Posted on 10/06/2016 2:33:35 PM PDT by tekrat
Any news outlet wishing to provide solid and comprehensive coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign cannot avoid mentioning Sean Hannity's promotion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. "Hannity," which airs in the prime-time lineup of Fox News, is influential among conservatives and enjoys a substantial cable news audience, and its more interesting moments have a long tail on the Internet. In violation of any journalistic principle, Hannity has done a video promotion for Trump, hosted him for softball interviews too numerous to recount and even provided advice to the campaign.
BuzzFeed, the New York Times, The Washington Post and the rest of the field have reported extensively on this dynamic.
And last night, another important source of campaign news — Megyn Kelly’s own prime-time show on Fox News — covered it as well. “Donald Trump, with all due respect to my friend at 10:00, will go on ‘Hannity’ and pretty much only ‘Hannity’ and will not venture out to the unsafe spaces these days,” said the host in a segment with Stuart Stevens, a strategist who worked on the Mitt Romney campaign. Nor were those remarks an out-of-the-blue, impolitic slam on a colleague. Just before uttering that point, Kelly ripped into Hillary Clinton for pursuing a similar self-sheltering policy: “Now they’re both in their own version of a presidential protection program … They’ve designed her situation so she’s not in a place where she’s feels uncomfortable … which is why she sat for a half an hour with Mary J. Blige the singer, which is why she did Entertainment Tonight this evening, which is why we just found out that when she went on the ‘Steve Harvey’ show, she had every single question given to her in writing in advance and then she feigned surprise as the questions were asked.”
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Clinton has shat out the WaPo.
>> In violation of any journalistic principle, Hannity has done a video promotion for Trump
Unlike the derelicts that claim to be objective journalists, Hannity admits to being a biased personality that offers opinion-based programming.
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
My chief complaint about Juan Williams is he is straight by the book dnc talking points guy. Never deviates, never strays. Doesn’t have his own opinion and it’s obvious he can’t express it if it goes against the DNC talking points.
“In violation of any journalistic principle”
DITTO.
I had already copied that phrase and was ready to paste it, Jim, when I saw your comment.
Megyn Kelly is irate...
Hannity is not a journalist. He is a commentator.
Exactly.
*sigh*
Sean Hannity has stated over and over again that he is NOT (and never has been) a "journalist". He's an OPINION guy. Like the editorial page of the newspaper.
There's a reason this rag is known as The Washington COMpost.
I know! This is rich, coming from The Washington COMpost.
*crickets*
Poor thing...
She’s really not too bright.
Yup. Trump played her alright... ;-)
Just look at Erik Wimpy's Twitter feed. He's absolutely *obsessed* with Fox News, and with destroying Trump. This guy is even more batsh!t crazy than Glenn Beck!
She looks like a common nightwalker in that photo...
You are so right. Sometimes the entire panel will be against Trump. Bret Baer has a certain dismissive way of discussing Trump that borders on snarky.
It’s the Sean Hannity show,not Fox News! It’s his show,his opinion,he can say whatever he wants,cover who and what he wants,he presents facts the other Hillary ass kissers won’t,that is the rub.
So his ratings are better than loud mouth miss prissy,Kelly and she wets her pants,deal with it
FoxNews
WikiLeaks Drops BOMBSHELL… Bill O’Reilly and Megan Kelly Are Clinton Operatives TRUMP WAS RIGHT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3471843/posts
S. Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal Control on US (& other) media [2009]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2186027/posts
[Including FoxNews]
Remember this Saudi prince?
Just after 9-11-01, Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Alwaleed to take a hike and refused his check after the Saudi prince publicly insulted the USA.
Fox to develop Muslim sitcom to fight Islamophobia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3401231/posts
GOP Meeting Video Reveals RNC Committeeman Discussing How To Get Rid of Donald Trump...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3384789/posts
[including Fox’s Dana Perino]
Fox News Hits Three Year Perception Low With Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3402495/posts
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Trump’s suspicions were correct —
Google and Fox TV Invite Anti-Trump, Hitler-Citing, Muslim Advocate to Join Next GOP TV-Debate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389124/posts
SABOTAGE by FoxNews!
APPROVED by the RNC.
[In same debate Trump boycotted, Kelly slandered Cruz.]
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FOXNews
Megyn Kelly to Ted Cruz: ‘The record supports you’ [only after audience sleeps]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3390097/posts
[With moderators like these — who needs enemies?]
After the Fox News-Google debate Megyn Kelly interviewed Ted Cruz. [7:40 Video begins with a 1:00 clip of the earlier debate] Kelly continued to pursue the “amnesty” angle that she’d begun during the debate [starting at 3:41] - about his history on illegals, immigration and amnesty, but concedes:
Kelly: “I look at your record, a lot, to see: Did Ted Cruz really want legalization, or didn’t he?” “I think the record supports you - that you did not want it; it does.”
“It really was a poison pill amendment.” Then there is back and forth where Kelly states that Cruz...
The WAPO is whining about journalistic principles.
“FOX has DESTROYED themselves by having so damn many LEFTISTS on it!!”
What purpose does it serve to have a brain-dead leftist apologist on ‘The Five”? Beckel was bad, but Juan Williams is pathetic. I no longer watch that program.
EODGUY
Amen.....used to watch it all the time but Juan is UNWATCHABLE...Dana also...even Greg is getting on my last nerve....Bolling is too chummy with Juan and Kimberly, who is the SMARTEST and most conservative gets the short shrift!
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