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Hugh Hewitt Quits Washington Post After Confrontation During Paper’s Live Show

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.

I mean, what wasn’t true about Hewitt’s statement?

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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Ironclaw | November 1, 2024 at 1:37 pm

The only way we shut them down is to refuse to participate in their garbage and to do our own thing.


 
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herm2416 | November 1, 2024 at 1:42 pm

What an obsequious little twit Capehart is.


     
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    fscarn in reply to herm2416. | November 1, 2024 at 2:26 pm

    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.


       
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      Geologist in reply to fscarn. | November 1, 2024 at 3:14 pm

      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.


 
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henrybowman | November 1, 2024 at 1:43 pm

Ghost of Ayn Rand: ‘Who is Hugh Hewitt?”

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.


 
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scooterjay | November 1, 2024 at 2:27 pm

Yet another journalist searching for Wyatt’s torch.


 
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guyjones | November 1, 2024 at 2:30 pm

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.


 
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retiredcantbefired | November 1, 2024 at 2:37 pm

How satisfied was Hewitt with working conditions at the Washington Post before this blowup?


 
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CommoChief | November 1, 2024 at 2:40 pm

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.


     
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    jimincalif in reply to Paula. | November 1, 2024 at 4:08 pm

    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.


 
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scooterjay | November 1, 2024 at 2:46 pm

The torch of truth hasn’t been extinguished, but the light certainly gets shaded by opinion.


 
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ThePrimordialOrderedPair | November 1, 2024 at 2:58 pm

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.


 
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Mike 1969 | November 1, 2024 at 3:31 pm

I can’t stand that little black fag.


 
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rhhardin | November 1, 2024 at 4:32 pm

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.

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