As Sean Hannity hyped a conspiracy theory about the murder
of a Democratic National Committee staffer last week, touting it with the zeal
of a true believer without citing evidence that justified that belief, the
combative Fox News host declared himself under fire and in need of backup.
Lashing out at what he called “Twitter
snowflakes” and “the liberal
effort to silence me,”
Sounds like the tough guy, karate dude Hannity is the snowflake in this instance.
Not only is it a toxic workplace where the harassment of
women is rampant; it is also a no-fact zone. The Pulitzer Prize-winning website
PolitiFact found that nearly 60 percent of the statements it
checked on Fox News were either mostly or entirely false. Another 19 percent
were only half true. Only Fox News viewers are likely to believe that climate
change is a hoax, that there is a “war on Christmas,” that Obamacare would
create “death panels,” that there is an epidemic of crime committed by
immigrants (they actually have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans), that
President Barack Obama forged his birth certificate and wiretapped Trump with
the aid of Britain’s signals intelligence agency, and that the accusations
bedeviling Trump are a product of “Russophobia.” FNC might as well stand for Fake News
Channel, and its myths have had a pernicious, indeed debilitating, effect on
U.S. politics.
Welcome to reality, Max Boot. I'd love to see Hannity taken down at Fox. I still want to see him and his ilk pinned on the Right forever, though.
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