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11/1/2016

Why Sean Hannity Pushed a Fake News Story on the Radio Today

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:30 pm



I have your answer in two words: “Gateway Pundit.”

Radio host Sean Hannity on Tuesday embraced a piece of fake news about President Obama deleting endorsements of Hillary Clinton from his Twitter account.

Hannity used the made-up news to claim that President Obama’s legacy might be “jail.”

The deleted-tweets claim could have been disproven by a quick Twitter search.

Later in the day, Hannity tweeted a correction and apologized.

Hannity later explained where the fake news came from. Here is Hannity’s tweeted correction:

The key there is the phrase: “Live on radio I read a gateway pundit report” . . .

He went full Gateway Pundit.

Never go full Gateway Pundit.

[Cross-posted at RedState.]

34 Responses to “Why Sean Hannity Pushed a Fake News Story on the Radio Today”

  1. If he credited Gateway with the information when he shared it with his audience, it’s no biggie, in my opinion.

    What is big is that he has become the #1 Fox News anchor in ratings. What a farce. Then again, I have to admit I am loving that dear Megyn is paying a significant price for her corrupt and self-serving performance since that ignominious first GOP debate.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5) — 11/1/2016 @ 9:50 pm

  2. as opposed to talking points memo, business insider, esquire, rolling stone, how many times have they gotten something right in the last decade, now it depends on the source, while all of these publications were touting levick, crump/julian other grapevines,

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/1/2016 @ 9:51 pm

  3. well she’s taken the hit, for being jane one note, most recently denying juanita broderick’s claim,

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/1/2016 @ 9:53 pm

  4. Hoft … You never go Full Hoft.

    SPQR (a3a747) — 11/1/2016 @ 10:05 pm

  5. there are some constants in the universe, lisa mxtlplk, which always choose the wrong card,

    http://www.redstate.com/diary/southernconstitutionalist/2016/11/01/sabotage-bill-weld-endorses-murkowski-miller-now-vouching-hillary/

    this is why a friend ran as a writein in that infamous companion race to macho grande,

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/1/2016 @ 10:07 pm

  6. how many things have brian stelter gotten wrong in the last six months,

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/1/2016 @ 10:09 pm

  7. You just know that Brian Stelter knows his way around a Grand Central Station Glory hole. Or twelve

    Donald (bd230b) — 11/1/2016 @ 10:26 pm

  8. Cnn, stelzer’s network helped fix a primary. They have innpart caused cities to burn.

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/1/2016 @ 10:34 pm

  9. Mrs Obama’s tweets were deleted to 2013, which is what GP and others reported.

    justine (e7bdc0) — 11/1/2016 @ 11:10 pm

  10. Nothing good comes of Twitter.

    Beldar (fa637a) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:07 am

  11. Fake news on radio and hawking talking Trump pens on TV.

    Quite a day, boyo.

    “The medium is the message.” – Marshall McLuhan, 1964

    DCSCA (797bc0) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:15 am

  12. gateway pundit what did gateway pundit do wrong

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:20 am

  13. It’s also been pushed on a bunch of FB comments and other places that all these Wiener emails were found in a big folder entitled “Life Insurance”. I have no idea how anyone would actually get that info from an ongoing investigation, so it has to be just another rumor-meme.

    But that definitely falls in the “too funny to check” category in my mind, at least.

    I feel distinct trepidation about the future path of our government regardless of the outcome of the election…but beginning to be hopeful that the oaths I made to protect certain things just might actually be enforceable after all.

    rtrski (8a042a) — 11/2/2016 @ 3:24 am

  14. Sean Hannity is a hack? Say it ain’t so…

    Nein (fd9d32) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:31 am

  15. Four words you’ll never hear from me.

    According to Gateway Pundit…

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:34 am

  16. he is a good pundit and a kind person

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:42 am

  17. @narcisco: Good catch there, regarding Bill Weld and his statement that he believes Hillary Clinton did nothing wrong with her email, and would never do anything to endanger classified material. He believes that because he used to work with her.

    People looking for a principled conservative-ish alternative to Donald Trump are not finding it in the Libertarian candidates.

    I don’t hold the Aleppo thing against them, but I do hold against them their support for carbon taxes, abortion, gun rights restrictions, and now defense of Hillary Clinton’s illegal server.

    Gabriel Hanna (c791b9) — 11/2/2016 @ 4:53 am

  18. Evergreen…

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/imageedit_2139_9477055180.jpg

    Colonel Haiku (ce04df) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:01 am

  19. Hannity isn’t such a bum on radio. He actually would be more in the vein of Regis Philbin or a generic morning host if not for his FOX show trajectory.

    urbanleftbehind (693a78) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:10 am

  20. No, Hannity is a pr**k on radio, too. I can’t stand to listen to the guy. Especially understanding he supposedly represents “my side.” He gets so much wrong. This is just the latest example.

    But I hear he’s a brown belt.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:25 am

  21. It will be a shorter list if I say who I do like.

    I like Larry Elder, the Sage of South Central. He has his doo-doo formed up in one nice neat pile.

    Hannity’s doo-doo is all over the place.

    Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:31 am

  22. The one thing about a story like this – which reports something that, if true, is impossible to hide, and if false, would become known right away, is that it is possible to check it yourself.

    Or you can wait a few hours and see if it holds.

