Sean Hannity Has Full-On Meltdown Over Criticism Of Fox News Coronavirus Coverage

[TruckFump]

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 network’s reporting for her elderly mother’s apparent lack of concern about the outbreak.

“Well, it sometimes feels like Fox News is eating my mother’s brain,” Swisher wrote this week in a searing column she directed at Hannity.

Hannity continued his meltdown by attacking The Washington Post’s 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]

1. Kickin'

he and the rest of the raging assholes need to called out every day all day!

[lastlib]

37. I wish he would have one of THESE meltdowns!

he'd be PERFECT for the part! and I would

[Faux pas]

38. Lol

works for me

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

39. Or maybe this:

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. fuck Hannity and the whole Faux cabal

[procon]

3. Has he ever watched a day of Faux News broadcasting? nt

[gibraltar72]

4. Please proceed.

[FM123]

5. How does Hannity even get to call himself a journalist? Or a human being

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]

20. They are a form of sub-humans: Fascists.

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]

24. Hannity has repeatedly said he is not a journalist.

He truly is not one but saying so openly gives him license to do his thing.

[Marcuse]

47. Hannity is a political operative

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. Would be worth finding out what stock Murdoch & Hannity dumped and when.

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]

53. Yes! Bernardo, you bring up such a good point!

"Would be worth finding out what stock Murdoch & Hannity dumped and when."

[global1]

6. Watch Seth Meyers - A Closer Look - From Wednesday Apr 1st....

He showed Hannity saying he never called it a 'hoax'. The he showed clips of Hannity calling it a 'hoax'.

[hibbing]

21. 11 Minutes in

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]

30. He still claims the US found Saddam's weapons of mass destruction and removed them from Iraq.

[TruckFump]

7. Bunch of corporate whores.

Nothing less and nothing more.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. I liked it when Ted Koppel ripped into him for pretending to be a journalist. He's a scumbag who...

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]

9. Edward Murrow he is not.

[JHB]

10. Maybe y'oughta be careful about the precedent you're trying to set there, Seanie

You've used up warehouses of bludgeons in your time on the air.

Do you really want them turned into boomerangs?

[renate]

13. SERIOUSLY! It's comical!

Please proceed, dissimulator.

[UpInArms]

11. Insannity is a smarmy lying cockroach

[lpbk2713]

12. Hannity is a weasel through to the bone.

It only stands to reason anyone with an opposing viewpoint is a “far-left media mob maniac”.

[lastlib]

35. Hey! That's offensive to the entire Mustelidae family!

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]

14. "The media mob"???

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]

15. im glad i dont have to listen to him any more . my apartment is a faux noise and sinclair radio free

zone.

[TruckFump]

17. I live alone and, gawd forbid, anyone would try to put Faux Snooze on one of my TVs

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]

16. He should be freaking

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]

18. This says it all

Link to tweet

[crickets]

34. Excellent. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. "media mob maniac"? Is that like "nattering nabob of negativism"?

[ProfessorGAC]

22. If I Need A New Roof...

...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]

26. I'm not sure I would trust Hannity to put a roof over my head.

[JHB]

54. I concur. Grifting and roofing can go together

File under "premiums rates, substandard work"

[KY_EnviroGuy]

60. Limbaugh's talents are just about as limited, and yet......

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]

23. Mutation fantasy

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]

42. Alas! It will soon mutate to Prosperity Gospel.

Alas! It will soon mutate to Prosperity Gospel.

[LiberalBear]

25. ahhh the hell with that fantasy, I have a bette one

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]

27. I hope Sean Hannity is electrocuted in his hot tub or decapitated in a freak accident...

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]

28. He's and IDIOT. Here is what he said ...

At first, Hannity took an antagonistic approach to coronavirus coverage, even using the word “hoax” as recently as 10 days ago. “This scaring the living hell out of people — I see it, again, as like, let’s bludgeon Trump with this new hoax,” Hannity said during his March 9 broadcast, during a segment in which he downplayed the risk of coronavirus to everyone except for people with compromised immune systems and older individuals.

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]

29. They make up names like seven year olds

[SKKY]

31. Is it just my imagination, or does he sound like Trump now?

I don't know, it's his voice, but there is something about his cadence that reminds me of Trump.

[sarcasmo]

32. Fox should be sued out of business like Gawker.

[C Moon]

33. Typical: a guilty person going on a defensive rage. Sleight of hand.

[NNadir]

36. I think a lawsuit against this toxic liar would be appropriate.

He had no compunction whatsoever in seeking to kill people for his bankrupt ideology.

[kairos12]

40. He once volunteered to get waterboarded then backed off. Maybe he should volunteer again.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

41. Poor Sean Hannity.

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]

43. Hey Sean....

GO FUCK YOURSELF

[keithbvadu2]

44. thinking of suing "the media mob"

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]

45. He helped create an alt America.

And he will die for it and try to destroy the real America with his last breath. He and Limbaugh are insane.

[angrychair]

46. I want Hannity to sue

That would be amazing. Put an end to this ridiculous mess and put that asshole in his place.

[subana]

48. so if he's really that upset over the criticism,

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]

50. Sic Michael Cohen on them, Sean.

Oh wait...

Why do you still have a job again?

[Thomas Hurt]

51. Magical thinking and pathological lying for the christofascist ideology.

[badhair77]

52. I enjoy a good meltdown coming from Sean.

If he and trump could melt together that would be even better.

[BComplex]

55. Republicans are not known for anything resembling logic.

Their brains don't work like a brain is supposed to. That's why they're republicans.

[Dirty Socialist]

56. I called my local radio station years ago

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]

57. Melt away Insanity.

[Cha]

58. fox-hannity is Busted for being Stupid

and he's not taking it well.

To Swisher.. fox is eating your Mom's brain.. make it stop.

[struggle4progress]

59. Idiot wind

[Buckeye_Democrat]

61. It'll be forgotten by their CULT of viewers.

Most of those cult members remained devoted after FOX News wrongly reported, repeatedly, that WMD mobile weapon labs were found in Iraq.

FOX doesn’t 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 Dumbya’s service in the National Guard.

Truth doesn’t matter to FOX viewers.

[oasis]

62. Trump, Hannity, Moscow Mitch. Come November we flush them all. nt