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(Liberal & Unsourced) Fox News Employees 'Disgusted' After Network Pushes Seth Rich
The Hill ^ | one hour ago | By John Bowden

Posted on 05/23/2017 9:25:02 AM PDT by drewh

Staffers at the conservative Fox News Channel are blasting host Sean Hannity and others at the network for their "disappointing" choice to push conspiracy theories about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich.

"It hurts those of us who are legitimately focused on journalism," one employee told CNN.

"We have a chance to turn the corner at Fox, and perpetuating this conspiracy theory damages our integrity," the employee continued.

Rich, 27, was shot to death last year on the streets of Washington, D.C., Since his slaying, right-wing news outlets have sought to link his death, without evidence, to Hillary Clinton

's campaign and the WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from Clinton's campaign.

Last week, a local Fox station in Washington aired a report claiming Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks before he died. The report, which was also shared by Russia's foreign ministry on Twitter and multiple Fox News personalities, was later discredited by Rich's family.

The employee told CNN that Hannity's aim is to "distract from any and all Trump scandals."

"I'm disgusted by it," they said.

Other employees said that coverage of the conspiracy theory affected the entire network, not just Hannity's show.

"It is disappointing because it drags the rest of us down," another employee added in the report.

"Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we've seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so," Rich's family said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foxnews; foxnewssethrich; hannity; hannitysethrich; sethrich; sethrichmurder
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To: Jarhead9297
I’m not jumping in head first on this Seth Rich conspiracy until evidence is brought forth.

Just a regular investigation into the Seth Rich murder will do.

Why isn't Rich's family and those on the democrat side interested in finding out who murdered one of the DNC inner circle at such a critical time?
And why don't they show any interest in the motivation?

Maybe it was just another unexplainable street murder.
or maybe there is more to it.

As far as we know, the muderer and the motivation are unknown.
But an unusually high number of people close to the Clintons do seem to have bad luck ending in death


81 posted on 05/23/2017 10:10:03 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best Long Term Prepper Tactic: Beat The Muslim Takeover - Have Big Families)
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To: All

There’s a WHOOOOOOOOLE lot of people on the Left and the Faux-Right that are very, very nervous about the questions being asked....


82 posted on 05/23/2017 10:10:05 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: central_va

The word “ass ass inate” tells you it was a two-Democrat job.

Where was “conservative” Gary Condit when this happened?


83 posted on 05/23/2017 10:10:11 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: drewh

Why wouldn’t these people want to find out who murdered someone? Hmmmm...


84 posted on 05/23/2017 10:12:28 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: drewh

Yea, there’s a big disinformation campaign going on here. Constant barrages of unnamed sources, nobody willing to stand behind what they’re saying.

Used to be called rumor and rumor shouldn’t be headline news. It should be put back in the commentary section.


85 posted on 05/23/2017 10:15:01 AM PDT by Fhios
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To: drewh
"We have a chance to turn the corner at Fox, and perpetuating this conspiracy theory damages our integrity," the employee continued.

Yes, only conspiracy theories which are damaging to the President should be pushed, eh, guys?

86 posted on 05/23/2017 10:18:37 AM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

87 posted on 05/23/2017 10:22:10 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Amen.


88 posted on 05/23/2017 10:22:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: drewh

Other employees keep options open for another job when their contract is do kind of like what reporters do aka ass kissers.


89 posted on 05/23/2017 10:22:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: drewh
"It hurts those of us who are legitimately focused on journalism," one employee told CNN.

These snowflake pukes wouldn't know real journalism if it came up and but them on their iPhone.

90 posted on 05/23/2017 10:27:03 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: drewh

Fox is diassembling itself ...and killing the ratings

If One America News Network just starts picking up Fox cast offs

Was not a big BOR fan but he did pull rating

if One America News Network pick him up and put him on in his old time slot.. it would be a bombshell (and FU) move..give OAN some serious weight

I think a good chunk of Fox’s Conservative talent would then follow

let Fox become MSNBC


91 posted on 05/23/2017 10:27:59 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: vette6387; Liz; JLAGRAYFOX; Lumper20; MinuteGal; Albion Wilde; rodguy911; mazda77; Strac6; ...

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=79999

It’s brewing!!!


92 posted on 05/23/2017 10:38:00 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: drewh

It’s such a contrast. Anonymous sources making vague accusations against our President are treated like facts that can’t be questioned, even if they can’t point to a statute that was violated and can’t provide any evidence.

With Seth Rich we have a known murder victim, unsolved, yet when somebody tries to suggest they have evidence it is denounced as a conspiracy theory and shouted down. As one can’t know what is the truth to an unsolved murder then it’s inappropriate to say it is “false and fake news”. The fact that they claim it is telling....somebody on high REALLY doesn’t want this being followed.


93 posted on 05/23/2017 10:38:47 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Interesting Times

Bingo!


94 posted on 05/23/2017 10:40:59 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: drewh

“We have a chance to turn a corner at Fox...”

That would be a left turn, of course.


95 posted on 05/23/2017 10:43:13 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: drewh

Fox news has turned into complete sh*t. I don’t get why anyone would watch it theses days.


96 posted on 05/23/2017 10:43:14 AM PDT by Augie
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To: drewh
The employee told CNN that Hannity's aim is to "distract from any and all Trump scandals."

Projection.

The truth is the reverse. CNN et al are desperately pushing their tired, absurd "Trump/Russia collusion" narrative to distract from the DNC/Wikileaks/SethRichMurder scandal.

I heard that last night the MSM ignored the breaking Manchester bombing story for at least a half hour ... in order to push their latest planned, orchestrated "bombshell" leak about Trump (that turned out to be another nothingburger).

97 posted on 05/23/2017 10:46:54 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: drewh

Disgusting pickle smoochers...in the USA 68% of HIV/AIDS is among <3% of the population - men who have sex with men.

Even in Islamist countries they carry more than their share of diseases. The Indonesian police raided a gay sex party and arrested 14 men...they forced them into HIV tests and 5 of the men tested positive. They published the test info.
You won’t find single mention of this on Google, but you will find many hits on DuckDuckGo.


98 posted on 05/23/2017 11:35:58 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: drewh

Sounds like AB Stoddard speaking. She always sounds like that. she hates Trump and I have to turn the channel when I see her.


99 posted on 05/23/2017 11:44:33 AM PDT by tinamina
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To: All

bump


100 posted on 05/23/2017 11:59:52 AM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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