HANNITYGATE: I hear hypocrisy at its loudest volume.

CLIMATEGATE!
MUELLERGATE !HANNITY’S SANITY !
I want take a minute to tell you a little about Mr. Sean Hannity, simply because the man causes such a ruckus that I think he deserves more than a bit of scrutiny. This is not a person attack; no, he has a wife, two children, and has amassed a fortune without having a any criminal charges. However, this is about how he got where he got and why he got there.
Let’s begin with this premise: He is not a journalist.  Not my opinion, those are his own words. "I'm not a journalist, I'm a talk show host." (Sean Hannity interview 4/16/16) You will note that I cite my sources—something I learned in college. That is my second point: a journalist needs to have a degree, hopefully in the aforementioned area, at least. Mr. Hannity got through Catholic High School, like yours truly, but dropped out of NYU … ASAP.  According to various sources including Matthew Shaer (November 28, 2017). "How Far Will Sean Hannity Go?". The New York Times.) (BY the way, this is true of his mentor Mr. Limbaugh.) So how did he make it to the top of a heap of money on a network called Fox NEWS?
According to  Cal Thomas in his book Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America. (2007) pp. 3–6, “Hannity as a leader of the pack among broadcasting political polarizers, which following James Q. Wilson they define as those who have ‘an intense commitment to a candidate, a culture, or an ideology that sets people in one group definitively apart from people in another, rival group.’”
Mr. Hannity worked in radio from the early beginning as a ‘lightening rod.’ He shouted from the highest radio tower all sorts of things that were never proven, never sourced, or eventually disproven. Here are just some of the examples: He claimed the President Obama was not an American citizen without producing a birth certificate saying he was born in the USA, and Mr. Hannity was the chief mouthpiece for the early Trump campaign’s birther argument. (Mind you, no one argued that his mother was not a U.S. citizen, thus making him one, too. But that fact escaped Mr. Hannity’s grasp.) Mr. Hannity’s words were on the record in Albert R. Hunt’s New York Times essay dated May 1, 2011 "A Lie Is Born, and We All Know Where."  “After Obama in 2008 produced what the state of Hawaii certified as a legitimate birth certificate, Hannity kept calling on Obama to release his birth certificate, asking, if there was a birth certificate, why did he not ‘just produce it and we move on?’”

Then there is the Ms. Clinton illness conspiracy. According to Media Matters on August 25th2017, “Hannity devoted entire segments of his show to pushing the conspiracy theory that Clinton ‘could be experiencing a serious undiagnosed medical condition.’ He also claimed Clinton had suffered a stroke and said she had Parkinson’s disease. At one point, Hannity even invited medical doctors on his prime-time show in hopes they'd agree with his diagnosis that Clinton suffered from seizures. Those medical professionals, however, were unconvinced of his claims.”
Newsweek reported on February 7th, 2018 that “Hannity’s most audacious and costly foray into conspiracy theory came last month, when he insisted that Seth Rich, an employee of the Democratic National Committee, killed last summer while walking home from a bar at night in Washington, D.C., had been the victim of dark leftist forces. Hannity only dropped the story after intense pressure from Fox News, with some speculating that he was on the verge of losing his job.”
Even super Trump supporter and right wing champion Ann Coulter questioned Hannity’s sanity when she penned these words in June about him that he “would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of 'The Communist Manifesto.”
I don’t want to go on and on with examples like defending Roger Ailes’ sexual conduct, ditto that of Hypocracy.
Judge Roy Moore, fabricating climate denial conspiracies—all of which are on the record—his own voice, but there is one issue that just takes the cake.
Mr. Hannity once said, “Election is a referendum on decency." I find that interesting since these words were followed by this diatribe on ‘The Sean Hannity Show’ of 7/22/16 on radio: “I see they brought that idiot Jon Stewart back from the dead. Great attack me all you want. I was right about Obama and you're a fool who head his head -- had your head so far up Obama's ass, Jon Stewart. I've never seen anybody kiss an ass like you kiss his. And now you're sucking up to him putting your head up Hillary's ass and sucking up to her too.” (Pardon the language—these are not my words, but they are certainly his.)
Oh, and here are a few more: Hannity claimed homosexuality was a "lower form of behaviour", compared homosexual sex lives to “playing in a sewer" and gay people of being “filled with hatred and bigotry.” This according to The Independent of October 11, 2017. So when he speaks of decency, I hear hypocrisy at is loudest volume.


So all I ask is that people understand that the Joe McCarthy’s of the world still rise up and find an audience. They are attack dogs, and the money they make is as dirty as it gets. There are great conservative writers: David Brooks, Jennifer Rubin ---the Wall Street Journal’s staff—and I have read them. Just take the time to read real journalists before you believe ‘talk show hosts’ who claim everything I just wrote is fake news.