Academic Radical on Fox

Accuracy in Academia ^ | November 30, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid

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Academic Radical on Fox

Cliff Kincaid, November 30, 2009

Bill O’Reilly has brought back cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a commentator on his highly-rated cable show, which he calls the “No Spin Zone.” Curiously, this follows the firing of Hill by O’Reilly’s boss, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation.

There has been no explanation, not even spin, from official Fox News representatives for this strange situation. How can Hill be showing up on the same channel that fired him?

On his show, O’Reilly postures as a defender of police officers and law enforcement authorities. He frequently taunts public officials for going soft on child predators and other criminals.

But Hill, a hip-hop professor at Columbia University, is a public advocate of convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur. He claims they were wrongly convicted for their crimes.

Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, who was murdered by Abu-Jamal, has written personally to O’Reilly, asking why he has the “pinhead” Hill on his show. (O’Reilly regularly denounces people who say or do extreme things as “pinheads.”)

Hill has referred to Abu-Jamal as “Brother Mumia,” a “freedom fighter,” and a “political prisoner.” The official Daniel Faulkner website rebuts the misinformation that attempts to suggest that Abu-Jamal is somehow not guilty of this murder.

Hill’s support for convicted killer Assata Shakur, who murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, included putting police mug shot photos of her on his Twitter page. Shakur escaped from prison and fled to Communist Cuba with the help of members of the terrorist Weather Underground.

Hill is so extreme that he went on O’Reilly’s show to defend a protest in honor of Lovelle Mixon, a suspected rapist with a lengthy criminal record who had murdered four Oakland police officers....

[RatRipper]

Bill Whoreilly is a dufus.

[dumpthelibs]

To be honest, I am tired of O’Reilly’s being soft on the liberals and radicals. He is showing himself to be a panderer under the guise of being “objective”. Cut the crap and call a spade a shovel. I stopped watching him some time ago because of his tolerance of idiots like Lamont-Hill and others. Notice that his ratings are slipping behind Hannity and Beck?

[1776 Reborn]

O’Reilly likes Hill because he is so easy to debate. He might as well bring in a dopey kid from kindergarten.

[fish hawk]

I'm glad someone else has noticed this. The first time I saw him on after reading that FOX had fired him, I wrote O’Reilly asking how this could be and what was going on. I got no answer back.

[bigbob]

BOR has become way too cocky and fully of himself. If Fox had the guts to put Beck in primetime, BORs ratings would take a nosedive.

Did you know he went to Harvard?

[Ann Archy]

I TURN IT OFF when that guy is on!! BOR should BUY A CLUE!!