Hugh Hewitt Quits Washington Post After Confrontation During Paper’s Live Show
“This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.”
Conservative radio host and Washington Post columnist Hugh Hewitt quit the paper after seven years.
Hewitt quit after an explosive confrontation with Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus over the election.
I don’t blame Hewitt one bit:
CAPEHEART: Is it me, or does it seem like this week Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania, by suing Bucks county for alleged irregularities. And this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses it’s because of cheating.
MARCUS: Yeah. He’s been laying the groundwork for this, just not in the last week, but in the last “umpty yump” months. No election can be fair unless, in Donald Trump’s mind, unless Donald Trump wins it. And I think we are going to see him both rev up his supporters to contest elections outside of courtrooms and go to every courtroom he can in America where it’s relevant to make whatever arguments he can, no matter how far fetched we saw…But it didn’t work out. That may not happen this time.
CAPEHEART: And now I’ll let you go. Hugh.
HEWITT: Well, I just got to say we’re news people, even though we’re at the opinion section, it’s got to be reported. Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home. So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful. The Supreme Court ruled that Glenn Youngkin was successful. We are newspeople, even though we have opinions, we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story. So, yes, he’s upset about bucks County. But he was right. And he won in court. That’s the story. I’ll let you keep going, Jonathan.
CAPEHEART: No. I just don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting. Many times you come here saying lots of things that aren’t…
HEWITT: I won’t come back, Jonathan. I’m done. I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of. You guys are working. That’s fine. I’m done.
Another bad day for @WashingtonPost. Upset with @CapehartJ and @RuthMarcus for inaccurate attacks on Trump, @hughhewitt rips off his headset and leaves lives #PostLive show. “I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.” Show falls apart, ends early. pic.twitter.com/fsGC1GhIrx
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) November 1, 2024
I mean, what wasn’t true about Hewitt’s statement?
- Judge Extends Mail Ballot Deadline in Bucks County, PA, After Trump Lawsuit
- Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls
Hewitt told Fox News Digital that he only wrote a column “every six weeks or so.” I think he was the only pro-Trump person at the paper.
I wonder if Jeff Bezos will be mad because he wants the paper to hire more conservative opinion writers.
We all know Jennifer Rubin doesn’t count.
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The only way we shut them down is to refuse to participate in their garbage and to do our own thing.
Jen Rubin is still working for Bezos and the WaPo. Jen only cares about getting paid.
Jen Rubin is a freaking joke, she was never one of us.
I don’t ever remember any conservative participating in, say, MSNBC. Yet MSNBC rolls along merrily, and profitably:
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/cable-news/
What’s your backup plan to “shut them down’?
Or is this just the usual windbaggery?
Did you even read the article you posted?
– last data available for this article was 2022.
– MSNBC’s primetime audience decreased by 6% from 2021 to 2022.
– MSNBC’s daytime audience also decreased, with fewer viewers than CNN.
– MSNBC’s total revenue decreased 8% from 2021 to 2022.
– Advertising revenue for MSNBC decreased 11%.
– MSNBC’s expenses increased 4%.
Rolling along “merrily, and profitably?” I’m glad you’re not my financial advisor.
What an obsequious little twit Capehart is.
Agreed. Does he not realize that he’s there and at PBS as a token house Negro? It ain’t intellectual horse power, that’s for sure.
Why do you people even know who this twit is? As IronClaw suggested, we should not participate in CNN’s garbage. I take pride in my not knowing who these people are or what they are opining.
I never heard of either of the two with Hewitt until today. I listen to Hewitt every morning on my drive to work. Monday will be an interesting show!!!
Poor guy sat on something that didn’t agree with him.
Ghost of Ayn Rand: ‘Who is Hugh Hewitt?”
Mitt Romney’s former promoter. Still, Hugh is right on this one.
Every page of every issue is DNC propaganda
At first I was surprised at Hugh’s sudden anger at Capehart. After all, Hugh is an attorney and a first-class intellect.
The sequence seems to be:
1. Capehart mounts an ad hominem attack on Trump.
2. Marcus moralizes about Trump.
3. Hewitt asserts that, as journalists, their first obligation is to report the fact. The fact is that the RNC prevailed in Buck’s County and Youngkin prevailed in Virginia. Court decisions count as fact.
4. Capehart then, seeing that the facts were not on his side, mounted a personal attack on Hewitt, couched upon the assumption that Hewitt had attacked his journalistic bona fides.
5. Then Hewitt said that he was done.
There must be more to the story. I appreciate Hewitt’s willingness to enter the lions’ den. It would have been more effective, though, if he had maintained his lawyer’s cool and dissected Capehart’s inability to handle facts.
Yes I think there is a backstory
Yet another journalist searching for Wyatt’s torch.
If Bezos is serious about restoring public trust in Pravda on the Potomac, he should fire the vile and dishonest Dhimmi-crat activists, Capehart, Eugene Robinson, Jennifer Rubin and their wretched Dhimmi-crat shill/lapdog/trained seal/stenographer ilk.
And hand the reins to Hugh Hewitt.
Heads would explode. It would be glorious. And it might actually be dramatic enough to save the paper.
How satisfied was Hewitt with working conditions at the Washington Post before this blowup?
The legacy media cabal is gonna have a hard time convincing anyone they ain’t politically motivated ideological hacks who cosplay as objective voices if they can’t take the mild criticism offered by Hewitt.
Jeff Bezos said he was worried about a perception of bias at WaPo. Maybe he will use this opportunity to clean house. Or else his words mean nothing and it’s back to business as usual.
I’m sure Lauren’s boyfriend chose his words very carefully. He’s not worried about bias per se, only the “perception of bias”. In his ideal world the bias would still exist, but not be so obvious that us proles can see it.
You are right, of course. It’s about the “perception of bias”. Jonathan Capehart appears biased to me. Maybe Lauren Sanchez will put a bug in Jeff’s ear.
The torch of truth hasn’t been extinguished, but the light certainly gets shaded by opinion.
They’ve already told us why. They need enough darkness to finally kill democracy.
Regarding Capeheart and Marcus … it is really sad that such low IQ dolts have positions spewing their retarded opinions in public. This is like watching the heavyweight boxing trials for the Special Olympics. It says something about our society that such clearly stupid people are doing this.
These people on TV yelping about politics and governance should have their SAT scores plastered on the screen whenever they are talking about something. If we had done this with barky (and his assuredly sub-920 score) he never would have made it halfway through the primary.
I can’t stand that little black fag.
Wait. I thought Don Lemon was on CNN?
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I got a friendly email long ago from Ruth Marcus to tell me that I had the wrong Ruth Marcus. I wanted the logician Ruth Marcus who was a Yale. She could have just ignored it, so there’s no high and mighty delusion there.
So I’d suspect confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance, not meanness.
One random email?
Congratulations on the huge data set you used to arrive at your conclusion.
My favorite thing is they are too (Insert Negative Mental Agative Here) to realize that Hugh basically told them they were just a political ad for Harris, lol.
Smells like Monkey Pox. (Classic Nirvana reference).
Surprised that left wing rag like WaPo ever would have hired hewitt. He makes his real money on AM talk radio early in the mornings.
Increasingly, the lies are no longer be tolerated in silence.
It was really more like this:
…
H: “We have an obligation to be honest…”
C: “I really don’t appreciate being lectured by you…”
H: “Then I won’t come back. Fuck you, and fuck your dishonesty, which I’m going to have absolutely nothing to do with going forward from this very moment.”