Posted on 05/23/2017 7:12:17 PM PDT by drewh
The FOX News host is refusing to stop his investigation into the grisly murder of Seth Rich.
Sean Hannity, FOX News host went out on a limb Tuesday in defense of his coverage, calling his critics "phony hypocrites." Hannity wants to know who killed Seth Rich, even if the mainstream media and his own colleagues want him to stop.
The murder of Seth Rich, a young Democratic National Committee staffer, has inspired a lot of speculation in the right-wing media and on FOX, the gist of which is that he was murdered by Democratic operatives as revenge for being a whistleblower who delivered the notorious DNC emails to WikiLeaks. If Rich were the leaker, the thinking goes, there wouldn't have been any Russian hacking, therefore the entire investigation into the Trump campaign's Russian connections would be nonsense.
But the theory is bigger than any one figure—it's so huge it has its very own subreddit.
Hannity spent much of Tuesday tweeting about Rich. His big "source" is Kim Dotcom, a New Zealand webpreneur. Dotcom has been claiming for days that he knew Rich, and that he has information that proves Rich had delivered a collection of DNC emails to WikiLeaks. On Tuesday, what was revealed was a blog post at Dotcom's website, Kim.com, about a person in 2014 who went by "Panda" chatting with Dotcom about "corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics." Dotcom claims that Panda was Rich and hinted vaguely about more to be revealed in the future. On Tuesday night, Hannity is scheduled to interview Dotcom on his show.
Throughout Tuesday afternoon, Hannity carried on talking about the Seth Rich case on his radio show. Times.
"I am not FOX.com or FOXNews.com. I retract nothing," he told listeners.
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The person Sean replaced, the great Bob Grant, would have called the "fake, phony frauds."
It’s a fun show, Steve’s been doing it for decades (remember the “Disco Demolition” stunt that cancelled the second half of a White Sox doubleheader back in the 70s? That was him). They just discuss weird news, their personal lives, take calls and occasionally play games. Makes the workday zoom.
re: “sloppy hit job”
That’s one thing that makes conspiracy theories look dubious, this was a shaky, unreliable way to “off” someone (he might have survived, and/or he might have talked to EMS/Police/hospital staff as long as he was still alive) — not a professional job at all. Even if someone wanted to make it “appear” to be other than a professional job, they would surely guarantee that he stopped breathing quickly (bullet in the heart or head), even if they made the crime scene look sloppy so it would not appear to be a “pro” involved.
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Interesting. What if the real assasination was occur within a nearby local PRIVATE hospital with after the botched robbery and shooting?
Then, you could sell the robbery angle more plausibly.
Don’t look to the Fox News Murdoch Boy’s. It is their Liberal wives calling the shots behind the scenes. The only way to change this is for the Old Man to get involved and tell the wives to “go to their rooms”.
No just take those people over to One America News and make an offer.
The Seth Rich murder conspiracy is a lot less far fetched than Trump allegedly colluding with the Russians.
Well lots of scenarios can be imagined, but if professionals were involved that would be a very strange way to proceed. They could not know which of several DC hospitals would receive the wounded Seth Rich, so how could “they” possibly guarantee that a follow-up assassination would occur quickly at a hospital? Seems like a very chancy, unreliable way to pursue such a matter. In real life, not the movies, I find it difficult to believe that any “pro” would count on getting a 2nd chance at the target in a short time frame, especially since an ambulance could take the victim to one of quite a number of hospitals (not automatically the closest one, may depend upon protocols for a particular ambulance service and also patient loads at the ERs).
For instance, a friend of mine is an ER doc in another large metro area, downtown. Even though their hospital is a large and famous institution, they often do NOT receive nearby gunshot victims because there is a “Level I Trauma Center” hospital just a couple of miles further away. I doubt that potential assassins could count on which hospital would receive the wounded victim, and anyway, really, why would they go to such lengths not to do the job the first time??? This is not a movie, it’s real life.
Hannity is next to be let go at FOX.
