{"id":20632,"date":"2017-03-27T03:57:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T03:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20632"},"modified":"2017-03-27T03:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T03:57:22","slug":"sean-hannity-bad-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20632","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity ‘bad for America’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I feel the need to take issue with legendary newsman Ted Koppel, who believes a notable Fox News commentator is “bad for America.”<\/p>\n

The target of Koppel’s epithet is Sean Hannity, the well-known conservative provocateur and gabby apologist for Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n

Koppel scolds Hannity<\/a><\/p>\n

Koppel told Hannity to his face — on a “CBS Sunday Morning” segment — that he is a bad influence on listeners to his radio show and viewers to his TV show. Hannity’s response was on target, in my view. It was that viewers\/listeners know when they’re listening to opinion or straight news.<\/p>\n

Given that Hannity is not a journalist by training, he spouts opinion<\/em> on the air. I get that. As I’ve always said … and this is the clean-up version: Opinions are like certain body orifices; everyone has one.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do I think he’s “bad” for the country, that he somehow poisons Americans with his right-wing dogma? Not really.<\/p>\n

You see, we all have choices. I’ve made my own as it regards Hannity. I don’t listen to his radio show or watch him on TV. I know what he thinks. I disagree with him. I choose instead to listen to more thoughtful conservatives. A number of them come to mind.<\/p>\n

If I want to hear an analysis from a smart<\/em> conservative, I’ll look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Hannity? He’s simply a blowhard.<\/p>\n\n

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I feel the need to take issue with legendary newsman Ted Koppel, who believes a notable Fox News commentator is “bad for America.” The target of Koppel’s epithet is Sean Hannity, the well-known conservative provocateur and gabby apologist for Donald John Trump. Koppel scolds Hannity Koppel told Hannity to his face — on a “CBS … Continue reading Sean Hannity ‘bad for America’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[889,1790,4159,7034],"class_list":["post-20632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-political-news","tag-cbs-news","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-sean-hannity","tag-ted-koppel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20633,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}