"We try our best to respect the game and showcase and display it in a fashion that might be a little bit more appetizing for a different group of people that are watching alongside the best play commentators on Earth."
In a series of tweets Monday, Hewitt said reporting from several outlets offered potential "alternatives" to McCarthy in part because they "love narratives of GOP in chaos".
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