Hannity’s No Longer A Fan Of ‘Lock Her Up’ Now That Pelosi’s The One Chanting It

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) comments to her caucus about imprisoning President Trump were apparently too much for Fox News’ Sean Hannity, one of the most frequent enabler of Trump’s “Lock Her Up!” calls against Hillary Clinton.

During his opening monologue on Thursday evening, Hannity decried the “beyond despicable” comments from Pelosi, who reportedly told her party earlier this week that she wanted to pump the brakes on impeachment to make room for a more consequential move: a 2020 defeat and a possible indictment.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi telling senior Democrats she would like to see Trump behind bars,” he said. “Based on no actual crime she wants to a political opponent locked up in prison? Um that happens in banana republics. Beyond despicable behavior.”

While Hannity may not have explicitly made calls for imprisoning Clinton, he fervently covered the investigation into her emails and has stood in support of Republican efforts to keep the Clinton probe alive.

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  1. “It is strong in this one, the cognitive dissonance.”
    — Yoda

  2. I may have posted this 1,000 times, but…

    Ode to Sean Hannity

    by John Cleese

    Aping urbanity
    Oozing with vanity
    Plump as a manatee
    Faking humanity
    Journalistic calamity
    Intellectual inanity
    Fox Noise insanity
    You’re a profanity
    Hannity

  3. Fox News superstars = Whiny-Ass Bitches.

  4. Well done, Democrats. I don’t mind saying it.

    Guilt has a strange way of making the guilty worry…no matter how much corruption they can hide behind. Although the U.S. has a great many characteristics which made Trump inevitable, the country is too well-educated, too diverse, too liberal, too prosperous, too assertive, too confident, too ethnically and racially diverse and too confident of a vibrant Fourth Estate.

    Trump will use all he has to stay out of jail.

    “All he has” includes Sean Hannity…

  5. No one has ever accused CONservatives or Repugnants of having any sort of self-awareness.

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