According to Sherman's reporting, Shine recently asked James and Lachlan Murdoch, the 21st Century Fox CEO and chairman, to publish a statement in support of him. Shine's reported request followed weeks of intense scrutiny of the network after the recent ousting of Fox's most popular host, Bill O'Reilly, amid a sexual harassment scandal.
Spokespeople for Shine and the Murdochs denied that Shine asked for a statement of support.
Soon after his first tweet responding to Sherman's story, Hannity tweeted again, apparently referring to Shine, that "somebody high up and inside FNC is trying to get an innocent person fired. And Gabe I know who it is." Hannity then tweeted, "#Istandwithbill" and "#Istandwithshine" in support of the Fox executive.
I’m a little surprised this wasn’t posted already from one of the many sources publishing it. At least not from the search I made for it using just “Sean Hannity” and searching just the titles.
It’s a shame to see it dying from poor management or possibly intentional destruction by management.
Dammit, Sean, if you know who it is, spit it out. This is no time to play coy.
It’s been dead and dying for some time now.
Murdoch’s sons are not the Conservative their father was.
They have already been turning the Wall Street Journal into the spitting editorial image of Uber-Lefty Pravda on The Hudson, and now, maybe, they’re going after FNC??