Chickenhawk Sean Hannity has added “international war monger” to his extracurricular job as “unofficial chief of staff” and Bedtime BFF to Donald Trump.
With his long-held dream of war with Iran closer than ever, Hannity gave it an extra nudge Friday night, from the safety of his Fox News studio, in a pre-scripted commentary that was surely approved by a Fox producer.
Hannity sounded excited, not grave, as he announced that Trump has authorized the deployment of military personnel to Saudi Arabia.
However, after his excited recap of escalating tensions, International War Monger Hannity said, “Let me just stop for a second with the news” in order to “speak directly with the Iranian mullahs.” By which Hannity meant he wanted to fan the flames:
Media Matters has the transcript (my emphases added):
HANNITY: I want to speak directly to the Iranian mullahs. I want to tell you I have known President Trump for, well, about 23-plus years. Let me tell you what's not going to happen to help you out tonight and what could happen. You keep pushing this button, and I can promise you the president is never going to engage in a boots on the ground, long protracted conflict. No. He is going -- if he acts, he is going to act and it's going to be over quickly. That's my prediction.
And you have been warned. It will be over and it will be over quickly. That is my prediction to the Iranian mullahs. So you keep acting the way you're acting and you will see -- like we have been right on so many issues over the years, we will be right on that prediction.
Now we all know -- if we're going to be very honest tonight, we know the prime minister, I know the mullahs in Iran knows it, I know the president knows it -- that the prime minister of Great Britain is weak. President Trump is not weak. If he decides to act, it will be over quickly -- and let me add one other thing, you will lose.
Hannity said nothing about his military-age son enlisting.
Watch the kind of warmongering rhetoric that Fox News approves of below, from the July 19, 2019 Hannity, via Media Matters.
Do you realize that the United States are in such a bad shape now that Tucker Carlson – TUCKER CARLSON!! – is seriously considered (by the nobody in the White House) as the running ma2e for the 2020 elections?
Given that Hannity appears to be so excited about having a war with Iran, if he’s really that confident, then he should fly out immediately to Tehran to stand at ground zero to report on the bombs falling. A real man would do this, so of course Hannity should do it in a moment. He should be man enough to go to the front lines and stand there and be counted when the carnage happens. If not, he should not be given even a moment of anyone’s time or thoughts when he desperately waves his arms around like this.
