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By now most of you know the fate that has befallen political analyst Marc Lamont Hill. He was one of the few progressive voices that regularly appeared on Fox News. However, last week he was let go by after two conservative pundits David Horowitz and Cliff Kincaid started raising a ruckus about Hill’s support of political prisoner Mumi Abu Jamal and political exile Assata Shakur. Here’s what Kincaid said in his recent column…
Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, used his company’s annual meeting on October 16 to announce the firing of Fox News contributor and O’Reilly Factor regular Marc Lamont Hill. This is the left-wing cop-killer apologist that we have written about for weeks. We called him the Van Jones of Fox News Channel. We said Fox News was as bad as Obama on the matter of background checks for their employees.
Interestingly, both Van Jones and Marc Lamont Hill are public supporters of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Both were also associated with the George Soros funded Center for American Progress.
The announcement of Hill’s firing was made as I was questioning Murdoch about why Hill was hired in the first place. Hill’s support for cop-killers, had been highlighted on his own web pages. Hill had also spoken before a black communist group―something he had proudly listed in his official curriculum vitae
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/ckincaid/2009/ck_10201.shtml
Witch hunts aimed at progressive voices are nothing new. In this column, Kincaid goes on and on about Hill being connected to George Soros and the Center for American Progress and how Hill supports the Fairness Doctrine which will open up the airwaves for those who hold opposing views.-Blah Blah Blah. It’s the usual dribble and the usual suspects. However, this time around we have an interesting twist. Also in the line of fire is longtime Fox News Commentator Bill O’Reilly. The crosshairs are on him for actually having Hill on his show multiple times.
Critics of Hill are now demanding answers from O’Reilly and demanding that he come out of spinzone.. In Kincaids column he places a letter from a disgruntled viewer…
“I personally do not like Bill O’Reilly any more. He is too liberal for me. He has ‘sold out’ and I am disappointed in Bill. I am a hair designer in San Francisco, the most sick liberal city in America, and the few conservatives that live here are ‘banning Bill’ because he has gone ‘wishy-washy’ and we don’t like him anymore. His ‘cuteness’ doesn’t cut it! He doesn’t have the ‘guts’ that Glenn Beck has and I will bet you a dollar to a donut that Glenn’s ratings pass Bill’s in the very near future, maybe by next week.”
-Katheryn O’Shaunessy-
Industry insiders have long noted that inside the hallowed halls of Fox there is a war of egos. Bill doesn’t like Hannity, Hannity doesn’t like Beck etc. Funny thing is when you compare Hannity and Beck with O’Reilly, Bill comes off as a lot smarter and actually more reasonable. He doesn’t buy into all the birther conspiracy crap like his colleagues. He clearly understands that its all about showmanship. Hence his angle is to be crass and obnoxious. The big irony with O’Reilly is that if you watch him long enough you’re likely to see and hear more Black leaders discussing politics then you do on BET or TV One which goes to show you just how much we been lacking. In any case word on the street is that they are now gunning for Bill O’Reilly. They have some new sheriffs in town and they are crazier and nuttier than the old guy. LOL I can’t say I have any sympathy for any of those fools. GOP on GOP violence -well in this case its a good thing. May they all destroy each other.
Something to ponder
-Davey D-
O’Reilly is too liberal? LOL
Great post. Sorry to hear about Marc being let go, but I think it will benefit him in the future. He can be much more helpful elsewhere…atleast that’s my opinion
Them cats will do their best to hang on to what little power they have, won’t they? Can’t have too many folks outside “The Matrix”.
FauxNoise…LMAO!!!
They’re going to turn O Reilly into a liberal. Watch. Michael Savage was a liberal until that gay doctor stole his book ideas or whatever back in the ’80s. That’s the only reason he is how he is today. Most of these political pundits are really driven by personal shit. OReilly spends his entire show going after GE and NBC (GE owns the network) because Olbermann smashes him every day. Keep fucking with him, conservatives.
o’reilly was already a liberal 30 plus years ago, for whatever liberal or conservative is worth, to me they are just cliche tags people get into to validate what or how they feel.
I believe Black Enterprise (BE) magazine has him as the new host of one of its synidcated shows (forgot the name, but BE magazine has advertisement of Hill as the new host in its magazines.