Tag Archives: Sean Hannity

Politico reports: In the first week of the head-to-head battle between Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow, the conservative heavyweight drew significantly higher ratings than his liberal counterpart. Hannity pulled out all the stops, bringing in Steve Bannon, Bill O’Reilly, Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh to boost his numbers. It appears to have worked: The Fox News pundit pulled in an …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday night, saying he wears the top GOP lawmaker’s contempt as “a badge of honor.” “The elites represented by Mitch McConnell hold me in contempt,” Bannnon told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in a rare TV interview. “They think I’m a bad …

L-O-L. Mediaite reports: At the end of his show Monday night, Sean Hannity informed his viewers that he’ll be returning to the 9pm time slot where his show began to make room for Laura Ingraham, whose show The Ingraham Angle will launch in October. “All of my career, I always started behind the eight ball,” Hannity told his viewers. “In …

The Hill reports: Conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham’s rumored 10:00 p.m. ET program on Fox News could launch as early as next week, Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge said Monday on Twitter. Ingraham, who is currently a Fox News contributor and editor-in-chief of the online conservative publication “Lifezette,” has hosted programs on Fox News and MSNBC before. The …

From the far-right Senate Conservatives Fund: President Trump is not the one who is responsible for creating the expectations that Republicans have failed to meet. It was Mitch McConnell who promised action on many issues if only the voters would give Republicans unified control. It was Mitch McConnell who spent seven years promising to repeal Obamacare “root and branch.” And …

Media Matters has the transcript from Sean Hannity’s radio show today: THOMAS MCINERNEY: We have no choice, and by the way, if one — if one artillery round comes out of North Korea onto Seoul, he gets our full nuclear retaliatory capability. Make sure he understands that. That artillery is no longer valid, because when we retaliate, we’re going to …

The Week reports: At 3:11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, Fox News host Sean Hannity decided that some things are just more important than politics. “In light of dangerous NKorea threat, I’m stopping all petty political disagreements for at least next 12 hours,” he tweeted. “Petty” is, of course, a subjective term, but at 11:03 p.m. EDT, less than …

Via Mediaite: Today brought the sobering and troubling news that reclusive dictatorship North Korea has now successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be placed in missiles, bringing it to the brink of being a true nuclear power in the world. Well, one man has made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in terms of fighting the nuclear threat …

Whoa. NPR reports: The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The explosive claim is part of the lawsuit filed against Fox News by Rod Wheeler …

GQ Magazine reports: Trump drops in regularly with Ivanka and Jared Kushner. So do his cabinet members, including Mike Pence, Rex Tillerson, and Jeff Sessions. Steve Mnuchin, the secretary of the Treasury, lives in the hotel. During the inauguration, suites were renting for as much as $18,000 a night, and the hotel filled up with diplomats and Trump’s business partners …

Mediaite reports: During tonight’s broadcast of Hannity, the pro-Trump commentator devoted yet another segment to lobbing personal attacks at media personalities. But this time he added a twist — he also called on his viewers to troll these CNN and MSNBC hosts on social media. “I am not encouraging you to get in your neighbor’s face like former President Obama …

The far-right Media Resource Center has revoked giving its William F. Buckley Media Excellence Award to Sean Hannity. That’s gotta sting! CNN reports: Buckley, the founder of the National Review, who died in 2008, was hailed in his day as “arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States.” Giving an award in his name to Hannity — a …

“Do we represent prosperity, economic growth, higher take home pay, more jobs or not? I personally believe they ought to do as much as they can on health care right now, but they shouldn’t spend the whole rest of this year on one issue. They have also got to pass, by Thanksgiving, and sign into law by Thanksgiving, a very …

Kellyanne Conway appeared on Sean Hannity’s show last night where she used visual aids to mock the media’s coverage of the ever-unfolding Russian collusion scandal. Mediaite reports: She held up a paper that read “Conclusion?” on top and “Collusion” crossed off at the bottom. “What’s the conclusion?” she asked. “Collusion? No. We don’t have that yet.” She then held up …

CNN reports: Donald Trump Jr. has offered a series of explanations over the past 72 hours for why he met with a Russian lawyer who purported to have information about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He tried out his latest one with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. “I didn’t know if there was any credibility, I didn’t know if there …

Raw Story reports: Seth Meyers on Wednesday hit Fox News for its’ incessant championing of Donald Trump, joking the morning show “Fox & Friends” has “showered Trump with so much praise they’re starting to sound like the helicopter parents of a sh*t private school kid.” “Our Donny would never collude with Russia how dare you?” Meyers joked. “Do you even …

Mediaite reports: On Wednesday night, Sean Hannity continued his attacks on CNN and had a message for CNN’s president Jeff Zucker. “At this point,” he began, “we should put CNN six feet underground for repeatedly spreading lies, propaganda, black helicopter tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, and for viciously trying to take down this president.” He showed an image of CNN’s gravestone …

Ann Coulter’s week-long public bitchfest with Sean Hannity just went nuclear. She writes: Sean Hannity, bless his heart, has the zeal of the late Trump convert. He would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of “The Communist Manifesto.” (Which the GOP’s health care bill actually does!) On his show last Thursday, he tried to get me to …

Via Mediaite: On Monday night, Sean Hannity went after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, calling her MSNBC’s “top conspiracy theorist.” In a new segment where he calls out “liberal conspiracy theorists,” he began by re-airing the clip of Chris Matthews, or as Hannity calls him “Mr. Thrill Up His Leg,” admitting that the Trump-Russia conspiracy that “pursuers” kept pushing “came apart” …

Mediaite reports: Ever seen a boxing match where a fighter gets beaten up, and then raises their hand in triumph as they stagger back to their corner in an effort to convince the judges they actually won? That, essentially, is what Donald Trump Jr tried to do on Hannity Thursday. On a day that Charles Krauthammer — no friend of …