Opinion: Sean Hannity comes face to face with his own corruption
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 28 at 1:44 PM Sean Hannity is a study in certainty. The mainstream media is corrupt. President Trump is a patriot and a fabulous president who has followed through on his campaign promises, despite a deep state dead set on his undoing. Democrats are awful. Absolutism, meet your designated television-news emissary.
As the wide-ranging discussion progressed, Hannity wanted to hear the president’s view on the Mueller team, a group that he accused of conducting a “witch hunt” at least 183 times on Twitter alone. “Hannity” frequently repeated the slam on his program. So he asked the president: Upon the first anniversary of Mueller’s appointment, Hannity said, “Now, the special counsel has been so abusive, so corrupt, they are so conflicted that the president and his legal team they’re now rightly going on offense to combat the illicit deep state scheme.”And so Hannity found himself in a pickle this week, after William P. Barr’s summary delivered the good news about Mueller’s findings about collusion.
In his exchange with Trump, though, he cracked the door for introspection. Had he opened it, he might have examined the difference between bias and opinion. As people often note through the use of a crude cliche, everyone has opinions. Just check out Facebook or Twitter. Bias is another question. As Michael Kinsley wrote for Slate magazine in 2000, bias is a different beast — “a failure to suppress your opinions.
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