You won't be seeing this scene again soon.
Posted on 10/16/2009 2:04:03 PM PDT by FrontPageMag.com
You won't be seeing this scene again soon.
Cliff Kincaid over at Accuracy in Media (AIM) announces Fox News has fired Marc Lamont Hill. Cliff represented AIM at NewsCorp's annual meeting. (”Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.”) AIM reports that he asked Rupert Murdoch why someone with Hill's radical views would have a role as a Fox News commentator:
Before Kincaid completed the background for his question, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch interrupted Kincaid to say that he appreciated Cliff's work on this matter, and that Hill had been "fired" last week.
We look forward to confirmation of this report. If accurate, it is a major improvement to Fox News and cable news in general. People of every side of the political spectrum should appreciate a robust debate, but radicals of Marx Lamont Hill's ilk do not merit a seat on the highest rated program in news, The O'Reilly Factor.
David Horowitz started the ball rolling when he questioned why Bill O'Reilly interviewed Hill, a "hip-hop culture" expert, for an entire segment about Iran. Then NewsReal bloggers, Cliff Kincaid, and others began digging... (More after jump.)
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I agree .. I think her interviews with Sarah Palin were a big influence on her.
By some of her comments about congress not reading the legislation they’re writing (which they’re actually not writing), she was visably angry about it.
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Sarah Palin has been good for Gretta.
I hear a trade is in the works... Fox get Lou Dobbs... CNN gets lamont hill and a draft pick to be named later.
Barack must be letting Bill loofa his back in the shower.
(I think I just made myself ill.)
O'Reilly should be doing Maury Povich's gig...
Not that I don't think a populist paleocon might have a place on Fox, but please not Dobbs. His economic ludditism drives me up the wall (I don't think it's any accident that he's so many leftists' favorite conservative) as does his general dourness.
I can't stand to watch the guy for even 10 seconds.
Well, on second thought. Now that John Stossel will be on Fox to bitch slap him, maybe I could put up with Lou.
But I prefer to trade egO'Reilly for Kudlow, then I could add CNBC to my "never watch" list.
LaMont Hill was annoying to listen to, so good riddance.
As for the Assata Shakur stuff, a digression: WHY do so many black people go to prison and come out with ARABIAN-SOUNDING NAMES, after they’re prosleytized by Black Muslim inmate-mentors? Is that a “tenet” of Islam “faith”—that you have to take on a new ALIAS? Or just a way to shed your former identity? Just wondering...
(Seems that an American with a MUSLIM NAME is a kind of ALARM SYSTEM that makes you Google the person to find out their FORMER NAME and CONVICTED OFFENSES... such as: H. Rap Brown, Donald Warren, etc.)
I think you’ve made a very accurate description of the program. That’s certainly the way I see it.
My folks watch faithfully, but they realize he’s a bit of an unknown quantity. They described it as him trying to be popular with both sides, but going too far left in the effort.
I agree with that.
I’ll watch him once in a blue moon. Even as background noise, he still gets in trouble.
I certain know where you are coming from.
Fired for Twittering - oh, my.
At least Juan Williams is able to go against some of the things the leftist commies try to get by with. I think he is sincere, but mainly sincerely deluded. As a person I don’t mind him too much as the “the other side”. He actually got into quite a bit of hot water with the left because he compared M. Obama to Black Panther, Stokely Carmichael in a dress. He found out how merciless and intolerant the left could be, the hard way.
Now there’s a poor excuse for a human being!!!
Also, I have heard that her (Greta Van Susteren) husband, John Coale, a prominent tort lawyer and Democrat activist was not for Obama, but actually came out for McCain after Clinton lost. He also is reported to have met Palin through Greta and has become Palin's unpaid adviser helping her with many important things.
I think Greta’s transition has been a slow one. I don’t think a serious person can be surrounded by conservatives and liberals and not see the huge chasm of difference of character between the nuts and bolts PEOPLE. Unless of course, they have such large character defects that they are looking for refuge and a place of acceptance for them.
He was unwatchable. Many times when he was one of the commentators I’d channel surf. The next place he’ll pop up is Dancing With The Tsars.
What’s up with Juan Williams? He was, IIRC, about as leftie as Che, over at PBS. Now he’s all over Fox and sounding like an actual human being, even getting smeared as an Uncle Tom by some black racebaiter... I could like him.
I’ve wondered this since the first time I heard that race-hustling little Maoist maggot open his mouth on FNC.
GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!!!
Ya think that was bad? It was nothing compared to his demeanor during Katrina.
Hill supports cop-killer “Mummia Abu Jamal” who is in prison as well as some Marxist causes. Useful idiot lefties galore have been proponents of his claim of innocence (he confessed and multiple witnesses saw him shoot police officer Danny Falukner, Philly PD, I think). Hill began featuring Mummia’s blog from prison on his (Hill’s) web page. I think that was the main thing but there were a few lesser issues as well.
I always change the channel when he comes on, although we don’t watch BOR much anymore at all.
Never miss that or the Journal Editorial Report. Those are the two best programs on TV. I do miss Brit, though.
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