Marc Lamont Hill is described on his web site as “one of the leading hip-hop generation intellectuals.” He is an author and a professor at Columbia University. For the past few years he has also been a paid contributor at Fox News.
Hill’s appearances on Fox have been almost exclusively with Bill O’Reilly. He is actually one of the few foils who has demonstrated an ability to hold his own, to not get railroaded by O’Reilly, and to hold fast to true liberal arguments. In other words, he is no Juan Williams (aka Right-Wing Tool/Fool).
The news out of this morning’s annual meeting of News Corp shareholders is that Hill has been fired. This announcement came right from Murdoch himself. Murdoch was responding to a question about why he would employ a radical leftist defender of cop killers.
It appears that Hill was getting the Van Jones treatment and that Murdoch was as thin-skinned as President Obama. The question was presumably from Cliff Kincaid of the uber-rightist Accuracy in Media. Kincaid had issued a press release prior to the meeting announcing that he would be posing this challenge to Murdoch. Kincaid is so far to the right that he has railed against what he views as the “leftward drift” of both Matt Drudge and Fox News.
Well, now those drifting pinkos at Fox have set Prof. Hill adrift. They certainly couldn’t tolerate the presence of an intelligent, articulate, black man, spoiling the fun of the 24 hour Tea Party people at Fox. It will be interesting to see if O’Reilly has anything to say about the blackballing of one of his most frequent guests.
But Hill ought to have known better. He was crossing a river with a scorpion on his back. Did he think he would not get stung? Had he not taken the time to look around at the pathetic husks of Juan Williams, Kirsten Powers, Alan Colmes, or the rest of the limp losers who Fox allows to represent their version of the left? It was just a matter of time.
This is further evidence that it is a complete waste of breath to appear on Fox News. It only lends them credibility that they haven’t earned on their own. It permits the false claim of fairness and balance to persist. It boosts their ratings. The fireworks sparked by the conflict and manufactured debate is what Fox thrives on. I couldn’t be happier that Hill was fired. I hope that he’s learned something from the experience, and I hope that others take it as a warning.
No good can come from fraternizing with scorpions.
It would seem that Hill just couldn’t accept the fact that his left wing ideas on socialism and how to redistribute the wealth in the country didn’t get though. There are now more millionairs in the country that are Democrats than Republicans and he did not get this message out to the Fox media.
I think you mean Juan Williams, not Juan Gonzales.
Damn. Of course I do. Thanks.
I hope he shits in Juan Williams desk drawer before he leaves the office.
obviously, oreilly will not address this. as much as dr. hill appeared, and him and bill got along, he will just get replaced with an even weaker liberal who will get yelled over.
hill was disposed for the lack of need for total r edundancy. every lib has the same daily talking points talk to one avoid the redundency (and total waste of time hearing “the same old wh talking points over and over makes them no mroe believable) in fact the more they ty to make us irrelivant the more relevent i intend to become. that is my pledge i have no monetary interest in this i just want my old country back. if you’re old enouigh you remember
Correct. Fox News has no need for irrelevant liberal views cluttering up their 24/7 rightist blathering. They should eliminate all liberal commentators. Particularly the dark-skinned ones who are capable of challenging Fox’s moronic anchors.
Then you can have the fantasy of your old country back. It will be just the way you liked it back in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. Government was your protective daddy that you never questioned. Colored folks knew their place. And best of all, segregated schools, businesses, and communities.
Ahh, the good old days when racism was socially acceptable.
Right on, Mark! Well put.
Ahhh… Libs love playing the racist card.
When discussing some republicans it is not necessary to “play the racist card” because the republicans have been in the game since the “Southern Strategy.”
The country that the right wing wants back:
Abuse of a female spouse was considered a “family secret”
People naive’ enough to con into buying aluminum siding, because their home would have a picture in “Life” magazine’s home section or they would receive a “big” discount if the siding company could use their home for advertising
Lynchings were acceptable
One could drive drunk
When told to jump, the appropriate response was “how high”
“Loose lips sink ships”
Child abuse was common
Belief in American exceptionalism
Frozen dinners
America, love it or leave it
The Edsel
500hp engines – eight miles to the gallon
“Colored” people knew their place
Homosexuality was in the closet or violently punished
A woman’s place was in the home
Alcoholism was manly
Cigarettes were not toxic
Foreigners were inferior
Racism was common
Blind obedience to authority
Superstition was dominant
One did not have to be a “knowledge worker”
Alley abortions
Gambling was a sport
Cock fights, dog fights, and bull fights were underground
Bombing churches
Killing civil rights workers
The KKK and the Southern Confederate Conference
Conformist behavior
Vietnam
etc.
Haha… GC who in the hell let you get on the Internet in the mental hospital? It’s time to take your meds and go to sleep. Wow
Chasser22, so no real response then? Just personal insults?
I guess you like a stacked deck, makes life easier for you, less responsability just the way you like it.
He gets the response that he/she deserves. I honestly thought he was joking for a sec. Bull fighting, 500hp cars, child abuse was common. Really??
Child abuse common? Dunno ask the catholic church?
Maybe i have missed something over the last ten months or so…i hear about “wanting my country back” and “losing all our freedoms”…i really hadn’t realized that either had gone anywhere….i would have to ask a Chaser22 what freedom EXACTLY is it that you folks have lost, and where EXACTLY has your country gone?? Please spare us the usual mouth dribbling responses, and come up with something quite foreign to wing nuts, an actual answer….
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Mark Lamont Hill is brilliant and was needed on Fox to have a decent, objective conversation about political issues. The fact that he held his own when the deck was stacked against him speaks volumes about how articulate and informed he was. He is a shining star and hopefully we will be seeing more from him in the near future.