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From HuffingtonPost.com:

Last week HuffPost reported that liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill had been fired. The news was announced by News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch during a shareholders meeting after Murdoch was asked about Hill’s “reputation of defending cop killers and racists.”

There has been some speculation about why exactly Hill was let go — including, it turns out, from Hill himself. During an interview with conservative radio host Steve Malzberg, Hill revealed not only that he had no information on why he’d been fired, but that he’d learned of the news from a Google alert (h/t Think Progress).

HILL: Yeah I mean it’s an interesting thing. I wish I could give you a great deal of information that I don’t have a lot of information because I wasn’t given a lot of information. To date, Fox News Channel hasn’t given me any information as to why. … I’m just a little puzzled. [...]
MALZBERG: First of all, you told me you found out when you got a Google alert, so I mean, did anybody eventually call you from Fox and tell you that you were fired?

HILL: Yeah I eventually – I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on. … I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information. … I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone.

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Fox News Fires Liberal Black Analyst, [Updated 10.16.09 at 5:14 p.m.]

Well Fox News has fired Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, the only Black analyst who offered a balance to Fox’s overwhelmingly conservative staff.

From The Huffington Post

Liberal Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Lamont Hill has been fired, News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch revealed at a shareholder’s meeting Friday.

Murdoch made the announcement after being asked about Hill’s “reputation of defending cop killers and racists.”

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Well now all they have is Uncle Ruckus like lackies who subscribe to their racist, Republican views.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    I didn’t even know that he was hired

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mukhtaar/ mukhtaar

    I wonder if FOX let him use their bathroom :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    The only effective way fools like Hannity and O’Reilly could deal with him was to continuously cut him off…I’m surprised he lasted as long as he did. This dude was brilliant, unwavering, and could not be matched intellectually or intelligently. (I know that might not sound like much when you’re up against Sean Hannity and BIll O’OReilly) Whenever I saw him, it was always more dealing with Black issues more so than politics. Trust me when I tell you, he defended us quite well. For anyone not familiar, I urge you to search for him on YouTube!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    They got rid of Alan Combs also…he was one of the only liberal comentators on Fox. now I guess they have no one, not a good look if your trying to attract minorities. And lets be honest Republicans will not win 2012 without us…Latinos as a group will not surpass white people untill 2050. We are the biggest legal voting block as far as minorities go.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @Gods-chosenman…I read (I honestly can’t remember the source) that Combs wasn’t even actually a Liberal, but literally played on TV. It was all an act to give the appearance of “fair and balance” reporting. That’s why they both got along so well…Do you think a REAL liberal could have worked so harmoniously with Sean Hannity?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    yeah I really liked him…He gave a conservative black view point. Im sorry I meant he was liberal in the sense that he wasnt a race baiter or hate monger like Hannity, Limbaugh or Anne Coulter (who was the worst by far) remember when she said we should bomb the middle east and convert Muslims to Christianity through force.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    She is so stupid to me, that I always end up feeling sorry for her, rather than being upset by her…The thing is though, with TV, the more shocking you are, the more money you can make, so you never really know how real these people are!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI8vsN3wwp4

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    @A, Yes I do believe that Alan Combs is a liberal. I listen to his radio program every night. He’s always defending blacks and other minorities on his talk show and defending President Obama’s Policies. I Believe He got so fed up with hannity and getting cut from screen time that he quit. He does have his own radio talkshow and Alan Combs is even more liberal than most. here is some material from his talk show…I think they made him seem fair because they probably cut alot of his comments. The funny thing is Fox still owns his radio show…I guess they wanted to hide him.

