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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:21 PM Feb 2018

Hannity Removes Post Alleging Secret Sperm Images Hidden In Obama Portrait

By Matt Shuham | February 13, 2018 3:06 pm

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday removed an article from his radio show’s website that claimed the official portrait of former President Barack Obama contained secret images of sperm.

“Controversy surrounding Kehinde Wiley’s wildly non-traditional portrait of the Commander-in-Chief broke out within minutes of its unveiling,” the article, written by “Hannity staff” asserted, “with industry insiders claiming the artist secretly inserted his trademark technique -concealing images of sperm within his paintings.”

An archived version of the post can be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180213185221/https://www.hannity.com/media-room/portrait-perversion-obama-portrait-features-secret-sperm-artist-joked-about-killing-whitey/

The article included an excerpt from a 2008 New York Times profile, which claimed of Wiley: “His portraits initially depicted African-American men against rich textile or wallpaper backgrounds whose patterns he has likened to abstractions of sperm.”

more
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hannity-removes-post-alleging-secret-sperm-images-hidden-in-obama-portrait

more here, too:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210225081

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Hannity Removes Post Alleging Secret Sperm Images Hidden In Obama Portrait (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
Is this the sort of thing that keeps you awake at night, Shammity? Cirque du So-What Feb 2018 #1
But the big question is, did that sperm come from the Comet Ping Pong Pizza place? Canoe52 Feb 2018 #2
can PBO sue him? samnsara Feb 2018 #3
For what? Abject stupidity? nt B2G Feb 2018 #6
Whatever for? The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #11
Desperate, but not serious! chuckstevens Feb 2018 #4
Hannity the SPERM HUNTER Angry Dragon Feb 2018 #5
Fox News has a new realty show 'Hannity The Sperm Hunter'. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2018 #8
You just can't make this shit up TexasBushwhacker Feb 2018 #7
LOL. A friend at the Onion tells me the same thing. eom DonViejo Feb 2018 #10
It's the biggest scandal since Watergate! yellowcanine Feb 2018 #9
You mean he ....scrubbed it? underpants Feb 2018 #12
Pareidolia is where you see faces in things; what is it called when you see sperm? alarimer Feb 2018 #13
Of course there are sperm hidden there. And Croney Feb 2018 #14
So now Hannity is doing a sci-fi show? world wide wally Feb 2018 #15
Sean yanked his post? edbermac Feb 2018 #16
He took time out from yanking Trump. (nm) Elwood P Dowd Feb 2018 #17
This ... HAS ... to be the Onion or New Yorker ... jus lie to me this time uponit7771 Feb 2018 #18
I keep re-reading this post. Can't help OldHippieChick Feb 2018 #19

Cirque du So-What

(29,889 posts)
1. Is this the sort of thing that keeps you awake at night, Shammity?
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:24 PM
Feb 2018

When these li'l scamps put their heads together, there's no telling what they'll fantasize about.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,453 posts)
8. Fox News has a new realty show 'Hannity The Sperm Hunter'.
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:34 PM
Feb 2018

This week Sperm Hunter Hannity wades through the Deep State Swamp in search of giant Obama Sperm.

TexasBushwhacker

(21,289 posts)
7. You just can't make this shit up
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:30 PM
Feb 2018

Half the time I read something about the GOP I think it's coming from The Onion.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
13. Pareidolia is where you see faces in things; what is it called when you see sperm?
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:43 PM
Feb 2018

I mean, I guess any sort of squiggle can be likened to sperm, but that doesn't mean it's intentional.

Croney

(5,020 posts)
14. Of course there are sperm hidden there. And
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 04:47 PM
Feb 2018

there are also eggs. Brightly colored ones. And a giant bunny came in the night and deposited them all, so that the sperm and eggs could unite to create little tiny-handed orange creatures that scurry under furniture when the light comes on.

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
19. I keep re-reading this post. Can't help
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 05:41 PM
Feb 2018

myself as this is the best laugh I've had in a few days.

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