Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think
- Fox News says it doesn’t condone “any talent participating in campaign events.”
- It’s not the first time Hannity has been rebuked by network executives for his political activism.
- Still, it’s not clear whether the network plans to penalize Hannity, partly because he’s the most-watched host in cable news.
On the morning of President Donald Trump’s last rally before the midterm elections, Sean Hannity tweeted that he planned to attend the event so he could cover it for his TV show on Fox News. Trump’s campaign had billed Hannity as a “special guest” at the event, but the conservative commentator made sure to write in his tweet that he would not “be on stage campaigning with the President.”
Covering rallies, after all, is something Hannity has done “in every election in the past,” he had tweeted.
But shortly after Trump appeared in front of thousands of his supporters, some of whom had been waiting for hours in the packed Show Me Center at Southeast Missouri State University, the president called on Hannity to join him on stage.
“Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity,” Trump said, as if the Fox News host were the winner of a brand new car.
The crowd roared. Hannity walked up, shook the president’s hand, hugged him and turned toward the microphone.
“By the way, all those people in the back are fake news,” Hannity said about the reporters…
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