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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Hannity Has Full-On Meltdown Over Criticism Of Fox News Coronavirus Coverage
The Hannity host, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, said in a lengthy rant that he was thinking of suing the media mob and again accused journalists of playing politics and of using the public health crisis to bludgeon the president politically.
Hannity, who downplayed the threat of the virus for weeks, reserved particular scorn for New York Times opinion writer Kara Swisher, describing her as a far-left media mob maniac after she blamed the networks reporting for her elderly mothers apparent lack of concern about the outbreak.
Well, it sometimes feels like Fox News is eating my mothers brain, Swisher wrote this week in a searing column she directed at Hannity.
Hannity continued his meltdown by attacking The Washington Posts media critic Erik Wemple, calling him Eric Pimple over a column calling for Hannity to be fired.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/fox-news-sean-hannity-meltdown-coronavirus-091412394.html
What a clueless asshole. He freaking ADMITS that the called the Coronavirus a "hoax" and NOW he says that the criticisms against Faux Snooze are not warranted. I guess logic is clearly not a strong suite with this one!!!
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)he and the rest of the raging assholes need to called out every day all day!
lastlib
(23,222 posts)he'd be PERFECT for the part! and I would
works for me
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,583 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)One thing that is clear though - if Rupert Murdoch (or his sons at Fux) wanted to save lives he could have. He chose money instead.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Do not think for a moment that given the authority they would not gladly gas our entire families, including children and burn our bodies in massive crematoriums as they danced. The are so warped by their own propaganda that they could justify pushing their grandmother down the stairway in her wheelchair if they dared to oppose their warped minds. When a person loses any basic sense of morality as demonstrated their adulation of Trump, they are beyond redemption. What we are witnessing is the exactly the transformation of what transpired in Germany in which the most gross behavior was totally accepted as justified when they convinced themselves that they were the true patriots and protectors of morality. Trump is a masterful conman just as was Hitler who used the Jews as scape goats for the failures of the nation. Any attempt to reason with these misguided zealots is an exercise in futility. I truly fear for the well being of our nation. We are facing a serious challenge when this type of ilk are afforded any degree of credibility and are met with adulation rather then contempt and distain.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)He truly is not one but saying so openly gives him license to do his thing.
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Could easily be they yelled "The panic is a hoax" so that the market could stay up long enough for them to dump.
The first drop occurred roughly Feb. 20 through Feb 27. Hannity's infamous "0 Deaths" screen shot was Feb. 28.
The market rallied on Feb 28 before beginning the massive drop March 4.
Bad makeup day?
FM123
(10,053 posts)"Would be worth finding out what stock Murdoch & Hannity dumped and when."
global1
(25,242 posts)He showed Hannity saying he never called it a 'hoax'. The he showed clips of Hannity calling it a 'hoax'.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)He's the worst on that propaganda network. He's so smarmy. He was also one of the biggest proponents of the war in Iraq.
Peace
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)Nothing less and nothing more.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)needs to be part of the crowd that is taken down for misleading Americans about this disease (a hoax, etc.) and costing lives. No more BS from this piece of garbage. No more faux news. faux news is causing a lot of death (or will) for they do not care about American lives. Only ratings.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)JHB
(37,159 posts)You've used up warehouses of bludgeons in your time on the air.
Do you really want them turned into boomerangs?
renate
(13,776 posts)Please proceed, dissimulator.
UpInArms
(51,282 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)It only stands to reason anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a far-left media mob maniac.
lastlib
(23,222 posts)Be nice to weasels--they have a useful place in the world. Hannity does not. He is more validly compared to sewer scum.
Otherwise, you are SPOT-on!
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)Seriously?
Everything Hannity accuses other journalists of is exactly what he and Fox News do every day.
Yep, that sounds like an unhinged meltdown to me.
AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)zone.
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)The channels are blocked. It's beyond comprehension as to how unaware someone has to be to believe one word from Hannity and his ilk.
