Sean Hannity (1961- ) is a presenter on Fox News, a right-wing US cable television news channel. He has the ear of President Trump and has become a shameless Trump apologist who flat-out lies.
Audience: He has the most watched show on US cable news, getting 3.3 million viewers a night (February 2018). By day he is on right-wing talk radio where he runs a close second to Rush Limbaugh, getting 13.5 million listeners a day.
Ted Koppel in March 2017, interviewing Hannity:
“[You are] bad for America. … You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.”
Geraldo Rivera to Hannity in February 2018:
“[President] Nixon never would have been forced to resign if you existed back in 1972, ’73, ’74.”
President Trump:
“Sean Hannity is a great, great person.”
Opinion shouter: Hannity does not have a journalism degree, or any university degree for that matter. He came up through talk radio in the 1980s and 1990s. He has been with Fox News since the beginning in 1996, but laboured long in Bill O’Reilly’s shadow – till O’Reilly was felled by scandal in 2017.
Conspiracy theorist: Hannity spends more time pushing conspiracy theories than anyone else on US cable news. Fox News lets him rant on and on about conspiracy theories that even they know are false, like about Seth Rich, Uranium One, and Spygate. All that keeps Hannity from going full tin hat like Alex Jones on YouTube are the advertisers.
Fascist propaganda: Hannity places Trump above the law: Trump should be allowed to pardon himself, he should be allowed to interfere in an ongoing criminal investigation of himself, he should not have to answer questions about possible crimes, etc. Hannity undermines faith in any source of truth other than Trump: the FBI and the Department of Justice are dismissed as the “deep state”. The press is dismissed as “fake news”. The truth is whatever Trump says it is.
Racism/Nativism: And, like a Nazi propagandist, Hannity also whips up fear, hatred and prejudice against people of other races and religions, like Muslims, Latinos, and Blacks. He does that mainly by the way he talks about terrorism, immigration, and crime. Hannity is Irish Catholic.
Clinton Derangement Syndrome: Hannity is obsessed with the Clintons, both Bill and Hillary. He rehashes their scandals endlessly, even when there is nothing new to say about them. Since he makes stuff up, it is hard to know how much of it is even true. He gets most upset about the Clintons when bad news breaks about Trump.
Business model: Since March 2016 Fox News has found itself in the business of delivering ads to Trump supporters. To remain in business they have to please both advertisers and Trump supporters. Sean Hannity walks right up to that fine line between the two. He is such a full-throated Trump apologist that he defended Roy Moore, an accused paedophile – that is, until advertisers made him back away from Moore.
Net worth: Hannity was worth $80 million in 2017. Alex Jones: $10 million.
– Abagond, 2018.
See also:
- US cable news
- propaganda model – of news in the US
- Republican Bubble
- White flight
- Hannity tropes:
- Roy Moore
- Donald Trump
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Sean Hannity is a repugnant and shameless liar, and propagandist.
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The bewilderment is how people still support and subscribe to ‘Fox’ media and products knowing they give full support to ‘right wing’ if not ‘alt right’ ‘crap’ for so long? This company makes movies, video games etc… It’s amazing.
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Ugh 😒
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Hannity was worth $80 million in 2017
Is he married? If not, I’ll marry him and beat him into submission! Seriously, a repugnant SOS!
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Hannity is one of Trump’s minions for sure. Him and his stupid helmet hair.
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The late-Khalid Abdul Muhammad destroyed him on his radio broadcast back in 1994. A couple of months ago (April), Hannity made news headlines on raising the rent by nearly 50% on his Georgia, working-class tenants, which many who are Black Americans. http://nydailynews.com/news/national/hannity-raised-rent-50-blue-collar-georgia-tenants-article-1.3691859 Hannity is a vocal critic of big government assistance yet received subsidy from the same big government that he antagonizes, regularly. Hannity is a hypocrite and well-known bigot.
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He would also do well in India where, in the present dispensation, most media people think and behave just like him!
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re: MC
Is this the type of real-estate related legal advice that Hannity got from Michael Cohen?
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@ jefe
The service Michael Cohen performed for his other two clients was paying off women they had had affairs with. My guess is he did the same for Hannity.
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His response to a black man who noted there was a culture amongst police to kill em off?
“If there’s a national disgrace, it is your rush to judgement. .. that is the national disgrace”
Fuck him
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And now they’re owned by Disney. A deadly combination for sure.
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