SEE IT: Ted Koppel tells Fox News’ Sean Hannity he is bad for America
Sean Hannity in the interview.
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Jason Silverstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 26, 2017, 3:39 PM
Ted Koppel had some bad news for Sean Hannity.
The retired “Nightline” host told Fox News’ Hannity to his face that he is “bad for America” in a TV interview that aired Sunday.
Koppel spoke with Hannity in a “CBS Sunday Morning” segment about political polarization and “alternate universes” of facts in America.
The veteran newsman showed clips of Hannity and Rush Limbaugh — as well as left-wing comedians like John Oliver and Stephen Colbert — as examples of media figures who are “driving the country further and further apart.”
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But Hannity — one of President Trump’s biggest boosters at the conservative news network — got some harsh truths delivered straight to him by Koppel in an interview.
Koppel was unmoved by Hannity's argument that Americans are smart enough to tell the difference between news and opinion shows.
“Do you think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America?” Hannity asked.
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“Yeah,” Koppel calmly told him.
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He noted that Hannity is “very good” at what he does and continued his argument — after calling out Hannity for repeatedly interrupting him.
Retired "Nightline" host Ted Koppel.
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“You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts," Koppel said.
Hannity lashed out at the segment on Twitter, calling it “fake edited news” and accusing CBS of cutting down a much longer interview.
“I did about a 45 minute interview with CBS. They ran less than 2. Why did Ted cut out my many examples of media bias?” he wrote.
Koppel, who retired in 2005, has been outspoken in his distaste for Fox News before. Speaking to Bill O’Reilly last March, Koppel told the Fox host he had made reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “irrelevant.”
“You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him — Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be,” Koppel told O’Reilly.
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Sean Hannity in the interview.
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Jason Silverstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, March 26, 2017, 3:39 PM
Ted Koppel had some bad news for Sean Hannity.
The retired “Nightline” host told Fox News’ Hannity to his face that he is “bad for America” in a TV interview that aired Sunday.
Koppel spoke with Hannity in a “CBS Sunday Morning” segment about political polarization and “alternate universes” of facts in America.
The veteran newsman showed clips of Hannity and Rush Limbaugh — as well as left-wing comedians like John Oliver and Stephen Colbert — as examples of media figures who are “driving the country further and further apart.”
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But Hannity — one of President Trump’s biggest boosters at the conservative news network — got some harsh truths delivered straight to him by Koppel in an interview.
Koppel was unmoved by Hannity's argument that Americans are smart enough to tell the difference between news and opinion shows.
“Do you think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America?” Hannity asked.
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“Yeah,” Koppel calmly told him.
Sean Hannity pointed gun at Fox News colleague Juan Williams
He noted that Hannity is “very good” at what he does and continued his argument — after calling out Hannity for repeatedly interrupting him.
Retired "Nightline" host Ted Koppel.
(CBS)
“You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts," Koppel said.
Hannity lashed out at the segment on Twitter, calling it “fake edited news” and accusing CBS of cutting down a much longer interview.
“I did about a 45 minute interview with CBS. They ran less than 2. Why did Ted cut out my many examples of media bias?” he wrote.
Koppel, who retired in 2005, has been outspoken in his distaste for Fox News before. Speaking to Bill O’Reilly last March, Koppel told the Fox host he had made reporting on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “irrelevant.”
“You have changed the television landscape over the past 20 years. You took it from being objective and dull to subjective and entertaining. And in this current climate, it doesn’t matter what the interviewer asks him — Mr. Trump is gonna say whatever he wants to say, as outrageous as it may be,” Koppel told O’Reilly.