Just days after he stunned the political world by announcing he was bowing out of contention for another Senate seat, Scott Brown made a return to the private sector, joining the board of a Massachusetts-based paper processing company and negotiating a possible deal to appear on Fox News.
A Fox spokesman confirmed Brown is in talks to appear on the network, which recently announced it is not renewing contracts with big-name political commentators Sarah Palin and Dick Morris. It was unclear, however, what role Brown might have on the network. Though Brown has told several Republicans that he will have a gig on Fox, the spokesman said the talks are not final.
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Fox News was just voted the LEAST credible news station. Scott Brown would be PERFECT!
Money talks. This lucrative contract is just another audition. Once he fails, he'll move on to another money making gig. Remember, he's in the business of camera-ready good looks rather than politics. He'll never make it as a broadcaster with his verbal limitations. He needs to work in commentary. I believe life after Fox News could lead to sports where his speaking limitations would sound highly articulate.
fox news is pretty much what the national enquirer was years ago. Now you dont have to wait for the magazine to see the aliens you can watch them on tv every night
I wonder what this means for Brown's (unconfirmed) gubernatorial aspiratons. It seems to me that clips of Brown on Fox would be easy marks for Democratic groups during any future campaign, not to mention he'll be under close scrutiny from (a) other media outlets and (b) John Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Not to say its not the right move for him and his family, but I question the long view here; if the goal is to make himself a viable candidate for governor, this isn't the route I would take.
Something tells me that he's out of the gubernatorial race before he was in it. He was a center of media attention from the day he was elected to the day he lost to Warren and he seemed to revel in it. If he had run for Kerry's seat he might have lost and be consigned to obscurity. I think he likes the national attention, something governors don't get. Thus Fox News.
Scott Brown on Fox! This is a shocking development, but Governor Palin's recent downgrade made this almost inevitable. Also, there's the Senator salary against 7 figures$$$$$$. As long as he's happy (and not representing Mass), I'm happy. And since I never see Fox, his absence will make the heart grow fonder. Plus, his big fans from Virginny and NH can see him every night.
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Kadant Inc. and now Fox News! Pray tell, when will he have time to work on his half court shot?
Looking forward to hearing him share his deep thoughts. Certainly didn't hear any in his vicious campaign against Elizabeth Warren. Not surprised he feels uncomfortable with a more reality-based media. A case of "Show me the money"...I guess. No doubt beats closing deals in real estate.
I agree that it's about money. Right now he can use his fame(?) to serve on the board of a relatively unknown company and become the next pretty face on Fox News. He'll be reaping more money than he probably ever dreamed of earning. In 4 or 5 years Brown will likely have faded from public conscieousness.
He should earn it while he can.
Good place for him!
With the news of a big winter snow and the prospect of a bad commute, I. Was kind of moping around this week. Then, I saw this stkry and it made my day! Here is your Every Man, Massachusetts. He can drive his Working Man truck around for the Fox News folks and parade his poor family on the air. If this sounds like Ms. Palin, Scott Brown can smile and say, "Ah shucks, America!" Yes, I did support him at the beginning--BTW.
the X-boy senator will now be the boy broadcaster on the faux kartoon network. Wow....knock me over with an Elizabeth Warren Native American tirade on the same network....like everyone else on this'd post....watching hot air is NOT an option for me.
I hope his first few sit down interviews are with those people in the "secret meetings with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders." Those are Senator Brown's exact words. Many, many interviews ahead since every category was in the plural.
Why doesn't he contact Al Gore and ask to work for his TV station, Current TV? Does Al still have any say in hiring sinice he sold it to the Arabs For $109,000,000?
Adios, Scottie, and thanks for the robocall from Pat Boone last fall.
Funny, I just replaced Scott Brown's name with John Kerry's, and replaced Fox with CNBC, and Dick Morris with Jon Stewart, and it still made sense.
Reading this article in the far-left leaning Globe is at best hypocrisy, and at worst pitiful.
Don't forget about glass houses and stones.
Other than providing real news based on facts, exactly what is "Far Left" about the Globe?
It appears that with your crowd, you don't concern yourself with what is true and what is not. If you disagree, it's "Far Left" and you think no more about whether it's true. You can't even explain that except it doesn't fit with the propaganda that you mindlessly gobble up.
Perfect! Buh-bye Scotty! Enjoy your millions. Just stay out of my government!
Pat WHO? :-) what's the matter? Victoria Jackson wasn't available? Or Kirk Cameron?
Scott Brown is a nice guy, but he is totally without metaphysics. As one who grudgingly voted for him, twice, and who has heard him speak many times, I am still waiting for him to utter one memorable sentence, much less an original one. Who in his right mind would think that he could possibly enrich the commentary of Fox News? In this respect, he resembles every Democrat politician I know: desirous of fame, yet fearful of failure; obsessed with incumbency, but with an eye always on the main chance; plagiaristic, yet woefully unlettered and non contemplative; an uninteresting, venal, private existence masquerading behind a false public persona featuring bonhomie and synthetic “compassion.” But voters get the government they deserve. And those "progressives" on this board who countenance the likes of Kerry, Markey, and Deval and such programs as are featured on MSNBC, should think twice before criticizing Brown and Fox News.
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Does Mr. Brown know that Fox requires its pretty commentators to bleach their hair blonde and to wear primary-color-popping-cocktail-hour ensembles? Will he also get a reality show--"Scott Brown's Massachusetts"--showing him trekking across the commonwealth in his Tonka Truck, boldly going where no notary public has gone before?
I think a move to Fox would be a big mistake for Scott Brown. He is a relative moderate, and those people are knee-jerk reactionaries. To be blunt, they're just plain crazy. Best find some other berth.
Money talks. This lucrative contract is just another audition. Once he fails, he'll move on to another money making gig. Remember, he's in the business of camera-ready good looks rather than politics. He'll never make it as a broadcaster with his verbal limitations. He needs to work in commentary. I believe life after Fox News could lead to sports where his speaking limitations would sound highly articulate.
Saying you are a moderate doesn't make you a moderate. The truth is that, based on his actual voting record, he is moderate only in the sense of having no real view, no analysis of the issues, utterly indepedent of thought and void on the issues.
That's not a moderate, that's a fool. Next time, look at the record, not just listen to the pretty face.
Have a cigar Scottzo!
"Let me tell you the name of the game boy, we call it riding the gravy traaaaain."
He belongs in front of a camera just like his wife. It's a vocation that he tried to convert toward a poliical career and he failed. His brains just don't match his looks and it took awhile to discover that. He and his wife were both born camera ready, and are spending their lifetimes concerned about how they look. Now he's finally at home where he belongs, and harmless, and will make lots of money PREACHING TO THE CHOIR ON FOX NEWS. I think the Fox audience will eventually tire of him. When they do, he's not able to work as a broadcaster because of his obvious speaking, vocabulary and voice limitations.
While reading this story, one quote stuck out: "Former GOP chairwoman Jennifer Nassour, a frequent political commentator on local news stations, was green with envy. “Good for him,” she said. “I think many of us are sitting here saying, ‘I wish I had gotten that job.’ He hasn’t been making money for years.”.
Huh? A $1 million book advance, to say nothing of the $174 K he pulled down as a senator isn't making money? What world do these people live in?
Let's go back in the "way back machine"......the Saturday Night Live skit about Scott Brown with Jon Hamm is becoming eerily true about how the senator truly operates within and his values. Give it a watch on Hulu......