Hugh Hewitt Is Dumb
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On Wednesday Media Matters published a lie Hugh Hewitt broadcast on CNN, and even though Hugh often gets himself in a lather over the wonders of the new media, he has yet to correct himself or even respond to it (and I know he’s gotten emails about it). Whatever.
But now old Hugh is miffed that Jack Cafferty’s bio at CNN makes no mention of a hit and run he was involved in. Yeah I keep wondering when Shep Smith’s run in with the law is gonna show up on FoxNews.com.
UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt says I walk around with a furrowed brow. Yes, it’s true, and I didn’t even write BLOG! I wonder when we get BLOG! The Musical?
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Cafferty’s driving skills and personal ethics have nothing to do with his job at CNN. Hewitt was making a cheap attack similar to the supermarket tabloids.
I don’t know anything about Cafferty but the article Hewitt pointed to said he: “Cafferty was made an abrupt turn and hit bicyclist Billy Maldonado.
About five people tried to stop Cafferty by running after the car, according to the complaint, but the newsman continued through at least two red lights, while dragging the bicycle underneath the vehicle. Maldonado, 48, who was knocked to the ground, suffered bruises and some bone damage.”
Obviously this story says nothing about Cafferty’s biases, but I think republicans and democrats alike can agree that he probably should have stopped when he hit the bicyclist.
Kinda embarassinig that you have now lost all sense of ironic humor and are pouncing on stuff like this.
Miffed….not exactly. using it as a humorous example, yea.
They have you guys at Media matters trolling pretty hard. I guess it is sort of like working in a boiler-room telemarketing place though….gotta get a quota of “media corrections” if you want to make your monthly number!
Also interesting that Hewitt and the rest of the con punditry didn’t care about Cafferty’s law breaking until he started criticizing Bushco. Cafferty is a long-time Republican.
For the record, I think he’s still an idiot but with some semblance of a brain.
They have you guys at Media matters trolling pretty hard.
Who is it that has you trolling so hard on soneone else’s blog, Pedro? Or is it just your hobby? Everyone has to have a hobby, I suppose.
Long-time Republican?!? Just because you made a few Clinton jokes last decade doesn’t make you an member of the Scaiffe family.
Cafferty is a long time Republican? That’s news to me.
Cafferty for the longest time (and I mean LONGEST time) was nothing but an anchor for a local news station (Channel 9 & 11 in NYC before they became UPN and WB). Now he’s made the ‘big time’ and he, like so many other psuedo-journalists want to be the news, not just report it.
As for Smith, the charges against him were dropped.
“Also interesting that Hewitt and the rest of the con punditry didn t care about Cafferty s law breaking until he started criticizing Bushco. Cafferty is a long-time Republican.
For the record, I think he s still an idiot but with some semblance of a brain. ”
Umm that is news to me because you lefties have been cheering him on and on. You know, because he has made disturbing comments about Rove, Cheney, DeLay, Bush, etc, etc.
He is no Republican, he is a racist bigot and a hit ‘n runner.
Shep Smith has nothing to do with this. Cafferty said something stupid on the air LAST NIGHT. Oliver what does that have to do with anything? When smith says something stupid, I would that would be brought up.
BTW, Hugh didn’t even know about this until I called up the show last night.
Just like you cons cheer on drug abuser Lush Rimbaugh, Mr. Family Values with his 3 ex-wives, Bill Bennett and his racist statements, degenerate gambling, and obesity, need I go on?
You sit around calling in to Hugh Hewitt’s show? You want to actually admit that in public?
holy crap you guys really are desperate?
Hewitt was making an ironic, admittedly mean spirited joke about this guy. Now “fact check” (god I wish he would) is bringing up Bennett and Limbaugh?
ian, is Joe Lieberman a Democrat?
I’ve never been furrowing. Does it hurt?
Leroy, I notice that you criticized pedro in an earlier post for bringing up OW’s weight. Why didn’t you make the criticism against factcheck in this post? Is there a double standard at work?
Oliver, you work for Media Matters, do you want to actually admit that in public?
I furrow my brow. What I want to know is how that became funny or an insult. Come on, Hugh.
Oh, actually I didn’t see it. Sorry.
Factcheck, no fat jokes. It demeans us all.
Better?
I’m furrowing my brow over that one, Ian, especially since one is a job at a nonprofit and the other is sitting around doing god knows what to yourself listening to Hugh Hewitt.
Media matters is a non-profit? Do they have a tax exempt status….?
Inquiring minds (and some attorney’s general) want to know….
Cafferty and Smith – Police Files
Hat Tip to Oliver Willis for coming to the defense of Jack Cafferty:
I think Media Matters is a good site. There is precious little rebuttal out there to the diatribes of Rush, Sean, O’Reilly and their ilk. Of course, the rebuttal is usually boring because it demonstrates that the world is not as simple as those elite spokespeople of American conservatism try to make it.
yea, not much rebuttal…
NBC,ABC, CBS, PBS, LAT, NYT,CNN, MSNBC, The Nation, The New Yorker, The WAPO….I think those are the biggies.
Thank god for Media Matters….!
drpedro, you missed the point.
You are listing networks and publications that simply do not carry the three wingers I mentioned. But none of them features a regular, specific rebuttal to the talking points spewed by Rush, Sean and O’Reilly.
I only wish NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, LAT, NYT, CNN, MSNBC and WaPo were as far to the left as Rush, Sean and O’Reilly were to the right. The Nation? Yes. Air America? Yes. Washington Post in the post-Kitty Graham world? The paper that vigorously cheered on the Iraq War and declared it a necessary response to 9/11? No. Some of the writers there help out liberals a lot – Pincus, Froomkin, for example. But that’s about it.
Please tell me you’re not trying to sell “the MSM is Conservative” line on the same week that the AP labels Osama Bin Laden as a “dissident” and the NYT stages a propoganda photograph in Pakistan.
Ollie has taken to expunging my posts.
That of course is his right.
The funny thing is, he is particularly sensitive to the ones that suggest that most of the stuff he posts here is shameless toady’ing up to the democratic party, in hopes of a job in some future (FAR in the future I imagine) democratic administration.
I guess I am getting a little too close to home eh Ollie? Not all that happy to see your true motivations in print….you just want the Obermeisters in the Party to know that you are a good soldier and “on message”
Kinda pathetic Ollie, kinda pathetic…..
Elrod, (if you get to see this, Ollie has been expunging my posts), the left DID support the war in Iraq though, those papers were just reflecting that.
Remember, even the democratic standard bearer, J. “Flipper” Kerry voted to support it. It’s just that the papers can’t say things like, “we supported it, until we didn’t support it” like politicians can.