Ted Koppel: "Sean Hannity Bad for America"

[Stephen Fox]

I agree. Koppel didn't take Hannity as far in the Woodshed as Ike took Joe McCarthy but he headed him in that direction.

And big wash post story up as well singing the praises of CBS Scott Pelley who has dined at my niece's restaurant Blue Heron in Clemson SC where both his children graduated.

Well not Katie's Blue Heron but her husband and his brother if Thornton goes up there askin around.

In the Old Testament, Will Campbell definition of the Word, Sean Hannity is a bastard, and Theatlantic.com two weeks ago named Tucker Carlson an "asshole" Both references are correct.

[David Flick]

[Stephen Fox]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ew/516231/

Some say Judge Pressler took the Phil Donahue show with Ken Chafin but we know where the Truth lay. I met Tucker Carlson at Furman a few years ago. Shook his hand. He was a much nicer person then than he is now with no manners whatsoever interrupting folks his minders have told him to sic, while lap dogging folks on the Bannon, Ailes side.

If flick cares to read the truth, the atlantic article thoroughly, either he is illiterate or will come away with a different take on Tucker.

The fundies got their butts kicked at Ridgecrest deliberations, but we all know who demagogued the vote and the outcome in that mess. Proceedings of the Conference on Inerrancy. I used to have a copy laying around the house somewhere.

[David Flick]

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Bill O'Reilly, are Fox News commentators, not journalists. They fall into the same category as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and other talk show wanabees whose craft is to play to the biases and prejudices of their potential audiences. They benefit from continuing to push the line that the mainstream media has a liberal bias, and they are the ones capable of providing balance. The problem is that the mainstream media journalists go get the facts, and that a negative report about a conservative politician is not a sign of bias. But most conservatives have let themselves be incorrectly convinced that a negative story is a negative spin, and that the mainstream media always reports negatives, never positives, about conservatives, in spite of all kinds of evidence to the contrary. And they can't distinguish between editorial commentary and truth. So they are susceptible to having their prejudices and biases stroked. So there's a lot of fiction, because it generates enough ratings in the media markets to make the commentators rich, which is the bottom line. They couldn't care less about people's opinions, their values, or the country, they care about stuffing their checkbook and they will come up with the wildest, most ridiculous and ludircrous fiction to accomplieh their ends.

[KeithE]

[Neil Heath]

I agree, Sandy. Thanks.

[Haruo]

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