    Alan colmes radio show…great stuff…very liberal.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiVQC8R9vZk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    God’s Chosen. I will be the first to admit, that i’m not that familiar with most of these pundits. In my opinion, they are 95% entertainment 4% shock value and 1% substance. I just did some quick research on him, and apparently he does consider himself a Liberal, but there was an article written about him in USA Today where he called himself a “moderate” which had some of his Liberal cronies claiming he is not a true Liberal. I will take your word for it on this one!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/WestsideCartelAtl85/ WestsideCartelAtl85

    I’m not suprised. They had to drop the token like a bad habit. He’ll bounce back somewhere.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    NOTHING COMPARES TO WHEN KRS ONE HANDED SEAN HANNITY HIS OWN A$$ ON A PLATTER… LMAO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kountry_Mayne/ Kountry_Mayne

    fox is a racist network.. hell i dont even watch tv anymore.. ima stop buying cable. im boycottin all that s**t

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    theres more brothers like that in the streets,selling thier soul for a couple dollars.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Damn IDK he even existed. And Combs is more of a moderate really.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    Most liberals are moderate to a certain extent…I think we tend to identify liberals as left wing nuts when thats not the case at all. there are fanatics on every side. But I would say that Alan Colmes is a true blue liberal. He’s for universal healthcare, He believes that the Gov. should have a bigger role in the country. He believes that we must save the environment. He’s for seperation of church and state. he’s for abortion. and he doesnt believe in conspiracy theories…sounds like a liberal to me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    @Stan_Vinyl I watched that with KRS-One the funny thing is that they had Nelly playing in the background. You gotta give it up to Fox for researching his beef and using it as a subliminal diss lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_Spann/ Mr_Spann

    I guess their resident Racist in Blackface Charles Payne will start to get more shine on that network now.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stan_Vinyl/ Stan_Vinyl

    @Sub-Negro, *crackin up* I didn’t even think about that part… that’s crazy! LOL!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4_sa-kin/ 4_sa-kin

    Well fox news isn’t exactly negro friendly maybe they where over their black quota so they had to get rid of the one that didn’t play ball.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    I wonder if they gonna fire juan williams Michael steel and that punk azz real life uncle rukus ppastor i believe his name is patterson

    Phuk fox Jews i mean News

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Phuk alan combs he is the worst kind of kkkracka a so called good peckerwood is the one that will lead the blind sheep to the slaughter house

    Combs need his head chopped off right along side oreilly and shon hannity

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/slit_lcka005/ slit_lcka005

    maatra you’re obviously living a sheltered life. O’Reilly is one of the few conservatives on FOX to defend Obama, but because of what you heard someone else say he has to get his heaf chopped off!? WTF!? put down the 40 oz and actually listen to him and you might change your silly, and uninformed opinion…clown. And FOX was right, Dr Hill had a bad habit of trying to defend the indefensible.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Shut yo bytch azz up slitlka you just a whyte mans bytch! I see y sistas hav it so hard cuz too many of u nagas are so weak.

    Phuk obama he aint doin shyt fo nobody but rich kkkrackas

    Obama talks about maintaing the white christian male WHITE POWER structure wit mccain but wen RBG red black and green talk about black power supremecy u weak azz nagas loose yall minds

    I feel so sorry for the sistas cuz she got so hard wen it comes to finding a strong black man

    U need yo head chopped off.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    My bad that oreily who talks about maintaing whyte power

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    Maatra…your really embarrassing yourself. Your grammer is almost as sloppy as your logic. The sad thing is your like 45. Come on man get a grip…why even post at all, Do us all the favor of never posting again. Why would you talk bad about Jews when Jews are one of the only races who have an understanding of black issues. and sympathize because we have been discriminated against. Your a discredit to your race…please for the future of black people dont contaminate the gene pool.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    Phuk u too gods chosen man this aint my language so i aint gone try to perfect it

    George g m james said it was common practice for the greeks to HELLANIZE egyptian words. So u mophukas glorifying a devils language

    Phuk yo president god. Thats y you pissed. Cuz the naga keep givn u a extension on yo ubemployment u think hes the greatest.

    Like i said sistas good luck on these weak azz nagas.

