Fox's Hannity, CNN's Cooper trade blows in cable news network brawl

The Hill ^ | 04/19/2018 | BY JOE CONCHA

[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.”

[Conserv]

and then there’s Jim Sciutto

https://www.mediaite.com/online/tainted-journalism-cnn-lets-obama-administration-alum-report-on-susan-rice-story/

[John S Mosby]

CNN failing EVER to reveal that it was THEIR lawyer allowed to speak to Kimba Wood to have “for the public good” the names of Cohen’s clients ORDERED (against our Constitution). It was CNN who demanded, and as fellow travelers with Kimba and the Clinton machine— got the order.

Never revealed-— the fact THEY demanded it, and then they REPORT on it. Anderson— report on who bleaches your a@@ hairs for your clubbing pervo world. ZERO credibility and perv to boot.

[Tench_Coxe]

"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."

Wasn't it CNN who pressured the court to release the name? Cant say what I think should happen to some of these a**holes.

[windowdude]

Not literally....I hope.

[caww]

Yep...it’s for that reason ‘watching news’ has dropped considerably for me.

[MAexile]

get to see Anderson Cooper get his ass kicked

Yeah, but that'd be way too quick. Hannity would win by KO in the first 5 seconds.

Have Cooper fight Shep Smith.

[robel]

What would really be hilarious would be the msm naming all of their personal connections to dnc politicians. And then, with a straight face, claim to be unbiased. LOL

[WayneS]

“Cat fight!!”

[jmaroneps37]

I’ll bet Cooper was throwing the blows, just sayin’.

[WayneS]

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

...and another guy's ---- up his ---.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I wouldn’t want my name to appear in a headline with A. Cooper’s if blows are mentioned.

[Hatteras]

So did Cooper try to scratch Sean’s eyes out and Hannity retaliated by throwing nerf footballs at him?...

[MNJohnnie]

Millions of people saw Hannitey and 12 people saw CNN. That not a “brawl”, that a one sided butt kicking

[northislander]

Never engage but Pirates

[Hot Tabasco]

I still have no idea what the issue is concerning Hannity other than a media driven attack on him which has been taken up by a number of folks here on FR. (Hey, morphing libertarian, you listening?)

ABC's George Stephanopoulos is the umbilical cord between ABC and the Democrat party. George Stephanopoulos was busted for secretly donating $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation and not a word from the MSM........

Every time the Squirt reports on or interviews a Democrat that he had personal contact with during his years of service with the DNC, is he required to issue a disclaimer about his personal contacts with them as they are accusing Hannity of not doing? If so, he hasn't done it..........

I DON'T GET IT!

[kanawa]

Sean Hannity apparently does ‘Street Martial Arts’

Of which I'm tired of hearing about.

[Bigg Red]

I know exactly what you mean. Not interested in their stupid conversations with one another.

And the networks spend ridiculous amounts of money on salaries for these people instead of investing money in real reporting from worldwide locations.

[caww]

We miss out on an enormous amount of news, here and on the International stage that is significant. Also Investigative reporting is a thing of the past. They just pass on whatever from one network to the other.

Seems to me they see their audiences as targets for “hype”....which honestly the generations have unfortunately stooped to. They no longer ‘think’, they want to “experience” a high from whatever sources attainable today...including news.

[Hyman Roth]

Anderson Cooper blows......in many aspects.

[dfwgator]

Network, was made over 40 years ago, but it's even more relevant today:



"So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!"