Sean Hanny 'lled AIDS a gay disease' and pared homosexualy to 'playg a sewer' | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

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• SEAN {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}SEAN HANNY IS A NSERVATIVE RAD AND TELEVISN HOST, AND ONE OF THE ORIGAL PRIMETIME HOSTS ON THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL, WHERE HE HAS APPEARED SCE {LOR:#323232;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;} SPAN{FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;}{FONT-STYLE:NORMAL;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:RALAS,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.3;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;TEXT-TRANSFORM:PALIZE;}{DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;MARG-LEFT:0.625REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}UPDATED: JUL 22, {DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;}{MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 64REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(100VW - (1REM * 2));MARG-LEFT:1REM;MARG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(-1 * 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - (LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 2 * 1REM)) / -2);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 90REM){{MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / 2);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM) - 1REM - 20.625REM) / -2) - 1REM);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 2);MAX-WIDTH:LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM);PADDG-LEFT:1REM;PADDG-RIGHT:1REM;} .E152U5OS0{WIDTH:100VW;MARG-LEFT:LC(LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 + 1REM)) / -2) - LC(2 * 1REM));}[DATA-HAS-SPONSOR] {MARG-LEFT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);MARG-RIGHT:LC((100VW - LC(20.625REM * 2 - 1REM)) / 4);}}{JTIFY-SELF:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG-LEFT:-50VW;MARG-RIGHT:-50VW;WIDTH:100VW;LEFT:50%;RIGHT:50%;}}{HEIGHT:TO;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO LC(50% - 50VW);}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{MARG:TO;}}{POSN:RELATIVE;HEIGHT:TO;}{POSN:RELATIVE;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;VERTIL-ALIGN:TOP;}{LE-HEIGHT:1;MARG-TOP:0.3125REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0;}}{LOR:#595959;PADDG-RIGHT:0.3125REM;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-SIZE:0.75REM;LE-HEIGHT:1;FONT-WEIGHT:800;}PHOTO: BEN GABBE/GETTY {FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;POSN:RELATIVE;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:3.5REM;PADDG-RIGHT:3.5REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{MAX-WIDTH:45.25REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 61.25REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM) AND (MAX-WIDTH: 100REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;PADDG-RIGHT:0REM;}} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}{CLEAR:BOTH;NTENT:" ";DISPLAY:BLOCK;FONT-SIZE:0.7REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.5REM;HEIGHT:0REM;VISIBILY:HIDN;}{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-SIZE:1.1875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.6;} EM{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;} STRONG{FONT-FAY:CHARTER,GEIA,TIM,SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;}(1961-){LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;MARG-TOP:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:2REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.1;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}WHO IS SEAN HANNY?SEAN HANNY BEGAN HIS RAD REER AT A LLEGE STATN CALIFORNIA, BEFORE MOVG ON TO MARKETS THE SOUTHEAST AND NEW YORK. TODAY, HE’S ONE OF THE MOST LISTENED TO ON-AIR VOIC. IN 1996 HE WAS HIRED AS ONE OF THE ORIGAL HOSTS ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL, A NSERVATIVE MEDIA OUTLET FOUND BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}RUPERT MURDOCH AND ROGER AIL. AS HOST OF SEVERAL POPULAR FOX PROGRAMS, HANNY HAS BEE THE HIGHT-PAID NEWS ANCHOR ON TELEVISN. HANNY’S REER, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN NTROVERSIAL. HIS CRICS ACCE HIM OF G HIS PLATFORM TO SUPPORT UNPROVEN THEORI, AND HIS CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH PRINT DONALD TMP AND OTHER POLIL OFFICIALS HAS RECEIVED MUCH SCTY, WH SOME SEEG AS A NFLICT OF TERT.EARLY LIFE AND EDUTNSEAN PATRICK HANNY WAS BORN DECEMBER 30, 1961, NEW YORK CY. THE YOUNGT CHILD AND ONLY SON OF FIRST-GENERATN IRISH IMMIGRANTS HUGH AND LILLIAN, HANNY GREW UP FRANKL SQUARE, A LONG ISLAND SUBURB OF NEW YORK. BOTH OF HANNY’S PARENTS WORKED THE JTICE SYSTEM: LILLIAN AS A RRECTNS OFFICER AND URT STENOGRAPHER AND HUGH AS AN OFFICER NEW YORK CY’S FAY URT SYSTEM. HANNY ATTEND LOL CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, FOLLOWED BY STTS AT LONG ISLAND’S ALPHI UNIVERSY, NEW YORK UNIVERSY AND THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA BARBARA. HE DID NOT GRADUATE OM LLEGE, CHOOSG STEAD TO FOC ON A REER RAD, A FASCATN SCE CHILDHOOD.RAD CAREERIT WAS WHILE SANTA BARBARA THAT HANNY RECEIVED HIS FIRST BREAK. IN 1989 HE GOT A POSN AS AN UNPAID VOLUNTEER HOST ON KCSB, THE LOL LLEGE RAD STATN. HANNY QUICKLY TRIED TO TABLISH HIS NSERVATIVE CRENTIALS, WHICH LED TO A SERI OF NTROVERSIAL EVENTS. AFTER AN EPISO WHICH HE VOICED ANTI-LGBT SENTIMENTS (CLUDG BLAMG THE GAY MUNY FOR THE AIDS CRISIS), AND LATER ATTACKED A GAY FELLOW KCSB HOST, HANNY WAS TAKEN OFF THE AIR. WH THE SUPPORT OF THE LOL ACLU CHAPTER, HANNY RECEIVED PERMISSN TO RETURN TO HIS SHOW. INSTEAD, HE LEVERAGED THE PUBLICY SURROUNDG THE KCSB NTROVERSY TO HIS FIRST PAID RAD POSN, AT WVNN ATHENS, ALABAMA, 1990. WH A FEW YEARS, HANNY’S AFTERNOON PROGRAM TOPPED THE LOL MARKET, AND HE MA A NAME FOR HIMSELF NSERVATIVE CIRCL, CLUDG FG AN EARLY RELATNSHIP WH GEIA CONGRSMAN NEWT GGRICH. IT WAS ALABAMA THAT HANNY ALSO MET HIS FUTURE WIFE JILL RHOS. FROM 1992 TO 1996, HIS SHOW AIRED ON ATLANTA’S WGST. IN JANUARY 1997, A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE PREMIERE OF HIS FOX TELEVISN