Liberal Analyst Found Out Through ‘Google Alert’ That Fox News Fired Him
Liberal Analyst Found Out Through ‘Google Alert’ That Fox News Fired Him
Last Friday, during a News Corp. shareholders meeting, Chairman Rupert Murdoch was asked why Fox News would hire liberal analyst Marc Lamont Hill, who, the questioner said, has a “reputation of defending cop killers and racists.” Murdoch reportedly replied that Hill had already been fired. While both Fox and Hill were initially tight-lipped about Murdoch’s reported comment, Mediaite later confirmed that Hill had indeed been fired by the network.
When asked “what happened” during a recent interview with conservative radio host Steve Malzberg, Hill said that he has no idea why he was fired. “I don’t have a lot of information because I wasn’t given a lot of information.” In fact, Hill said he found out from a “Google alert” that Fox let him go:
HILL: Yeah I mean it’s an interesting thing. I wish I could give you a great deal of information that I don’t have a lot of information because I wasn’t given a lot of information. To date, Fox News Channel hasn’t given me any information as to why. … I’m just a little puzzled. [...]
MALZBERG: First of all, you told me you found out when you got a Google alert, so I mean, did anybody eventually call you from Fox and tell you that you were fired?
HILL: Yeah I eventually – I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on. … I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information. … I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone.
Listen here:
Indeed, shortly after reports surfaced of Hill’s dismissal, he tweeted (which has since been deleted), “You ever had anyone break up with you by text?” So why did Fox News fire Hill? While Fox never responded to inquiries from ThinkProgress, Hill told Malzberg that “people can certainly look on the internet and Google and see all sorts of stories and information” as to why he was fired.
Right-wing propagandist Cliff Kincaid, who works for “Accuracy in Media,” has been on a crusade to try to get Hill fired from the network because, as Kincaid has said, Hill is a “left wing cop-killer apologist.” In a celebratory note after Murdoch’s announcement, Kincaid noted that he had in fact asked about Hill during last week’s News Corp. meeting and criticized Fox for not doing “elementary analysis” of Hill before they hired him. During his interview with Malzberg, Hill called Kincaid’s charges “unfair misrepresentations.”
In the segment, Hill also commented about the recent spat between the White House and Fox News. “Is Fox News a right-leaning organization? No doubt about it,” Hill said. But he later added that he doesn’t yet “feel comfortable” commenting on whether Fox News is an “arm” of the Republican Party.
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But he later added that he doesn’t yet “feel comfortable” commenting on whether Fox News is an “arm” of the Republican Party.
I think the appendage he really means is a little bit lower, anatomically speaking.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pmHow can ANYONE not realize Fox is an “arm of the Republican Party” ?? They (Fox) promote GOP talking points 24/7, & attack Obama & Dems 24/7 . What’s not to realize???
October 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pmbecause like most cancervatives those running faux “news” are nothing more than a bunch of shit-talking pieces of crap who are afraid to man up and tell someone to their face.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:02 pmBillo likes his liberal analysts leggy and Carrie Prejean-y
Any liberal…analyst or factoid…gobbles up Glenn Beck like he’s a ghost in a game of Pac-Man.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pmHey, consider it a bullet dodged, Hill.
Count your FSM blessings.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm“Liberal Analyst Found Out Through ‘Google Alert’ That Fox News Fired Him”
That’s cold. But that’s Faux Nutwork. You are removed by the wingnut world of Planet Wingnuttia network if they smell liberal, pro-Obama, anti-GOP, and pro-Democrat.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:20 pmthe only honest characteristic Fox news has is that it named itself Fox.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:25 pmi wonder if boo-hoo glenda becky will find out he’s been axed via a “tweet”?
October 21st, 2009 at 6:27 pmBozo,
It would be truly sweet if Beck found out he was fired via THINK PROGRESS!!!
October 21st, 2009 at 6:31 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Mr. Duke:
October 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pmWho is the left arm of the Republican party and the right arm of the Democratic party?
Bozo The Neoclown says:
i wonder if boo-hoo glenda becky will find out he’s been axed via a “tweet”?
Either Michael Landon’s Jedi ghost will tell him first or he’ll get the message via one of Rupert’s flying monkeys.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pmIts okay McLellan felt comfortable: While promoting his memoir, What Happened, Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary (2003–2006) for former President George W. Bush stated on the July 25, 2008 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews that the Bush White House routinely gave talking points to Fox News commentators
October 21st, 2009 at 6:40 pmFAUX New(t) ; all the class of a condemned school …….
