Hannity Explains Incomprehensible Tweets: I Wasn’t Wearing My Glasses

After prompting widespread mockery with a pair of incoherent tweets Wednesday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity finally offered an explanation the following morning.

Hannity tweeted the following, in what was supposed to be a defense of his offer to pay to send Barack Obama to Kenya:

Liberal media. It’s was Josh Ernest who refuse to amswee teh ? Will Obama stay in the US if DT wins. I mentioned I’d pay a charter to …..

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 27, 2016

Liberal media 2 Any country they choose. 1- Canada where the satire piece was written Kenya where he visited https://t.co/B0UTSfhaPn …..

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 27, 2016

That prompted a series of replies that suggested– both sarcastically and seriously– that Hannity was drunk, ill, or otherwise impaired when writing the badly-written tweets. But Hannity blamed a combination of drowsiness and the fact that he wasn’t wearing his glasses.

Half asleep and didn’t put my glasses on. Lol. I wish I had a better excuse. https://t.co/GUvw7ef2AV

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 27, 2016

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