It’s because it’s so dismissive. Their entire strategy is based around being dismissive of any counterpoints or opponents. “That’s sad.” “Fake news.” “Trump didn’t touch you, get over it.”

That and calling anyone who disagrees with them hysterical. It straight up gives me the vapors. It’s interesting seeing Koppel, long a terror of the smug, criminal, or dishonest, interacting with Hannity. I think Koppel was deliberately gentle here, as it makes Hannity look like even more of an ass. This is also a…

Hell, in a just world, that would the epitaph on Sean Hannity’s tombstone.

85% of statistics are made up 76% of the time.

Obviously, facts would win the popular vote but lose in the Electoral College.

What I wonder is if we had like America vote on ideology vs fact right now, like if there was a way to know, I’m not sure facts win. It’s terrifying.

I’m actually fairly certain this has been their mission statement since inception.

When has Rush engaged anyone face to face, much less someone like Ted Koppel? Rush doesn’t even invite liberal guests on his show, and the only callers he’ll take are people that can’t string together two sentences without confusing themselves.

I’ve always had this fantasy that murdoch has some sort of epiphany and then gradually starts to steer his media empire towards the left, dragging his customers with it. *crosses fingers*

“We have to give some credit to the American people that they’re somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show,” Hannity opined.

Hannity. Always the aggressive pseudo intellectual. Peel the facade and the asshole appears. That’s sad, Sean. That’s sad. 

Yeah that’s a classic Hannity move.

Ted Koppel is right and it’s great to see someone call Sean Hannity out to his face for what he’s been doing.

You’re forgetting how much money fox news brings in. They (the Murdoch offspring) might not like it, however that is quantified, but they’ll keep it going as long as it’s still churning out the billion/year it’s shitting out.

I would love to see the smugness smacked off of Hannity’s face. But he would just act like a martyr if that happened.

This is the pattern for republicans, over and over. The party claimed “moral” as a marketing term when I was a child. And over the years, I’m realizing that the way they use it is entirely external. Trump won, in part, because he appealed to this very specific type of moralistic language. He talked about banning…

Let alone the people he apparently points guns at off set.

I cannot get over how much Hannity talks over Koppel— a well-respected, white, male TV journalist. Like, if he’s willing to talk over Ted Freakin’ Koppel...imagine any black woman who has ever had the misfortune of interacting with Hannity.

I hold one vestige of hope for Fox New’s fate. Rupert Murdoch, whom is directly overseeing the network following Jabba The Hut’s exit, is closer to the grave every day. Murdoch’s children are embarrassed by the network’s existence and don’t seem inclined to prop it up. Once daddy is pushing daisies I hope that…

“We have to give some credit to the American people that they’re somewhat intelligent.”