Hewitt’s ideological double standard for journalists.
Hewitt’s ideological double standard for journalists.
During an interview with Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, right wing radio host Hugh Hewitt attacked the objectivity of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Tim Russert, saying the “clowns” have “damaged” NBC “ideologically” because they “worked for two Democratic politicians close to twenty years ago.” Later in the interview, however, Hewitt struck a very different tone when discussing Diane Sawyer’s past employment for Richard Nixon:
I thought you were going to answer Diane Sawyer, because look, I know she knows what she’s talking about, largely because I took over her office at Casa Pacifica when she left the Nixon staff, and I joined the Nixon staff. [...]
And you don’t spend years with Nixon at Casa Pacifica and not pick up how the world works, and how great minds think. My question is, I think she would dominate the news. I think she would be an extraordinary anchor in the form of Peter Jennings.
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Par for the course for Hugh Blew-It.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:57 pmI think the g.o.p. gives merit badges out for “Hypocrisy”.
That this guy has a forum, only underscores the sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, who said:
October 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm“Nobody ever lost a dime underestimating the taste of the American public.”
What I find so frightening is that they really don’t see their hypocracy.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pmWow. Double standards and hypocrisy from a Republican???
Oh the humanity.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:00 pmSo either these guys are so incredibly stupid that they don’t see the contradiction or else they believe their viewers are.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:03 pmNo, no, no. Those are not “double standards” at all. You see, Tweety and Timmeh worked for liberals, who are, after all, evil. And lovely Diane worked for Dick Nixon, who was a good man hounded by, again, liberals.
So it’s not a “double standard” at all. It’s two very different standards. Why do libruls hate standards?
(Boy, that was fun! I can see why so many trolls love their work! You don’t have to make any sense at all! You guys should try it!)
October 18th, 2007 at 4:06 pmSince Nixon was actually the second coming of Kreist, Hewitt is right on.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:08 pmIf one worked for the only president ever to resign in disgrace that would make their credentials inpeckabullatious.
Why would anyone care what Hugh Hewitt thought (sic) about anything?
October 18th, 2007 at 4:09 pmyoung turks
October 18th, 2007 at 4:12 pmWhy would anyone care what Hugh Hewitt thought (sic) about anything?
Comment by Peter C — October 18, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
Just add him to the growing list of irrelevant entertainers that will be squaking their collective asses off in the Big Flush in ‘09. Like Tranny Anny Coultergeist, Limpballs, Melanie “Too much Botox” Morgan, “Guppy Face” Malkin, billo and hanniteehee, to name a few.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:15 pminpeckabullatious.
Comment by RUCerious — October 18, 2007 @ 4:08 pm
RUC, that’s just what I was going to say.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:19 pmDouble standards are good.
They’re twice as hard to meet as single standards, I would think TP would be happy about this.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:36 pmI am speechless.
I shouldn’t be, but I am… this is just unreal.
Hewitt, didn’t your mother pass on any positive behaviors?
Waste of skin.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:42 pmShayne ~
It’s our un-word o’ the day!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:50 pmHewitt, didn’t your mother pass on any positive behaviors?
Waste of skin.
Comment by This Machine Kills Fascists — October 18, 2007 @ 4:42 pm
I am constantly amazed at the fact that ANYONE can not only listen to these A$$KLOWNS, but support their positions. If any rational thought or reasonable test were applied, their rhetoric would be laughed at, just like it is by those of us who can perform even a moderate level of critical thinking.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:51 pmBreaking News!
Hewittt was caught today worshipping a bust of the Roman god Janus!
October 18th, 2007 at 4:52 pmI guess if these people think Chuck Hagel is a liberal cause of his one good line about selling shoes amid seven years of rubber-stamping, it makes sense that they think Tweety critiquing the war while fawning over Bush’s “sunny nobility” and “sublime masculinity” (to say nothing of his homoerotic fantods about McCain, Rudi! and Uncle Fred). But…. Russert? Tim Russert? a liberal bias? I think Hewitt’s brains are in his moobs, and he scrambled them that time he went jogging.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pmAll Kurtz does is try to “mainstream” right wing extremist media.
October 18th, 2007 at 4:57 pmThat’s his gig.
Where does this idiot get the idea that Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are liberals? Well, I suppose next to Hewitt they are — but so are most people.
October 18th, 2007 at 5:45 pmIs Kurtz the goat blower or is that someone else?
October 18th, 2007 at 6:08 pmIs Kurtz the goat blower or is that someone else?
Comment by An Outhouse — October 18, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
Mickey Kaus is the goat-blower. Although, to my knowledge, Kurtz has neither confirmed nor denied blowing goats, either.
Interesting if true.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pmGuys like this belong in a looney bin
October 18th, 2007 at 6:20 pmBut, according to Hewitt, I can’t listen to Hewitt, either, since he was a writer for Nixon and in the Reagan White House in the DOJ and Office of Personnel Management.
I’m all confused.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:29 pm