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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: drewh
I could with great accuracy identify and post here the Fox "employees", "journalists", "analysts", "strategists" and "anonymous sources" that are out to drag Sean down....but I don't have all day.

Leni

101 posted on 05/23/2017 12:04:14 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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To: drewh

The report was “later discredited by Rich’s family”


Nope. Disputed, not discredited.


102 posted on 05/23/2017 12:08:57 PM PDT by ironman
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To: drewh

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

There’s the money line that exposes the lunacy of this Fox nut!


103 posted on 05/23/2017 12:41:36 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Travis McGee

Yeah, that indicates a real issue : )


104 posted on 05/23/2017 1:24:03 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ExTexasRedhead; vette6387; Liz; JLAGRAYFOX; Lumper20; MinuteGal; Albion Wilde; rodguy911; ...

Good catch, ExTex !


105 posted on 05/23/2017 1:25:35 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: ironman
The report was “later discredited by Rich’s family”

Nope. Disputed, not discredited.

I ask again - how on earth does the family know what was or wasn't on his laptop? Unless he lived in his parent's basement and they monitored everything on it they would have no clue.

106 posted on 05/23/2017 1:33:39 PM PDT by Shethink13 (there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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To: drewh

They are going after Hannity now.


107 posted on 05/23/2017 2:34:37 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: drewh
"...the conservative Fox News Channel..."

LOL - Didn't even make it through the first sentence before the first lie appeared.

108 posted on 05/23/2017 2:37:11 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: vette6387

I was commenting on the reporter’s use of the word “discredited.”

All that is necessary is a single word from anybody, in order to “discredit” any suggestion of a crime committed by a leftist.

Another favorite word is “debunked.”

Someone told me Pizzagate had been “debunked.” Because the place “doesn’t even have a basement.”

Turned out the guy never heard of John Podesta’s emails. Never heard of any other details, either. All he had heard was that the “right” was saying that Hillary! was raping children in the basement of Comet Ping Pong and Pizza.


109 posted on 05/23/2017 2:46:33 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; NFHale; vette6387; SkyPilot; MinuteGal; left that other site; mazda77; ...

Anyone know how we can get through to the head schmucks at FNC to express that we’ve turned their pile of feces off? Oh, and add their advertisers to that list.


110 posted on 05/23/2017 3:06:54 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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