A Fox News reporter's schooling of Sean Hannity veers into dark territory

[Nevilledog]

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"A Fox News reporter’s schooling of Sean Hannity veers into dark territory." Great @ThePlumLineGS column dismantles Russian and right wing media disinformation on CBW weapons and Ukraine

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Opinion | A Fox News reporter’s schooling of Sean Hannity veers into dark territory
Jennifer Griffin's challenge to a right-wing talking point on Ukraine produces a revealing moment.
12:58 PM · Mar 10, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/10/jennifer-griffin-sean-hannity-ukraine-bioweapons/

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A virulent claim is circulating in right-wing media and among some Republicans: The United States might be working on biolabs in Ukraine. This assertion, which echoes Russian propaganda and implies that the United States and Ukraine are collaborating on something nefarious and dangerous, has been sharply refuted by Biden officials and independent experts.

But now someone who works for Fox News has also challenged the claim: national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, who ventured into Sean Hannity’s lion’s den and did so to his face.
Griffin’s exchange with Hannity is remarkable on its own. But it raises a question: While this might be expected from some in right-wing media, why are Republican lawmakers echoing it?

The Griffin-Hannity moment arose after the White House pushed back against Russian claims of U.S. biological weapons labs in Ukraine. Press secretary Jen Psaki denounced this as “disinformation” that might telegraph a Russian bioweapons attack as a “false flag."

To no one’s surprise, Tucker Carlson devoted a segment to the idea Wednesday night, using his usual “I’m just asking questions” routine to imply there might be something to it. Griffin then went on Hannity and pushed back, noting that these labs are left over from the Soviet era and that the United States has been working to “convert the facilities safely.”

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[UTUSN]

1. Her days are numbered at Faux? - Which one is the "good" MURDOCH, Lachlan?

[underpants]

2. Post (mine) from last night right after it happened. Video of the exchange

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216463928

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[Nevilledog]

3. I don't know how she can stay there.

She's also the one that called that nutbag Macgregor a liar.

[underpants]

5. I'd guess

She’s been at Fox from near the beginning so she has to be close to retiring. Can she stay as the chief Pentagon reporter somewhere else? They tend to be there for a long time. Also, she may seen (and be seen) herself as an info leak for the brass to the Fox audience.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Republican lawmakers are no different than RW media.

There are no longer "Far Right Republicans". There are just Republicans. They are all "Far Right'.

The "Far Right" has swallowed the GOP. If you want to be a member of the Party, you have to prove you are "one of them".

[underpants]

6. Showboats

It’s a daily battle to get attention and stay relevant on Fox News.

[Caliman73]

7. The simple answer is that Republicans have shed nation for ideology and power.

There used to be situations and causes that went beyond the usual partisan bickering. National Security was one. Republicans have abandoned that position.

I would even be okay with a valid criticism against a rival administration, say, "The Biden administration may not be doing enough to quickly destroy those old stockpiles and avoid them falling into the wrong hands" That would be a perhaps wrong, but at least valid critique. Instead they are LYING and they are LYING to promote a foreign adversary JUST to make their rivals seem bad.

It is not honorable, but as I am speaking of the modern Republican Party, honor is a foreign concept to all but a very few. Certainly, Steven Massie with his stupid gun toting Christmas picture family is an example of Republican's complete lack of honor.