100% in agreement with Mr. Abrams on this one.

Another LIberal Anchor Busted for Hypocracy and Lack of Class. This has been a Wonderful Day for the Most Extreme Network.

* Hypocricy.
Was Chris Hansen a “Dick”?

Fact: He works at a station that has no moral shame so it’s no big deal.

“Bad for America”? I don’t think Mr. Hansen’s wife thinks so.

I agree with you, Dan. This wasn’t a “clean hit.” I’m glad you wrote about it.

If Hanson did cheat then it questions his morality,honesty and fidelity as he mines ratings gold going after people who obviously have questionable morals,honesty and fidelity.

So count me out as someone who has any sympathy for Hanson and count me out as agreeing that exposing a hypocrite is bad for America.

Like it or not Hanson’s story choices put him in a psoition of having to tow the morality line or look foolish.He looks foolish.

Something about an undercover ACORN sting, where the journalists were tarred and feathered by big media and bureaucratic apologists.

I agree entirely with this.

What a ridiculous article. Chris Hansen is as low as Geraldo Rivera and Jerry Springer, and about 99% of his cases have been thrown out of court. Chris Hanson is bad for America, as bad for America as the rest of NBC.

Like I said yesterday. Just imagine if this guy were in any way shape or form associated with Fox News, a Republican or The Tea Party. There would have been a dozen posts smearing this guy every way imaginable and smearing the woman involved and her family and their families. Oh well.

I think borderline entrapment (there’s a reason many of these busts never went to court, and many more were thrown out) isn’t good for America.

Jaurez said:
Like I said yesterday. Just imagine if this guy were in any way shape or form associated with Fox News, a Republican or The Tea Party. There would have been a dozen posts smearing this guy every way imaginable and smearing the woman involved and her family and their families. Oh well.

Wah wah wah. Always with the victimization. “Oh us poor conservatives”. Shut the fvck up already. We get it. You guys want to be treated as a minority group despite your constant railing against the supposed favorable treatment of minority groups.

Imagine if Barack Obama’s teen daughter had gotten knocked up 2 months before the general election. Imagine if a Democrat had bought hookers and gotten caught. Oh right, that happened, and he was forced to resign. When it happened to a Republican, he got to stay, and got re-elected.

Dan, it seems that you are not aware of TCAP’s activities in the lead-up to the suicide of Bill Conradt. Here is an excellent expose: http://www.esquire.com/features/predator0907

It’s hard to have the slightest respect for Hansen after reading that. Note that 100% of the “busts” that took place in this Texas city were never pursued by the prosecutors.

Admittedly, I haven’t seen or looked for a lot of reports about the Hansen story, but “To Catch a Predator” is his identifier, much as Rob Reiner often jokes that when he passes, the headline will call him “Meathead”. Sure, lots of blogs have gone for the easy snark, but they really didn’t have to work very hard because his name and the “Predator” headline implies the jokes without any effort required.

Otherwise, I’m glad to hear that the fellow may have done some legitimate reporting at one time or another. He’s become so personally identifiable with the non-news, “Lock-up” type programming which feeds our voyeuristic, most basic instincts that everything else he has done has been buried in its wake.

Like a televangelist who rails against homosexuals while hiring rent boys as a personal assistant, Hansen has made his bed and now he has to lie in it. He’s well known because of his work with hidden cameras and it sounds as if a hidden camera has been turned against him. The joke’s there, whether someone thinks it’s deserved or not.

I wonder if he called the NE a dick ?

Magister said:
Admittedly, I haven’t seen or looked for a lot of reports about the Hansen story, but “To Catch a Predator” is his identifier, much as Rob Reiner often jokes that when he passes, the headline will call him “Meathead”. Sure, lots of blogs have gone for the easy snark, but they really didn’t have to work very hard because his name and the “Predator” headline implies the jokes without any effort required.

Otherwise, I’m glad to hear that the fellow may have done some legitimate reporting at one time or another. He’s become so personally identifiable with the non-news, “Lock-up” type programming which feeds our voyeuristic, most basic instincts that everything else he has done has been buried in its wake.

Like a televangelist who rails against homosexuals while hiring rent boys as a personal assistant, Hansen has made his bed and now he has to lie in it. He’s well known because of his work with hidden cameras and it sounds as if a hidden camera has been turned against him. The joke’s there, whether someone thinks it’s deserved or not.

The TV evangelist in your example is being a clear hypocrite, he’s a closet homosexual that denounces homosexuality. For this to be equal, Hansen would have had to be sleeping with a minor, which he’s not being accused of. There’s just a big difference between cheating on your spouse between adults and molesting children and teenagers!

