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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Megan Kelly is a self-absorbed jackass.
Why would any person go on a program with a host that was rude, was Leftist biased against them, when they were running on the Right, when there was a cordial person whose show they could be on?
Kelly aced herself out of Trump’s circle of friends, and now whines incessantly.
Poor thing...
She’s really not too bright.
Hannity does not claim to be a journalist, so go suck some eggs WaPo ...
Me-again thought it was her job to “take out” Trump.
I have had no use for her since Aug 2015.
Yes, Hannity is biased.
The difference is he’s never pretended like so many others to be unbiased.
So, if you’re liberal .. then it’s okay to slant your news to a liberal candidate .. BUT IF YOU’RE a normal person, you are not allowed to support a Republican.
Okay .. I get it. No wonder I never watch CNN.
Hannity does not present himself as a *journalist*. He is very clear that he promotes a conservative agenda.
Kelly, on the other hand, fraudulently promotes herself as a *journalist*, when in reality she is nothing more than a hack, pushing a not so skillfully hidden agenda.
Very well put!
who even watches MeAgain ??? I flip the station, specifically to avoid her arrogant, snarky show...
Both overt (Juan Williams) and covert (Megyn Kelley).
Someone should devour Fox News. Might as well be Trump.
And Dana Perino is also unwatchable.
Also Jeannine Pirro. Greta was objective but unfortunately is gone. I don’t know what she is doing now.
Well, we’re criticizing Kelly.
“In violation of any journalistic principle”
ROTFLOL!
The ENTIRE CNN channel, ALL of the many NBC channel, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, the entire New York Times, 99.99% of WaPo, Gannet, McClatchy, and every other newspaper and media outlet on the planet Earth EXCEPT Hannity is 100% anti-Trump and 100% pro Crooked Hillary, and this fool Wemple is whining that it’s unfair that ONE single pundit is pro-Trump!
Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahaaha!
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Has anyone ever read the phrase “softball interview” in the Post before?
Interviews of Hillary are giddy, choreographed, and coordinated.
MEgyn Kelly dedicated her show to destroying Trump. Her show Rolodex is a Who’s who of Hillary operatives and RINOs that have zero respect for working Americans, actually they have open contempt.
One person at the family vacation put it this way, I don’t watch MEgyn because I’ve seen it before. If you’ve seen her show in the past 10 Months, you’ve seen tonight’s show.
MEgyn just ain’t that bright and she thinks she can defeat Trump, and then convince people, I was trying to help you by electing Hillary.
Take that thing out of her ear and she’s a different person. These shows bring on people - not to hear what they say, but, BECAUSE what they say. It’s a production.
FIXED News
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PeRino(and her little pet, Greg Gutfeld)are two nasty little *itches.
The part I find most astonishing is that anyone at all still watches cable news? Why? By the time they report it I’ve already read it on the internet.
“In violation of any journalistic principle, Hannity has done a video promotion for Trump...”
Hannity has said in the past that he is not a journalist, he is a commentator.
Hannity is unable to take a call and engage anyone without taking over the conversation and reciting talking points from A to Z.
I’m other words he ain’t no Bill Buckley.
I miss William F. Buckley.
Is there someone out their that is able to debate and win with the style and factual confidence that Buckley possessed?
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