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Veteran news anchor Ted Koppel tells Sean Hannity to his face that he is 'bad for America'
Daily Mail ^ | 03/27/2017

Posted on 03/27/2017 8:19:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

* Ted Koppel interviewed Sean Hannnity on CBS show 'Sunday Morning'

* On the show, Hannity asked Koppel: 'You think I'm bad for America?'

* Koppel said 'yes' and elaborated: 'You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts'

Koppel added: 'You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.'

Hannity said that Koppel's rebuke was 'sad.'

On the television program, Hannity also said that 'liberalism has to be defeated' and said that 'angry snowflakes, a 'Democratic establishment' and 'the press in this country' are all obstacles. * Hannity later today called the segment 'fake edited news'

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Ted Koppel had some harsh words for Fox News host Sean Hannity this morning.

In a CBS 'Sunday Morning' segment, the veteran news journalist said he thinks Hannity, a Fox News commentator, is 'bad for America'.

Hannity said, of the difference between commentary shows such as his own and actual news programs: 'We have to give some credit to the American people that they are somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show.'

Hannity then called Koppel 'cynical,' which Koppel affirmed.

Hannity asked: 'Do you think we're bad for America? You think I'm bad for America?'

Koppel said 'yes' and that 'in the long haul' such 'influential' talk shows as Hannity's hurt the American people.

Koppel added: 'You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.'

Hannity said that Koppel's rebuke was 'sad.'

On the television program, Hannity also said that 'liberalism has to be defeated' and said that 'angry snowflakes, a 'Democratic establishment' and 'the press in this country' are all obstacles.

Hannity later tweeted about the news segment and referred to it as 'fake edited news.'

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: condescendingliberal; foxnews; hannity; hannityinterview; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; media; msm; seanhannity; tedkoppel
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1 posted on 03/27/2017 8:19:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 03/27/2017 8:20:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Ted Koppel tells Sean Hannity to his face that he is ‘bad for America’


The main tool of lefties is projection. This is an excellent example.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 8:20:39 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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Koppel has no clue of who he is, who or what america is or what news is.

He is not even wrong.


4 posted on 03/27/2017 8:21:44 AM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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I listen to Hannety.

Not to Koppel.

My bet is that H will outlast K.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 8:24:41 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Sean gets a wakeup call.
Being nice will NOT help you get your message thru.
Glad to see he seems to be waking up to this.


6 posted on 03/27/2017 8:26:21 AM PDT by Zathras
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This is something ALL conservatives need to keep in mind when being interviewed; there will never be full disclosure if you don't INSIST that your own cameras run simultaneously.

What we have, again, is a "heavily-edited" video cherry-picking segments to make the subject look bad. What's most hysterical is that Koppell is expressing HIS opinion that other opinions are bad.

7 posted on 03/27/2017 8:26:58 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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CBS should stream the whole thing.


8 posted on 03/27/2017 8:27:07 AM PDT by joesbucks
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Ted Koppel is English. He should be apologizing to Sean for England’s 750 years of enslaving Ireland, for Oliver Cromwell, and for the English indifference during the potato famine (when food being grown in Ireland was being exported to England, while 1 million Irish died of starvation).


9 posted on 03/27/2017 8:27:12 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Don’t worry about it, Sean. Other than people confined to their nursing home beds, nobody saw it.


10 posted on 03/27/2017 8:28:18 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Why did Hannity agree to such an interview? He had to know that he would be butchered on the air. Without editorial control, the media can take any interview and slice and dice it to say anything they want.


11 posted on 03/27/2017 8:28:54 AM PDT by Truth29
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When talking with the effete elite (Spiro Agnew had their number long ago) you must parse their terms very carefully. They claim to be the leaders of America and therefore they ‘are’ America. So anything they don’t like is bad for their America.


12 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:06 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I have a rule of thunb: use invective, lose the argument. Koppel lost.


13 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:36 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw .. all examples of the time when the newsmedia had the truth in their hands, and tossed it into the basket, in favor of THEIR chosen stories, written in THEIR ‘slant’.

To tell Sean Hannity that HE is ‘bad for America’, actually means that he is GOOD for America.

If you did NOT know, the day the North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, Peter Jennings was on-air as giddy as a kid who just had a girl tell him that she liked him.


14 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:37 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Koppel is a mid-septuagenarian who just needs to STFU. He should be satisfied with his liberal millions and just suck it. He defended that HS dropout Peter Jennings and I watched both of them onstage once. They were perhaps the two most arrogant bastards I’ve ever seen in my life.

The gigantic-headed sphincter just needs to STFU. He has no dog in this unless he’s already blown his millions.


15 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:38 AM PDT by Gaffer
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The msm is spiraling out of control.

Koppell is ABC. Over on CBS, Pelley can’t let a day go by without saying Trump is losing it or he’s a liar or whatever. MSNBC and CNN have long been down the tubes.


16 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:46 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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Referring To Leftist Totalitarian Marxist as “Liberal” is a FAIL.


17 posted on 03/27/2017 8:29:55 AM PDT by heights
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Koppel added: 'You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.'

You mean like George W. Bush's Air National Guard records?

18 posted on 03/27/2017 8:30:05 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I'm old enough to remember when Ted Koppel wasn't a 3000-year-old mummified corpse.


19 posted on 03/27/2017 8:30:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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Why did he even agree to the interview in the first place?
He knows it’s a trap and a gotcha bazaar...............


20 posted on 03/27/2017 8:31:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Ending a sentence with a preposition is nothing to be afraid of........)
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