However will he fund the upkeep on the manor???
When Harold Ford Jr. appears on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this Sunday, it’ll be as chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, according to a network release. On the show’s website, he’s listed as a “political insider.”
But when he’s more recently appeared on NBC and MSNBC programs — such as “Today,” “Hardball” and “Morning Joe” — it was as an “NBC political analyst.”
An MSNBC spokesperson tells POLITICO that Ford’s deal “was put on hold” a few weeks ago, meaning that the network is not currently paying him. “We’ve still booked him in his capacity as a potential Senate candidate, and he’s questioned as such,” said the spokesperson.
Alas, done in by the dreaded “conflict of interest” since he’s running for Senate at the behest of the (30 or so) people. And for them, he even gave up his salary at Merrill Lynch! (Though it’s unknown whether he has any post-TARP, taxpayer-funded bonus money to schwag on Lady Emily…) Ah, here’s a way Sir Harry can muddle through: jet off to Bermuda to speak to fellow tax evaders … I mean “patriotic American businessmen…”
Meanwhile, Sir Harold had better get some piss in his vinegar, as it were, as Mortimer appears to be mulling a run of his own …
Oh, and by the way, the answer is ‘yes.’
