Sean Hannity Absolutely Melts Down Over Kara Swisher’s NY Times Column
Apr 3, 2020 11:29:37 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
Fox News star Sean Hannity seemed very, very upset Wednesday—also wounded, distraught and mad as a wet hen—over something he apparently read in The New York Times.
Not content simply to unleash nine rabid early morning tweets lashing out at Times op-ed columnist Kara Swisher for noting his record of minimizing and belittling the c****av***s p******c and dispensing dangerous disinformation to her eighty-something, Fox News-loving mother, Hannity continued to vent about Swisher, and even rant against her mom, on his syndicated afternoon radio show.
“It’s a despicable newspaper,” President Donald Trump’s influential adviser told his millions of listeners Wednesday. “I decided this morning to tweet out at some i***t that works for this paper,” Hannity added, unwilling at first to say Swisher’s name, “and I’m like, are you really proud of the newspaper that you work for? Are you proud of this? Because it is never-ending, non-stop, continuous lying.”
After several more minutes of seething, Hannity finally acknowledged: “The woman’s name is Kara”—and he then affected to have trouble pronouncing her surname—“Sh-sh-swisher. I don’t even know who she is.”
Actually, Swisher is a celebrated and supremely well-connected tech and media journalist, a formidable figure in Silicon Valley who is well-known to Hannity’s bosses, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as to Lachlan’s younger brother James.
“I wonder if her mom perhaps was going to China?” Hannity went on. “Maybe she had a planned trip! If she was listening to her daughter’s newspaper at the time, that would have been a really, really, really dumb idea.”
Swisher began her column, titled “Fox’s F**e News Contagion”: “You can relax, Sean Hannity, I’m not going to sue you”—a reference to the idea, gaining traction among some Fox News critics, that the Trump-friendly cable channel should be held accountable in a court of law for broadcasting hours and hours of c****av***s misinformation that allegedly has resulted in sickness and deaths.
“But lawsuits are a bad idea,” Swisher continued. “Here’s why: I believe in Fox News’s First Amendment right as a press organization, even if some of its on-air talent did not mind being egregiously bad at their jobs when it came to giving out accurate health data.
“And, more to the point, when all is said and done, my Mom will listen to her children over Fox News. One of us—my brother—is an actual doctor and knows what he is talking about. And the other is a persistent annoyance—that would be me.”
Swisher recounted her attempts to counter her mom’s faith in Hannity and other Fox personalities with graphs and charts illustrating the terrifying spread of the disease, especially to people in her vulnerable age group. Her mom dismissed the information, Swisher wrote, believing it to be a Democratic plot to politicize bad news against Trump, and she continued to socialize with friends.
“I worry a lot,” Swisher wrote. “But she was not concerned—and it was clear why. Her primary source of news is Fox.”
Hannity didn’t respond to a request for comment. Swisher, however, told The Daily Beast: “Among the different personalities at Fox, he’s the most importantly egregious. And my mom watches it, and I heard from her what he was saying hours later or soon after. So I was using him [in the column] as an entry point and saying, ‘Look, Sean, I’m not gonna sue you, but Jesus Christ, what the fuck are you doing?’…
“He’s a super-spreader of bad information, and he’s now trying to abrogate that responsibility by pointing to The New York Times or one errant article in The Washington Post, wh**ever he’s pointing to. It’s the whataboutism that they love to do at Fox…They make a mistake and they tend to point the finger elsewhere.”
Swisher said she doubts that her column actually provoked a full-on Hannity meltdown. “I guess,” she said. “I think everything he does is calculated. He’s getting a lot of pressure, I’m assuming. This is the guy who did all that Seth Rich stuff, and doesn’t skip a beat”—a reference to Hannity’s shameless on-air promotion of the bogus conspiracy theory that a young Democratic National Committee staffer, shot during a July 2016 robbery attempt, was actually murdered in retaliation for leaking damaging emails to WikiLeaks.
“He never apologized. He has to live with himself,” Swisher added. “He’s a super-spreader and if he thinks it’s not a problem, I don’t know what to tell you. You should talk to his mama. If I was his mom I’d be pretty pissed he was doing that.” (Hannity’s mother Lillian passed away in 2001.)
“This is really dangerous,” Swisher continued. “Whether you’re doing it purposely or to support the president, I have no idea, but the fact of the matter is: Cut it out and admit what you did.”
During his radio rant—in which he repeatedly invited Swisher to sue him and threatened to hire Trump family libel lawyer Charles Harder—Hannity also trashed Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple, calling him “Erik Pop a Pimple.”
“My official response to that is that I first heard it in the first grade,” Wemple told The Daily Beast, citing his boyhood in Schenectady, New York. “It was either that or ‘Mr. Whipple’—the guy who squeezed the Charmin” in a popular television commercial for toilet paper.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-melts-down-over-kara-swishers-ny-times-column?ref=scroll
Not content simply to unleash nine rabid early morning tweets lashing out at Times op-ed columnist Kara Swisher for noting his record of minimizing and belittling the c****av***s p******c and dispensing dangerous disinformation to her eighty-something, Fox News-loving mother, Hannity continued to vent about Swisher, and even rant against her mom, on his syndicated afternoon radio show.
