Variety: Fox News Says Sean Hannity Will Return to Show

[Botany]

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-sean-hannity-return-1202444145/

Fox News Channel lent support to its best-known anchor Sean Hannity, saying Friday that the popular host would return to its air next week following a Memorial Day holiday vacation – an effort to tamp down speculation that a controversy currently enveloping Hannity could escalate further.

“Like the rest of the country, Sean Hannity is taking a vacation for Memorial Day weekend and will be back on Tuesday,” the 21st Century Fox-owned network said in a statement. “Those who suggest otherwise are going to look foolish.”

Hannity has become embroiled in a furor over his recent promotion of a widely discredited story about the death last summer of Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who was murdered in Washington, D.C. last July in what local police have stated they believe is a botched robbery. Hannity has in recent days promoted an unproven theory that Rich was killed in exchange for providing internal documents to Wikileaks, prompting statements of outrage from the Rich family.

On Tuesday, Fox News said it had retracted a story, published on FoxNews.com, about Rich’s murder – believed to be one of the first times the news outlet has withdrawn an article over its more than 20-year history. The killing remains unsolved and right-leaning press outlets such as Breitbart and The Drudge Report have in posts and links bolstered the wild conspiracy. Hannity continued to promote the theory about Rich on his Tuesday radio show, noting that “this issue is so big now that the entire Russia collusion narrative is hanging by a thread.”

[BumRushDaShow]

1. He needs to go away...

a LONG way away.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. From the OP link

quote from Hannity - "This is an attempt to take me out. This is a kill shot.”

Time for the rest of the advertisers to "shift" out of that slot. Enough of the crap.

[Botany]

6. If the advertisers stay away then Hannity is done for.

Sean Hannity in 2008 ran a phony story that Ohio's then Sec. of State, Jennifer Brunner* was working with ACORN
to rig the vote. Brunner got death threats as a result of Hannity’s lies.


* I know Jennifer and she was awarded the JFK Profiles in Courage Award for her
work in cleaning up OH's election.

Hannity has also pushed the Swift Boat crap about John Kerry and the Benghazi/email/computer server
junk about HRC too. He and Fox are a cancer on America.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I remember when he was first doing "Hannity and Colmes"

(I had followed Colmes as he moved around after being on WNBC in NY and it switched formats to music - around the time when Limpballs premiered on WABC).

He started out in that "Liberal/Conservative pairing" format (like had been done with Curtis and Kuby & Batchelor & Alexander, etc.) and then off to the races he went into full RW la la land when the various networks removed the "liberal" and allowed these nuts to go solo.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Another snowflake melts in the glaring light of the truth...

[Phoenix61]

5. +1

[workinclasszero]

4. Move to Russia Sean

We got enough traitor republicans here already.

[librechik]

8. ...but only after the sex reassignment surgery.