As predicted, Fox News has tried desperately to make the partisan hack job known as the “Nunes Memo” a shocking revelation. Hannity was ridiculous--even for him---calling it the “biggest abuse of power in American history” and said all charges against Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn need to be dropped.
The rest of Twitter, including the normally supportive rightwing, not sooo much:
Yeah, the man who ran Benghazi into the ground said it was no big whoop.
I haven’t been this disappointed in such a “big reveal” since the opening of Al Capone’s vault.
SPEAKING OF WHICH…. Fox failure Geraldo Rivera told Sean Hannity that if he had been around to carry disgraced President Nixon’s water back in the early 70s, he would not have been forced to resign from office.
Now, Sean Hannity should have had the good sense to try to dissuade Geraldo from the comparison for obvious reasons. Yet being the idiot that he is, Sean gushed over the compliment. The festival of ignorance ended with Geraldo stepping in it even further by stating that it was his and Sean’s “prime responsibility” to protect the president. Not to protect the truth or get to the bottom of anything, but just to protect Trump. Sean agreed, thus cementing Fox’s legacy as the big rightwing joke that it is.
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Sean Hannity has really been taking it in the groin the past few days. First, he was the top trend on Twitter for completely embarrassing himself by contradicting his own words just minutes apart:
Then, after his Twitter account was temporarily deactivated, a tech writer in Texas (at home with the flu) opened a fake one and was able to expose Hannity for laundering intel with Julian Assange.
This is the same Assange whom Hannity railed against for ”waging war against the US” for publishing secret diplomatic cables and putting American operatives in “jeopoardy”. Hannity has since decided that’s A-OK now that he gets fed illegal intel to help bolster Trump.
Honestly, if I had said that Fox News would pine over not being around to prop up the Nixon administration after one of the biggest scandals in presidential history, I’d be attacked by the rightwing as going overboard. Yet here we are with their top stars actually saying it.
At least they can take consolation in being around to help prop up our worst.