Fox News internal war widens with Mark Levin challenging Ed Henry On Ukraine

American Thinker ^ | 10/01/2019 | Peter Barry Chowka

[reformedliberal]

...CANDIDACY does not equal IMMUNITY....
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Not in a Western democracy where anyone can become a candidate.

CPL was a candidate, for one extreme example. On our side, Sara Palin was a candidate, too.

Just because someone (even Trump) can claim to be a target due to political positioning (and he would be correct), here Trump is: elected and campaigning for a 2nd term and barraged with accusations, threats and invective.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that the string-pullers desire the USA become a parliamentary system. It’s more chaotic and gives more power to marginalized positions, which allows even more corruption to spread through the elites.

[Pelham]

“That’s why Mark Levin was number 2 under Ed Meese as Attorney General, in the Reagan Administration!”

Did Mark give himself a promotion? The Deputy AG is the #2.

Deputy Attorneys General during the Reagan Administration:

Edward Schmultz ...1981-84
Carol Dinkins......... 1984-85
Lowell Jensen.. ......1985-86
Arnold Burns.. .......1986-88
Harold Christensen 1988-89

[Pelham]

Fox News leftward drift began when Murdoch turned it over to his sons. Maybe due to their wives.

[conservative98]

chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese

[zerosix]

My mistake, Mark was Ed’s Chief Of Staff.

[zerosix]

My mistake. Not Mark’s and I do know better! I’m having back surgery tomorrow & on meds!

[TheConservativeTejano]

I like Ed Henry, but that question was a very sloppy characterization of the situation with Trump and Ukraine.

Partner, Ed Henry is part of "The Giant Sixth Grade Brain Journalists" and this guy Ed Henry should be "Tarred and Feathered" for going to the other side.

This whole scenario on Ukraine we hope goes down as a nothing burger.

[confederatecarpetbag]

As a journalist (don’t hate me!), I have to say Ed Henry always struck me as fair. He’s also not usually in the spot of on-air talk shows, but an investigator and sometimes news anchor. That said, not having a copy of the transcript to use as the basis for a leading question is at best lazy reportage - and it may well be the unveiling of his true political colors.

It also might be indicative of Fox management’s newfound desire to be “centrist” and therefore exert pressure on-air news talent. Levin laid him out with decisive blow

[AAABEST]

Thanks, but not clicking that! lol

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Henry screwed up professionally. He SHOULD have had the full text of the conversation between Trump and the president of Ukraine in front of him, not try to recall details from memory.

Secondly, as Levin pointed out, the President did not ask Zelensky? to “dig up dirt” on the Bidens. It is very clear that this was not what Trump said per the transcript.

Thirdly, Levin smartly and tactfully refused to accept Henry’s “premise” as a “truth”, instead laying out another premise or supposition as to what the president said and did.

I’m surprised that Ed Henry was so amateurish and he got his assed wiped with sandpaper by one of the best pros around.

Lesson Learned, Henry - “Be Prepared to debate with facts, or be prepared to get your ass wiped again with a flamethrower”.

[In 50 years of public debating including on TV, at college campuses, etc., I always carried a “fact/documents” binder with me so when a question I knew was coming my way, I was prepared for it. I owed my audience the best information and documentation that I could get. My opponents weren’t prepared (including psycho-crazy Marxist, anti-Semite Mark Lane “Rush to Judgment” and the even more fake “Conversations With Americans” which even anti-VN war reporter Neil Sheehan skewed as pure crap.

Be prepared or be skewed. I’ll take the former for $1,000, Alex.