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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear MSNBC, regarding that ass wipe Hugh Hewitt,
Dear MSNBC,
Regarding that ass wipe Hugh Hewitt you really have to reconsider having him as a regular on your network.
There are 5 reasons:
1)His Self Absorbed addiction to his own awesomeness.
While he tries to imitate the better informed and occasionally independent George Will and Charles Krauthammer who both actually got Pulitzer Prizes instead of wearing the pretence of one. They had some other independent basis of experience, Will with his obnoxious obsession of baseball and Krauthammer his legitimate standing as a Psychiatrist. Hewitt is simply obnoxious and in need of a Psychiatrist.
His belaboured soporific patronizing tone of a Chamber Commerce booster who has reached the pinnacle of his career promoting the wonders of the greatness of Walla Walla, Washington is only outdone by the extreme smarminess of his ingratiatingly insincere smile.
While he may dream that he is the eventual successor to William Buckley he isn't, he is just an ass wipe.
2) In Offering his political analysis he is almost always wrong.
He consistently predicted, promised and pimped Martha McSally as the tsk tsk tsk (why are we even talking about it) winner by a comfortable margin. Each time stuffing more egregiously stupid reasons that people should vote for her in the "sleeve" of objective political analysis:
HUGH HEWITT:
But when you go in to vote, you go in to vote and you're in Arizona, you got to pick Martha McSally, who's surging. Did the Star-SpangledBanner at the ASU game. Do you vote to keep the economy humming, or do you vote against President Trump? And I think you end up voting--( for McSally)
3) He is no different than Sean Hannity he is a 100% in the tank and on the stage with right wing Republicans
What is the point of having Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell preach about the inappropriate endorsement of Sean Hannity jumping on the stage with Trump when Hewitt does the same thing on his radio show?
http://www.hughhewitt.com/martha-mcsally-on-her-clsoing-arument-in-the-arizona-senate-race/
HH: I think youll get the LDS vote, because honestly, Kyrsten Sinema attacked stay at home moms. Thats like political suicide.
MM: I know. I mean, this is one of many, she called them leeches. . . .
. . . .
HH: And you would have voted for Justice Kavanaugh, and she would have been a no.
MM: Yes.
HH: Look, while you were defending America, she was protesting our troops.
MM: Amen.
HH: Martha McSally, all the way to the finish line. I look forward to calling you Senator-Elect McSally on Wednesday. Thank you for joining me.
Softball, let me kiss your ass, Amen and you are wonderful.
Then you dress him up as an objective political analyst. Shouldn't you at least introduce him as someone who has endorsed and embraced the candidacy he is now going to give an 'objective' statement on?
4) He is completely compromised on a personal basis. While he would take occasional hits on Trump and the malfeasance of his administration he had a particularly odd defense of Scott Pruitt.
In April 2018, Hewitt defended EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt amid controversy over his expenditures as Administrator and a conflict of interest over renting a condo at discounted prices from a lobbyist representing clients regulated by the EPA.[29] Politico described Hewitt as "one of Pruitt's staunchest defenders".[30] Hewitt described the numerous ethics scandals facing Pruitt as "nonsense scandals" and argued that Pruitt's critics were "just trying to stop the deregulation effort
. . . .
Hewitt has argued that media coverage of Pruitt has been "hyperpartisan".[31] In an interview with Pruitt, Hewitt said "I know you are not a climate denier"; Pruitt rejects the scientific consensus on climate change.[31]
After Pruitt resigned amid a dozen separate ethics investigations, Hewitt defended Pruitt, saying he "is a good friend and a very good man, caricatured by left and MSM. I hope he sets to work on a memoir ASAP and deals out a tenth of what he took."[32][33]
I mean god, man you are still holding Pruitt up when even they sycophants at FOX were getting the dry heeves.
And yet what neither MSNBC nor Hewitt took the time to explain is that Hewitt's son James Hewitt is a political appointee and protégé of Pruitt.
5) From a completely ontological perspective . . .
First to remind readers what ontological means
on·to·log·i·cal /ˌän(t)əˈläjək(ə l/
adjective: ontological
1. relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
"ontological arguments"
2. showing the relations between the concepts and categories in a subject area or domain.
So from an ontological point of view and based on both a clinical and laboratory examination there is little doubt that the domain that Hugh Hewitt is best configured is that of a "ass wipe" it isn't what he does, it is actually the nature of his being.
In conclusion this particular ass wipe diminishes your network every time he appears on it. He has a remarkable record of parading highly partisan positions that are laced with personal conflict and he wraps it up with a patronizing smarmy inauthenticity that is so revolting that it can only be watched with all sharp and pointed objects removed from the immediate area.
When it came to predicting the solid victory of Martha McSally, Hugh Hewitt was wrong for the 23,342nd time.
He is also an ass wipe of the first order.
Sincerely
Raster
(20,998 posts)dchill
(38,465 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Instantly disgusting.
I think you gotta put a few out there for contrast.
allgood33
(1,584 posts)Otherwise, some may never get to hear the truth.
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)real workout. As soon as I see him I change the channel as soon as possible.
ooky
(8,921 posts)Right wingers watch Fox News. Why is he not there? MSNBC viewers generally switch channels when they see Hugh Hewitt is cued up to deliver commentary. If I was an advertiser on MSNBC I would insist that my commercials not run directly behind Hugh Hewitt's scheduled segments.
winstars
(4,219 posts)oasis
(49,370 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,313 posts)Sorry, must've been sumpin I et.
Cha
(297,089 posts)to see/hear him.. but when I see his name on DU I know "swarmyness" is attached.
I love what I miss out on.. not having seen M$M "news" since Nov 2002.
Excellent open letter to msnbc, grant.. I feel I got to know him a little better Too bad that whole mcsally thing didn't work out for him.. LOL.
msnbc should actually be ashamed.
Thank You!
PatSeg
(47,368 posts)And that god awful perpetual smirk! He looks like The Joker.
TomSlick
(11,096 posts)Understand, I spend my evenings watching MSNBC and reading DU. I watch it all. I even watch Matthews. If HH comes on, MSNBC goes off until I think enough time has passed for him to be gone. It's either that or I start throwing things at the TV - and it ain't the TV's fault.