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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Nope. He just caved.
Short war, wasn’t it?
Hannity just backed off...No mention of Dotcom guy tonight....
Yup
I knew he’d chicken out!
I stayed up for this ????
VERY Disappointing!
He should have talked about Seth Rich as promised.
Did he find a horse head in his bed?
Remember, the Murdoch boys ae Upper East Side elitist liberals, and the #2 stockholder is a Saudi prince.
Fox has ordered personalities off stories before. I suspect Sean’s job was threatened.
Hannity says he would never recover f he lost his kids or a family member right before he says he’s dropping the Seth Rich story for now...
They threatened his family
He will return to the story soon enough. I assume he does not have all he needs to go it alone. If Assange or KimDotCom can clarify this matter, they should get the job done.
I interpreted it to mean he was threatened with his job.
That only leaves Lou.
We’re talking Podesta/the DNC/ HRC / Bill/ and God knows who else.
Conspiracy to commit murder means everyone of them would be facing life in jail - a rough jail, too. Not club Fed.
Not surprised Hannity’s family was threatened and it likely was a detailed threat (the whens and wheres of his kids).
Sean said he’s backing off out of compassion for the family of Seth Rich. Rich’s family doesn’t want to know who the murderer(s) are if they were Demonrats.
Very possible, though I'm sure he has security to a certain extent. Still....
My opinion is that this isn't over yet. He's pausing until he can secure his people. Trump is, I'm sure, aware.
I think it’s already been proven that the “panda” account where those comments appeared were indeed Rich’s.
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