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Sean Hannity Falls For Misleading Claim From Gateway Pundit (Again)

  

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Via:  johnrussell  •  7 years ago  •  1 comments

Sean Hannity Falls For Misleading Claim From Gateway Pundit (Again)

Gateway Pundit, Which Recently Got White House Press Credentials, Is Known For Inaccuracy

On February 22, Jim Hoft posted an article on his website The Gateway Pundit alleging that a “Wikileaks Document Shows John McCain Requested Donations From Russians!” Fox News’ Sean Hannity retweeted a tweet that both linked to the Gateway Pundit post and called McCain a “globalist war criminal,” adding, “Wow if true”:

[Screencap  via Mediaite ]

But Hoft’s  article  is wildly misleading. His source for the claim was “ Reddit users ,” and his blog failed to note that the incident had already been reported -- and dismissed -- as a mere clerical error. In 2008, McCain’s presidential campaign stated that the Russian Embassy in the United States had  mistakenly received  a standard campaign solicitation in the mail, with campaign spokesperson Brian Rogers calling it “just an error.” The Russians agreed with Rogers’ explanation, dismissing the fundraising request as “a computer failure,” according to a 2008 Associated Press  report

When McCain’s Senate office shot down Hoft’s slapdash reporting with a  statement  condemning Hannity for “attacking Senator McCain over a fake news story,” Hannity deleted the tweet and extended his “ apologies ” to McCain (and  got defensive  over people criticizing him for spreading false information).

Unfortunately for Hannity, this is not his first experience being burned by Hoft’s amateur reporting. On November 2, Hannity was  forced to “humbly apologize”  for spreading a totally false Gateway Pundit story that claimed “Barack and Elizabeth Warren had wiped references to Hillary Clinton in their Twitter feeds.” 

Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit is a known source of lies and misinformation. True to form, Hoft has not deleted  the erroneous McCain article  from February 22, nor has he deleted the now  months-old lie about top Democrats scrubbing Hillary Clinton from their Twitter accounts. Such behavior is hardly surprising coming from Hoft, who he has been  absurdly wrong  about everything from his suggestion that the  Cleveland Cavaliers ’ NBA championship parade was the crowd at a rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to his claim that a  Confederate flag lapel pin  was allegedly made by Barack Obama’s campaign. Despite Gateway Pundit’s  bipartisan   reputation  for being wrong, Trump’s administration saw fit to  give  the site White House press credentials.

But Hannity can’t blame Hoft alone for his habit of spreading misleading and fake news stories. Back in 1989, Hannity was fired from a local radio show for peddling the  homophobic lie  that gay people are prone to disease because they eat each other’s feces during sex. More recently, Hannity has also embraced the world of supermarket tabloids, lending credence  to the  National Enquirer ’s absurd lie that Rafael Cruz, Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) father, was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and  hosting  the former publisher of  Weekly World News -- the supermarket tabloid responsible for “Bat Boy” -- to describe his alleged time as a Clinton “fixer.” 

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/23/sean-hannity-falls-misleading-claim-gateway-pundit-again/215441


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Jim Hoft’s Gateway Pundit is a known source of lies and misinformation. True to form, Hoft has not deleted  the erroneous McCain article  from February 22, nor has he deleted the now  months-old lie about top Democrats scrubbing Hillary Clinton from their Twitter accounts. Such behavior is hardly surprising coming from Hoft, who he has been  absurdly wrong  about everything from his suggestion that the  Cleveland Cavaliers ’ NBA championship parade was the crowd at a rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to his claim that a  Confederate flag lapel pin  was allegedly made by Barack Obama’s campaign. Despite Gateway Pundit’s  bipartisan   reputation  for being wrong, Trump’s administration saw fit to  give  the site White House press credentials.

This is the outfit that the Trump administration awarded a white house press pass. 

 
 

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