Posted on 05/03/2016 11:16:08 AM PDT by Innovative
Sean Hannity finally copped to being a Republican shill.
"The media has accused me of going soft in interviews on Republicans," the Fox News host said on his radio show last month. "I plead guilty. I absolutely plead guilty. You know why? Because I want one of them to win."
The admission came after Hannity spent weeks being accused of shilling for Donald Trump. In a rare moment of media bipartisanship, the liberal site ThinkProgress called his show a serialized Trump infomercial, and the conservative site RedState endorsed that characterization. Even Sen. Ted Cruz had accused Hannity of asking pro-Trump questions.
So Hannity, 54, chose to embrace a more general bias.
"I have been easy on all R as I want them to win," he tweeted Saturday. While that hardly satisfied pro-Cruz Republicans, who still charge him with aiding Trump, the message to the general public was the same: I am an unapologetic conservative with a vested interest in getting Trump or Cruz to the White House.
"I'm not a journalist," Hannity said recently. "I'm a talk show host."
In a campaign season rife with handwringing over the media's coverage of Trump, Hannity does no handwringing. He has embraced his role as the face of anti-establishment conservative media. Critics debate whether he's spent more time interviewing Trump or Cruz, but that is hardly the salient point. What matters is that he always offers Trump — who increasingly looks poised to be the Republican nominee, and therefore Hannity's pick for president — robust praise and safe harbor from criticism.
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Go, Hannity!
Hannity’s ratings will skyrocket as a result!
The author isn’t a Hannity listener.
At least he’s an honest man, unlike all those media libs. I doubt anyone is surprised to hear his admission though. MAGA!
“Sean Hannity finally copped to being a Republican shill.”
News Alert! Stop the Freakin’ presses!!! Sun sets in the west!
They have. Hannity tweeted a week or so ago that his ratings are up 40% since the beginning of the year.
Is it possible that CNN is wooing Hannity to join their network?
Good for Sean. He is the only one we watch on Fox News.
To me....Hannity has been very fair to both candidates. And I also believe Hannity has been honest from the beginning... he is a solid rock and I can always depend on Hannity to say what I’m feeling.
I would watch, but I gave up on MSM in general, especially FauxNews.
[ It all boils down to who can beat Hillary. Trump has the guts to absolutely humiliate and embarrass Hillary. Will he be a great president, maybe not, but maybe a president who begins changing the course to financial destruction. ]
I agree.
“Trump has the guts to absolutely humiliate and embarrass Hillary.”
Amen! He will be the one who will finally go after that sociopathic crook! It certainly appears as if all others are afraid of her to varying degrees.
Sean Hannity, despite his flaws, is a reasonably honest political pundit.
Limbaugh on the otherhand has proven himself to be a monotonous jerk.
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“It all boils down to who can beat Hillary.”
Exactly. Unfortunately many in the GOPe already sold out for a Hillary presidency.
See:
Tech billionaires (major Dem donors) plot with GOP leaders at exclusive island resort to stop Trump
“Embrace” is an awfully sterile word for what Hannity does to Trump.
The talk show host this cycle that have been the most magnanimous and have invited not just the majors candidates but the wannabees like Santorum and Huckabee have had great success in letting them all speak their peace.
Those that have and had the best ratings and are most listen-able IMHO are: Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jeff Kuhner ( WKRO 680 am out of Boston ).
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