Snowflake Sean Hannity Is Having A Meltdown Over His CBS Interview With Ted Koppel

Sean Hannity needs a safe space after Ted Koppel called him “bad for America” on CBS News Sunday Morning yesterday. The bullyboy snowflake has been ranting on Twitter and on his radio show.

On Sunday Morning, Koppel did an extended piece about the political divide in the United States, with particular focus on the news. His point was that partisan/ideological news has fueled a gap among Americans which is nearly impossible to bridge.

Hannity discounted his role in the process saying, Americans “know the difference between an opinion show and a news show.” But when Koppel acknowledged his skepticism, there was the following exchange (via Media Matters):

HANNITY: You think we’re bad for America? You think I’m bad for America?

KOPPEL: Yeah.

HANNITY: You do.

KOPPEL: In the long haul, I think you and all these opinion shows—

HANNITY: Really? That’s sad, Ted. That’s sad.

Koppel tried to soften the blow by saying that it’s because “you’re very good at what you do” and that Hannity has attracted an influential audience. But Koppel also said, “You have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.”

If you ask me, Koppel went easy on Hannity. He doesn’t just attract people for whom ideology is more important than facts. Hannity deliberately markets ideology designed to reign over facts.

But Hannity – who often complains about snowflakes on the left – seems to be melting. Or coming unhinged.

Media Matters caught his radio rant today:

HANNITY: But the difference, Ted respectfully, is I’m honest with my audience, you’re not. You pretend to be fair and balanced, I don’t. And if you really cared about truth in journalism how do you work for a network that’s so abusively biased with the history it has? How can I be bad for America when I offer the American people news and information your network will never touch because you have an agenda? I’m proud of the work I do on radio and TV. We have a team that works hard every single day to bring people news and information. Now if you’re going to suggest I’m lying to people and I’m putting ideology ahead of facts, I want your examples.

For the record, I just linked to four examples above. I’ll repeat the sentence here:

Hannity deliberately markets ideology designed to reign over facts.

Hannity has also been having a Twitter tantrum yesterday and today. Notice that his top tweet indicates there will be more pouting on tonight's Fox television show:

They will also hear me throughout the tape challenge Ted repeatedly to include specific comments. "Anatomy of EDITED Fake News" FNC 10 P EST https://t.co/AwVxjIommV
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 27, 2017

Will @CBSNews release the 45 plus minute unedited tape? I doubt it. They will hear Ted say he's not including substantive answers.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 27, 2017

Hero? Not at all. Nightline during The American Hostage situation was must see TV. Personally i like Ted. His cheap edit tactics are Fake https://t.co/CdqAL6QcSH
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 27, 2017

If you pay attention Ted was saying ALL opinion shows are bad for America. But he was saying this while giving us HIS OPINION #hypocrisy https://t.co/53Yn4bxbSw
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 26, 2017

Fake "edited" news. I did about a 45 minute interview with CBS. They ran less than 2. Why did Ted cut out my many examples of media bias? https://t.co/prynzE2yLQ
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 26, 2017

I should thank @CBSNews for providing me the opportunity to unmask "The Anatomy of Edited Fake News!" Stay tuned...Hope David and Ben watch.
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 26, 2017

There are many more tweets like that but you probably get the picture by now.

Meanwhile, watch Koppel’s interview with Hannity below, from the March 26, 2017 CBS News Sunday Morning. Underneath is his reaction on The Sean Hannity Show today.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs-sunday-morning/video/OWXqIVf1rKNmRa5tkiyffkrY76HT3Hjm/a-polarized-america/

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commented 2017-03-29 01:43:17 -0400 · Flag

Gunslinger Hannocchio is a bad Irishman, bad Catholic, bad tennis player, bad singer, bad talker, bad actor, bad father, bad uncle, bad liar, bad dresser, bad businessman, etc.

Hannocchio is The Omen of television and radio broadcasting.

commented 2017-03-28 08:47:03 -0400 · Flag

Wow Sean ask Ted a question, Sean doesn’t like the answer and goes on a Twitter fit. How amusing coming from a guy claiming he has a thick skin against criticism. Sean if you are not mature enough to accept the answer to your question then don’t ask.

commented 2017-03-28 08:33:57 -0400 · Flag

We need to send old Hannity boy all those videos showing all the lies and fake news this is the only way to shut this asshole up.

commented 2017-03-28 07:12:35 -0400 · Flag

“…I’m honest with my audience, you’re not. You pretend to be fair and balanced, I don’t. And if you really cared about truth in journalism how do you work for a network that’s so abusively biased with the history it has? "

If you openly admit you don’t fairly present an argument, as Hannity does above, how can to feign honesty? Hannity appears to believe you can spin like a top as long as you tell the Kool Aid drinkers with eyeballs glued to your show you’re spinning.

I will agree with Hannity in one respect. While I understand why ABC won’t air the entire 45 minute interview they should post it online.

commented 2017-03-28 03:48:47 -0400 · Flag

Koppel was way too easy on Hannity. It’s not his strident opinions that are “bad for America,” it’s his straight-out lies— many of which, amusingly, he listed in his Fox show this evening as things the “abusively biased” media has never bought into because they are lies. Duh.

commented 2017-03-27 22:37:09 -0400 · Flag

I thought Ted Koppel was dead to be honest. At one time Ted Koppel admired Rush Limbaugh. His criticism of Hannity was very tame and Hannity acts like he’s gonna bust a gasket. We’ve been talking about how easy it is to derail Tucker Carlson. Hannity might be even easier, except he doesn’t sputter like Tucker. Still fun though.

commented 2017-03-27 21:47:22 -0400 · Flag

Ooo that’s a lot of butt hurt. Hannity’s Schtick is a cancer on our entire nation.

commented 2017-03-27 21:18:10 -0400 · Flag

All these blowhard cowards like Hannity, O’reilly, Limbaugh etc can dish it out on people non stop from behind the cameras and/or microphones, but when cop one bit of criticism, all hell breaks lose as they chuck the greatest of tantrums, lashing out and going on and on about how they were wronged.
Like all right wingnut believers of free speech, that freedom is conditional on them agreeing with it.