FOX NEWS ON THE SPOT IN MARC LAMONT HILL SCANDAL

By Cliff Kincaid
October 21, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, used his company’s annual meeting on October 16 to announce the firing of Fox News contributor and O’Reilly Factor regular Marc Lamont Hill. This is the left-wing cop-killer apologist that we have written about for weeks. We called him the Van Jones of Fox News Channel. We said Fox News was as bad as Obama on the matter of background checks for their employees.

Interestingly, both Van Jones and Marc Lamont Hill are public supporters of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Both were also associated with the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress.

The announcement of Hill’s firing was made as I was questioning Murdoch about why Hill was hired in the first place. Hill’s support for cop-killers, had been highlighted on his own web pages. Hill had also spoken before a black communist group—something he had proudly listed in his official curriculum vitae.

Had Fox News examined any of this before hiring him?

If Fox News executives and personalities had done any elementary analysis, they might have discovered that back in 2007, he wrote an article, “Why I Support the Fairness Doctrine,â€