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Fox's Hannity, CNN's Cooper trade blows in cable news network brawl
The Hill ^ | 04/19/2018 | BY JOE CONCHA

Posted on 04/19/2018 11:43:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Fox News and CNN On Wednesday again traded blows on the air with Fox News's Sean Hannity comparing CNN's Anderson Cooper to Jerry Springer and Cooper hitting Fox for not reprimanding its top-rated host.

The back-and-forth jabs seem to be happening on a regular basis between the two cable news networks, with MSNBC, which is currently second to Fox News overall in the cable news race, rarely being dragged into the fight.

“In the two days that have elapsed since the president’s lawyer Michael Cohen was forced to reveal in court that the mystery client he tried to keep secret was, in fact, Sean Hannity, the consequences have been swift,” Cooper said.

“Fox News did what any respectable news organization would do when faced with the knowledge that one of its anchors went on the air time after time after time to breathlessly report on someone without disclosing his own personal connection to the story,” he continued.

“I’m kidding,” Cooper said to laughter from his panel. “They don’t care. They didn’t care.”

Hannity on Monday in federal court was revealed to be the previously unnamed third client of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney.

Critics have argued that the host should have revealed his relationship to avoid appearances of a conflict of interest, while Hannity has maintained the relationship was minor and he never retained Cohen or "received an invoice or paid legal fees.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andersoncooper; cnn; foxnews; hannity
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1 posted on 04/19/2018 11:43:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cooper you LIE. Hannity is not a news “anchor” he is an opinion talk show host. Even so he is a lot more accurate than the Walter Cronkites of the world, but his job is not to pretend to be the objective news anchor...


2 posted on 04/19/2018 11:47:22 AM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: SeekAndFind

wrestlemania?


3 posted on 04/19/2018 11:48:31 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: SeekAndFind

These pundits continually make themselves the news.....and the public just laps it up as if watching a mud throwing contest.


4 posted on 04/19/2018 11:50:18 AM PDT by caww
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To: SeekAndFind

And CNN gave debate questions to Hillary.


5 posted on 04/19/2018 11:51:26 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Enchante

Would be great if we’d get the news instead of the latest pundits ‘opinions’ and ‘chat sessions’ of the hour. Those days are long gone!


6 posted on 04/19/2018 11:52:20 AM PDT by caww
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To: SeekAndFind
Cooper said to laughter from his panel. “They don’t care. They didn’t care.”

LOL, like CNN 'rigging it for Hillary, they don't care...they really don't care, LOL?

7 posted on 04/19/2018 11:53:28 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Trade blows’.


8 posted on 04/19/2018 11:53:29 AM PDT by lee martell
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RE: “Trade blows’.

I know, it’s a very unfortunate title.


9 posted on 04/19/2018 11:54:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, cooper blows, ask his old boyfriend


10 posted on 04/19/2018 11:55:40 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: SeekAndFind

I think they should schedule an actual boxing match - raise money for charity, get to see Anderson Cooper get his ass kicked... ...I’d watch it on pay-per-view.


11 posted on 04/19/2018 11:58:09 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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I thought Wrestlemania was coming to Fox and CNN....

Sean Hannity apparently does ‘Street Martial Arts’.

See here: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/sean-hannity-karate-update/

I don’t know about Anderson Cooper...


12 posted on 04/19/2018 12:00:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Did Cooper reveal that a CNN employee gave Hillary debate questions??


13 posted on 04/19/2018 12:00:55 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

I suppose Sean could have easily passed off at some point that he knew Cohen, or even that he had asked him for a non-client opinion about real estate. It is no secret that he invests in RE.

I mean, Sean is unafraid to mention his ties and his acquaintances. He has often used the term “in full disclosure, I....”. (I choose to think this oversight, if one wants to call it that, is an example of how little importance the conversation ever was to Sean.)

In one particular case, he doesn’t do that and all hell breaks loose. Go figure. It mostly proves this Judge Kimba Wood is a “hit man”, herself.


14 posted on 04/19/2018 12:03:48 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: caww

Well said.
Sick of it.


15 posted on 04/19/2018 12:04:08 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: WayneS
I think they should schedule an actual boxing match


16 posted on 04/19/2018 12:05:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind
Fox's Hannity, CNN's Cooper trade blows in cable news network brawl The Hill ^ | 04/19/2018 | BY JOE CONCHA Anderson & his boy friend had a lover's quarrel ~ it escalated to the point where they exchanged blows!
17 posted on 04/19/2018 12:06:39 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson))
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To: SeekAndFind; lee martell

Yeah, I had the same thought.


18 posted on 04/19/2018 12:10:09 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SeekAndFind

Hannity could mop the floor with Pooper.


19 posted on 04/19/2018 12:10:33 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anderson “Scumbag” Cooper is Jerry Springer.... with a holier than thou attitude.


20 posted on 04/19/2018 12:12:58 PM PDT by Conserv
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