Hannity: CBS Displayed Bias and ‘Dishonesty’ in Edit of My Interview With Ted Koppel
Sean Hannity opened his show tonight saying that CBS editing down his interview with Ted Koppel proved his point about the bias and “dishonesty” of the mainstream media.
If you didn’t hear already, Koppel told Hannity in an interview for a CBS Sunday Morning piece that he thinks opinionators like him are bad for America. He told Hannity that he’s “attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.”
Hannity took to Twitter to express his objections to how the lengthy interview was edited down to a small snippet, but tonight he went beyond those complaints to raise issues of his own with CBS.
As far as Hannity’s concerned, he was used as a “prop” to advance Koppel’s narrative.
He argued that CBS has its own biases––citing people like Dan Rather and CBS News president David Rhodes as examples––and he said that the network ignored stories unfavorable to Democrats like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (i.e. Bill Ayers and Benghazi):
“That’s the difference, Ted, between me and you. I’m honest with my audience. I don’t pretend that I’m fair and balanced and objective. You do. And if you really cared about truth in journalism, how can you work for a network that only tells one side of the story. How can I be bad for America when I’m offering the American people news and information nightly that your own network will not touch because they have an agenda?”
He said that he and his team work hard to cover news “the rest of the media ignores.”
And Hannity again called on CBS to release the complete, unedited video.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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