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Seth Rich’s brother begs Hannity’s producer: Please stop pushing conspiracy theory about Wikileaks
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| 05/23/2017
| AllahPundit
Posted on 05/23/2017 2:15:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“ARE WE STILL AIRING THAT SH*T?!” a Fox News reporter texted to the Daily Beast when asked for comment about Hannity going all-in on the Rich conspiracy theory.
They’re still airing that sh*t. The Rich family has asked them to stop.
The surge of interest in Rich’s murder started last Monday with a story from a Fox affiliate. According to PI Rod Wheeler, an FBI forensic report showed that thousands of emails to and from Wikileaks had been found on Rich’s computer. Connect the dots: If Rich, a DNC staffer, was in contact with Wikileaks and then Rich was murdered, Rich was probably the source of last summer’s DNC leaks. It wasn’t Russia! It was an inside job — and Rich, knowing too much, had to be eliminated by ClintonWorld. A few problems, though. An FBI source says the Bureau never had Rich’s laptop. A law enforcement source told NBC that there are no emails to or from anyone at Wikileaks on the computer. And Wheeler himself admitted that he got his info about the emails from a report on Fox News, not anything he had independently discovered.
But there’s a more basic objection to the story, via John Ziegler. Why the hell would anyone target Rich over a minor scandal like the DNC leaks and risk turning it into a much, much, much, much bigger one?
Let’s pretend that’s what really happened (LMAO). What exactly would be the motive for murdering Rich in the middle of a presidential election which you were widely expected to win?! So you are going to kill someone because they have created a political headache for you even though murdering them would obviously be a 10,000 times larger and more damaging scandal if it was ever found out?
Makes no sense. Plus, given how uniform the opinion is among U.S. intelligence outlets like the CIA and FBI that Russia was behind the DNC hacking, you need to believe that the conspiracy to cover up Rich’s identity as the true culprit goes very high and very wide among federal officers. This isn’t a matter of a few local cops hushing something up. If you think there’s something to the Rich story, you need to believe that Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and many others are in on it and that the Trump White House somehow can’t uncover the truth. President Hillary would have had an incentive to blame Russia and overlook Rich once in office, but President Trump doesn’t. To the contrary.
And yet, to the apparent dismay of reporters there, Fox News bombthrowers continue to cling to the possibility of Rich skullduggery. It’s not just Hannity. Newt Gingrich has pushed the idea, as has Geraldo Rivera. The Kremlin itself has begun pushing Seth Rich propaganda on Twitter, seizing an opportunity to shift blame for the hacking away from itself. It seems a matter of time before Trump is asked about it and answers either noncommittally or, true to form, credulously about the right-wing conspiracy theory du jour. Hannity remains the theory’s most ardent pursuer, though, and is promising more tonight — despite the appeal from the Rich family:
Go figure that Kim Dotcom might say something that helps him build a base of support inside the U.S. given his own legal issues. “The other reporters I’ve talked to [about this] are similarly pissed about the whole thing,” a second Fox reporter said to the Daily Beast. “Some find it embarrassing, others downright heartless… It’s just gross.” Makes me wonder if the news side of Fox isn’t about to take matters into their own hands, as they did with Andrew Napolitano pushing dubious bombshells, by using their own programming hours to try to debunk fake news being peddled by other shows on the network.
Not to be outdone, the “other” conservative cable news network, OAN, is now offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer. Why does righty media suddenly have Rich fever? This is part of it:
This, about the OAN reward, is part of it too:
The Rich conspiracies are popular again right now, I think, because Trump has been besieged by Russiagate hits from the media lately and it’s the fastest route to letting him off the hook. There’s no Russiagate collusion because … Russia didn’t do anything. Seth Rich did it! Trump is innocent, therefore all of the Russiagate bombshells lately are fake news, etc etc. That wouldn’t be true even if Trump really is innocent of collusion with Moscow, which I think he is, since obstruction for political reasons is an offense in itself. But the more you can muddy the waters among his loyal supporters about what really happened, the better it is for him — it does more damage to their willingness to believe the MSM, it makes Trump look like the victim of a bona fide criminal conspiracy involving murder, and it paints the left as so ruthless that they’d be willing to kill one of their own for leaking some emails. Hannity won’t let it go easily.
