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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApropos of nothing Jonathan Karl is much better than Chuck Todd
He lacks his unctuous manner.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Meadowoak
(5,546 posts)Mitchell.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,611 posts)Jarqui
(10,125 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,096 posts)I always think about him wearing a button in support of Bush during the 2000 election. People like him are the reason we got stuck with Bush, which led to us getting stuck with TTT (Treasonous Traitor Trump).
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Paladin
(28,257 posts)UTUSN
(70,695 posts)For those too young who might only know HUME at the Faux Propaganda Network, he was at ABC for years, I think as White House correspondent, during the Poppy BUSH years and possibly into the CLINTON years. He made no bones about having a wingnut slant, and more than that, having a special entry into the BUSH inner circle, even participating in BUSH *family* events, like a consigliere.
He made it all official when he migrated to Faux, possibly over not having gotten an anchor slot at ABC (my speculation), and proceeded to do a Django Unchained whipping job on Juan WILLIAMS every Sunday and later on mentoring Teh Meghan KELLY (rumor rumor innuendo).
*** Jon KARL took over the slot at ABC, always with that air of "yeah-right" when relaying anything said by Dems and sugar coating anything said by Repukes. But more blatantly, any time he could *make* an opportunity, he would find a way to mention Poppy BUSH, one Father's Day calling him "the father of the nation." Yeah, *gag*.
But in the past year he had a BOOK out, covering some Drumpf, de rigueur having to mention (because doing so *sells*) some icky Drumpf things, and he had to make the rounds of all the mainstream yak shows (think, The View), so he had to adopt a mildly critical stance towards Drumpf.
He's got a semi-anchor slot as substitute on This Weak, joining co-wingnut Martha RADDATZ with frequent featuring Hawk Richard ENGEL (just this A.M. from Afghanistan again).
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)I have never trusted Jonathan Karl.
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)Especially around issues that I feel are unfairly critical of Joe Biden, which bugs the crap out of me.
But I have no impression that Radditiz is a "wingnut."
Karl has been blistering of TFG's criminality. He's not remotely like Britt Hume
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I don't expect them to have my biases.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 14, 2022, 02:13 PM - Edit history (1)
Granted that that type of journalist is increasingly hard to find, but my sliding scale starts with "parrot propagandist" at one end, proceeding toward the middle ground of "pigeon holing what the personal bias is, one way or ther other", to the rarefied other end of tell-it-like-it-is-Journalist.
But if my opinions aren't welcome, I can self-delete and put mine in my own thread.