Page To Hannity: 'You Have Been The Edward R. Murrow' Of Russia Probe

[DonViejo]

By Nicole Lafond | February 27, 2018 8:10 am

Former President Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page compared Fox News host Sean Hannity to the world renowned radio journalist Edward R. Murrow, who gained prominence for his coverage of World War II and helped end the anti-communist persecutions led by former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) in the 1950s.

During an interview with Hannity on Monday evening, Page thanked the Fox News host for his diligence in getting “to the bottom of things” surrounding the coverage of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“I have to thank you because you have been the Edward R. Murrow of this whole process,” Page said. “It’s been so completely out of control going back really a year and a half now. So your and your team, they used to call it the Murrow boys. Your team with Gregg (Jarrett) and Sarah (Carter) and everyone, to dig through and actually get to the bottom of things, I mean there is a lot of people — appreciate that.”

Murrow was one of the only journalists who covered McCarthy’s investigation into alleged communist activity within the State Department in the 1950s and who consistently questioned McCarthy’s anticommunist crusade, later known as “McCarthyism.” Many on the left called McCarthy’s probe a witch hunt that ultimately damaged the civil liberties and careers of intellectuals and artists, similar to the wording Trump uses to describe the Russia investigation.

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[Bettie]

1. Hannity is LITERALLY the farthest thing from Edward R. Murrow

that it is possible to be.

Even suggesting that he is in any way similar to Murrow is insulting to the man's memory.

[Stallion]

8. ...and Mueller is the Farthest Thing from Joseph Mccarthy

no public bombastic witch-hunt by a demagogue- simply an no-nonsense investigator doing his job with essentially no public comment

[Bettie]

9. Also true

thanks for pointing that out!

[underpants]

2. LMFAO. Carter Page makes Jr. look smart.

can't come up with any other comment.

[spanone]

3. i saw a clip of that interview...it was like saturday night live...

hannity would pitch soft ball over the center of the plate and page would hit a home run...

just red meat for the deplorables

hannity is the fourth stooge

[Paladin]

4. And trump is the second coming of Abraham Lincoln.

Honest to God, who takes ANYTHING Carter Page says seriously, anymore?

[unc70]

5. Saw Carter Page on CNN this morning

Page was his normal weird self, denying everything. I realized he reminds me of the SNL tobacco spokesman.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I think he meant the "Baghdad Bob" of modern journalism...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. BREAKING NEWS: Wacko talks to Doucheface.

Details at Eleven.

[Vinca]

10. The sound you hear is Edward R. Murrow spinning in his grave.

[grantcart]

11. Page strikes me as the Rudolph Hess of the Russian probe

[malaise]

12. Classic inversion of reality

Funny how RW morons love stealing liberals for their causes.