Sean Hannity is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, he dearly loves–even worships–Donald Trump. But when the New York Times published an article on Saturday which said Hannity serves as an unofficial adviser to the alleged president, the Fox News host threw a Twitter tantrum, just like his hero, Don the Con.
In the Times piece, entitled “Trump Reaches Beyond West Wing for Counsel,” the writers stated:
“Sean Hannity tells the president that keeping promises on core Republican issues is crucial.
Presidents always deploy surrogates to appear on television to spout their talking points, but Mr. Trump has expanded on that by developing relationships with sympathetic media figures like Mr. Hannity who also serve as advisers. Mr. Hannity, the Fox News host, defends Mr. Trump’s most controversial behavior in public, but privately, according to people close to Mr. Trump, he urges the president not to get distracted, and advises him to focus on keeping pledges like repealing the Affordable Care Act.”
But Hannity, who wants to pretend he’s a journalist (he never has been and never will be), was outraged, and took to Twitter in a fit of rage:
@nytimes You colluded with HRC in 2016. It's none of your business who i do or do not talk too. Total fake news speculation about me/@POTUS
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
@nytimes Any conversation I have with ANYONE is supposed to be PRIVATE. I have NEVER talked to you. Was I surveilled and unmasked by u/NSA?
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
Maggie Haberman of the Times was more than ready for Hannity’s hissy fit, responding:
W all due respect, we were interested in who POTUS talks to, not you, and several ppl close to him cited you https://t.co/sb9y4nDJYt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 22, 2017
Also reached out to Fox News pr, who took no issue w it. And it was hardly critical of you. Not sure why the reax https://t.co/sb9y4nDJYt
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 22, 2017
And that’s when Hannity proved what a whiny liar he is, just like the lunatic who resides at the White House:
The @nytimes has no clue who I talk to as I refuse to EVER TALK TO THEM! @POTUS knows you are FAKE NEWS and I doubt he talks to u either.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 22, 2017
But Trump has indeed given extensive interviews to the Times, and reporter Glenn Thrush weighed in with a personal recollection which destroyed the other portion of Hannity’s tweet:
I was once sitting with a Republican elected official preparing for an interview when he got an email from u giving him political advice https://t.co/lhn4UFQn7I
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) April 22, 2017
As for Hannity saying he has never given an interview to the New York Times, that’s also a giant honking lie:
Here's an interview I did with Sean last year: https://t.co/uUMU1yGcoe https://t.co/QzNFgNxSMi
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) April 22, 2017
So the moral of the story is this: When you lie and get caught, you wind up looking even more suspicious than before. Hannity and Trump love to holler “FAKE NEWS!” when they disagree with something, but that’s little more than their sad attempt to project their own lies onto someone who has just exposed them for the pieces of shit they are.
h/t Raw Story
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