Listening to Sean Hannity

Sean Hannity often looks angry, although sometimes it’s hard to tell. Even when he’s content, he looks like someone who’s spoiling for a fight. That’s how he appeared earlier this month, after Fox News fired its co-president Bill Shine, a Hannity booster whose career had, in turn, been helped by Hannity’s success. Shine’s dismissal came in the wake of lawsuits, and allegations of sexual harassment, bequeathed to Fox by its former president, Roger Ailes, and its former ratings king, Bill O’Reilly. Hannity had tweeted that Shine’s departure would mean “the total end of the FNC as we know it. Done.” That almost sounded like a threat to quit. The next day he began “Hannity,” the hour-long program that he anchors, by addressing what he imagined to be an impatient, Schadenfreude-hungry audience: “I want to welcome all of our friends from the alt-left propaganda media I kind of suspect may be tuning in tonight.”

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