    And i just read slit lcks page and i was right he cant find a good woman cuz they know he is a weak azz naga. A whyte mans bytch

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    And gods chosen whyte ppl aint even real jews they so called jews the real jews are black called the falashia in ethiopia

    Read secret relationships between black and jews.

    The so called jew was the number one slave owner. He the one that had all the money to buy the ships and kidnapped africans

    U nagas dont know shyt. And imma have to stop callin yall NAGAS dont deserve that title

    Yall are NEGROPEANS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    And sistas gods chosen will defend the JEWS but wil never ever defend you

    The classify his self as black/african american/lationo/white. Then got purtorican for ethnicity. This negropean and worth yall time sistas. He will go out his way to get him a white woman before he even considern lookn at you

    And them military negropeans really phuked up they aint got a mind of they own

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    Murdoch made the announcement after being asked about Hill’s “reputation of defending cop killers and racists.”
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    I guess it would have been okay to defend killer-cops but NOT cop-killers???

    then again, any NAGA with 2 brain cells knows that you when you tell the truth, you shame the devil…..and the devil’s ego dont like that.

    they did it to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
    they did it to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz fka Malcolm X

    hell even YOUR boy, United States Inc’s CEO Barack Obama left his own pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright hangin in the cold when he kept it a little TOO real for them…..

    I dont take Fox news serious anyway….. hell 95% of these negroes on TV are sucking dick….keep it funky!!

    hollywood is full of well paid, well trained and well tamed slaves….

    MaatRa….good points !!!

    JazzPast said@ “theres more brothers like that in the streets,selling thier soul for a couple dollars.”

    touche’ !!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/d1blackmogul/ d1blackmogul

    I’m not surprised. Dr. Hill was as out of place on FOX as Glenn Beck was on CNN. Well, maybe CNN will give Beck’s old spot to Hill. Hill’s philosophy is more appropriate and matching to CNN.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    slit_Icka005 YOU HAVE NEVER IN YOUR LIFE heard O’Reilly defend Obama…If so, show and prove it!! O’reilly has railed against Obama at every turn…Go look at the interview he had with him. It was very contentious, which is typical of all interviews he conducts with Liberals. Go look at O’Reilly’s visit to Letterman. Its clear you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about with that statement.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    O’Reilly did defended Obama well sort of. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-defends-obama-nobel-peace-prize-then-calls-it-a-charade/

    I mean what do expect out of this guy. Take this and be happy lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @Sub…Thanks for that vid..I have to say this. This is what I got from O’reilly. He is more happy about the impression this prize gives off than Obama winning it. If you listen to him carefully, he is all about having the world “think” we are a peaceful nation, who “wants to give peace a chance”. Be clear, Bill O’Reilly is no friend to Obama, (and that’s cool with me) and I personally don’t look at that as him defending him, especially at the end when he calls the Nobel committee members a bunch of dopes…At best, its a back handed compliment!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    maatra u made some good points about fox news their so called journalists and obama. nobody should take fox news as a legitimate source of information.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mastermind_919/ Mastermind_919

    This is too bad. The Doctor regularly handed Bill O’Reilly his butt in debate. Its too bad that the mass media, not just Fox, but the mass media in general seems to be eliminating people that don’t share that networks particular ideological views. These networks are propaganda machines, and when you get someone in there that makes a strong counter argument against the message that media outlet is trying to convey, its only a matter of time. Look at Hannity & Coombs. That used to be a 50/50 show, which was its appeal, but when Fox News as a network went far right (which I still don’t understand as Fox Broadcasting puts on a bunch of liberal cartoons) they kept Coombs around for Hannity to beat up (like it was a cartoon) then finally gave him the pink slip. Cable news IS entertainment, it is not news. It is entertainment on current events, just not as entertaining as SNL. Turn off the TV folks! Its only mission is to subvert your brain’s alpha waves and do your thinking for you. Uber dangerous particularly for the black community, look at BET! Got 5 year olds dropping it likes its hott. Wake up, black people!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2good2bsingle/ 2good2bsingle

