Sean Hannity Strides On Stage At Trump Rally, Declares 'All' Media Fake News
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Sean Hannity Strides On Stage At Trump Rally, Declares 'All' Media Fake News
Nick Visser, HuffPost 11 hours ago 
Despite his promises earlier in the day, Fox News host Sean Hannity joined President Donald Trump on stage at a campaign rally in Missouri on Monday, praising the president while chastising other journalists as “fake news.”
Hannity, who hosted his hourlong program live from Cape Girardeau during Trump’s last rally of the election cycle, had pledged that he was only in the state to host his show before the event amid criticism that he was stumping for the president. Those promises rang hollow, however, as Trump invited the Fox News personality on stage, praising him as one of the “incredible people” who had “done an incredible job for us.”
“Mr. President, I did an opening monologue today and I had no idea you were going to invite me up here. And the one thing that has made and defined your presidency more than anything else: promises made, promises kept,” Hannity said on stage after shaking Trump’s hand, echoing a rally motto.
This iframe is not allowedJust moments earlier, Hannity pointed to the media pool at the back of the room and said: “By the way, all those people in the back are fake news.”
Trump, who repeatedly attacks the media, quickly moved to minimize the Fox host’s short speech, saying that he didn’t “mean at all to insult” the gathered journalists.
“You do have, you have some very fine people back there, and you have some that aren’t so fine,” the president said. “But we don’t want to insult.”
The appearance contradicted Hannity’s own assertion that he was merely hosting his show, noting that, “to be clear, I will not be on stage campaigning.”
This iframe is not allowedThe president called up another Fox News host and pro-Trump firebrand, Jeanine Pirro, who amplified Hannity’s comments and called the president “the tip of the spear who goes out there every day and fights for us.”
“If you like the America that he is making now, you’ve got to make sure you get out there tomorrow if you haven’t voted yet, everyone you know,” Pirro said. “Get them out there to vote for Donald Trump and all the people who are running for the Republican Party.”
HuffPost has reached out to Fox News for comment.
- This article originally appeared on HuffPost .
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So I guess Fox News doesn't have an ethics code that precludes it's 'personalities' from stumping for Candidates.
I'm still waiting for Hannity to be waterboarded.....He's another blow hard, that's why he gets along so well with trump
Can't stand that pirro woman. She actually grates on my nerves more than hannity. I feel sorry for her husband. She cannot talk without yelling and screaming. Angry hateful person.
Hannity is a deranged radicalized right wing nut job that wouldn't know what a fact was if it smacked him in the face. Hannity is trash, a total POS.
If Fox fires him for this stupid stunt Trump will hire him as Bannon's replacement. Trump nominated a former Fox blonde bimbo as the new UN ambassador.
Not very shocking. At least Hailey is smart and articulate. I am sure the new bimbo looks great, (I haven't been following that news to be honest), but as dumb as a sack full of hammers.
I used to have a kitty like the cat in your avatar. His name was Peabody.
I'm not sure what use a Fox News bimbo is at the UN when she can't flirt with others via obvious upskirt photo-ops, re: Sharon Stone.
Giggity.
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Yes, we all hope she does well in these mid-terms... Oh wait, not running for anything. Deflect much?
Why do I sense some cherry picking here? "What difference does it make"? The right bleated that BS for 4 years, never once posting the whole paragraph.
Hillary Clinton has been mostly off the national stage for two whole years now. These right wingers are pitiful in their obsession with her.