MSNBC gives 'verbal warning' to host Hugh Hewitt over Pruitt meeting

[Cryptoad]

Source: cnn

MSNBC has admonished weekend host Hugh Hewitt for lobbying EPA head Scott Pruitt to clean up a polluted site near Hewitt's home in California.

In a statement released Wednesday, a spokesperson for MSNBC said that Hewitt "was given a verbal warning as such activity is a violation of our standards."

The revelation of a request for a meeting between Pruitt and Hewitt's law firm came earlier this week after a cache of internal emails was released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the environmental group The Sierra Club.

In one of the correspondences from September, first reported by Politico, the MSNBC host asked Pruitt for a meeting with lawyers from Hewitt's firm who represent a water district that sought federal help to clean up a toxic waste site in Orange County, California, where Hewitt lives.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/09/media/hugh-hewitt-msnbc-verbal-warning-scott-pruitt/index.html

[George II]

1. They should just cancel him, he simply doesn't fit in with the others at MSNBC.

[pbmus]

2. He doesn't fit with the American dream....

He fits with maga....which is a fallacy built on lies and hypocrisy...

[sandensea]

3. They fired Keith Olbermann and Marty Bashir for MUCH less than this.

Pathetic.

[Me.]

4. Indeed

[catbyte]

5. Hewitt is a vile POS who shouldn't be on MSNBC anyway. I always turn the channel when his

mouth starts yapping lies.

[samplegirl]

6. He needs to go

Everyone should email MSNBC!

[Gothmog]

7. Fire Hugh Hewlett

[RockRaven]

8. Pathetic tolerance of corruption and deceit.

Really what people look for in a crowded media landscape.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Fire the SoB

That grinning idiot adds nothing to the larger journalistic conversation.

[SharonAnn]

10. NIMBY. So he's ok with trashing the environment, just not in his backyard.

[Marie Marie]

11. What did they expect? This is how Fox News does business.

[WhiteTara]

12. and isn't it illegal to lobby without letting

the feds know you are a lobbyist?

[Major Nikon]

17. No. Anyone can lobby Congress on their own behalf

It’s a little different when you are getting paid to do it so there are different rules.

[WhiteTara]

20. he wasn't lobbying for himself and was getting paid

isn't that illegal?

[Major Nikon]

21. He was lobbying for himself and wasn't getting paid for the effort

It was completely a self-serving endeavor. In doing so he places no jeopardy upon himself as far as the government is concerned anymore than you would if you lobbied your own representatives. The problem he has is his employer has rules about such things because he is using his position to influence politics which attacks the credibility of the news organization.

[WhiteTara]

22. new rule

never answer a post before the first sip of coffee. I was thinking of the wrong person and then realized the discussion was about that ass hugh hewitt. Thanks for the answer and the polite explanation!

[Major Nikon]

23. And now it's time for some coffee porn

[WhiteTara]

24. Well, what a day. Thanks for the coffee

it was all I had all day. I'm having a cup of tea and sitting down for the first time today. Aah.

[BootinUp]

13. They should name the toxic waste site. Nt

[shanny]

14. Was it sternly-worded?

[ToxMarz]

16. Probably just a tounge wagging

[lillypaddle]

15. If we complain without letting MSNBC

know our disgust with this RWNJ, how will they get the word? I probably send them tweets at least once a week, but I don't know if anyone else is contacting them. Same with them having Scaramucci on.

We need to start making our voices heard in places other than DU, IMHO.

[louis c]

18. Why do we need to hear from Hugh Hewitt?

I have complained to MSNBC about Hewitt. Why does this right wing piece of shit have air time at this station?

I have been watching more and more of CNN. It's bad enough if I have to tolerate the right wing talking points from invited guests, but to host his own show is a bad idea.

If I want to hear the other opinion, I'll watch FOX (which I do, on occasion, to see what the other side is saying), but to listen to a host spray that bullshit on MSNBC is intolerable.

[Rene]

19. please just get rid of him....I can't stand listening to his perverse views...he's so wrong for msnb