Hugh Hewitt quits Washington Post after storming off live show with liberal columnists #shorts

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned from the Washington Post after he stormed off a livestreamed discussion on Friday amid a dispute with two of the newspaper’s liberal columnists that he called “the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of.”

Hewitt, a contributing columnist for the embattled Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet, appeared on a discussion with Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus previewing Tuesday’s election when the conversation turned to a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania, where a judge agreed to a request to extend in-person voting in Bucks County.

The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee successfully sought an extension of the deadline after several people who were on line for mail ballots were turned away after the 5 p.m. cutoff on Tuesday.

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[goodbooks]

Hugh Hewitt was the only one interested in reporting the facts. Please see the entire clip and you'll see what I mean. The other two are activists, not journalists.

[guymross]

You cut out the part where she was lying about the Pennsylvania election case!

[flatwater]

Hewitt called them both out for leaving out half of the facts of the story. Capehart doesn't like having his lies illuminated.

[nobodynobody]

He wasn't lecturing anyone. He literally stated that they were leaving out a huge portion of the story so they could make it fit their narrative. But liberals don't like the truth.

[bradbailey]

Go Hewitt! Capehart is a miserable, biased hack.

[BrianRocksNow]

More people should do this. Stop letting these propaganda orgs lie to us.

[ricfax]

Another fine example of why WAPO has no credibility.

[tommiller]

Washington Post reports liberal opinion, not both sides.

[davidosborn]

It's NOT a journalist job to tell me how to vote. Period. Telling unvetted lies

[Texsha]

Great job Hugh for standing up and proving your point with truth. Lady was lying based on her feelings. Media is worse in this day...these MSM needs to be boycotted

[parkerpkthn]

Weak minded liberal journalists. You do know that you just made it easy on Bezos to down size the paper's expenses. Bye bye...

[Yayahey]

Hugh is a jourbalist; Capeheart is a mouthpiece.

[EliteF]

Even better is that the connection with the liberal lady dropped and the loony host was left talking to himself. They had to end the segment, because they couldn't get her connection back.

[TheStanCountry]

Besides working for WaPo, Capeheart also works for NPR. Public funds should pay for the salary of a politically biased journalist. What's funny is after Hugh walks out and he started talking to Ruth the video froze and she got dropped off the call.

[KK-pmud]

Capehart is a clown. I hope PBS takes him off of the Newshour weekly segment.

[glennhubbard]

Jonathan, you need to be lectured on your half-truths and incendiary lies. 🤔

[Apexpurrfection]

Hewitt is about to have a hugh jump in his career. May he follow in the steps of heros before him, like Tucker.

[Milestonemonger]

There's news and there's opinion. Professional journalists should know the difference. Thank you, Hewitt 🇺🇲👏

[hcc]

Hugh's reaction was mine about 6 years ago.

[dudeleb]

It’s great to see a real journalist standing up against activists who call themselves journalists.
Journalism is a reputable job and shouldn’t be tarnished by those activists.