“It’s a despicable newspaper,” President Donald Trump’s influential adviser told his millions of listeners Wednesday. “I decided this morning to tweet out at some i***t that works for this paper,” Hannity added, unwilling at first to say Swisher’s name, “and I’m like, are you really proud of the newspaper that you work for? Are you proud of this? Because it is never-ending, non-stop, continuous lying.”
After several more minutes of seething, Hannity finally acknowledged: “The woman’s name is Kara”—and he then affected to have trouble pronouncing her surname—“Sh-sh-swisher. I don’t even know who she is.”
Actually, Swisher is a celebrated and supremely well-connected tech and media journalist, a formidable figure in Silicon Valley who is well-known to Hannity’s bosses, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, as well as to Lachlan’s younger brother James.
“I wonder if her mom perhaps was going to China?” Hannity went on. “Maybe she had a planned trip! If she was listening to her daughter’s newspaper at the time, that would have been a really, really, really dumb idea.”
Swisher began her column, titled “Fox’s F**e News Contagion”: “You can relax, Sean Hannity, I’m not going to sue you”—a reference to the idea, gaining traction among some Fox News critics, that the Trump-friendly cable channel should be held accountable in a court of law for broadcasting hours and hours of c****av***s misinformation that allegedly has resulted in sickness and deaths.
“But lawsuits are a bad idea,” Swisher continued. “Here’s why: I believe in Fox News’s First Amendment right as a press organization, even if some of its on-air talent did not mind being egregiously bad at their jobs when it came to giving out accurate health data.
“And, more to the point, when all is said and done, my Mom will listen to her children over Fox News. One of us—my brother—is an actual doctor and knows what he is talking about. And the other is a persistent annoyance—that would be me.”
Swisher recounted her attempts to counter her mom’s faith in Hannity and other Fox personalities with graphs and charts illustrating the terrifying spread of the disease, especially to people in her vulnerable age group. Her mom dismissed the information, Swisher wrote, believing it to be a Democratic plot to politicize bad news against Trump, and she continued to socialize with friends.
“I worry a lot,” Swisher wrote. “But she was not concerned—and it was clear why. Her primary source of news is Fox.”
Hannity didn’t respond to a request for comment. Swisher, however, told The Daily Beast: “Among the different personalities at Fox, he’s the most importantly egregious. And my mom watches it, and I heard from her what he was saying hours later or soon after. So I was using him [in the column] as an entry point and saying, ‘Look, Sean, I’m not gonna sue you, but Jesus Christ, what the fuck are you doing?’…
“He’s a super-spreader of bad information, and he’s now trying to abrogate that responsibility by pointing to The New York Times or one errant article in The Washington Post, wh**ever he’s pointing to. It’s the whataboutism that they love to do at Fox…They make a mistake and they tend to point the finger elsewhere.”
Swisher said she doubts that her column actually provoked a full-on Hannity meltdown. “I guess,” she said. “I think everything he does is calculated. He’s getting a lot of pressure, I’m assuming. This is the guy who did all that Seth Rich stuff, and doesn’t skip a beat”—a reference to Hannity’s shameless on-air promotion of the bogus conspiracy theory that a young Democratic National Committee staffer, shot during a July 2016 robbery attempt, was actually murdered in retaliation for leaking damaging emails to WikiLeaks.
“He never apologized. He has to live with himself,” Swisher added. “He’s a super-spreader and if he thinks it’s not a problem, I don’t know what to tell you. You should talk to his mama. If I was his mom I’d be pretty pissed he was doing that.” (Hannity’s mother Lillian passed away in 2001.)
“This is really dangerous,” Swisher continued. “Whether you’re doing it purposely or to support the president, I have no idea, but the fact of the matter is: Cut it out and admit what you did.”
During his radio rant—in which he repeatedly invited Swisher to sue him and threatened to hire Trump family libel lawyer Charles Harder—Hannity also trashed Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple, calling him “Erik Pop a Pimple.”
“My official response to that is that I first heard it in the first grade,” Wemple told The Daily Beast, citing his boyhood in Schenectady, New York. “It was either that or ‘Mr. Whipple’—the guy who squeezed the Charmin” in a popular television commercial for toilet paper.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-melts-down-over-kara-swishers-ny-times-column?ref=scroll
Apr 3, 2020 11:31:13 #
trainspotter
Loc: Oregon
thom w wrote:
Fox News star Sean Hannity seemed very, very upset... (show quote)
Should'n you be out sanitizing something?
Apr 3, 2020 11:37:06 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
trainspotter wrote:
Should'n you be out sanitizing something?
