Ted Koppel Tells Sean Hannity He Is Bad For America TO HIS FACE| Ted Koppel DESTROYS Sean Hannity

Ted Koppel Tells Hannity He Is Bad For America TO HIS FACE| Ted Koppel DESTROYS Sean Hannity

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Ted Koppel Hannity. Ted Koppel Sean Hannity. Ted Koppel Sean Hannity bad for America. Ted Koppel on Sunday said he thinks Fox News host Sean Hannity is "bad for America." During a segment on CBS "Sunday Morning," Hannity defended himself and told Koppel the American people need to be given some credit. "We have to give some credit to the American people that they're somewhat intelligent and that they know the difference between an opinion show and a news show," Hannity said. "You're cynical," he added.

Koppel conceded he was cynical, to which Hannity responded:"Do you think we're bad for America? You think I'm bad for America?" "Yeah," Koppel responded. "In the long haul I think you and all these opinion shows" are. “No, you know why? Because you’re very good at what you do," Koppel said, adding, "You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.” Hannity is a strong supporter of President Trump and often defends the president's actions on his weeknight Fox News show. On Friday, Hannity denied the president was to blame for Republicans' failure to pass their plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

"After seven long years of Republicans promising to repeal and replace ObamaCare, not getting the job done is unacceptable," said Hannity. The comments came after Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the GOP healthcare bill amid dwindling support among Republicans, marking a major defeat for the president. "Let me be very clear here: This is not President Trump's failure," he added. "The president went above and beyond — did everything in his power — to get this bill across the finish line." CBS Sunday Morning today featured a piece from Ted Koppel on America’s serious divisions and a back-and-forth between Koppel and Fox News’s Sean Hannity on the subject. Koppel opened by talking about the “alternate universes” Americans are living in these days, running clips of people like Hannity, John Oliver, and Tomi Lahren in talking about the people who are “driving the country further and further apart.” Part of Koppel’s report focused on the rise of conservative media and the influence it’s played on the current state of American politics, citing Rush Limbaugh in particular. In the snippet of the interview that aired during the segment, Hannity told Koppel he needs to give the American people a little more credit––that they can distinguish between news and opinion programming.

Koppel offered Hannity a partial compliment by saying he’s very good at what he does, but added that he’s also “attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.” Koppel, who worked for ABC television news since 1963 and known for anchoring the daily "Nightline" program, spoke mostly on the decline in quality broadcast journalism since he retired in 2005. "Cronkite and his many peers, I among them, were proud of having detailed news reporting of both national and international events on the nightly news broadcasts. The news was reported without a filtered bias. When there were opinion segments, it was designated as such on the broadcasts," said the 77-year-old Koppel. Koppel cited a decline in quality of reporting from Israel, when he was asked about comparisons of coverage of Israel on television now compared to past decades in the question and answer session. "The networks no longer see profit in having news bureaus in Cairo, Tel Aviv and other international cities, so there are no longer reporters with expertise in Israel and Middle East issues as there was in the past."

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