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ABC reporter Kristen Hentschel was paid thousands by lobbying firm to make hit pieces on politicians: report
New York Post ^ | December 21, 2022 | Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 12/23/2022 11:11:15 AM PST by nickcarraway

An ABC producer used her credentials to create fake hit pieces on local politicians in Florida while pocketing thousands from a political lobbying firm, a report said.

Freelance producer Kristen Hentschel — who mostly worked for “Good Morning America” — was paid at least $14,350 by Alabama-based political consulting firm Matrix LLC to sandbag the environmentally friendly politicians with bogus questions, according to a report released Wednesday by NPR and Floodlight, an “environmental news collaborative.”

Hentschel claimed to be working for ABC while filming the hit piece. The company said she had not been assigned to the story. “Kristen Hentschel was a freelance daily hire who never worked for ABC News on the political stories referenced in the NPR article,” the network said in a statement.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; kristenhentschel; matrix; matrixllc; operationmockingbird
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1 posted on 12/23/2022 11:11:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
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I imagine this happens a whole lot more than we know


2 posted on 12/23/2022 11:13:04 AM PST by jneesy (Good lord we have Jimmy Carters dumb cousin in the white house)
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To: nickcarraway

Really???


3 posted on 12/23/2022 11:13:18 AM PST by FreeperCell
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And yet, nobody cares. Unless it’s a Republican doing it.

Rats can literally get away with murder.


4 posted on 12/23/2022 11:14:32 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jneesy
I imagine this happens a whole lot more than we know

And the orders come from DNC Headquarters.

5 posted on 12/23/2022 11:15:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

So many traitors on the take.


6 posted on 12/23/2022 11:15:46 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: nickcarraway

Who isn’t?


7 posted on 12/23/2022 11:19:45 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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To: nickcarraway

Kristen’s in hot water!

...her collegues are shaking their heads and turning away because she got caught and is threatening their cut.


8 posted on 12/23/2022 11:22:56 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (wake me up when somebody tells the truth)
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ABC is Disney


9 posted on 12/23/2022 11:24:01 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Kristen’s in hot water!

No she's not.

10 posted on 12/23/2022 11:25:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

She is NOTHING but a LIAR ....she said she is a registered Republican!!! Only to Skew them!


11 posted on 12/23/2022 11:31:50 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jneesy

Happens all the time. Why do you think Boeing Corp. buys so much ad time on network and cable news programs? It’s so these programs will have Boeing’s paid b!tches like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley on as guests to peddle their globalist bullsh!t to the viewers of these programs.


12 posted on 12/23/2022 11:37:27 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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13 posted on 12/23/2022 11:43:48 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: nickcarraway

Why would they bother to pay when the lapdog media is always bashing Trump and others they hate?

In What’s New, Pussycat (1965 movie) the nerdy Woody Allen character living in France said:
“I have a part time job at the strip place, helping the girls with their costumes.”
“Does it pay much?”
“Ten sous a week.”
“That’s not very much money.”
“It was all I could afford to pay them.”


14 posted on 12/23/2022 11:48:55 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway
Hentschel was famously outed by the National Enquirer as a mistress of former “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen in 2011.


15 posted on 12/23/2022 11:50:17 AM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: jneesy

I imagine this happens a whole lot more than we know


Yes. America has a serious corruption problem with our institutions. The media is an “institution” that influences all other parts of our society.

It has been corrupted by politics, money, and our deep state (to include our intelligence agencies). Journalists, doctors, hospitals, schools, the courts, law enforcement, and the list continues are full of people who had some idealistic motive for choosing that occupation. Like the proverbial frog in the pot of warm water brought to boiling they don’t see how perverted (non-sexual) their industry has become.

As one example, do you think many doctors today who pushed (and continue to do so) the vaccine on their patients recognize that they put the wishes of big pharma ahead of their Hippocratic oath? The data has NEVER supported children getting the vaccine and now there is abundant evidence of the risks for young people yet many still promote and push this.

There is a lot of cognitive dissonance if you look for it. I just watched a PBS-Frontline special on MBS (the Saudi leader) and his crackdowns on free speech, surveillance, and the death of the dissident journalist. The PBS journo’s and guests were decrying the twitter censorship and surveillance AND that people who spoke out against the regime were incarcerated without trials.

I went to the Youtube comments expecting to see people like me asking about the recent release of the twitter files and Jan 6th defendants who have been incarcerated for 2 years for a likely misdemeanor. Crickets. They don’t see it or they simply don’t care.


16 posted on 12/23/2022 12:00:26 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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The RNC does this too. How many RINO’s pushing unfettered illegal immigration (while talking about amnesty which they have never done by the way) are getting money from the Chamber of Commerce, Tyson Chicken, and the larger agricultural industry who use this labor?

I know you agree with my assessment, but just felt like I should point this out.

The “system” is corrupt and with the exception of outliers both are part of the same uniparty.


17 posted on 12/23/2022 12:03:57 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: nickcarraway
What about all the MSM lowlifes the FBI and CIA bought or 'traded' info with? Maybe it's time for the press to 'come clean' about who they sell out to and what they get in return.
18 posted on 12/23/2022 12:15:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Illegals coming idiopathic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE) )
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To: nickcarraway

Journalism died when nobody would tell us who hired Craig Livingstone, Chief of Whitehouse Security under the Clinton administration.


19 posted on 12/23/2022 12:18:21 PM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: nickcarraway

This is extraordinarily rare! Normally, journalists are more than happy to smear conservatives for free.


20 posted on 12/23/2022 12:38:49 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
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