat like Pat Caddell added to the "fair and balanced" network.

Just like Pat, he's being hired to bash Dems and Democratic principles.

He will do a fine job of it, and be well compensated.

[No Elephants]

32. Was this first discussed before or after Bayh announced his decision not to run? What a turd!

[CTyankee]

35. The minute I heard he wasn't going to run I thought of a cushy job on Wall St.

Since that has not materialized he went to the next best place: Fox News!

Sarah Palin has been a good role model for sell-out Dems, I hafta say!

[Change Happens]

34. All I am going to do/say is:

:)

[BeyondGeography]

36. Home at last

[bemildred]

38. Another fake "leftist". nt

[HERVEPA]

39. Some quotes from his dad and former Ind. senator, who must be so ashamed

Birch Bayh Quotes


And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
Birch Bayh

And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.
Birch Bayh

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
Birch Bayh

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
Birch Bayh

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
Birch Bayh

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
Birch Bayh

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
Birch Bayh

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
Birch Bayh

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.
Birch Bayh

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if he can help, probably, he helps just by being your father without getting intimately involved.
Birch Bayh

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to people who are either very wealthy in their own right or have capacity to gain access to large amounts of money.
Birch Bayh

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
Birch Bayh

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.
Birch Bayh

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
Birch Bayh

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.
Birch Bayh

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
Birch Bayh

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
Birch Bayh

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
Birch Bayh

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
Birch Bayh

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh




Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/birch_bayh.html#ixzz1GgKQV3rb

[RussBLib]

40. Yet another reason to not watch FOX

...and, my lord, have you seen the disaster that is called CNN these days? The definition of "news" sure has changed in this country.

[Zorra]

41. What a surprise. nt