Update: Lo and behold, as I’m writing this post, Fox has pulled its original Wheeler/FBI story. They are no longer “airing that sh*t.” For now.
See what I mean about the news bureau striking back?
On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.
Will Hannity still be allowed to pursue the Kim Dotcom angle on his show tonight or is Fox management calling off the dogs entirely on this story? “We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted,” they say at the end of their retraction statement. Presumably that’s his green light to keep going.
Update: Case in point, Hannity just tweeted this after the Fox retraction of the story that rekindled interest in Rich:
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:16:28 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Happy days are here again!)
To: SeekAndFind
“They’re gonna kill us next” they added.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:17:30 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: SeekAndFind
Time for the deep state assassins to be well...
Trump, get back home.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:18:21 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: SeekAndFind
Kinda sux for the RATS when a whole heap of sh*t is made up and #fakenews spews.... maybe they’ll get a clue.... #nope
To: SeekAndFind
Hannity’s very confident about what he’s got. It don’t sound like he’s going anywhere. Hannity is doubling down on the radio.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:19:39 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Because only the Left is allowed to have conspiracy theories.
The Russians hacked the election machines and changed the votes!
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:21:47 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
Duh. Podesta typed that they wanted to make an example of the leaker. Oops, there it is.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:23:40 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: SeekAndFind; All
Well I guess he is in disagreement with his mother and father about his brother investigation.
Remember the media originally lied and said the parents did not want an investigation.
When someone actually asked the parents if that was true it turns out the filthy cockroaches in the media lied to protect their god the Hilda Beast.
To: SeekAndFind
By backtracking and refusing to pursue a very credible story, Fox News as certainly "turned a page away from the Ailes era (RIP). FOx news is becoming another drive by media outlet under the tutelage of Rupert Murdoch's rotten, Leftists sons. As the wife of one of the sons was a member of one of the Clinton's Foundations (Climate Change?), it makes sense for Fox News to now drop the story of Seth Rich's murder. Next Fox News will dismiss Jerry Park's murder as another conspiracy theory.
G-d bless Sean Hannity. And Sean Hannity gave me free tickets to one of his great Freedom Concerts, too.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:25:07 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
(go)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
Democrats, mussies, child molesters....all the same
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:25:41 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
To: SeekAndFind
Julian assange is going to have to say something.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:26:20 PM PDT
by
monkeywrench
(Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that rmemoveth his neighbor's landmark)
To: Eddie01
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Fox News has knives out for Hannity.
Hannity spoke about it on his radio show.
Hannity said, people that used to be my friends, don’t want me in the air, anymore. And he said, if I’m fired, I’ll find a way to communucate about the Seth Rich case.
I think Hannity’s contract is all that’s saving him at this point.
He’s not wanted at FOX.
They only want fake Conservatives, and they still can’t get over that Trump won, IMO.
The Media is huddling together and saying we have to shut down evrything - For the Family!
It’s a Murder case with the Police taking its orders from the DNC. Is that the new norm?
The Family is just an excuse to bury this case.
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To: SeekAndFind
Sean needs to cool it before another Rich family member gets robbed ...
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:26:40 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
(I haven't seen Democrats this pissed off since the Republicans forced them to free their slaves)
To: SeekAndFind
Allahpundit... all you need to know about this article.
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:26:41 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: SeekAndFind
“Not to be outdone, the “other” conservative cable news network, OAN, is now offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s killer. Why does righty media suddenly have Rich fever?”
You mean, only conservatives want to find Rich’s killer? Don’t liberals? He was killed. Someone did it. Find the perp and you find out why he did it. Doesn’t Seth Rich’s family want to find the perp, too?
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posted on
05/23/2017 2:29:37 PM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: SeekAndFind
Screw the Rich family.
They are as crooked and deceitful as Podesta, Clinton, and any and all other DNC operatives who wanted Rich murdered.
Does this idiot family not realize the more they try and shush this DNC murder up, the more exposure it will bring them?
If this family was not bought off by the Rats, then why would they not want all this effort being made into catching whoever killed Seth?
This may sound harsh, but screw ‘em. They are trying to hide and cover up the truth as much as any Rat.
To: All
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Here’s the thing, Families don’t get to say if there’s a Murder Investigation.
They have no say.
Plenty of Murdered kids would be left unsolved if Parent’s were allowed to end Investigations.
They are trying to bamboozle the ignorant with this family line.
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