Tucker Carlson

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."

After stints at CNN and MSNBC, Tucker Carlson is getting his pundit passport stamped by the third cable news network (and the most popular of the three), the Fox News Channel. Mr. Carlson will be a paid contributor for Fox, appearing on programs to talk politics. Might the former CNN and MSNBC talk show host become a host of his own program on Fox, too? “I’m doing whatever they want me to do,” Mr. Carlson said in an interview Friday.

Mr. Carlson, a prominent libertarian, worked at CNN for five years, mostly as a co-host of “Crossfire,” the now-defunct political debate show. In 2005 he moved to MSNBC, where he dropped his signature bow tie and anchored for three years until his program was canceled in March 2008. He was hired both times by Rick Kaplan, a former president of CNN and MSNBC who now produces the “CBS Evening News.” During Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., are now occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.