Sean Hannity Stands by Roy Moore After 24-Hour Ultimatum

[DonViejo]

The Fox News host teased his call for Moore to drop out, before ultimately folding under the pressure at the very end of his show.

MATT WILSTEIN
11.15.17 10:15 PM ET

Sean Hannity could not wait to show everyone the open letter accused child molester and Alabama’s GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore sent him Wednesday. But first, he had to spend more than 20 minutes talking about decades-old allegations against Bill Clinton.

Twenty-three hours after the Fox News host set a 24-hour deadline for Moore to explain himself or “get out of this race,” Hannity seemed to have completely lost interest in talking about the man who could still end up in the U.S. Senate next month. During that period, Moore’s legal team put forward the preposterous charge that his signature in one of his accuser’s high school yearbook might be fake—without explicitly denying the accusations that Moore tried to rape her when she was 16 years old.

Moments later, a sixth women came forward to accuse Moore of groping her after he was married in 1991. Then, two more women told The Washington Post that Moore made inappropriate sexual advances on them when they were working in a local mall as teenagers.

As Hannity continued to make the conversation about Clinton, his guests, including Geraldo Rivera and Gregg Jarrett, kept trying to steer things back to Moore. Rivera said he believes Moore’s “fate” lies in Hannity’s hands and was looking forward to hearing what he had to say. But Hannity wanted to make Moore—and his viewers—sweat it out.

It wasn’t until the last seven minutes of his show—after attacking Democrats for trying to impeach President Trump and pushing more conspiracies about “President Hillary Clinton”—that Hannity finally got around to responding to Moore’s letter.

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. I thought Sean Hannity was the new women's rights hero.

He's a disingenuous piece of shit.

[Cary]

2. Worthless

Absolute dead weight. Hannity is a cancer.

[BigmanPigman]

3. He is playing on both sides of the fence and is

doing it poorly. His advertisers are pulling out and he is stuck between a rock and a hard place for a Repub...support the Moron, Bannon, far right and tell Moore he has been " warned" and/or that he has a 16 year old daughter and this is wrong unless there is proof of no crime committed. Who made Hannity the "great deciding influence" on all of this?!

[underpants]

4. Awkward water cooler moments at Fox News. Hey Sean...

[Mariana]

7. Hannity is a performer, like every other radio or TV talk show host.

He can pretend to be whatever he wants to be on his show. If he wants to play the role of the "great deciding influence" on all of this, that's what he'll do. His job is to attract an audience for the the advertisers to pitch their crap to. This time he misjudged and spooked a few of his sponsors, but I think the audience is more important in the long run. He can get new sponsors, if he can reliably deliver a nice bunch of gullible viewers/listeners for them to prey on.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Pervs of a feather

Why doing you think Donald Trump's been so silent?

[Grammy23]

6. He just wanted to keep his breathless viewers dangling to see what hed tell them to do.

They’ve been trained NOT to think for themselves. Wait for good ol’ Sean to tell you which way you should come down on the subject. God forbid you take a look at the situation and judge for yourself!

So he threw out the bait...the ultimatum....let it marinate for 24 hours....you know, to build momentum. Then he gave them their answer. He never intended for one moment to rescind support for Pervy Roy. Just build an audience for his big announcement. He’s sooner bite off his tongue than do the right thing.