Fox’s Hugh Hewitt Admits, ‘Hasan Piker… I Can’t Stop Talking About Him’

Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt admitted on Friday, “I can’t stop talking about” progressive streamer Hasan Piker.

Hewitt appeared on Friday’s edition of Hannity alongside the network’s Kellyanne Conway, in for Sean Hannity. The two were discussing the recent success of Democratic socialist candidates when Piker’s name kept creeping into the conversation — a fixation Hewitt eventually acknowledged himself.

He claimed, “The octogenarians and septuagenarians at the top of the [Democratic] Party — they’re very worried. They are being run out.” Hewitt went on to mention Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, Democratic Minnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, and Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, claiming they are all “DSA.” Notably, only Nixon is actually a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Not to mention, Nixon told CBS on Wednesday, “I don’t really know who Mr. Piker is.”

Claiming that El-Sayed, who has appeared on the campaign trail alongside the streamer, is the “stalking horse for Hasan Piker,” Hewitt continued, “The election is gonna be between who’s gonna run the Senate — [Majority Leader] John Thune [R-SD] or Hasan Piker. The Democrats have become the party of Hasan Piker.”

Hewitt continued Friday:

I think Democrats are scared. They’re talking a good game. They don’t have much money. They’ve got terrible candidates, and they’ve got the burden of Hasan Piker, and I can’t stop talking about him, because, uh, El-Sayed put on this Hasan Piker suit, had him come in the night before [the primary election], stuck around the day after. Now, he’s stuck with him the whole election.

Conway went on to mention Piker’s infamous comments that “America deserved 9/11.” In an interview earlier this month, El-Sayed called the statement “dumb.” As for Piker himself, in an email to Reuters, he wrote, “I used imprecise language in 2019 and immediately ‌apologized ⁠for using the word ‘deserved’ when talking about the concept of blowback,” adding, “No one deserves to be a victim to a terror attack.”

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