Keilar calls out Sean Hannity's embrace of conspiracy theories

 

Brianna Keilar rolls the tape on Fox News host Sean Hannity's comments on QAnon, where he claims "not a single conservative" shares conspiratorial beliefs despite promoting numerous conspiracies on his prime time show.

Questions And Answers

Question: Was Mike Pence told he had to where a mask while visiting the Mayo clinic?
Answer: Of course not because his mommy didn't tell him too. Mommy knows best.

Question: Donald Trump will try and blame Don Quixote, The Wicked Witch of the West or Ren and Stimpy for his failure to get reelected?
Answer: No. He really, really wants to blame Xi Jinping.

Question: Is the state of Ohio the first state to have all mail in voting?
Answer: No. But you wouldn't know that from the way the media has been covering the vote.

Question: Did Sean Hannity gift tickets to healthcare workers for a Yankees game?
Answer: The fortunate 500 were given magical tickets to a nonexistent game.

Question: Will Lindsey Graham being playing a dead body in an upcoming melodrama?
Answer: Lindsey's dead body will be used to stop unemployment insurance.

Donald Trump Is Really Trying To Kill People Because He's So Immature

A leader doesn't have to be perfect nor are they excepted to be yet you except them at times of national crisis to show empathy and concern for those effected by whatever calamity has befallen them.  Normal leaders would do that just not Donald Trump.  In his world if you're not showing complete fealty, utter loyalty and willing to fall on your sword for him you"re of no use to him. 

On Thursday on Sean Hannity's Fox News show he, Donald Trump the perpetual victim complained about Governor's Jay Inslee and Gretchen Whitmer of Washington and Michigan treatment of him. As they had the temerity to question his leadership thus far during the coronavirus pandemic.  He told Vice President Mike Pence not to call Gov. Inslee but that isn't the worst of it.

He has done this:

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Says Medical Vendors Told Not To 'Send Stuff' To Michigan

Mary Papenfuss

President Donald Trump’s latest target, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told a radio station Friday that medical supply vendors informed her they’ve been told “not to send stuff” to her state amid the battle against COVID-19.

Whitmer, a Democrat, didn’t say if the orders were coming from the White House or if vendors may have been intimidated by Trump’s feud with the governor. But she did appear to link the problem to the president because she told WWJ-AM in Detroit that she tried Thursday night to call the White House to discuss the issue.

She couldn’t get through to Trump, who was at the time trashing Whitmer — whom he referred to as “that young ... woman governor from Michigan” — to Sean Hannity on Fox News. “We don’t like to see the complaints,” Trump said in a phone interview.

Fox News keeps breaking its own rules

Sean Hannity appeared on stage at a Trump rally before the midterm elections. It's the latest example of Fox News’ transformation from right-wing news network into full-on Republican campaign operation.

Fox News constantly accuses other news organizations of having a liberal bias, claiming networks like CNN and MSNBC are in bed with the Democratic Party. But over the past few years, major Fox personalities ike Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Jeanine Pirro have become more open about their support for the Republican Party -- appearing at GOP campaign events, speaking at Republican fundraisers, and even explicitly endorsing Republican candidates on air. Republican candidates have noticed, and have begun using friendly coverage on Fox as part of their campaign strategies.

CNN: "Is Cable News Shaping Trump's U.S. Policy?" (video)

BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): Question. Is cable news, cable news shaping U.S. policy? It’s a good question considering what we’ve seen during President Trump’s first week. Listen to the trend here. Over on Fox News Bill O’Reilly did a story on Chicago, laying out the crime statistics, calls for federal aid. Shortly after that show, this tweet from the President of the United States: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, 228 in 2017 with 42 killings, I will send in the feds.” And then the next night on ABC, watch what happened.

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DONALD TRUMP: That speech was a home run. That speech -- if you look at Fox, OK I'll mention your network -- read, see what Fox said, "they said it was one of the great speeches." You and other networks covered it very inaccurately. I hate to say this to you and you probably won’t put it on, but turn on Fox and see how it was covered. You and a couple of other networks tried to downplay that speech and it was very very unfortunate that you did.

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BALDWIN: Exhibit B. The following morning Fox aired a segment about Chelsea Manning’s critique of former President Obama. The graphic on the screen described Manning as a quote and "ungrateful traitor," fifteen minutes later, this tweet from the president. “Ungrateful traitor Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!” We got to talk about this. Bill Carter is with me, CNN media analyst and Kristen Soltis Anderson, columnist with the Washington Examiner and Republican strategist and pollster. So great to have both of you on. Bill, to my points, I don’t think the timing is a coinkydinky, obviously he watches a lot of TV, obviously he watches a lot of Fox, thus, is U.S. policy being shaped by cable news?

BILL CARTER: Well, it may not be shaped but there is clearly some influence going on because he’s clearly reacting to it. It’s not unusual, I mean, Mr. Trump has always been sort of brought into what he feels is people talking about him. In New York, we always knew, when we covered things about Donald Trump, you were likely to hear from him because he paid close attention to people talking about him.

BALDWIN: He’s always been like that.

CARTER: I used to write pieces and he have handwritten notes sent back to me on the actual clip. So he pays very close attention. And Fox is very friendly territory for him. So he’s going to be on there watching a lot and when they make a point that he thinks is a valid point he tweets it out, then people read the tweet, and then people sort of follow that up in some fashion. It will be interesting to see if he then takes action. It’s one thing to say "I’ll send in the feds" --

BALDWIN: To tweet about it.

CARTER: But will he actually to send in the feds?

BALDWIN: But then to follow through. Kristen, same question. What do you think?

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: I mean I think when it comes to Fox or any media outlet there are lots of different voices within any particular media outlet. Within say Fox, you’ve got people like Sean Hannity, who’s extremely friendly to President Trump, I think was informally advising him at one point during the campaign, extremely friendly turf. But there are other folks within that network who I think shoot pretty straight and I think are doing hard news journalism and trying to cover the real story. So I always hesitate to cast any particular network itself as pro or anti, because I think there are individuals within. But it certain does put a lot more pressure, if you are someone who is a guest on a program, if you are just an average pundit who that now, because the president’s news consumption diet is so cable news heavy and the fact that he’s kind of learning on the fly what it is that he thinks about different issues and sort of, very impulsive, willing to act very quickly, it sort of puts a lot of pressure on anyone who’s on TV to know that the president could be watching you on Air Force One and making policy as a result.