Ted Koppel nails Hannity....

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Link to tweet

[katmondoo]

1. Great answer!!!

[erronis]

2. Hannity talking over Koppel says "With all due respect" with a sneer on his face.

I'm so glad I don't ever watch his type on the tube.

[rurallib]

6. been nice if Koppel would have reached over and smacked that smirk off Hannity's face

[maddiemom]

22. AND messed up that stupid part in his hair.

The "good hair" is wasted on Hannity. Thousands of men who are dealing with thin, or otherwise, "bad" hair (such as Trump) would love to have his hair to work with.

[zaj]

3. It's not that "ideology is more important than facts"...

... as Ted explains it.

It's that "tribalism" is more important than facts. So many dont know what the facts are, so they believe their tribe.

And one tribe figured out that the only way to keep power is to replace facts with propaganda when speaking with their tribe.

The distinction matters, because the problem is the intentional propaganda campaign.

[yonder]

5. +1.

[erronis]

8. +1 - and tribalism includes religion, group think, political parties, families, races

We're all part of various tribes, many overlapping.

The important thing is to realize that our tribes naturally try to limit our interaction outside. Blinders.

Many of us understand that looking outside and using all information is helpful. Many others are happy in the cocoon.

[RDANGELO]

28. Yes, I think that can be condensed down to two things- xenophobia and veiled racism.

The media is always equating tribalism with just Democrats vs Republicans, but it can be applied to any perceived opposing group of people.

[Duppers]

12. Not to one-up yonder, but +100.

Ya nailed it!

[calimary]

19. An utterly SUPERB description!

You stick with your tribe and trust only your tribe. And you believe what the tribe tells you to believe. Especially when it comes blaring out of the tribe’s own custom-built megaphone.

[Rorey]

31. Exactly

Thank you

[RKP5637]

4. Hannity AKA "The Horse's Ass!" n/t

[mucifer]

7. One could say Ted Koppel did a lot of damage with "Nightline" Back in 1979

Every night only focusing on "America held hostage in Iran" night after night after night pounding Jimmy Carter. It was a very popular show.

[erronis]

9. Thanks for reminding me. Much of M$M was (and continues) to parrot the talking points.

[malaise]

11. Precisely

M$Greedia plays the both sides crap and does not destroy the lies in real time

[Cheviteau]

14. How Very Correct You Are.

Yeah, Hannity is bad for the country and is without a doubt a yuuuge asshole. Koppel has no standing to say anyone is bad for America. None. Zilch. Nada. Anyone who has any doubts about what I'm saying, just read the history of how Nightline came about. It was structured solely on the "poor job" President Carter was doing getting the hostages home. And Ted Koppel rode that horse all the way to fame a glory. Fuck Ted Koppel. And the horse he rode in on.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

16. Good point.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Yes! The bullshit that Ted Koppel spewed nightly during the Iranian hostage "news"

will be my bellweather for BS reporting. Yet, I never heard Ted tell us how Reagan Bush used the hostages to steal the US election. Fuck him....he is debating with the face of what he sowed.

[Raine]

36. I remember that, it contributed to Jimmy Carter's

defeat and gave us the worst yet most effective President's ever ... Ronald Reagan. I find Reagan worse then Trump, we're still suffering for what he did. Thanks for nothing Koppel!

[BootinUp]

10. Where have u been Ted? Nt

[brettdale]

13. Go Koppel

The only person at Faux who is less smug than Hannity, is Watters.

They're both the poster child for white privilege.

[Jarqui]

15. Hannity is such a racist

I can't stand him.
If I encountered him in person, I'd probably be charged with assault.

[Pepsidog]

17. Very unfair to compare Ted Koppel to Hannity. Koppel was not a fear monger.

[Hulk]

18. That will be the LAST time this pompous, treasonous sack of human waste does an interview ...

....with anyone NOT from fox or the reich wing.

vannity is one of the most poisonous, vitriolic and deceptive voices in the media today; and he has managed to take the weak minded, the hateful, the racists and frightened citizens and capture their trust and loyalty. Just sad. He really needs to be horse whipped, tarred and feathered, and run out of the country on a rail. I say that NOT in jest. He is one despicable, cancerous sore on the butt of ameriKKKa.

[paleotn]

20. Bad for the country. Bad for democracy everywhere.

Good for fascist dictatorships. Mussalini, Franco and Hitler would have loved Insannity.

[TallMike]

21. yup

what ted said...

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. Just for the record, that interview happened over a year ago.

Not sure if the Twitter account just stumbled on it or what, but that went down in March of '17

[LudwigPastorius]

24. "...people that have decided that ideology is more important than facts"

That's a nice way of saying cult members that believe they are the superior race. (also known as Nazis)

[CaptYossarian]

25. Why can't they nail Hannity the way Jesus was?

I thought the penalty for treason was execution.

[at140]

26. They don't make nails long enough for that!

Have you observed how fat is Hannity now?

[47of74]

30. He's too chickens--t for that.

Remember how he promised to be water boarded for charity but slithered his way out of that promise?

He'd back out of being crucified for charity just as fast, even if the Orange Fuck asked him to as a personal favor.

[47of74]

29. The late Ed Schultz called Hannity "Slant Head"

And it goddamn well fits too.

[rwsanders]

32. Could be wrong, but to me it looked like Hannity almost had a cry.

[ConnorMarc]

33. This is from an old interview.

How come it's gaining in popularity again?

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34. Just like the name Connor....

Sometimes your in, sometimes your out....

[Quixote1818]

35. Was thinking the same thing. Have seen this several times on DU over the years.

I clicked on it thinking he might have interviewed him again only to see the same old clip.

[Hotler]

37. As Dave Chappelle would say

"in your face".

[Moostache]

39. I would prefer a redux of "What did the 5 fingers say to the face?"

SMACK!!!!

I would pay good money to watch anyone slap Hannity for any reason whatsoever...

[Mickju]

38. All the Fox News idiots think it's perfectly okay to talk over their guests.

It is not okay. It is extremely bad manners. Of course they no nothing about manners or civility.

[usaf-vet]

40. And you are a lying a$$. Ted Koppel was too polite to call you out for what you truly are.

A loud mouth lying a$$.

[packman]

41. To paraphrase The Great Liberace -

"I don't care what they say about me as I laugh all the way to the bank"

It's all about $$$$ to The Great Hamm - Country be damned. If his base buys his books, his crap and he can make a buck out of what spews out of his mouth, he'll never change.