Sean Hannity Is Going to War With FOX News: "I Am Not FOX News.com, I Retract Nothing,"

Vice News ^ | May 23 2017, 5:00pm | MIKE PEARL

[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.

[31R1O]

Kim Dotcom just got his card pulled.

https://vid.me/Lnnn

[NKP_Vet]

Pretty good for someone who never went to college.

[Stentor]

The libs are forcing sponsors to cave. Get your facts straight people. You don’t even understand what’s going on. Media Matters has declared war on him....just like O’reilly. How can people be so dense???

I know what happened. If he couldn't carry the load on the Rich assassination, he should have shut his mouth to begin with. His mouth wrote a check his ass couldn't cash. Be inspector Clouseau somewhere else.

[blackberry1]

He’s being threatened on multiple fronts. His microphone was muted tonight by the network. Total showdown behind closed doors. He closed by saying we’ll hopefully see you here tomorrow nite.

The D.C power structure is threatened in a major way and this is war. Don’t sit back and arm chair this thing. If BO can be taken down, Hannity is the next domino.

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[Jane Long]

Agree.

Sad day.

[Vince Ferrer]

That only leaves Lou.

And George Webb

[Jane Long]

Can you fill in those of us who don’t want to click on that link? Thanks.

[Jim from C-Town]

Rush is worth $500 million and isn’t college educated.

Sheila Jackson Lee has JD from University of Virginia Law School & Maxine Waters has a BA in Sociology from CSA, LA and they are both functionally retarded. So.....

[wtd]

Going to war with Fox? Not from what I saw. Abiding in keeping the facts apolitical to fulfill his compassion towards Seth's parents & brother, Sean Hannity opted to drop his segment with Kimdotcom. Hannity has essentially given the all suspects involved in the murder of Seth Rich one more night of sweet dreams of powerful success. So much for apolitical. He caved.

I can understand wanting to avoid harming Seth's family any further. But the harm was caused by the murderers - who have yet to be found before anyone else suffers same again. Wherever the facts lead will ultimately bring us to the murderers and their motive. That effort may cause pain regardless of who the murderer(s) are. Arguing against the pursuit of all leads which may imply political motivations is like blindfolding lady justice and hog tying both her hands and feet together. Let the facts speak for themselves. Bring real justice to this case...regardless where the truth lies. Justice for Seth Rich.

[TheCipher]

If he couldn't carry the load on the Rich assassination

That was the problem right there. He should never had put the attention on the assassination. That gave the libs the talking point of "being cruel" to the family. Instead, he should have just concentrated on Rich being the leaker ( by, for example, trying to find out who the intermediary who passed the info in the park was). Once that is proven, the rest falls in place.

[TigerClaws]

The family said they want the DC police to go public with what they’ve found:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4516416/DNC-staffer-Seth-Rich-family-demand-answers-cops.html#ixzz4hxfVoyAq

Their PR rep (former DNC guy) penned a WaPo op ed on behalf of the parents (or they wrote it themselves):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-seth-richs-parents-stop-politicizing-our-sons-murder/2017/05/23/164cf4dc-3fee-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.0060e384eac9

[Stentor]

And George Webb

I've been watching George since day 60. Have everything that wasn't scrubbed. I was talking about cable news. Lou isn't even focusing on Rich. But at least he's consistent and not running his mouth.

[SaxxonWoods]

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but I think political parties in the USA can nominate whomever they please, with or without primaries.

And for you English majors, should that be whoever or whomever?

[Publius]

Whomever is correct.

[SaxxonWoods]

I think you may be on the trail.

This was an attempt to “O’Reilly” Hannity.

If so, it means he’s got no skeletons in his closet that liberals have found.

[blackberry1]

Many more outlets than Hannity are on this. Fox shut him down but the DNC coverup is where the story is. Donna S and the t team stopping Wheeler from pursing leads in the DC police department.

Handy can use his radio program all he wants but Fox is obviously facing the same pressure Drudge is.

[tumblindice]

Another story of the century that turned into a Capone vault fizzling squib?

I thought this Kim was going to provide evidence that Seth Rich was the leak and was killed for it.
That’s what it smells like but this side show barking is getting old.
Either produce the evidence—*** or get off the pot, boys. Otherwise you’re just Democrats beating your Russia drum. And they have the media, you don’t.
Keerighst.

[SaxxonWoods]

Thanks!

[Eagles6]

OANN is on it.