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Koppel Tells Hannity He is Bad for America

Hannity is a cancer.

wow, that sure sounds like snowflake melting to me. How is he a cancer when the leftwing drivel from the MSM is not?
 
Hannity's an embarrassment to real journalists like Chris Wallace and Bret Baier.

And my thanks to FOX for letting Greta go; she's professional, smart and highly respected by her guests; all reasons why she had to be let go .

Hannity is a commentator and makes no bones about that. The real embarrassment are those who claim to be journalists and are really nothing more than propagandists like Dan Rather, and other shills for the creeping crud of commercial collectivism
 
I don't like Hannity but it is curious that Koppel accuses Hannity of being followed by people who want ideology and not facts. I google "polling on people who watch Hannity" and did not find any studies that indicated what types of people watch Hannity. Koppel may be right but I suspect that he is offering an opinion and not facts, ironically. Just a suspicion.

But in my search, one of the top stories was dated Oct 2, 2016 and it ridiculed Hannity for following phony polling that suggested that Hillary had won the debates. Well, we know how the election turned out so perhaps Hannity's opinion about the polling may have been accurate.

The elites tend to support one another. I don't find it surprising that a 77 year old retired journalist, would want to keep his bona fides with his crowd up to date. But, yeah, Hannity is kinda an ass.
Sean Hannity's online-polling foray reveals his Fox News island - Business Insider
 
Koppel is Mainstream Media. So is Hannity.

Next.

Koppel is an award winning Journalist. Hannity is a nothing.

But I get why you think they're the same. Some folks buy the Trump Tripe. Clearly you are one.
 
wow, that sure sounds like snowflake melting to me. How is he a cancer when the leftwing drivel from the MSM is not?

Koppel mentioned Maddow in the same breath as Hannity. Watch the clip.
 
You must be a fan of Ann Coulter than since she was an honors graduate from Cornell, Order of the Coif (basically the law school version of Phi Beta Kappa) at one of the very best law schools in the Nation (Michigan-and she was an OUT OF STATE acceptance which is say in the same league as Stanford or Harvard) and then Clerked for the second highest court of the land (federal Circuit court of appeals) and then was a Dept. of Justice Honors hire.

so if you are going to base commentary on education, I put Ms. Coulter's education ahead of Ted's.

If you cared to read what I said I mentioned that he has had a distinguished career. Dude has won numerous awards. I would suggest he's far more neutral than most.
 
If you cared to read what I said I mentioned that he has had a distinguished career. Dude has won numerous awards. I would suggest he's far more neutral than most.

One a scale of one (Rather biased) to ten (completely objective say like some of the guys in the 60s) Koppel's about a 7 or an 8
 
Koppel is an award winning Journalist. Hannity is a nothing.

But I get why you think they're the same. Some folks buy the Trump Tripe. Clearly you are one.

What kind of tripe do you buy, sir? Or do you prefer baloney?
 
Ted Koppel is a credible jounalist with a Journalism degree from Syracuse and a Masters in Mass Communication from Stanford. He has had a distinguished career.
Hannity is a college dropout. He's a gasbah at best.

Next.

Education doesn't matter to Hannity supporters, who love the bigotry and bias that is always a part of his program. I was forced to watch him (at the workplace), while I was in Florida doing some contract work, during the Trayvon Martin shooting. His bigotry really came out, during that time.
 
Education doesn't matter to Hannity supporters, who love the bigotry and bias that is always a part of his program. I was forced to watch him (at the workplace), while I was in Florida doing some contract work, during the Trayvon Martin shooting. His bigotry really came out, during that time.

Are you claiming that only those who listen to left wing tripe are better educated than those who listen to Hannity? or are you making the idiotic claim that leftwing voters are smarter than those who are right wing?
 
One a scale of one (Rather biased) to ten (completely objective say like some of the guys in the 60s) Koppel's about a 7 or an 8
Ted Koppel:
I believe that, ultimately, questions of what is right and wrong require the individual to measure himself against absolute standards of ethics and responsibility. Not that any one of us ever completely measures up to those standards; but you can't set your compass, moral or otherwise, by a shifting North Star. Our generation has become so comfortable watching itself being defined according to polls and ratings and surveys, in the Dow or on the NASDAQ, in the outcome of elections or in public propositions or referenda, that we have sunk into a sort of general relativism, in which all issues are determined by majority vote or a public display of the lowest common denominator: We learn, according to the syndicated lesson taught by Jerry Springer, that while all of us are flawed, we who are watching are not nearly as flawed as the poor souls he parades in front of us. Which may, if the lesson is repeated often enough, teach us that, rather than struggling toward an ideal of perfect behavior, we can always console ourselves with the examples of those even weaker than we are.

