Radio Host Has Blunt Questions About Al Jazeera

Soledad O'Brien

Salem talker Hugh Hewitt had one question for Soledad O’Brien this week: Is she on the payroll of terror sponsors?

“Are you still a special correspondent for Al Jazeera?” Hewitt asked the veteran journalist on his radio program.

“I am,” O’Brien responded. “I run a production company, so I work with National Geographic, with Al Jazeera America, with CNN, with HBO, and a number of other companies.”

“Businessweek Today has a story on Qatar, which owns Al Jazeera, and the headline calls Qatar a patron of Islamists,” Hewitt continued. “It says that Qatar funds and arms Islamists fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad and bankrolling Hamas in the Gaza Strip. So honest question: How can you take money from them?”

According to TheBlaze, O’Brien responded by defending Al Jazeera’s reporting, saying that she puts quality journalism above all.

“I know that the journalism can be good,” Hewitt pressed, “but if the funding for the journalism comes from a regime that is funding ISIS, does it creep you out?”

She wouldn’t give a straight answer.