First Reports Are Rarely Right, But Sometimes Are
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Salem Podcast Network
4.4 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hugh explains how yesterday’s report on the IDF in Gaza was wrong…and how yesterday’s reports on the whacky DNC in Minneapolis was on the mark. Plus Bret Baier, Byron York, David Drucker, Admiral Mark Montgomery (USN, Ret), Bethany Mandel, and Lileks.
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| 0:50.1 | I'm Hugh Hewitt. |
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| 0:53.2 | I got to tell you, there's an old saw in my business. |
| 0:56.4 | First reports are usually wrong. |
| 0:59.6 | The qualifier is sometimes they're not, but they're usually wrong. |
| 1:03.4 | I have an example of both when they're wrong, or at best incomplete, and one when they're right. |
| 1:10.5 | I want to share them both in this segment. |
| 1:12.6 | First report yesterday I reported that the Israeli defense forces |
| 1:16.5 | had struck the Nassar Hotel in Gaza, Nassar Hospital in Gaza, |
| 1:22.2 | with 20 fatalities. |
| 1:24.5 | And that was correct. |
| 1:27.0 | What we have learned upon further review is that, well, I'll |
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