PROGRAM, HANNY LAND AT NEW YORK’S WABC, WHERE HIS SHOW AIRED THE LATE-NIGHT HOURS BEFORE MOVG TO THE PLUM AFTERNOON “DRIVE TIME” SLOT. HANNY CHANGED RAD HOM AGA EARLY 2014, MOVG TO NEW YORK’S WOR.HANNY’S RAD PROGRAM WENT TO NATNAL SYNDITN ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2001, AND AIRS ON MORE THAN 500 STATNS. TALKERS MAGAZE TIMAT HANNY’S WEEKLY RAD DIENCE AT 13.5 LN, PLACG HIM JT BEHD RH LIMBGH’S 14 LN LISTENERS. FOX NEWS CHANNEL AND TELEVISN CAREER'HANNY & COLM'IN 1996 HANNY WAS HIRED AS ONE OF THE ORIGAL PRIMETIME HOSTS ON THE NEW FOX NEWS CHANNEL, A NSERVATIVE BLE TELEVISN CHANNEL CREATED BY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER AND MEDIA MAGNATE RUPERT MURDOCH AND ROGER AIL, A TELEVISN EXECUTIVE WHO’D SPENT S AS A REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISER. HANNY WAS PAIRED WH A MORE LIBERAL -HOST, ALAN COLM, AND THE DUO’S 9 P.M. HANNY & COLM PROGRAM AIRED FOR 13 YEARS, UNTIL COLM LEFT THE PROGRAM JANUARY 2009. IT WAS A RATGS SUCCS, SPENDG MORE THAN 60 NSECUTIVE MONTHS AS THE TOP PROGRAM S TIME SLOT, AND AVERAGG 3.3 LN NIGHTLY VIEWERS THE MONTHS BEFORE COLM’ PARTURE.'HANNY'THE NEWLY REBRAND HANNY PROGRAM AIRED THE 9 P.M. SLOT UNTIL 2013, WHEN WAS MOVED TO 10 P.M. TO MAKE WAY FOR A NEW PROGRAM HOSTED BY MEGYN KELLY, A CISN SOME MEDIA WATCHERS SAW AS AN ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT A YOUNG MOGRAPHIC AND SHIFT AWAY OM SOME OF HANNY’S MORE PARTISAN VIEWS. HANNY MOVED BACK TO 9 P.M. FOLLOWG KELLY’S PARTURE OM FOX NEWS CHANNEL 2017. HE NTUED TO BE A RATGS DRAW AND AVERAGED 3.2 LN NIGHTLY VIEWERS THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2018. RELATNSHIP WH DONALD TMPHANNY BEME AN EARLY AND VOL SUPPORTER OF FELLOW NEW YORKER TMP’S 2016 BID FOR THE WHE HOE. TMP HIMSELF MA SEVERAL APPEARANC ON HANNY’S PROGRAM, PECIALLY AFTER AN FAMO CLASH WH KELLY DURG A REPUBLIN PRIMARY BATE. HANNY PLAYED A SIAR ROLE 2009 WHEN HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BLE NEWS HOSTS TO PROVI A PLATFORM TO THE NASCENT TEA PARTY MOVEMENT.TMP OFFICIALS ALSO BEME EQUENT GUTS, AND HANNY WAS CREDED WH SHORG UP TMP’S SUPPORT AMONG THE REPUBLIN BASE AFTER A SERI OF UPHEAVALS DURG THE MPAIGN, CLUDG TMP’S ONGOG PERSONAL ATTACKS ON HIS CRICS, ACCATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY SEVERAL WOMEN AND THE RELEASE OF A 2005 TAPE WHICH TMP WAS HEARD TO E DISPARAGG AND SEXIST LANGUAGE ABOUT WOMEN. HANNY NTUED TO BE A VALUED ADVISER TO TMP FOLLOWG HIS ELECTN. PRINT TMP APPEARED ON HANNY’S SHOW SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS GURATED, AND THE TWO MEN REPORTEDLY SPOKE SEVERAL TIM A WEEK. IN APRIL 2018, HANNY FOUND HIMSELF ENMHED THE ONGOG EXAMATN TO RSIA’S TERFERENCE THE 2016 PRINTIAL ELECTN. A STRONG CRIC OF THE VTIGATN LED BY PENNT UNSEL ROBERT MUELLER, HANNY SPOKE OUT AGAST A RAID BY FERAL VTIGATORS ON THE OFFIC OF MICHAEL COHEN, A LONGTIME TMP LAWYER. DAYS LATER, HANNY HIMSELF MA HEADL WHEN HE WAS NAMED URT AS A LEGAL CLIENT OF COHEN’S. HANNY NIED THAT THE TWO HAD A FORMAL LEGAL RELATNSHIP, BUT MANY CRICIZED HANNY FOR HIS LACK OF TRANSPARENCY.VIEWS