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TRADE MAG ANALYZES FIRING OF MARC LAMONT HILL: Fox News' go-to Obama supporter axed after protests from activist shareholder.
According to Wallenstein, Hill was fired by Fox owner Rupert Murdoch himself during a shareholders meeting in response to a question from an activist shareholder.
"The question came from Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, which together with another conservative-leaning media watchdog, David Horowitz, had called on Fox News repeatedly from their respective blogs in recent weeks to dump Hill," wrote Wallenstein. "Ordinarily, these men were ardent supporters of Fox News, but Hill’s amply documented roots in radical leftist politics were too much for them to take.
"Nevertheless, their insistence on Hill’s ouster underscores a naivete about the true nature of his role at Fox News."
Wallenstein's piece continues:
It’s not difficult to understand what Hill’s detractors found so objectionable about him. He wasn’t exactly discreet about his sympathies for polarizing fringe figures such as Assata Shakur, a Black Panther activist who was convicted of murdering a police officer. Her face adorned the wallpaper on Hill’s Twitter page. More recently, he was on record criticizing President Barack Obama for not standing by Van Jones, a fellow radical expelled by the White House after Fox News exposed his own leftist credentials.
Once Jones’ past was uncovered, perhaps it was only a matter of time before Hill too was a goner. The black Columbia University professor was always an odd addition to the amen corner in rotation at Fox News, where he went toe to toe dozens of times with Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Greta Van Susteren.
Get MORE of this Hollywood Reporter story by Andrew Wallenstein, HERE.
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