Hugh Hewitt quits The Washington Post after storming off newspaper’s live show

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-02 02:02:24 | Updated at 2024-11-05 23:24:23 3 days ago

Hugh Hewitt quits The Washington Post after storming off newspaper’s live show
CNN ^ | Fri November 1, 2024 | Liam Reilly

Posted on 11/01/2024 6:30:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned from his contributing columnist role at The Washington Post on Friday after storming off the newspaper’s live show over a disagreement with his colleagues.

Hewitt’s resignation came after an appearance on “First Look,” the Post’s live show hosted by Jonathan Capehart, alongside Ruth Marcus, an associate editor and columnist at the Post, during a discussion over former President Donald Trump legal efforts in battleground states.

“Is it me, or does it seem like, this week, Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities?” Capehart asked Marcus and Hewitt.

“No election can be fair in Donald Trump’s mind unless Donald Trump wins it,” Marcus said before Hewitt interjected.

“I’ve just got to say we are newspeople even though we’re with the opinion section. It’s got to be reported — Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home,” Hewitt said. “So, that lawsuit was by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful.”

Hewitt was referencing a recent successful bid by the Trump campaign and RNC to extend mail-in voting in the Philadelphia suburb. On Wednesday morning, the campaign filed a lawsuit claiming the county had illegally turned away “many” voters before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline to apply in person. A Pennsylvania judge sided with the trio on the same day.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; districtofcolumbia; hughhewitt; jeffbezos; jonathancapehart; liamreilly; ruthmarcus; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost

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To: MinorityRepublican

It had to be pretty bad for Hugh Hewitt, CINO, to leave the interview.

2 posted on 11/01/2024 6:32:09 PM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)

To: MinorityRepublican

Okay. Let me be the first to say today: Make Hugh great again.

3 posted on 11/01/2024 6:33:38 PM PDT by Kudsman (Normal Gays for Trump)

To: End Times Sentinel

4 posted on 11/01/2024 6:39:42 PM PDT by onona

To: MinorityRepublican

WOW!!!! BEST THING HE’S EVER DONE!

5 posted on 11/01/2024 6:43:55 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)

To: MinorityRepublican

I saw the video of it. I have to say that Hugh Hewitt was right and the other two were wrong. I do not blame him for leaving that sh!t show.

6 posted on 11/01/2024 6:45:59 PM PDT by Parley Baer

To: End Times Sentinel

Give him credit, he’s not a nevertrumper.

To: End Times Sentinel

HS debate students could run circles around Hewitt's twisted logic. His repeated lies are disproven by reliable online searches & The Washington Post should've canned him years ago. He's a weak writer w/on-camera bluster that works at FOX or..

from "the comments"

Whoopsie. All those lefties Hugh has been shtuping are about to feast.

8 posted on 11/01/2024 6:50:58 PM PDT by Kudsman (Normal Gays for Trump)

To: MinorityRepublican

In December 2016, during the time the actual Electoral College Electors voted, in some States each Elector had a police escort due to the threats from the Marxists. Hussein, Billary and company had an entire post-election campaign to force the Electors to change their votes.

The above, like most democRAT crimes, was flushed down the memory hole.

9 posted on 11/01/2024 6:55:24 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)

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