Posted on 03/13/2015 8:52:25 AM PDT by C19fan
Before Hugh Hewitt would answer my questions, he had a condition: Through the producer of The Hugh Hewitt Show—his 15-year-old radio program that touts 2 million weekly listeners—he informed me that I would need to first answer his questions, on air.
Hours later, I was live on his show. "I got a note from my producer today, associate producer Marlon, saying you want to meet up with me and do a profile on me, which I think is about as dull as possible," Hewitt said, "but is that true?"
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Not listening to him anymore.
Hugh always reminded me of someone that you would find in the same sorta bath house that Lindsey G frequents
But is he series?
Hewitt is a Republican shill but his show is the best source of political inside information I’ve found. I do love his regular segments with Mark Steyn as well as James Lileks.
Good point. What I lived out in CA I ended up switching stations when he went on one of his brown nosing for Romney segments then coming back to see if he finished.
I used to enjoy listening to Hugh’s show on the way home from work before I joined a carpool and had to stop listening to talk radio. I always thought Hugh was a little squishy, but he had the most interesting guests of anyone in Talk Radio and there was a great sense of variety to the show. I got started on reading the late Vince Flynn’s thrillers after hearing an interview with him on the show.
I listened to Hugh maybe 8 years ago. Soon afterward, I recognized him as the fake conservative that he is.
Hewitt likes being in the “in crowd” and name dropping, so don’t count on him for ideological purity.
Medved was/is off for several months with cancer treatments and recovery. Hewitt would be the GOPe go-to guy when Medved is not available, I think.
Give aRnie a hug for me, HUGH!
Hugh has been on board the Cheap Labor Express for some time, he just tries to hide it.
All of the cheap labor importers need to be outed and the GOP destroyed for the citizens to have a chance to keep their country.
The GOP is representing the employers of illegal aliens.
The Dempocrats are representing the illegal aliens.
No one is representing the citizens, the rule of law, and American sovereignty.
This MUST change.
Considering the fight that needs to happen if we are to recover any ground lost to the left he was absolutely worthless.
Count Hewitt as among those who will side with the
most conservative candidate he thinks can win. Squishy?
Yes! But whoever gets the GOP top spot will get Hugh’s
complete support, whatever that is worth.
Too many ads, too much sports small talk when he brings on a guest. Rabid anti-birther.
Hewitt also promotes Mormonism against Christians, while playing up himself as a devoted Christian, and bashes conservatives, although the level of obvious anti-conservatism varies, depending on how confident he feels doing it during any particular period.
I think that after 2012, he backed off a little bit for instance, and played down his devotion to Romney and the Romney/Rockefeller wing.
Hewitt works against conservatism at whatever level he feels that he can get away with, depending on the climate at the time, but his work against conservatism never stops.
This book on Romney was published EIGHT YEARS AGO this month, which means that Romney was the man that Hewitt was seeking to take over the GOP long before that, political support based on his despicable and radically liberal term as Governor.
“A Mormon in the White House?: 10 Things Every Conservative Should Know About Mitt Romney”
“According to author and radio personality Hewitt, Mitt Romney-billionaire venture capitalist, consummate family man, gifted and media-savvy politician-would be unstoppable in the coming presidential race were it not for one niggling line on his resumé: he’s a Mormon. In this unashamedly partisan volume, Hewitt attempts to refute the claim that no Mormon could get elected President (along with any other claim that might be made against Romney) while analyzing the former Massachusetts governor’s biography and burnishing his conservative and leadership credentials.”
I’ve mentioned this before, but I bailed out on Hewitt when he shut down a caller who was attempting to educate him about the threat of Islam and its fundamental support for the kinds of terrorist acts that the jihadists have been waging. Hewitt threw up a straw man, putting words in the caller’s mouth and accusing him of claiming that all Muslims were terrorists. He shut him down and didn’t even let him finish a sentence. It was then I realized that Hewitt is a phoney conservative, and part of the problem.
Bull, Hewitt seeks to move the GOP to the left, or at least keep it there, see post 16.
Hugh is awesome, not perfect.
If conservatives toss out someone like him, we isolate ourselves.
This article is a puff piece.
I’ve listened to Hewitt since he started in the morning, and before that when he filled in on KFI.
I am saddened to see what has become of him and can hardly listen to his show anymore.
He has, though, always been like this to some degree.
An interesting thing.
Hewitt had always been a protestant who was raised Catholic and from a Catholic family. He always made clear that he was a former Catholic and most identified with evangelicals.
In fact, one of the first times I noticed him and realized he was a Conservative or Republican was on his Sunday afternoon KFI show when he had Greg Laurie on as a guest.
Hewitt got his start on an LA PBS news show called Life and Times. I never watched the show, but because he was on it I figured he was just another liberal.
Back to religion. Hewitt always identified with evangelicals and as former Catholic, now Protestant. But over the past few months he has been talking about how he is Catholic and an active Catholic.
That’s an interesting transition back in to Catholicsm.
For those that don’t know, years ago, probably more than ten years ago, Hewitt used to mention Free Republic a lot and called Freepers the “Coast Watchers”. His engineer Duane had an account here he was active on (it still exists).
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