Fox News’ Sean Hannity had a surprising guest on Wednesday evening: Democratic presidential hopeful and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
During a combative shouting match, Hannity attempted to corner de Blasio with “yes” or “no” questions about supplying free health care to the 500,000 “illegal immigrants” in New York City and whether New Yorkers had the right to have a gun in their home.
“It is a charade, stop it. You are doing, and what your network does too often is try to distract people,” de Blasio said after several rounds of hollering over one another.
“Oh, my network? By the way, there are people on my network who don’t like a single word I say, what’re you talking about? We’re not one monolithic group,” Hannity shot back.
“I agree, you’re not a monolith, but too much of the time, what Fox and News Corp. do is try to take people’s minds off of the fact that they’re being screwed economically by the 1 percent,” de Blasio said, before Hannity declared himself a “blue collar” man and began peppering de Blasio with questions about why he shouldn’t have to give up his hard-earned money.
Watch for yourself below:
Bill de Blasio and Sean Hannity can't stop shouting over each other pic.twitter.com/NF6KUrc3dD
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) August 8, 2019
Let’s see blue collar man take a job at one of those Mississippi meat packing plants.
I’m really not sure which one I dislike most…
Democrats would do well to reconsider going on Fox.
The look is just so bad…
Not just as an act of embargo, but it’s increasingly looking like the act of a bottom feeding loser in this race.
Hard-earned money, eh? Yeah, I guess getting down on your knees and blowing Roger Ailes is probably hard work. But it ain’t coal mining, patching streets or working in a steel mill…
After years of traveling for work, and being forced to watch FOX at all those hotels at Breakfast, why would I watch a video clip at TPM?