Where’s John Kerry now?

The Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, who was awfully vocal during the contract negotiations that threatened to pull Fox off of Time Warner Cable, has yet to say anything about the fact that Scripps’ Food Network and HGTV have been dropped from Cablevision, leaving 3 million New York-area subscribers without their daily dose of cooking and interior design tips. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

The Fox-Time Warner Cable talks prompted three strongly worded letters from Kerry suggesting, among other remedies, binding arbitration to resolve their dispute. Kerry’s main reason for getting involved–other than publicity–was preventing football fans that subscribe to Time Warner Cable from missing out on the Bowl Championship Series and NFL playoffs broadcast on Fox.

So Rachel Ray fans can miss out but football fans can’t? Boise State University versus Texas Christian University is more important than Chef Bobby Flay against Chef Mario Batteli on Iron Chef?

Maybe Kerry is staying out of Scripps-Cablevision because the dispute only hurts New York area consumers, none of which are his constituents. No, that couldn’t be it — because none of his constituents were affected by the Fox-Time Warner Cable dispute either.

Or maybe (just maybe) it had nothing to do with consumer interest but rather with his own. After all, supporting beer-swilling, pizza-eating football fans could help him more politically than going to bat for gourmet chefs and house painters.