Sean Hannity Slammed for Blaming Sexual Harassment at DOJ on Obama Admin After He Defended Fox News Chair Roger Ailes
‘Shameless. Utterly Shameless.’
Sean Hannity is getting a well-deserved comeuppance after tweeting out a link to his own website’s report claiming sexual harassment at the Dept. of Justice is the fault of the Obama administration. The article is titled, “DOJ DISGRACE: Dept. of Justice RIPS Obama Administration Over Sex Harassment.”
DOJ DISGRACE: Dept. of Justice RIPS Obama Administration Over Sex Harassmenthttps://t.co/XaU7DlPpf2
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) December 27, 2017
In reality, as The Washington Post first reported Tuesday, the DOJ “has ‘systemic’ problems in how it handles sexual harassment complaints, with those found to have acted improperly often not receiving appropriate punishment.”
But The Post’s reporting doesn’t even mention President Obama or his administration, and there are examples of harassment that took place after President Trump took office, yet the Hannity report neglects to mention that fact.
Here’s how Hannity’s website, in an unbylined article, described the story:
“The Department of Justice slammed the Obama administration on Wednesday, citing recent evidence that highlighted ‘systemic’ sexual harassment reports that were largely ignored throughout the agency for the previous eight years.”
Again, nowhere in The Washington Post story does it mention the Obama administration.
But aside from the bad spin at Hannity’s website, social media users angrily pushed back at Hannity himself. The long-time Fox News host was wholly supportive of Roger Aides during the sexual misconduct and harassment scandals that brought down the conservative cable news channel’s founder. Hannity protected his boss, calling the allegations “all BS.”
It wasn’t.
Investigative journalist Yashar Ali, who broke the Eric Bolling sexting story and the Miss America “slut-shaming and fat-shaming” story, weighed in:
2. I wouldn’t object to you tweeting this if you agreed to do the following.
1. Sit down with the women employees of Fox News and ask them about their experiences.
2. Acknowledge on-air that Roger Ailes was a serial sexual harasser who also promoted a harassment culture at FNC
— Yashar Ali 😠(@yashar) December 27, 2017
New York Times reporter:
It’s Wednesday and today Sean Hannity is:
🔲opposed to ☑ï¸in favor of
The Department of Justice
☑ï¸opposed to 🔲in favor of
institutional sexual harassmentThis has been “What does Sean Hannity believe today†https://t.co/kxKmM5GPEr
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 27, 2017
Others:
Sucking up to Grab Em By the Pussy President while pretending Obama is a criminal…makes you look terribly intelligent.
— Stiff Bickies (@Otherginger) December 27, 2017
Wow a bad apple at the DOJ while Obama was President. The only thing that could shock me more is if someone at @FoxNews had done something similar. Oh wait….
— Fred Fell (@fredfell) December 27, 2017
😂😂Angry Little Sean Thumb wants to grow up and be a bigly boy and play reporter. This guy is shameless. Utterly shameless. This is probably one of the worst written, sourced, “researched” & analyzed POS articles I’ve read on Fox since this morning.
— SaltyMoonShots (@AnnMarieMooney2) December 27, 2017
Anyone recall @seanhannity tweeting when Ailes, O’Reilly and the rest of the Fox News characters were let go for multiple instances of the same? Me neither. Hannity =’s hypocrite.
— Jensen (@listeningtouall) December 27, 2017
Hey guys! Dotard, Sean Hannity, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Bolling and Bill O’Reilly are down here giving lectures on sex harassment.
Anybody wanna join? pic.twitter.com/iNyZKXnDTD
— Mrs. Suzette Stank â˜ƒï¸ (@StankSuzette) December 27, 2017
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