Mentioning The Keating 5 Is Considered "Rude" And Could Get Your Mic Cut

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Appearing Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, radio host Mike Papantonio tried to remind viewers about McCain's intervention with federal regulators on behalf of real estate mogul Charles Keating, who was trying to avoid regulations of a savings and loan he owned during the S&L crisis of the 1980s.

F&F's Steve Doocy told Papantonio to "pipe down," called him "rude" and demanded he "cut it out." A show producer could be overheard saying "cut his mike."

As Papantonio tries one last time to explain the details of the Keating Five scandal, Doocy again cuts him off.

"This is not the History Channel," he says.

Papantonio's apparent crime was interrupting fellow guest Michael Reagan, the conservative radio host, who was arguing that it would be unfair to judge McCain based on his actions 20 years ago.

"It has everything to do with what's happening today," Papantonio said before being told to pipe down.

Regardless of whether Papantonio was being rude, preserving an orderly debate certainly could not have been Doocy's goal in silencing the guest. Not two minutes before his admonition that Papantonio was "being rude," Doocy repeatedly interrupted his guest to deliver talking points that might as well have been written by the McCain campaign...

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when this shit gets pulled over and over. Watching that "interview" was pathetic. The other Michael person was cut off and interrupted repeatedly while Michael Reagan got to speak without interruption.

a few years ago that certain topics are actually FORBIDDEN for reporters. He brought up going indepth about BCCI and Kerry's work uncovering the global terror networks, and the NO came immediately from the managing editor. It could be mentioned only as a timeline reference but absolutely nothing beyond that.

S&L crisis, including Keating5, was uncovered during Kerry's efforts to investigate IranContra and BCCI and the criminal banking deals involved with those illegal operations.