>>Won’t be too long before Hannity and who ever else is interested discover that there are TENS OF THOUSANDS, MAYBE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of kids who have a particular skill set honed by 16 years of US combat operations against an insurgency opponent.
1. Almost all of those people are not going to commit a crime intentionally and
2. Plenty of us have had similar skills for a lot longer than 16 years and have the capability to defend against those not covered in 1.
I think you’re reaching here.
“If golds so good; why don’t THEY keep it!”
That what what I think EVERY TIME I see or hear an ad for Gold. You would never hear a wall street investor say “Here, I’m selling off my commodities because they are about to go up in value but I’m selling them anyway”. lol!
Anyway, nothing will ever come out of the Seth Rich thing unless at least one of two things happen: (1) Someone proves he leaked DNC email and info and (2a) someone is caught and they point the finger back at whomever hired them or (2b) some evidence of ordering a hire or hit is discovered.
The last of which (2b) will never happen. They aren’t that stupid... especially after they got busted having all their emails leaked. There never was a paper trail.
And if the first thing happens, it wouldn’t get any one criminally prosecuted because it’s only proof that there was a motive to have Seth Rich killed. Proving that he was the leak will damage the DNC very badly but it wont put anyone in jail.
Howard University Hospital ICU, a private institution, I believe. Not bound by the same disclosure policies and a public hospital.
He was reported shot 3 block east and, from what I understand, it was the only one with an ICU in the immediate vicinity.
Would be a reasonable assumption he was taken there, no?
Hannity on air talking about this is a “Kill Shot” against him on the show. “Make no mistake about it.... this is a kill shot, to destroy me, to silence my voice”
We are totally speculating without facts. I don’t think we know which ER received him. There is the anonymous Reddit post from someone claiming to be a 4th year surgical resident at Washington Hospital Center, and that person claims to have treated Seth Rich. So, no, I don’t think we can assume he went to Howard University even if that was closest. I’m not assuming the Reddit poster is legit either, I thought that note seemed a bit sketchy and not likely to have been written by a real surgeon.... but who knows at this point? As for an ICU, I suspect that any sizable urban hospital has an ICU — I know I’ve been in quite a few of them in other metro areas due to many family medical issues through the years. The Howard University Hospital does appear to be a “Level I Trauma Center” which is usually the foremost criterion for sending critically injured patients.... but we don’t know where he was taken (or at least I have not seen anything definitive on the subject). Assumption means nothing except speculation.
DC appears to have several different ambulance services, which may further complicate the question. They don’t all necessarily use the same hospitals at the same frequency. It is not automatic to go to the very closest (at least not in other areas I am familiar with) — for instance I once was witness to a family member’s critical emergency and the ambulance took her to a hospital 3 miles away rather than another one 2 miles away. And I mentioned the situation of a friend who is an urban ER doc in a major, famous hospital; yet, she says that ambulances are often directed to a larger hospital a couple of miles away even when her hospital is closer.
They would take a working code to the closest available hospital. Once stabilized, if possible, then they would move to a trauma facility, if it met criteria. I think Level I trauma takes burns as well as “standard” trauma fare.
And discussing doctor’s report here:
Interesting video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2pgrLiajs
Both opensource investigator George Webb
And, as you’ve already discovered the 4th year resident’s anon post(and more) here:
It wasn’t a “code” he was conscious by accounts we have seen. I have described cases elsewhere in which I KNOW that ambulances did not go to the very closest hospital (though still within a 2-3 mile radius), and what I know to be ambulance protocol in another, larger American city: they take severe wounds and traumas to a particular hospital ER which is NOT necessarily the very closest one.
You do not sound as though you “know” which hospital ER treated Seth Rich. If you do know, with certain genuine knowledge, please tell us to end this discussion. But just saying what you imagine they would/should have done is simply your speculation. I have actually followed an ambulance (with a dying family member inside) to a hospital which was not the “closest available” (though only a mile further, and they had reasons to go there as I learned later).
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