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The "conservative" Fox News Channel (FNC) has hired Marc Lamont Hill, a public supporter of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, as a paid "analyst" and "contributor." He has appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor," hosted by Bill O'Reilly, more often than other FNC programs.

A member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), a group that worked with the communist terrorist Weather Underground, Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, killed New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster "execution style" (web site) by shooting him in the head as he lay wounded by gunfire, according to the State Troopers Association of New Jersey. She was convicted of murder and went to prison but escaped to Cuba.

The Officer Down Memorial Page (web site) features a page in honor of Foerster. He was only 34 years old when he was killed. The killer is still "at large," being protected by Communist Cuba.

The decision to feature Hill as a paid FNC commentator has infuriated supporters of the police and law enforcement.

Hill, a fast-talking commentator, is described on his own website as someone who specializes in hip-hop culture and "started a literacy project that uses hip-hop culture to increase school engagement and reading skills among high school students." It also says that he works with the ACLU Drug Reform Project, "focusing on drug informant policy." The ACLU favors legalization of all drugs.

James Pera, a retired San Francisco Police Sergeant who saw first-hand the violence of the BLA and the Weather Underground, asked, "Why does O'Reilly pander to this tool of the left? I don't know. What I do know is that I am tired of hearing this bombastic blowhard continually calling people such as Hill 'a standup guy, for coming on the program.' Hill is not a standup guy. In my opinion, he is a left-wing radical, race-bating, white-hating propagandist."

This "stand-up guy" has a contract with Fox News Channel to provide left-wing commentary and serve as a punching bag for O'Reilly for a fee. Still, what did O'Reilly and the other FNC hosts, including conservative Sean Hannity, know about Hill's service to the ACLU and the far-left?

If they can bash the Obama Administration for not vetting left-wing radical Van Jones, shouldn't they explain how Marc Lamont Hill was hired and who hired him?

Larry Grathwohl, who had infiltrated the Weather Underground for the FBI and wrote the book, Bringing Down America, said, "I must wonder what background checks, if any, were conducted before allowing him to become a regular on the O'Reilly show. I find it absolutely unacceptable that someone so far to the left and so strongly anti-law enforcement could be given a position as a regular contributor on any Fox news program. This simply reinforces the belief on the part of many Americans today that ratings are more important than substance."

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