I’m not sure about ALL the facts of this situation, and none of you are either.

I only know two things for sure:

(1) Chris Hansen has a good friend in Dan Abrams.
(2) We don’t know about the state of Chris’ marriage, so we should be better than the media and stifle ourselves (keep our mouths shut) until we find out more.

ElCapitanAmerica said:
The TV evangelist in your example is being a clear hypocrite, he’s a closet homosexual that denounces homosexuality. For this to be equal, Hansen would have had to be sleeping with a minor, which he’s not being accused of. There’s just a big difference between cheating on your spouse between adults and molesting children and teenagers!

“Hypocrite” sounds more like a political stance, while the juxtaposition could be the joke.

I don’t know if any YouTubes exist, but if memory serves, occasionally during sweeps, “Candid Camera” would do an in-house prank on either Alan Funt or one of the show’s staff. The “joke” wouldn’t be that Funt was a hypocrite or something high and mighty, it was just that he got punk’d.

defend him all you want dan…..hes a lying cheating scandulous dirtbag just like anthony weiner….REMEMBER DAN YOU CONSERVATIVES CLAIM THAT PICTURES MAKE THE DIFFERENCE….AND I NOTICED YOU DIDNT MENTION WEINER while mentioning CERTIFIED TRICKS like vitter and spitzer….you just like typical conservatives only compare yourselves with the worse thing out there then proclaim SEE I AINT SO BAD….im surprised you didnt compare the guy to bin laden or charles manson…….clearly cheating on your wife is ok with family values im holier than you right wing christian conservatives

Have a seat over there Chris.
You are free to go.
You can leave right now.
What was your plan here tonight?
Did you bring condoms?
Mr. Hansen, because you got caught, that’s why you’re stunned!
What is going on in your mind?
It sounds like what you were fishing for is adulterous sex with a woman 21 years younger than you.
I have been with The National Enquirer for 24 years and I have very seldom been at a loss for words. I don’t even know what to ask you first, Chris.

Chris Hansen has done good work and Chris has taken many bad guys off the street.
But, some of Hansen’s pieces really do go too far. I can’t always take him seriously.
As a public figure, Chris must realize he can not expect to leave a totally private life. He will get scrutiny most persons do not face. Fame has a price.

Jaurez said:
Like I said yesterday. Just imagine if this guy were in any way shape or form associated with Fox News, a Republican or The Tea Party. There would have been a dozen posts smearing this guy every way imaginable and smearing the woman involved and her family and their families. Oh well.

But that’s different!

I mostly agree with Abrams. But the one weird thing is that while she wasn’t even close to underage, she was still way younger then him. When he was her age, she was ten. So that’s a bit creepy to me, someone that goes after guys that try to meet young girls, then gets caught chasing a younger woman. There is nothing morally comparable between preying on young girls versus womanizing a full-grown adult who is younger, but the similarity of the trend between himself and his targets that bothers me.

I’m sorry, you sanctimonious blowhards, but 30 isn’t a kid, and 50 isn’t an old man. That 20-year difference matters if the girl is 20, but by 30, everybody is an adult. And if there’s any 50-year-old guys out there claiming they wouldn’t be flattered by the attention of a 30-year-old blonde..they’re lying.

Poblems in a marriage between consenting adults has NOTHING to do with illegal sex with minors. The Enquirer are pigs.

well,well so the guy thats setting up guys for cheating on wife or after young stuff,is also a cheater this is so funney I had to laugh. I am totally against setting ppl up like this,some how it doesn’t seem right. And now how can this man keep this job? when he is also a cheater(I wonder how many time this has happened before he got caught?) He has egg on his face and other places.

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JoeRemi said:
I’m sorry, you sanctimonious blowhards, but 30 isn’t a kid, and 50 isn’t an old man. That 20-year difference matters if the girl is 20, but by 30, everybody is an adult. And if there’s any 50-year-old guys out there claiming they wouldn’t be flattered by the attention of a 30-year-old blonde..they’re lying.

Poblems in a marriage between consenting adults has NOTHING to do with illegal sex with minors. The Enquirer are pigs.

They are consenting adults. No Florida laws were broken. A 30 year old is not a child.

I still find the 21 year difference between the two to be interesting. It’s like an elephant in your living room. You can not ignore it. Human nature means people will be psychoanalyzing this fact.

If Chris was cheating on his wife behind her back (I am presuming they do not have a open relationship) Chris is the true pig, not the Enquirer. In North Carolina and a couple of other states the television reporter could be charged with the tort of Alienation of Affection or Criminal Conversation. Florida has no such laws anymore.

Damn….
I agree with Dan Abrams…
Damn.

