{"id":40241,"date":"2018-11-07T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40241"},"modified":"2018-11-07T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:39:50","slug":"all-msm-pundits-are-whores-for-power-like-hannity-hes-just-honest-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40241","title":{"rendered":"All MSM Pundits Are Whores For\u00a0Power Like Hannity; He\u2019s Just Honest About\u00a0It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/11\/07\/all-msm-pundits-are-whores-for-power-like-hannity-hes-just-honest-about-it\/\">All MSM Pundits Are Whores For\u00a0Power Like Hannity; He\u2019s Just Honest About\u00a0It<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-5526\" class=\"post-5526 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-caitlin-johnstone tag-fox-news tag-journalism tag-media tag-sean-hannity\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-2.jpg?fit=780%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-2.jpg?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-2.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/medium-2.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I just watched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SucqAsu0N4c\">CNN segment<\/a> featuring Republican and Democratic panelists reacting with shock and astonishment over the news that Sean Hannity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/11\/06\/hannity-trump-rally-2018-963565\">appeared on stage<\/a> in support of President Trump during a campaign rally. That\u2019s right, Sean Hannity is politically biased. I\u2019ll wait for you to catch your breath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was completely inappropriate,\u201d sputtered panelist Tara Setmeyer about the rally. \u201cThey\u2019re living in another world over there. It was like a college homecoming. They\u2019re talking about, you know, owning the libs, and how the faces of the left-wing media, what we\u2019re going to look like on Wednesday morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We. On a panel discussing how shocking and appalling it is for media figures to openly involve themselves in partisan political agendas, a <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/profiles\/tara-setmayer-profile\">CNN staff political commentator<\/a> said \u201cwe\u201d when referring to the \u201cleft-wing media\u201d Trump and his sycophants like Hannity attack. Leaving aside the impressive feat of social engineering which has allowed a warmongering, Wall Street-coddling corporate propaganda firm like CNN to refer to itself as \u201cleft-wing\u201d, it is worth noting that Setmeyer said this, and that she said it because the staff of both Fox and CNN are acutely aware of their respective partisan biases.<\/p>\n<p>Setmeyer is acknowledging that the bias is there, but essentially just arguing that it\u2019s wrong to cross the line into blatantly acknowledging it. In effect, she is making the argument that it\u2019s better for mass media firms to tacitly lie to their audiences by pretending to some extent that they are unbiased and impartial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SucqAsu0N4c?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Mixed in with all the chatter about the US midterms is a cloud of outrage from the media class over Hannity\u2019s supposed transgression.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All MSM Pundits Are Whores For\u00a0Power Like Hannity; He\u2019s Just Honest About\u00a0It I just watched a CNN segment featuring Republican and Democratic panelists reacting with shock and astonishment over the news that Sean Hannity appeared on stage in support of President Trump during a campaign rally. That\u2019s right, Sean Hannity is politically biased. I\u2019ll wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[6],"tags":[17039,145,7844,2324,496,4728,643,22840],"class_list":["post-40241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-journalists","tag-mainstream-media","tag-msm","tag-power","tag-sean-hannity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40242,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40241\/revisions\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}