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What do Lindsay Lohan and Hugh Hewitt Have in Common?

Posted by Gustavo Arellano in Hugh Hewitt Watch

May 12, 2008 1:15 PM

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lindsay-lohan-mug-shot-01.jpgAlthough we're no fans of local talk show host Hugh Hewitt, we couldn't help but to feel a twinge of sympathy for the man, who's also a professor of law at Chapman University. The latest edition of the school's Chapman Magaine has a mini-profile on Hewie, whom you can listen to every weekday at 3pm on KRLA-AM 870. In the story, Hugh tells the magazine that the reason his show succeeds is because he respects his audience. "It doesn't have to be about celebrity or salaciousness," Hewitt states, and his show--which frequently features Chapman Law dean John Eastman and new UC Irvine dean Erwin Chemerinsky--does stay away from tawdriness.

Not so much Chapman Magazine, though: just eight pages after Hewitt's profile, a brief, breathy item about Lindsay Lohan attending a lacrosse match at Chapman. "As word spread across the campus by cell phone and text-message," the absolutely pointless dispatch enthused, "scores of students, gawkers and hangers-on flooded to the game to try to catch a glimpse of the starlet." To add insult to Hugh's insight, the magazine placed the Lohan item next to a review of Salman Rushdie's March 31 appearance at the ever-growing Orange school. Is Chapman really that lame of a school that it wasted valuable space on Lohan? Considering the school's longtime Chairman of the Board of Trustees was OC GOP slumlord George Argyros and it granted yours truly a diploma in 2001, the answer is yes!

 

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  1. qdpsteve says:
    May 12, 2008 20:09

    Good stuff Gustavo. This gabacho likes you better when you at least try to be fair, self-effacing and nonpartisan.

    Also don't forget: for all his hackishness, Mr. Hewitt supported the liberal Chemerinsky when it looked (last fall, I believe) like Erwin was about to be unfairly blackballed from getting the dean post at UCI.

  2. Gustavo Arellano says:
    May 12, 2008 22:49

    Qdpsteve: Gracias for the kind words, but I'm always non-partisan and fair. I just don't like hacks, whether on the Left or Right. I do think Hugh is by far the most intellectual talk host out there (only Larry Mantle is smarter, IMHO), but he usually throws it away with his partisanship (witness his flip-flop from Romney to McCain). But when Hewie does good, I praise--click on the Hugh Hewitt Watch sub-category and read my love letter to him after he ripped apart LA Times columnist Joel Stein.

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