AND CONTROVERSIDPE HIS RATGS SUCCS, HANNY’S REER HAS BEEN NTROVERSIAL, AND HE HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR HIS VIEWS ON IMMIGRATN, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ISLAM. HE SUPPORTED DONALD TMP AND OTHERS WHO QUTNED WHETHER BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN THE UNED STAT, AND HANNY EQUENTLY LLED ON THE PRINT TO RELEASE HIS BIRTH CERTIFITE. HANNY’S VOL OPPOSN TO OBAMA’S AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SAW HIM SUPPORT THE FICT NCEPT OF “ATH PANELS” THAT WOULD CI THE FATE OF ELRLY OR ILL PATIENTS.AN EARLY CRIC OF BOTH BILL AND HILLARY CLTON, HE GAVE EQUENT TIME ON BOTH HIS RAD AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS TO THE VTIGATN SURROUNDG HILLARY’S ROLE THE ADLY ATTACK ON THE U.S. NSULATE BENGHAZI, LIBYA, AND WELED GUTS WHO SPOKE OF UNSUBSTANTIATED THEORI SURROUNDG HILLARY’S MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH.IN 2017 HANNY FACED TWO SIGNIFINT NTROVERSI. THE FIRST ME AFTER HE PROMOTED A NSPIRACY THEORY SURROUNDG THE ATH OF DEMOCRATIC NATNAL COMMTEE STAFFER SETH RICH. HANNY AND OTHERS CLAIMED THAT RICH WAS MURRED BEE OF HIS NNECTN WH DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY WIKILEAKS DURG THE 2016 MPAIGN. WASHGTON, D.C. POLICE SAID RICH WAS KILLED DURG A BOTCHED ROBBERY. SEVERAL ADVERTISERS PULLED OUT OF HANNY’S PROGRAMS, AND 2018 RICH’S PARENTS SUED FOX NEWS FOR PHG THE NSPIRACY SURROUNDG THEIR SON’S ATH.IN LATE 2017, ACCERS (CLUDG SEVERAL WHO WERE UNRAGE AT THE TIME OF THE EVENTS) ME FORWARD CHARGG THEN-ALABAMA SENATORIAL NDIDATE ROY MOORE WH SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT. HANNY IALLY SUPPORTED MOORE, VG HIM AND OTHER FENRS ON HIS PROGRAMS, LEADG TO ANOTHER WAVE OF ADVERTISERS LEAVG HIS PROGRAMS, FOLLOWED BY UNTER-PROTTS BY HANNY VIEWERS WHO LNCHED A WAVE OF BOYTTS AGAST THE ADVERTISG PANI AND THEIR PRODUCTS.ALSO 2017, HANNY WAS DUCTED TO THE NATNAL RAD HALL OF FAME.BOOKSIN ADDN TO HIS ROLE ON RAD AND TELEVISN, HANNY IS THE THOR OF LET FREEDOM RG: WNG THE WAR OF LIBERTY OVER LIBERALISM (2002), DELIVER US OM EVIL: DEFEATG TERRORISM, DPOTISM, AND LIBERALISM (2004), CONSERVATIVE VICTORY: DEFEATG OBAMA'S RADIL AGENDA (2010) AND LIVE FREE OR DIE: AMERI (AND THE WORLD) ON THE BRK (2020)PERSONAL LIFEHANNY MARRIED JILL RHOS SCE 1993, AND THE UPLE HAS TWO CHILDREN. HANNY AND RHOS DIVORCED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• JIMMY KIMMEL CALLED OUT FOR GAY JOK ABOUT SEAN HANNY AND TMP
• SEAN HANNY’S JAW-DROPPG REMARKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED AND THEY’RE REVOLTG: LISTEN
• FLASHBACK: THE REPULSIVE ANTI-GAY COMMENTS THAT ONCE GOT SEAN HANNY FIRED
• SEAN HANNY 'LLED AIDS A GAY DISEASE' AND PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO 'PLAYG A SEWER'

