‘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.”
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:
New York Times reporter:
Others:
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