Traildogbob
(8,729 posts)There should be onslaughts of lawsuits against him for killing families of his cult. He is the epicenter of lies and deadly bullshit. Lock him up, in a small cell with trump. Load their mashed potatoes up with viagra. Then they can fuck each other to death instead of the rest of us.
Norbert
(6,039 posts)crickets
(25,969 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)...I'll get Hannity's advice. Roofing is the only real job he ever had, and it appears to be the only thing he knows anything about.
Other than grifting, that is.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)JHB
(37,159 posts)File under "premiums rates, substandard work"
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)here we are how many decades later and he's still spewing right-wing dogma and lies practically from his death bed?
America is a very sick nation in more ways than any virus can achieve.
KY...... ........
LiberalBear
(24 posts)Maybe the virus will mutate to only infect stupid and instead of respiratory disease and death will cause one to be overcome by an insatiable desire to help those in need by any means possible. We could call it the "Come to Jesus virus!"
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)Alas! It will soon mutate to Prosperity Gospel.
LiberalBear
(24 posts)I take it all back! Forget the "come to Jesus virus" ....I hope the thing mutates into a strain to be known as the "Chronic water-board virus!" A virus that selectively infects right wing zealots and induces a fluid buildup in the lungs that, while not terminal, puts one in a chronic state of feeling like one is under "enhanced interrogation" until you have choked the stupid right out of you.....for some it might take a while....and I will enjoy watching sitting in my lawn chair sipping a cold one! Need something to do now that NCAA sports have been canceled. Maybe a reality show where we get the background on level of stupidity of infected zealots and place bets on when the gagging will stop. Sounds like good family entertainment to me!
Moostache
(9,895 posts)It really doe snot matter to me how he ceases wasting oxygen and joins the bleeding choir invisible...just that it happens and that I get to read about it.
Fuck him, fuck his audience and fuck their idol 2 Scoops.
BTW Hannity...please, sue them...discovery would be amazing Mr. Client #2, the bones in that closet have got to be innumerable!
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)He even cited coronavirus hysteria just two days after alleging a hoax.
He doesn't think he or Fox deserves criticism for their downplaying CoronaVirus?
Grow up.
Be a man (I know that's a lot to ask for) and accept responsibility for your actions.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)SKKY
(11,804 posts)I don't know, it's his voice, but there is something about his cadence that reminds me of Trump.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)NNadir
(33,515 posts)He had no compunction whatsoever in seeking to kill people for his bankrupt ideology.
kairos12
(12,858 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,583 posts)Each morning he goes to shave, looks in the mirror, and there's the scary face of Sean Hannity staring blankly at him.
I wonder if he was the kid who got beaten up after school each day. Those high school girls can be vicious!
spanone
(135,830 posts)GO FUCK YOURSELF
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)thinking of suing the media mob
An empty threat. A hollow threat.
They should challenge him to do it.
Watch him run away like his waterboarding.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)And he will die for it and try to destroy the real America with his last breath. He and Limbaugh are insane.
angrychair
(8,698 posts)That would be amazing. Put an end to this ridiculous mess and put that asshole in his place.
subana
(586 posts)is he now going to walk back his previous comments about the virus & tell the truth so that his viewers will be appropriately warned?
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)Oh wait...
Why do you still have a job again?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)badhair77
(4,217 posts)If he and trump could melt together that would be even better.
BComplex
(8,049 posts)Their brains don't work like a brain is supposed to. That's why they're republicans.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)I called my local propaganda station years ago, requesting more balance in programming. What a waste of time! The program manager said I would program Satan himself if he brought in the ratings. I was too flabbergasted to respond.
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)Cha
(297,187 posts)and he's not taking it well.
To Swisher.. fox is eating your Mom's brain.. make it stop.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Most of those cult members remained devoted after FOX News wrongly reported, repeatedly, that WMD mobile weapon labs were found in Iraq.
FOX doesnt even feel compelled to apologize, because they know their viewers will continue to eat their swill regardless.
Compare that to Dan Rather, who apologized and QUIT over a lack of due diligence regarding a report of Dumbyas service in the National Guard.
Truth doesnt matter to FOX viewers.