Conspiracy theorist extraordinaire and Fox News contributor Monica Crowley told an anti-Clinton/Obama whopper Wednesday night. And then she had the nerve to whine about the need for a “fair, objective press that’s only interested in the truth.”
Crowley has become a regular on the Hannity show’s small crew of rotating Trumpsters that show up nearly every night, like bad pennies. Joining her were Trumpsters Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson.
Hannity started with an attack on the media, while – coffee spray alert! – he held himself up as an honest broker. (Transcript excerpts via Fox News):
HANNITY: I said in 2008, journalism is dead. You’re all a bunch of hacks, phonies, liars and you’re corrupt! And they lectured me because I’m honest and I say I give opinion.
Actually “giving opinion” is a vast understatement for the kind of propagandist Hannity has turned into. Don’t take my word for it. Check out what former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden recently said about Hannity and Fox News. From The Daily Beast:
Hayden told Brookings Institute senior fellow Benjamin Wittes in a statement: “Hannity has entered the pantheon of a true propagandist.” Additionally, he wrote, “Fox News has almost entirely jumped the shark. They have given up any semblance of conservatism and focused on an almost visceral hatred of all things Clinton and Obama.” The four-star general—who has served in positions under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama—concluded that Hannity reminds him a Bulgarian political official he met in the 1980s who, when asked what truth is, told Hayden, “Truth is what serves the party.”
Not that any of the Trump/Hannity sycophants on the panel challenged a word Hannity said. Instead, we got yet another crazy mouthful from Fox’s queen of conspiracy theories, Monica Crowley:
CROWLEY: My old boss, former president Richard Nixon, what he did was child’s play compared to the range of corruption and collusion that we have seen through this administration!
Pretty much every day has been an impeachable offense! Every day of the four years that Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state, she was leveraging her public office to enrich herself and empower herself and her family’s foundation!
Donald Trump is right to point this out, but I would say this. He should be making an even bigger point, which is in this country, we take certain foundations of our system for granted. But under Obama and Clinton, those foundations don’t exist anymore!
And by that, I mean an independent, impartial and fair Department of Justice, FBI, and a fair, objective press that’s only interested in the truth. Without those cornerstones, without an impartial entity to enforce the law evenly, whether it’s the FBI, the DOJ, or the press to investigate, we have nothing in this country, Sean. It’s gone!
Whoa! Every day has been an impeachable offense? Where was the Republican-led Congress then? It’s not as if they’ve been accommodating to the Obama administration.
As for Crowley’s call for a “fair, objective press that’s only interested in the truth?” Well, I suspect she would have been right at home in 1980s Bulgaria, too.
Meanwhile, self-styled patriot Hannity gave his seal of approval to Trump’s incitement of violence toward reporters covering him:
HANNITY: And when he points them out and they get upset that people turned and boo them. Too bad, because they have lied to all the people that are at those rallies.
So Hannity's OK with reporters getting attacked if they don't say what Hannity wants to hear Hannity thinks they lied?
I’m never OK with violence. But let me just ask this. Whatever happened to “truth-seeker” Hannity’s grave concern for Hillary Clinton’s health? Has he decided she’s not brain damaged after all? That she didn’t have the mini seizures he claimed to see in a video (when she was joking around with reporters)? Or the serious heart trouble he seized on after he “forgot” about Clinton’s brain damage?
If Hannity really thinks Clinton is so physically impaired, why has he turned silent on the subject? Or was he lying to all the people watching his show in the first place?
Watch another episode of Fox News jumping the shark below, from the October 26, 2016 Hannity show.
(H/T Kevin Koster)
The Fox “News” suits don’t value this old guy as much as Billy and Megyn. The suits consider Billy and Megyn their mega-stars, while they look at Hannocchio and say…meh.
Certain Fox “News” associates can’t stand this clown, and talk about him behind his back to media folks.
He’s not the brightest of the Fox bunch, and the suits know it. Everyone laughs at him, and his silly polls. His two children, nieces and nephews are smarter than him.
Coming down the pipeline:
1. No love for Hannocchio.
2. The Ailes saga is not over.
3. The drama continues inside the House of Demons.
4. Backstabbing at Fox “News.”
5. Former Foxies singing like canaries in a tree.
NOTE TO HANNITY
Ha! ha! The Foxies value Billy and Megyn more than you. That promo photo has Billy and Megyn in front, and you off to the side. The suits are worried about losing their two biggest stars. In their eyes, you are a minor star. It’s like the teacher who puts their star pupils in front and the goofy kid in the back. You are that goofy kid.
EARTH TO MONICA:
BPWB (Being President While Black) is NOT an impeachable offense — no matter how much you may want it to be.
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Hannity is an extreme Fox News example but, obviously, Fox is mostly 24/7 right-wing agitation-propaganda. A conservative I was (ironically) eating with (who remained silent because later he told me he was afraid the guy was so out of control he might get violent) even admitted he avoids Fox because it isn’t news but just sensational vomit aimed at working up viewers.
The problem is while we all realize Fox isn’t news but agitation-propaganda just like it’s sources in talk radio and right-wing blogs, most conservatives lack the critical thinking skills to see through the bulls—t. Worse, I’m starting to wonder how many Republican politicians and Fox personalities who should know better are starting to believe their own propaganda.
For example, now we have Congressman Chaffetz indicating he’s going to use the Oversight Committee to investigate Hillary for at least the 1st 2 years of her administration. More #Benghazi!. More Email-gate. More friends of Bill (FOB) murder conspiracies. More Clinton Foundation-gate. More Clinton White House Christmas (condom) tree conspiracies. The list keeps going and is endless.
“Chaffetz: ’We’ve got two years worth of Hillary investigations to come”:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/10/chaffetz-weve-got-two-years-worth-of-hillary-investigations-to-come/
Can we get him to look at Fox Biz? His hair would surely curl, what there is of it, if he got a snootful of Dobbs, who’s just as bad as the unhinged Crowley.
President G H Bush is the last republican President to come near Ike status. But 1980 election mischief still haunts.
George W. Bush- too many offenses than space will allow.
Impeach democrats???!!
These SOB’s are one step ahead of Benedict Arnold.
