Fox News is set to air the first part of an interview Tuesday night between Sean Hannity and Julian Assange, who Hannity has said in the past should be arrested for “waging war” against the United States.
“I believe every word he says,” Hannity told his Fox News colleague Bill Hemmer Tuesday morning, defending the WikiLeaks founder against criticism that he published documents that U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by Russian-backed hackers in order to benefit President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Hannity flew to London to interview Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy there, where the WikiLeaks founder, facing an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Sweden over rape allegations, has holed up since 2012.
However, in December of 2010, Hannity had criticized the Obama administration on his show for not arresting Assange after WikiLeaks published a quarter of a million confidential U.S. diplomatic cables.
“Assange is apparently not done waging his war against the U.S., at least not yet,” Hannity said at the time.
After WikiLeaks began publishing documents hacked from the servers of the Democratic National Committee this summer, however, Hannity changed his tone.
During a September interview with the WikiLeaks founder, Hannity told Assange: “I do hope you get free one day.”
“In 10 yrs @wikileaks has gotten nothing wrong & no one’s been killed bc of the info released. #freejulianassange #freeinternet for all,” he wrote on Twitter in October.
Hannity addressed the about-face in the interview with Hemmer Tuesday.
“Look, I was a very early critic of him. He’s well aware that I thought he was waging war on the United States. My opinion on it has evolved in large part because of what I have seen that he has done in ten years. Nothing he has published has ever been proven false,” Hannity said. “Nobody’s even questioned the veracity or truthfulness of what he’s doing.”
Look, Hannity is an asshole who drops to his knees anytime anyone mentions Donald “the draft dodging coward” Trump.
Well, I hope that one day Sean Hannity gets free. And that Angels from Heaven will lift him up, carry him over to Mauna Loa volcano and drop him in.
Once in the Sixties an interviewer asked the great jazz drummer Elvin Jones what he thought of Ginger Baker, who was making about ten billion dollars an hour playing rock with an organization called Cream.
“They should make him an astronaut and lose his ass,” Jones said.
That’s what ought to happen with Hannity. Or stick him 12 feet down in the heap on a garbage scow and take him out and dump him. Just lose his ass.
P.S. Jones liked Keith Moon. “The man is a drummer,” he said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=681-mXSMAj8And when Putie gets irked with Donnie-boy and Assange drops damning things about trump’s adventures in Russia Hannity will flip again. The man needs to ready a whiplash neck brace.
Whatever helps the Republicans win is ok, they, collectively, have only one ruling principle.