    MasterMind_919 is obviously another well-informed and educated brotha who knows and, like I, is telling our people that (like Westley Snipes aka ‘Blade’ said in part 1) “The world YOU know is just a sugar-coated topping! There is ANOTHER world BENEATH it!” Wake up, people! ;-)

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Yeah and Fox always seem loud and over the top. I’m sure they have high ratings though. There is never a dull moment on Fox and I be watchin CNN and be like man they don’t have that LOUD factor on Fox. But yeah they did Marc wrong I mean if you gonna fire the nigga do it 1 on 1 or something.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bmccrack/ bmccrack

    I feel a boycott of Fox coming on, boycott FOX!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    how are you going boycott Fox when we cant even boycott WALMART.The biggest profitable exploiting company in the world.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kejbe/ Kejbe

    Fox News is already boycotted, but there are a lot of people who share their views, therefore they are the ones who help to keep that network afloat. Although many advertisers pulled their ads from the likes of Glen Beck, he is still making out landish remarks. The latest and yet stupid one is that President Obama is going to know where you are if you onw a GMC made vehicle with on-star.
    I wonder is he now the pill-popper who is following in the shadow of hsi hero Rush Limbaugh?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    That’s some cold blooded shyt!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/svf67/ svf67

    I can’t stomach viewing FOX NEWS at all. Fair and balanced???? what a joke that is. More likely than not anything that is aired on that channel is going to appeal to the ultra conservative viewer. I don’t waste time looking at the channel EVER. It’s more of the same thing day in, day out. And since Obama has taken office it has gotten increasingly worse. I am finding these days that mainstream media in general are more into sensationalism than they are anything else. People like Beck, Limbaugh, etc. have nothing else better to do than to inject into people’s minds the negative. I can’t and won’t listen, watch, or support them. See, in watching the channel you help to sustain their ratings. I’d rather not participate in my own destruction.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/stephenfrazier/ stephenfrazier

    This whole discussion proves that you can tell some folks ANYTHING and they will buy it without so much as a cursory investigation of the facts. Remember “Willie Lynch”? How about the one where the radio talk show host said blacks can’t think? Or Twana Brawley?

    I wonder how many of the indignant posters who are hot to boycott Fox or chanting “I hate Fox but I have never watched”. now THERE’S a REAL genius!

    Now, this whole story may be as true as a sunrise, but I personally find it VERY odd that the story has yet to appear on ANY credible news show, opinion or otherwise. BP has run this thing a couple of times and have not given any information except original reports from Huffington Post, Think Progress and other liberal blogs, all with an axe to grind.

    The whiners all complain that Fox is “unfair and unbalanced”, yet their faves have ignored the story. Maybe Fox IS not fair and balanced, but at least they are COMPLETE. They report issues that the fringe media ignores (ACORN, SEIU, Tea Parties, Protests on the mall, Town hall, Jeremiah Wright, etc). Fox is also the only network that has liberals AND conservatives in prominent positions on air.

    If Fox DID fire Hill, and are not reporting it as they well should have, then I criticize them as well as I do Charlie Gibson, who declared he didn’t KNOW about the mess at ACORN.

    But for MY money, I will withold judgment until I can get the information from someone who is credible. That’s gonna be hard to do, but I wonder what it will be like IF it turns out that the whole story is a HOAX or that Hill was fired for IMPROPER CONDUCT.

    But, hey… I guess on some venues, truth is not as relevant as noise.

    P.S. One reason Fox has “gotten worse” since Obama took office is because things has gotten worse all over since that day. News is news. The one problem with us now is the fact that we can’t tolerate dissent, which is why the media doesn’t report it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/arozendaghetto/ arozendaghetto

    LMBO!!! First of all, I am surprised Marc Lamont Hill lasted on Fox for THAT long! Second, I don’t know why would Dr. Hill or the one or two other Black correspondents pick Fox to discuss news on air in the first place. Now, if Dr. Hill was some leggy buxom chick who look like Beyonce in the face, then he would still have a job on there. If not for Bill O’Reilly, Hannity would gladly take him in. Look at all the “Barker Beauties” Hannity got on his show.