BoomShakalaka said:
Damn….
I agree with Dan Abrams…
Damn.

Not on the “bad for america” part…gimme a break ,but mostly with the post.

MSNBC needs to fire commentator Mark Ames (Dylan Ratigan Show), who bragged of having sex with a 15-year-old while he was in his mid-30s:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762

Ok MEDIAite..Does ANYONE care about this idiot? take it down

BoomShakalaka said:
Not on the “bad for america” part…gimme a break ,but mostly with the post.

Since the bad for America part was central to the post, can you clarify what you are confessing for? Wondering how many innocent people were targeted by the Hansen sting. Surely not every sting made it to tv. There must have been hundreds of people who were leaned on who were innocent in order to glean a few keepers. Do ends justify means? in any event, there is no connection really between his work catching pedophiles and Hansen’s affair. He is just another celebrity, politician or other famous person to get outed because the morlocks must be appeased.

I’m so glad that smug son of a bitch Chris Hansen got caught philandering on camera. It would have been great if someone had confronted Hansen on camera about cheating on his wife. Those sexual predator busts would have happened without them being aired on NBC, so don’t give me this crap about how he helped catch these people.

Chris Hansen’s predator shows are operations best done by police. Him being there is artificial. He gets no points for attaching himself to a police operation. It’s no better than Cops and adds nothing to the process.

So, to have him hung on his own petard is great. Humiliating people who are going to be arrested anyway is not journalism. It’s just commercial bullsh*t. He’s no paragon of virtue, as we now can confirm.

Brian Kirkland said:
Chris Hansen’s predator shows are operations best done by police. Him being there is artificial. He gets no points for attaching himself to a police operation. It’s no better than Cops and adds nothing to the process.

So, to have him hung on his own petard is great. Humiliating people who are going to be arrested anyway is not journalism. It’s just commercial bullsh*t. He’s no paragon of virtue, as we now can confirm.

Although not a big fan of the show, it does bring it more to the pubic and adds awareness to those with young children. It’s kinda like a service and I applaud them for it. Way to easy for kids to be harmed these days.

As for Hansen, least he didn’t go after an underage child.. and I guess he can appear on “the Cheaters” show.

Life has a way of comming back to bite you on the ass one way or another.

Dan, agree 100% with you. Chris is human, just like all of us.

Brian Kirkland said:
Chris Hansen’s predator shows are operations best done by police. Him being there is artificial. He gets no points for attaching himself to a police operation. It’s no better than Cops and adds nothing to the process. So, to have him hung on his own petard is great. Humiliating people who are going to be arrested anyway is not journalism. It’s just commercial bullsh*t. He’s no paragon of virtue, as we now can confirm.

disagree. He did alot of pieces of car theft, computer hacking, etc. that many of us would have not known to what extremes these crooks would go to and how to prevent it from happening to the audience if it wasn’t for some of his shows.

Melba Narberth said:
MSNBC needs to fire commentator Mark Ames (Dylan Ratigan Show), who bragged of having sex with a 15-year-old while he was in his mid-30s: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/beast-in-the-east/Content?oid=902762

MSNBC needs to fire Joe Scarborough.

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Great line. Viewed as one of the “good guys.” Seriously? Isn’t that what we all thought about John Edwards? Arnold the sperminator? Let’s be real men at any level have the ability to be 50 something years of age and get attention from a 30 something hottie like this woman and make a mistake. Sad thing here. His career will continue. His brand is shot to death, dead. Her’s is pretty much over. Will never get out of West Palm with that type of activity. But this crap happens. And it goes on everyday in broadcasting. Actually a fun story for those of us who are in the business. But wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of either one.

Karma is a vicious biotch! Hansen’s outing as a cheating POS should be a lesson to all in the media. If you want to report news, then report news, don’t make it! Predator was noting more than a vehicle for ratings, it was nothing more than shame TV. These stings were not conducted in the same manner as those done by police. Police tactics allow the true predator to contact the faux teen for sexual contact, allowing the adult to request the sexual act, not the other way around. On the Hansen series, the faux teenager was the one making the advances to the adult, sometimes asking over and over for weeks on end until the adult finally agreed to show up. That kind of activity IS entrapment. Entrapment is different than what real law enforcement does, which is to allow the perpetrator to establish a conscious state of mind to engage in a criminal act, not the other way around. Hansen isn’t a journalist, he is nothing more than a Jerry Springer or Maury Povich type character. The difference is that those two don’t hide their BS behind a faux journalistic veil. I hope Hansen is skewered by Mrs. Hansen and that she and her lawyers drag him through the mud with as much publicity as he has done to so many other people.

Sounds like Dan Abrams’ wife better check her husband