WATCH: Columnist For The Washington Post Quits During Live Interview

Hugh Hewitt, a columnist for The Washington Post, quit the newspaper on Friday, leaving a live interview with two of the publication’s liberal columnists.

The confrontation began when columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus directed the conversation to claims that President Trump was “laying the groundwork” for contesting the election.

Hewitt immediately disputed the claims.

“Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home,” Hewitt said.

“We are news people, even though we have opinions, and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,” he continued.

“So, yes, he’s upset about Bucks County. But he was right and he won in court. That’s the story,” he added.

“I don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when, Hugh, many times you come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact,” Capehart responded.

“I won’t come back, Jonathan, I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of,” Hewitt said.

WATCH:

NEW: Political pundit Hugh Hewitt stands up and leaves a WaPo live interview after host Jonathan Capehart & ‘journalist’ Ruth Marcus started spreading left-wing propaganda.

Capehart and Marcus condemned Trump for claiming cheating was taking place in PA.

Hewitt fired back by… pic.twitter.com/Zx26OYziK5

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 1, 2024

Hewitt told Fox News Digital he quit the newspaper.

Per Fox News:

Hewitt, a conservative who hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, had been a contributing columnist for the newspaper since 2017 and has written hundreds of pieces.

“I have in fact quit the Post but I was only writing a column for them every six weeks or so,” Hewitt told Fox News Digital, adding he’d recently offered to write another pro-Trump column for the paper ahead of the election. He informed editorial page editor David Shipley on Friday morning.

His last piece was published on Tuesday, where he called on the MAGA movement to evolve if Trump was elected president again. He was a rare pro-Trump voice at the liberal outlet, whose opinion roster and editorial board lean sharply to the left, but his pieces touched on a wide variety of topics.

Hewitt quit after a clip of him went viral earlier on Friday when he walked off the Washington Post’s online show, “First Look,” with liberal columnists Jonathan Capehart and Ruth Marcus on its “Washington Post Live” platform. It came during a discussion of former President Trump’s rhetoric around election integrity.

Hugh Hewitt quits Washington Post after storming off live stream talk over dispute with liberal columnists: ‘I won’t come back’ https://t.co/g87fSiUdfZ pic.twitter.com/N8fNj47FZ5

— New York Post (@nypost) November 1, 2024

From the New York Post:

Conservative media luminaries lauded the veteran radio host and pundit for standing up to Capehart’s badgering.

“BRAVO @hughhewitt! Factual, sober, brave and appropriately FED UP with these left-wing hacks posing as journalists,” beamed fellow conservative radio host Megyn Kelly.

The testy exchange comes amid upheaval at the Washington Post over Bezos’ decision not to allow the editorial board to print an endorsement for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Bezos warned in an Oct. 28 op-ed that the paper’s staff had been “increasingly” willing to “talk only to a certain elite,” rather than the broader American public.

“More and more, we talk to ourselves,” Bezos wrote. “It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.”

The anger over Bezos’ decision led to resignations at the newspaper. It’s been reported that 250,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions in protest.

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