    Think about it Dr. Hill, Juan Williams is still on Fox for as long as he is BECAUSE he keeps himself on the same side as his “superiors” (i.e. O’Reilly, Beck, Limbaugh, etc.). House negro Michael Steele’s working hard at cracking that whip on every Black political and social figure just so he can keep his job. I tell you, Steele’s the hardest working sellout on Capital Hill. Don’t believe me? Look at all those shoes he shined to get to where he is.

    Bill O’Reilly is a known jerk. He NEVER lets anyone talk on his show. He’s cruelly condescending to every Black guest on the show. And, there are one or two rare occasions where I actually heard Bill O’Reilly address Marc Lamont Hill as “Boy” instead of by his formal name. Yes, O’Reilly pulls out that cone hoodie he keeps under his news desk every now and then.
    I actually watched the segments where Dr. Hill participated in a panel discussion on the O’Reilly Factor. The man is EXTREMELY educated. He has a PHD AND he is a professor! He is every racist conservative newscaster’s nightmare! Sure O’Reilly was kidding around with him every now and then to make Dr. Hill “think” O’Reilly and his racist entourage (minus the Uncle Ben Juan Willams) are “down with him”. But behind his back O’Reilly and his crew were scheming to get rid of him as soon as they could.

    I laughed at the story at first because of the trifling absurdity of the whole thing! What happened to Dr. Hill also happens in Corporate America as well. These type of conservative white folks live to belittle even the slightest intelligent Black person in these lines of work. The fact that they were too coward to inform Dr. Hill that he was fired to his face was nothing short of unprofessional and simply dumb. The man had to learn of his firing through Google? If I was Dr. Hill I’d sue Fox. In fact, every Black guest who ever appeared on O’Reilly’s show, Hannity, Beck should slap a class action civil suit on the clowns in addition to the network. Let them Google that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Refreshingone/ Refreshingone

    Dr Hill you know that fox is racist hates everything of color….why does this suprise you????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LuvWyteF_TheyHateMe/ LuvWyteF_TheyHateMe

    I agree with every word Arozendaghetto said below. Juan Williams will be there a lifetime since he is well polished at licking O’Reilly’s and Hannity’s shoes.

    I also was surprised Dr. Hill lasted that long on FOX NOISE CHANNEL.
    I work in the corporate world myself, with much less credentials then Dr. Hill, and I can tell you for a fact, they are scared of an intellectual black man who knows how to carry himself and defend himself well with words.

    When I was younger, I have also been fired by mailed letter and e-mail, to avoid in-person contact.

    They are really really scared of a BlackPlanet. But that foot-shufflin’ Alan Keyes is still looking for cotton to pick to make his massa Rupert Murdoch happy.

    I just hate a house-nicca!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LuvWyteF_TheyHateMe/ LuvWyteF_TheyHateMe

    to Stephen Frazier comment’s below. To assume because we are Black that we have not done our due diligence and actually watched that Bubblegum wrapper network disguised as “news” before making opinions shows you know nothing about black culture.

    Blacks fear nothing and NO ONE. I watch it once a week and try to watch at least one Circus of Hannity or O’Reilly for a laugh or two, before my ulcers start to boil up and I have to turn the channel to settle myself down with a dose of reality from a show like Family Guy, which has far more educational value than their morning show.

    Most blacks dont like Fox, but I’m sure its because we all wanted to see what the Devil was saying.

    It’s just convenient for you (and other right-wing nuts) to assume most of us have never watched Fox before developing our own opinions about that network. Which also shows your logic is lazy and opportunistic. We dont dislike Fox just because we are African-Americans and they espouse a polotical philosophy that champions hatred & disinformation, and peddles fear and bigotry.

    We dislike it because we have watched Fox, and we see it for what it is.

    Period.

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