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TODAY, HE’S ONE OF THE MOST LISTENED TO ON-AIR VOIC. IN 1996 HE WAS HIRED AS ONE OF THE ORIGAL HOSTS ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL, A NSERVATIVE MEDIA OUTLET FOUND BY {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}RUPERT MURDOCH AND ROGER AIL. AS HOST OF SEVERAL POPULAR FOX PROGRAMS, HANNY HAS BEE THE HIGHT-PAID NEWS ANCHOR ON TELEVISN. HANNY’S REER, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN NTROVERSIAL. HIS CRICS ACCE HIM OF G HIS PLATFORM TO SUPPORT UNPROVEN THEORI, AND HIS CLOSE RELATNSHIP WH PRINT DONALD TMP AND OTHER POLIL OFFICIALS HAS RECEIVED MUCH SCTY, WH SOME SEEG AS A NFLICT OF TERT.EARLY LIFE AND EDUTNSEAN PATRICK HANNY WAS BORN DECEMBER 30, 1961, NEW YORK CY. THE YOUNGT CHILD AND ONLY SON OF FIRST-GENERATN IRISH IMMIGRANTS HUGH AND LILLIAN, HANNY GREW UP FRANKL SQUARE, A LONG ISLAND SUBURB OF NEW YORK. BOTH OF HANNY’S PARENTS WORKED THE JTICE SYSTEM: LILLIAN AS A RRECTNS OFFICER AND URT STENOGRAPHER AND HUGH AS AN OFFICER NEW YORK CY’S FAY URT SYSTEM. HANNY ATTEND LOL CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, FOLLOWED BY STTS AT LONG ISLAND’S ALPHI UNIVERSY, NEW YORK UNIVERSY AND THE UNIVERSY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA BARBARA. HE DID NOT GRADUATE OM LLEGE, CHOOSG STEAD TO FOC ON A REER RAD, A FASCATN SCE CHILDHOOD.RAD CAREERIT WAS WHILE SANTA BARBARA THAT HANNY RECEIVED HIS FIRST BREAK. IN 1989 HE GOT A POSN AS AN UNPAID VOLUNTEER HOST ON KCSB, THE LOL LLEGE RAD STATN. HANNY QUICKLY TRIED TO TABLISH HIS NSERVATIVE CRENTIALS, WHICH LED TO A SERI OF NTROVERSIAL EVENTS. AFTER AN EPISO WHICH HE VOICED ANTI-LGBT SENTIMENTS (CLUDG BLAMG THE GAY MUNY FOR THE AIDS CRISIS), AND LATER ATTACKED A GAY FELLOW KCSB HOST, HANNY WAS TAKEN OFF THE AIR. WH THE SUPPORT OF THE LOL ACLU CHAPTER, HANNY RECEIVED PERMISSN TO RETURN TO HIS SHOW. INSTEAD, HE LEVERAGED THE PUBLICY SURROUNDG THE KCSB NTROVERSY TO HIS FIRST PAID RAD POSN, AT WVNN ATHENS, ALABAMA, 1990. WH A FEW YEARS, HANNY’S AFTERNOON PROGRAM TOPPED THE LOL MARKET, AND HE MA A NAME FOR HIMSELF NSERVATIVE CIRCL, CLUDG FG AN EARLY RELATNSHIP WH GEIA CONGRSMAN NEWT GGRICH. IT WAS ALABAMA THAT HANNY ALSO MET HIS FUTURE WIFE JILL RHOS. FROM 1992 TO 1996, HIS SHOW AIRED ON ATLANTA’S WGST. IN JANUARY 1997, A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE PREMIERE OF HIS FOX TELEVISN PROGRAM, HANNY LAND AT NEW YORK’S WABC, WHERE HIS SHOW AIRED THE LATE-NIGHT HOURS BEFORE MOVG TO THE PLUM AFTERNOON “DRIVE TIME” SLOT. HANNY CHANGED RAD HOM AGA EARLY 2014, MOVG TO NEW YORK’S WOR.HANNY’S RAD PROGRAM WENT TO NATNAL SYNDITN ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2001, AND AIRS ON MORE THAN 500 STATNS. TALKERS MAGAZE TIMAT HANNY’S WEEKLY RAD DIENCE AT 13.5 LN, PLACG HIM JT BEHD RH LIMBGH’S 14 LN LISTENERS. FOX NEWS CHANNEL AND TELEVISN CAREER'HANNY & COLM'IN 1996 HANNY WAS HIRED AS ONE OF THE ORIGAL PRIMETIME HOSTS ON THE NEW FOX NEWS CHANNEL, A NSERVATIVE BLE TELEVISN CHANNEL CREATED BY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER AND MEDIA MAGNATE RUPERT MURDOCH AND ROGER AIL, A TELEVISN EXECUTIVE WHO’D SPENT S AS A REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISER. HANNY WAS PAIRED WH A MORE LIBERAL -HOST, ALAN COLM, AND THE DUO’S 9 P.M. HANNY & COLM PROGRAM AIRED FOR 13 YEARS, UNTIL COLM LEFT THE PROGRAM JANUARY 2009. IT WAS A RATGS