    Sean Hanity gambled that since this story, if false, would be very obviously false, it must be true. But the story itself would be astonishing, and his problem was that he was too ready to believe that.

    Now something did happen. Barack Obama did not join in in the condemnation of FBI Director James Comey, and in fact said he did the right thing. That did not mean, however, he was disassociating himself from Hillary Clinton.

    In the New York City newspapers, on Monday, the Daily News was even more anti-Comey than tghe day before, and the New York Times ran 3 Op-eds pieces against what he did (includin Paul Krugman’s regular column)

    But on Tuesday that was not any headline at all about thiss except for one line right below the masthead that said:

    PREZ BACKS COMEY “MAN OF INTEGRITY”

    Today they’ve got:

    DAMN
    RIGHT,
    WE’RE
    WITH HER!

    News doubles down on endorsement of
    Clinton for President – it’s that important

    SEE PAGES 16, 17, 18,19

    The two lines starting with “News doubles down” are nderlined, but there is no red dot in front of them,

    There is a big picture of Hillary Clinton on the right side of the front page.

    Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:11 am

  23. Mutiny, indeed:

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/tom-delay-email-probe-fbi-agents/2016/11/01/id/756491/

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:24 am

  24. What right-thinking person would watch Sean Hannity when Hogan’s Heroes, Full House, Hey Arnold!, and Star Wars Rebels are on?

    nk (dbc370) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:40 am

  25. True but he’s competing with O’Donnell and vanderbilt, he’s overeager, but I don’t right him off, now loofah boy something else entirely.

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 6:48 am

  26. I wondered also about a story on GP that Chris Matthews dissed Hillary and all but endorsed Trump. True…?

    Patricia (5fc097) — 11/2/2016 @ 8:48 am

  27. @17 Gabriel Hanna

    Don’t forget Johnson vs Guy Benson,”It’s offensive to call them ‘illegals’!”

    Pinandpuller (d934a6) — 11/2/2016 @ 10:39 am

  28. Calling the same BS around here get’s one banned.

    DNF (755a85) — 11/2/2016 @ 11:54 am

  29. Nothingburger:

    http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2016/11/imap-four-letters-that-spell-potential.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DougRossJournal+%28Doug+Ross+%40+Journal%29

    DNF (755a85) — 11/2/2016 @ 11:55 am

  30. 20. Steve57 (0b1dac) — 11/2/2016 @ 5:25 am

    No, Hannity is a pr**k on radio, too….He gets so much wrong.

    I think he’s getting details wrong right now, or a few minutes ago. Like the server being in the bathroom in Colorado. That wasn’t the server. It wasn’t a bathroom any longer either, and I think Platte River Network also moved soon. Or that Hillary, if things were different, might be in jail. That only happens a year or two down the road, after all legal proceedings are over.

    He may have other interesting facts that are right. Like Hillary ordering files to be deleted two days before receiving a subpoena, and after being warned. It just needs to be checked out and confirmed.

    I think actually they put on the 60-day delete in late 2014 or maybe it was 90 at first. The earlier subpeona had been of the State Department, and, of course, her emails weren’t there. The State Department got emails from her and hid the whole problem from the Trey Gowdy Committee till after their dealings with her were over.

    When he has more specific details, and he’s not going over previous information, he’s more likely to be correct.

    Sammy Finkelman (3fda43) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:01 pm

  31. I wondered also about a story on GP that Chris Matthews dissed Hillary and all but endorsed Trump. True…?

    False.

    Milhouse (40ca7b) — 11/2/2016 @ 1:56 pm

  32. Rush Limabaugh is somewhat better:

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/02/what_the_clinton_email_scandal_is_about

    Andy McCarthy at National Review Online, who used to work at the Southern District of New York’s Manhattan office, has detailed all this in a column today, and he says: “Clearly, that is why agents on the FBI’s Clinton Foundation team wanted to get their investigation out of the [Eastern District]’s clutches and move it to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York” in Manhattan. The Southern District “has a tradition of relative independence from the Justice Department and a well-earned reputation for pursuing political-corruption cases aggressively…”

    The U.S. attorney at the Southern District is Preet Bharara, and he is known for prosecuting Republicans and Democrats, politicos who have engaged in corruption. “[T]he Clinton Foundation agents were said to be barred from ‘prosecutor shopping’ by FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe…” This is the husband of the woman who Terry McAullife sent $675,000 for her campaign for the Senate. McCabe is number two at the FBI. McCabe is telling the FBI team on the foundation to go pound sand.

    We’re not letting you move over to the Southern District to move your investigation over there. We’re gonna keep it here at the Eastern District and you’re shut down, essentially.

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/02/crooked_2_man_at_doj_warned_podesta_about_the_clinton_investigation_details

    He still makes mistakes and gets some things wrong that others got wrong.

    Here’s his outlook on the election:

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/11/02/panic_sets_in_for_democrats_drive_bys

    Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:04 pm

  33. Linked to by Rush Limbauugh’s website)

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441675/clinton-foundation-fbi-investigation-loretta-lynch-obstruction

    Sammy Finkelman (643dcd) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:05 pm

  34. apparently it doesn’t end with brazile,

    http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/02/who-leaked-the-cnn-debate-question-to-donna-brazile/

    narciso (d1f714) — 11/2/2016 @ 2:18 pm


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