By our failure to judge or act decisively on moral issues as individuals, we contribute to a collective caricature of tolerance; a universal lack of discrimination (in the qualitative sense of the word), in which almost everything is reduced to a form of entertainment: murder, suicide, theft, adultery, corruption, perjury, bigotry; and, of course, the efforts of law enforcement to bring the perpetrators to justice. Those constitute one half of our entertainment diet, while watching prosecutors and defense lawyers battle it out in the courtroom coliseum, that makes up the other half.

And it hardly seems to make much difference any more whether the chase is real or fictional, or whether the courtroom drama was created by a playwright or a legal "dream team." Those parodies of justice, in which race, money and superstardom are used to undermine our jury system, are not merely distractions; they overwhelm our ability to focus on reality. We have, on a per capita basis, more people in prison than any other industrial country in the world. And all too many, if not most of those prisoners, are there as the result of a 10-minute plea-bargaining session in some courtroom corridor. The O.J. Simpson trial had nothing to do with the way that most Americans experience our legal system. It was a show, a display of legal narcissism
Text of Ted Koppel's Commencement address: 6/98


I rate him higher.
 
On CBS's "Sunday Morning, Ted called out Sean. And Hannity was none too happy about that.

Watch Ted Koppel Tell Sean Hannity He's Bad For America | The Huffington Post

But Koppel did not single out Hannity during the interview, explaining he had said the same thing of liberal-leaning presenters — specifically MSNBC's Rachel Maddow — for blurring the line between journalism and opinion.

"I said the same thing to [Fox News host Bill] O'Reilly and I've said the same thing of Rachel Maddow's program," he said.

But Hannity defended the nature of his program as "the editorial page of a newspaper", explaining there was no pretence with regards to his show because he is public about his conservative views.

"I'm not Ted Koppel. I am a person that's branded as a conservative show," the Fox News presenter said. In the past, Hannity has openly stated he is not a journalist.

"Do you think there are many people in America that don't know that I have a point of view that's conservative or that Rachel [Maddow] is a liberal?"

But Koppel doubled down: "That's not my point."

"I am against the editorial pages taking over from the front page [and] becoming the economic engine of the network"
'I believe journalism is dead': Hannity

In the same interview, Hannity explained he thought "journalism" of the sort Koppel engaged in during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis "is dead" and cannot be revived.

"You're absolutely right," Koppel responded.



Good example of skewing what the point was of Ted Koppels piece.
 
Koppel seems envious that Hannity's opinion based show is more popular than many so called hard news shows.

Hannity is a larger media figure than ted koppel

So there is often a tinge of jealously when miniature leftwing journalists attack conservates like Hannity
 
But Koppel did not single out Hannity during the interview, explaining he had said the same thing of liberal-leaning presenters — specifically MSNBC's Rachel Maddow — for blurring the line between journalism and opinion.
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Good example of skewing what the point was of Ted Koppels piece.

Ted has always been a "Call Em as I see Em" guy.

Plus he is civil.
 
100% right, Hannity is a bomb throwing propagandist that attracts the ignorant rabble like moths to a flame

Well, this bomb from Koppel sure has attracted a lot of ignorant rabble here in this thread.

LOL!!
 
Pretty rare around here lately.

Ya you know all my life since I was like five I have been accused of being too pessimistic, too much of a downer, I dont have enough faith in my fellow man, I criticize too much and so on and so forth...

And in the last year I have figured out that I was massively overly optimistic the whole time.

The social glue is in worse shape than I ever figured.

What's worse is 3/27/17 finds few who know.

Or Care.
 
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Well, this bomb from Koppel sure has attracted a lot of ignorant rabble here in this thread.

LOL!!

Have they decided which side is the most uneducated, uninformed, stupid, ignorant, etc..(whatever other insults used on this thread) yet?
 
So you're basically saying the vast majority of Americans are dumb and the vast majority of Europeans are smart.

Lol...do you doubt that? Check out literacy rates, math scores and science proficiency here versus there.
 
Wow. Koppel nails it. Hannity and the other ideological talking heads are bad for this country.

"Bad", meaning they threaten the far left ideology. Which is actually GOOD.
 
And, you think that is a good thing?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It always concerns me that whenever I see a European leader speaking, they seek to connect with the smartest people in the crowd. Whereas, when an American politician speaks, they seek to connect with the dumbest people in it.

Thats just because you think their accent makes them sound smart.

Im so tired of Americans thinking Europeans are so god damned smart. They are no different.
 
I generally like Ted Koppel as a newsman. But for a jew, he's talking down to the wrong man. Let me see him say that to a couple of liberals (who hate jews) and I'll respect his opinion. He's being a partisan.
 
wow, that sure sounds like snowflake melting to me. How is he a cancer when the leftwing drivel from the MSM is not?

Who said it wasn't? The topic on this thread is Hannity.
 
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