Fox News' latest ethics dilemma: Liz Cheney to guest-host Hannity

[babylonsister]

Fox News' latest ethics dilemma: Liz Cheney to guest-host Hannity

August 06, 2010 1:53 pm ET by Matt Gertz


According to the group's Facebook feed, Keep America Safe co-founder Liz Cheney will be guest-hosting tonight's Hannity. The decision to turn over one of its programs to a leader of a right-wing national security advocacy group is only the latest in a long line of ethical missteps for Fox News.

Cheney has used prior media appearances to push a variety of false, ridiculous, or inflammatory attacks on President Obama, his administration, and other progressives.

Keep America Safe publishes resources on the following topics on its website:

* War on Terror

* U.S. & Israeli Relations

* Guantanamo Bay & Terror Trials

* CIA Interrogation Program

* Iran

* Afghanistan

* Human Rights & Democracy

The group's positions on all of these issues hew to the neoconservative right. The group has also attacked the proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. Keep America Safe presumably raises money from its right-wing donors on the basis of the group's positions on national security issues.

Is Fox News really saying that it is comfortable turning over one of its programs to a right-wing activist? Do Fox executives think there's any difference between having Hannity and Cheney host the show? What does that say about Hannity? And what does it say about Fox?

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[guardian]

1. You're surprised?

"Is Fox News really saying that it is comfortable turning over one of its programs to a right-wing activist?"

They turned over a show to Glen Beck (see photo of Beck on air below)
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBvif4ssrp6i3ADwqvTYLxwPAzc5smhzqQPwriTt-AqDW8k_0&t=1&usg=__6DR23D4RkgdsKkesA5eml9OX3ag=

[IADEMO2004]

3. Well, Chelsea is still on her honeymoon.

[guardian]

4. I don't get it. What is your point????

[indepat]

2. Fox News and ethics in the same sentence is: incongruent, a malapropism, anathema, a cockamamie

malaprop, a travesty, an impossibility, heresy. :P

[babylonsister]

5. Haha! I thought the same thing when I saw it, but you

expressed it so well! :thumbsup:

[indepat]

6. Just trying to give credit where due

:P

[awoke_in_2003]

9. and oxymoron. nt

[spanone]

7. i'm surprised bu$h* & cheney don't have a news show

faux is to news as cotton candy is to cuisine

[Thor_MN]

8. Fox News is turning over one of its programs to a right-wing activist?

Must be Friday.