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>> joining me now with reaction is minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann is back. welcome back. >> always a pleasure. >> that was from september 17th of this year, interviewing minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann . 2 1/2 weeks after that same host donated $5,000 to michele bachmann 's political action campaign. mr. hannity 's donation was noted at the time. fox news executives responded by sell telling the st. paul pioneer press that mr. hannity would disclose his $5,000 donation to michele bachmann 's political action committee on the air to his viewers. >> thank you for taking time.hat the hos t would disclose on air when he interviewed her that he had made those donations to the political action committee , the host did not make that disclosure. he maxed out his personal political contribution to a republican new york state congressional candidate named john gomez. the host then interviewed mr. gomez in late september of this year. fox news hosts have also explicitly endorsed republican candidates, just from this election cycle. here's one. >> i stand proudly in kasich's corner with an endorsement as long as it doesn't hurt you. >> we want all the help you can give us, sean. >> the same fox news host is touted by the todd tiahrt for u.s. senate campaign. here's another explicit endorsement of a candidate named michael faulkner by the fox news host, mr. hannity . presumptive 2012 presidential candidate mike huckabee . he hosts a show, i think, on the weekends. besides being on fox, when is he not making explicit political endorsements, mr. huckabee, the fox news host is appearing at political fund-raisers for political candidates. fox news, republican fund-raiser, fox news, republican fund-raiser. same goes for fox news host sarah palin . she hosts a tv show called " real american stories." when she's not working as a host or doing her other tv show that's like a reality show , she is endorsing republican candidates. also headlining republican fund-raisers. fox news, republican fund-raiser, fox news, republican fund-raiser. it's what she does as a fox news host. here's the local press in cleveland, very excited about fox news host sean hannity headlining an expensive fund-raiser for john kasich . sometimes they hold the fund-raiser for republican candidates right on the air. >> how can i help you raise money ? >> well, people could go to michele bachmann .com. i need the help. >> it is a central race. 11 times, sean, they're coming after johnny kasich for 11 times they'll be on here. sunday night at 6:30 we're going to talk about the damage the obama agenda has done to us and if you have any extra nickels or dimes, please send it our way. kasichforohio.com. >> explain to people why we cannot afford to lose that race. >> also those nickels and dimes. in case it wasn't clear enough, this is from mr. hannity 's own website, his photo album . it brags that this is mr. hannity headlining a national republican congressional committee fund-raiser. that fund-raiser reportedly raised $7 million for republican house candidates. earlier this year that took place. mr. hannity raising money. $7 million in one uned if razor. $7 million. earlier this year. you may have heard today that my colleague and friend keith olbermann was temporarily suspended from his job hosting "countdown" because he made three personal political donations to candidates in this last election cycle. the reason that resulted in his suspension, there's an explicit employee rule against hosts making contributions. you can do it if you ask in advance and management tells you okay. that's what i understand happened with our morning show host's political donations in 2006 under previous management. if you don't ask in advance, you are bond by the rule. the rule applies to us hosts at msnbc and nbc news staff, cnbc is not under nbc news, so cnbc staffers are not bound by the same thing. i understand this rule. i understand what it means to break this rule. i believe everybody should face the same treatment under this rule. i also personally believe that the point has been made and we should have keith back hosting "countdown." here's the larger point, though. that's going mysteriously missing from all the right wing cackling and the beltway old media cluck cluck clucking about this. let this incident lay to rest forever the fassel never true any way, lazy conflation of fox news and what the rest of us do for a living. everybody likes to say that's cable news, mirror images each other. hosts on fox raise money on the air for republican candidates, endorse them explicitly, if you headline fund-raiser. if you count not just their hosts but their contributors you are looking at a significant portion of the whole lineup of republican presidential contenders for 2012 . they can do that because there's no rule against that as fox. they run as a political operation, we're not. keith is a liberal, so am i. there are other people on this network whose political views are shared openly with our viewers. we are not a political operation. fox is. we are a news operation. the rules around here are part how you know that. keith olbermann attracted the ire of the right wing and raged against what he saw as the errors and sins of the previous presidential administration. keith was also the one who brought to light fox news' water carrying role for the bush administration . he was one whose point of view johnalism put exclamation points on the news network model embraced by the guys across the street at fox. it is keith illustrating the difference between what we do here at
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