Admin has made it very clear that even in the face of obvious assault I am not allowed to insult. One would have to be rather foolish to attack someone who owns the forum they are posting on and not expect a reaction, so you can make wh**ever noise you choose, I am unable to respond.
I am helping to keep a hospital running, in wh**ever minor way, while you are saying "Dilly, Dilly. I leave it to you to decide which is more helpful.
Do you have a problem with facts presented, or were you just making noise? No insult, both are apparently allowed.
Apr 3, 2020 11:42:21 #
This is really a lame post. Law suit over what?
Do Liberals have any other modus operandi besides attacking the President?
Their impeachment plan that they knew would fail from the start was all they were doing in December and January when the great House intelligence committee led by Adam Schiff was briefed on the v***s and chose to do nothing but add more prosecutors to the Impeachment fiasco.
Do Liberals have any other modus operandi besides attacking the President?
Their impeachment plan that they knew would fail from the start was all they were doing in December and January when the great House intelligence committee led by Adam Schiff was briefed on the v***s and chose to do nothing but add more prosecutors to the Impeachment fiasco.
Apr 3, 2020 11:51:02 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
Fotoartist wrote:
This is really a lame post. Law suit over what?
Do Liberals have any other modus operandi besides attacking the President?
Their impeachment plan that they knew would fail from the start was all they were doing in December and January when the great House intelligence committee led by Adam Schiff was briefed on the v***s and chose to do nothing but add more prosecutors to the Impeachment fiasco.
Do Liberals have any other modus operandi besides attacking the President?
Their impeachment plan that they knew would fail from the start was all they were doing in December and January when the great House intelligence committee led by Adam Schiff was briefed on the v***s and chose to do nothing but add more prosecutors to the Impeachment fiasco.
And if it was your mother listening to Sean, and taking chances that could end her life, would your reaction be the same?
There is a poster on this site who continually puts out very dangerous advice. Advice that if others follow may k**l. Admin doesn't seem concerned about liability, something he is probably more familiar with than I am, so if legalities are more your interest than morality, you may be safe.
This post had a lot to do with Fox, and Sean, and little to do with Trump, but any comments about intellect or reading comprehension might be misinterpreted.
Apr 3, 2020 11:53:13 #
Apr 3, 2020 12:05:48 #
trainspotter
Loc: Oregon
thom w wrote:
And if it was your mother listening to Sean, and t... (show quote)
This IS a forum... NOT A DOCTOR'S OFFICE....I'll take advice on photography issues...but MEDICAL? No...my own physician will do fine.
Apr 3, 2020 15:46:34 #
trainspotter wrote:
Should'n you be out sanitizing something?
Yeah, open your mouth.
Apr 3, 2020 16:07:22 #
thom w wrote:
And if it was your mother listening to Sean, and t... (show quote)
How exactly can that be stopped? I have no idea what advice you're talking about here but there are so many sites out there with questionable information. At what point does personal responsibility begin? This is why people are generally so easy to control. All it takes is for someone who they think is knowledgeable and they believe them.
I'm not defending Hannity (who I don't listen to) but I've seen posts here where people lie and say outrageous things. Where is the line drawn? I have no answer for that, just askin'.
Apr 3, 2020 16:59:05 #
[quote=trainspotter]Should'n you be out sanitizing something?[/quote
Sanitizing America to clear off the trash of Moron the First.
Sanitizing America to clear off the trash of Moron the First.
Apr 3, 2020 17:25:05 #
trainspotter wrote:
This IS a forum... NOT A DOCTOR'S OFFICE....I'll take advice on photography issues...but MEDICAL? No...my own physician will do fine.
If you only want advice on photography issues, you should stay out of the Attic.
Apr 3, 2020 17:38:52 #
trainspotter
Loc: Oregon
JohnSwanda wrote:
If you only want advice on photography issues, you should stay out of the Attic.
OPPS....did we wake you? sorry bout that...didn't realize lurking was still a pastime
Apr 3, 2020 17:41:54 #
trainspotter wrote:
OPPS....did we wake you? sorry bout that...didn't realize lurking was still a pastime
You're the one complaining about non-photography advice on a non-photography forum.
Apr 3, 2020 17:49:02 #
trainspotter
Loc: Oregon
JohnSwanda wrote:
You're the one complaining about non-photography advice on a non-photography forum.
That's the PROBLEM with lurking... aka.. jumping rope...if you JUMP in at the WRONG TIME....well you know what happens... PSSSSST...(we know NOBODY speaks photography in this fine section)....
Apr 3, 2020 18:02:10 #
thom w
Loc: San Jose, CA
trainspotter wrote:
This IS a forum... NOT A DOCTOR'S OFFICE....I'll take advice on photography issues...but MEDICAL? No...my own physician will do fine.
That sounds like a very good idea. I recommend, and doubt, you do just that.
Oh, by the way, the attic isn't the best place for getting advice on photo issues.
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