‘This is a Kill Shot’: Hannity Accuses Liberals of Trying to ‘Silence’ Him as He Loses Advertisers
Fox News’ Sean Hannity is continuing to fire back at the media after several days of flirting with unsubstantiated stories about the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich.
Advertisers have been backing away from Hannity’s show recently, which comes after he perpetuated the notion that Rich was killed over his supposed connections to WikiLeaks, and not because of a robbery gone wrong. Hannity blasted the “liberal fascism” of Media Matters in a tweetstorm last night, after the outlet published a list of advertisers who support his show.
Hannity spoke to Huffington Post on Wednesday, and he stayed on the attack against left-leaning outlets:
There’s nothing that I did, nothing that I said, except they don’t like my position politically. They’ll try to ratchet up the intensity of their rationale. It does not justify an attempt to get me fired. And that’s what this is. This is an attempt to take me out. This is a kill shot.
Hannity has somewhat retreated from Rich’s death ever since Fox News retracted an article that gave air to the conspiracy theories surrounding it. Hannity told HuffPo, however, that his decision to change course did not occur because Fox News higher-ups ordered him to.
“I did it out of my own heart. Nobody tells me what to say on my show. They never have and frankly they never will. I’m not that type of person you can say, ‘Go on air and say this.’ That’s been the beauty of Fox News all these years. They leave me alone.”
Hannity also seemed to allude to Bill O’Reilly‘s recent termination from Fox, saying that progressive media is trying to “silence [his] voice” along with the rest of the “old guard.”
“There is an attempt, at this moment in time, to absolutely shut down the Fox News Channel and render it, frankly, a shadow of its former self. I’m like the last, sole remaining person there from the old guard…Maybe they think that they’ll be able to mount my head on a trophy and put it in their living room somewhere. But what is the net impact of all of this?”
Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle announced last night that she would take over Hannity’s show for the next two days while he takes a long weekend ahead of Memorial Day.
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