MSNBC Gives Hugh Hewitt 'Verbal Warning' for Personally Lobbying EPA

[DonViejo]

MSNBC gave its conservative weekend host Hugh Hewitt a “verbal warning” for personally lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up a toxic-waste site near his home. Politico reported Tuesday that Hewitt personally contacted EPA chief Scott Pruitt to arrange a meeting about the contaminated site with a law firm that directly pays Hewitt and represents the Orange County Water District. Following the meeting, the EPA moved the site up on its priority list. In a Wednesday statement provided to The Daily Beast, an MSNBC spokesperson said of the ordeal: “Hugh Hewitt disclosed several times to MSNBC viewers that he has a friendship with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and also that Hewitt’s son works for the agency. As a result of those relationships, Hewitt stopped discussing EPA-related matters on MSNBC. However, after the network learned Tuesday that Hewitt set up an EPA meeting in the fall, he was given a verbal warning as such activity is a violation of our standards.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-gives-hugh-hewitt-verbal-warning-for-personally-lobbying-epa?ref=home

[Mike Nelson]

1. I hope someone...

...put that in writing. It should be a permanent part of his personnel file.

[bettyellen]

2. WTF!?!?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. So agree.

Comcast Media will never ditch the Right Wing Hate Mongers,it is all about the money and eye balls. Might piss off their pal Donnie.

[Yavin4]

3. Shouldn't Hugh Hewitt wait for the invisible hand of the free market

to clean up that toxic site for him?

[Sneederbunk]

9. Why, when he can give the finger to the taxpayer?

[HopeAgain]

4. It's all incestuous relationships

News companies, politicians, administrators, billionaires and did I say news companies? I'll say it again, news companies.

90% of the news is controlled by just 6 companies, they are as crooked as their bedfellows.

[lame54]

6. They are actually going to clean something up?...

I thought they were done with that nonsense

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. If it bothers them personally, they will clean it up.

If it bothers the other 99%, forget it.

[TeamPooka]

8. Verbal warning? So it didn't even go in his permanent record? Bad MSNBC, bad!

[Wednesdays]

10. Next up:

When Hewitt is found to be part of the Russia collusion, M$NBC will send him a very strongly-worded letter.

[Chiyo-chichi]

11. Fire his ass and give the slot to Jill Wine-Banks.

Or Malcolm Nance.
Somebody I actually want to listen to.
My two cents.

[MineralMan]

12. Fire his sorry ass forthwith! I can't stand looking at him,

much less listening to him.

[Yavin4]

13. Goes to show you that Conservatives only want big government for themselves.

And no one else, esp. "those" people. Flint, MI can drink bottled water forever.