October 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pmMr. Hill found out the important answer to the question of what happens when you lie down with dogs.
RIP
October 21st, 2009 at 6:44 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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Mr.Duke says:
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The Right arm… MSNBC is the left arm for the democrats
October 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Mr D0uche : scientific FACT (which I know you and your brainless ilk do not care for , nor understand) ; left-handed people are smarter and also quicker thinkers ………..And it shows……………
October 21st, 2009 at 6:45 pmFox: Classy all the way.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:46 pmA$$holes.
mr. puke@10
prove it, punk.
provide the link proving MSNBC claimed to be “the voice of opposition” to 43’s regime
time for you to put up or shut up.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pmIronic that the same organization playing the victim and crying about the White House trying to “silence them” is literally silencing (through job termination) liberal commentators on their “news” channel.
The bully cries victim.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pmPro tip: They’ll never like you, hill. Ever.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:03 pmMr. Duke,
Answer this: would Fox News hire a former Democratic politician to host their 3 hour long morning show like MSNBC? I just checked the entire Fox News lineup for the today on my cable guide, and there is not a single left-leaning show on the entire day, even in late night.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:04 pmSo, Faux fired him and didn’t tell him to his face? What cowards. He deserved an explaination.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pmso#22,
October 21st, 2009 at 7:11 pmplease explain how these recent events tie into faux’s moniker of “fair and balanced”
Who would want to be on a lying repug network except if you’re a lying repug yourself.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:11 pmCNN? you mean the place that FIRED boo-hoo glenda becky’s ass and faux took him eventhough he’s nothing more than a sloppy seconds whore? that CNN?
October 21st, 2009 at 7:12 pmThose that say Fox is an arm of the Republican party have it backward, the Republican party is an arm of Fox. You see the evidence when elected Republican repeat the lame talking points the first appear on Fox. Think about the way stuff has come out in the past few months, the birth certificate thing gets pushed, and next thing a Republican Congressmen proposes a law requiring candidates for President to submit birth certificates. Lots of more examples are out there, Fox has taken the lead, and the Republican party is following along.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:14 pmFAUX is “fair and balanced”. They are “fairly” consistent at disallowing any “balance”.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:22 pmI’m sure that the stupid trolls can produce copious volumes of transcripts and video that show MSNBC anchors lying, right? A few? One?
October 21st, 2009 at 7:27 pmHill was fired because he thinks outside the box.
October 21st, 2009 at 7:28 pmI see that Mr D0uche and his equally moronic GOP buddy or just an alter-ego , Speak Gibberish or Just Be A GOP Tool , are downrating every post ; you stay classy , GOP backing suckholes…….
October 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmHill does deserve an explanation, but the reason why Fox didn’t do it directly is because…..how shall I say this….*whispering*….Hill is black and Fox News being the arm of the republic party doesn’t like black people too much. Shhhhhhhh. Tell everyone you know!
October 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm.
FOXPRAVDA is NOT a News Station…
… FOXPRAVDA is a Political Station!
(occassionally covering some news)
.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:33 amRight-wing propagandist Cliff Kincaid, who works for “Accuracy in Media,” has been on a crusade to try to get Hill fired from the network because, as Kincaid has said, Hill is a “left wing cop-killer apologist.”
Translation:
Cliff Kincaid:
“Hill is a dirty spear chucking ni99er and we don’t want spear chucking ni99ers on our gloriously white supremacist Fox News network.”
Now that’s the real reason isn’t it KKKincaid. Why do you hate blacks?
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 amQuestion for “speak english or die trying”:
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 amHow many languages are you fluent in?
Be honest…
Fox News is the propaganda, or right arm, and the Republican Party is the political, or left arm, of a fascist theocratic criminal organization.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 amIronic how much FAUX News is like it’s former sugar-daddy the Chimp’s Administration. Credentials didn’t matter in Bush’s world either. The main requirement for the job…any job in George’s disfunctional White House was that you be a “loyal Bushie” above all else. If you could actually DO your job that was a plus, but never a requirement. Now many of these “loyal Bushies” (hell even Roger Ailes worked for George H.W.Bush after Reagan and Nixon)are “contributors” over at the FOX Propoganda Network. FAUX News and the Republican Party ladies and gentlemen, party before Country every time!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:08 amKicked you to the curb Lamont, huh . .
Does Lamont live under a rock? Does Lamont not use the googles and read what ‘people’ have been saying about faux for years?
What’d he think he was going to be asked for a ‘letter of resignation’ . .
Hey Lamont, maybe they have an opening at The New Republic?
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