About a week after first airing the stories, Fox and its affiliates retracted them; that August, Wheeler filed a lawsuit against Fox claiming that its reporters had knowingly fabricated quotations they attributed to him and that the entire story had been orchestrated in consultation with the White House.41 It seems that there is not, and never has been, any reason to believe that Rich had any involvement in the DNC email hack. Yet at least some right-wing media personalities, including Fox’s own Sean Hannity, have continued to repeat variations on these claims. Hannity, in particular, has
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