Star Fox News host Sean Hannity recently decided that he is a journalist after all, albeit an “opinion journalist,” despite claiming previously that he is nothing of the sort.
“I’m a journalist,” Hannity said in a New York Times profile published Tuesday. “But I’m an advocacy journalist, or an opinion journalist.”
As recently as April last year, Hannity defended his chumminess with President Donald Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee, with the argument that he is not a journalist.
“I’m not a journalist, I’m a talk show host,” he said on his radio show.
Hannity repeated that argument throughout the 2016 election, and later used it to defend his open support for Trump’s candidacy.
“I’m not hiding the fact that I want Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,” he told the New York Times in August 2016. “I never claimed to be a journalist.”
At the time, Hannity said he offered Trump advice, but said it was unclear how much of it Trump took because “nobody” controlled the candidate.
“Do I talk to my friend who I’ve known for years and speak my mind? I can’t not speak my mind,” Hannity said.
In the profile published Tuesday, Hannity also appeared to reevaluate that role, and said he was “a little bit of a liaison” between Fox News and Trump’s campaign.
No, you’re not.
Also known as a professional shit slinger.
If Hannity were to speak his mind he would be mute, which is problematic for a talk show host.
Please, can’t we find something we can all agree on? I think everyone can agree that Hannity is an ignorant asshole. There problem solved.
Opinionated propagandist is more accurate.