SUCCS, SPENDG MORE THAN 60 NSECUTIVE MONTHS AS THE TOP PROGRAM S TIME SLOT, AND AVERAGG 3.3 LN NIGHTLY VIEWERS THE MONTHS BEFORE COLM’ PARTURE.'HANNY'THE NEWLY REBRAND HANNY PROGRAM AIRED THE 9 P.M. SLOT UNTIL 2013, WHEN WAS MOVED TO 10 P.M. TO MAKE WAY FOR A NEW PROGRAM HOSTED BY MEGYN KELLY, A CISN SOME MEDIA WATCHERS SAW AS AN ATTEMPT TO ATTRACT A YOUNG MOGRAPHIC AND SHIFT AWAY OM SOME OF HANNY’S MORE PARTISAN VIEWS. HANNY MOVED BACK TO 9 P.M. FOLLOWG KELLY’S PARTURE OM FOX NEWS CHANNEL 2017. HE NTUED TO BE A RATGS DRAW AND AVERAGED 3.2 LN NIGHTLY VIEWERS THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2018. RELATNSHIP WH DONALD TMPHANNY BEME AN EARLY AND VOL SUPPORTER OF FELLOW NEW YORKER TMP’S 2016 BID FOR THE WHE HOE. TMP HIMSELF MA SEVERAL APPEARANC ON HANNY’S PROGRAM, PECIALLY AFTER AN FAMO CLASH WH KELLY DURG A REPUBLIN PRIMARY BATE. HANNY PLAYED A SIAR ROLE 2009 WHEN HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST BLE NEWS HOSTS TO PROVI A PLATFORM TO THE NASCENT TEA PARTY MOVEMENT.TMP OFFICIALS ALSO BEME EQUENT GUTS, AND HANNY WAS CREDED WH SHORG UP TMP’S SUPPORT AMONG THE REPUBLIN BASE AFTER A SERI OF UPHEAVALS DURG THE MPAIGN, CLUDG TMP’S ONGOG PERSONAL ATTACKS ON HIS CRICS, ACCATNS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY SEVERAL WOMEN AND THE RELEASE OF A 2005 TAPE WHICH TMP WAS HEARD TO E DISPARAGG AND SEXIST LANGUAGE ABOUT WOMEN. HANNY NTUED TO BE A VALUED ADVISER TO TMP FOLLOWG HIS ELECTN. PRINT TMP APPEARED ON HANNY’S SHOW SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS GURATED, AND THE TWO MEN REPORTEDLY SPOKE SEVERAL TIM A WEEK. IN APRIL 2018, HANNY FOUND HIMSELF ENMHED THE ONGOG EXAMATN TO RSIA’S TERFERENCE THE 2016 PRINTIAL ELECTN. A STRONG CRIC OF THE VTIGATN LED BY PENNT UNSEL ROBERT MUELLER, HANNY SPOKE OUT AGAST A RAID BY FERAL VTIGATORS ON THE OFFIC OF MICHAEL COHEN, A LONGTIME TMP LAWYER. DAYS LATER, HANNY HIMSELF MA HEADL WHEN HE WAS NAMED URT AS A LEGAL CLIENT OF COHEN’S. HANNY NIED THAT THE TWO HAD A FORMAL LEGAL RELATNSHIP, BUT MANY CRICIZED HANNY FOR HIS LACK OF TRANSPARENCY.VIEWS AND CONTROVERSIDPE HIS RATGS SUCCS, HANNY’S REER HAS BEEN NTROVERSIAL, AND HE HAS BEEN CRICIZED FOR HIS VIEWS ON IMMIGRATN, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ISLAM. HE SUPPORTED DONALD TMP AND OTHERS WHO QUTNED WHETHER BARACK OBAMA WAS BORN THE UNED STAT, AND HANNY EQUENTLY LLED ON THE PRINT TO RELEASE HIS BIRTH CERTIFITE. HANNY’S VOL OPPOSN TO OBAMA’S AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SAW HIM SUPPORT THE FICT NCEPT OF “ATH PANELS” THAT WOULD CI THE FATE OF ELRLY OR ILL PATIENTS.AN EARLY CRIC OF BOTH BILL AND HILLARY CLTON, HE GAVE EQUENT TIME ON BOTH HIS RAD AND TELEVISN PROGRAMS TO THE VTIGATN SURROUNDG HILLARY’S ROLE THE ADLY ATTACK ON THE U.S. NSULATE BENGHAZI, LIBYA, AND WELED GUTS WHO SPOKE OF UNSUBSTANTIATED THEORI SURROUNDG HILLARY’S MENTAL AND PHYSIL HEALTH.IN 2017 HANNY FACED TWO SIGNIFINT NTROVERSI. THE FIRST ME AFTER HE PROMOTED A NSPIRACY THEORY SURROUNDG THE ATH OF DEMOCRATIC NATNAL COMMTEE STAFFER SETH RICH. HANNY AND OTHERS CLAIMED THAT RICH WAS MURRED BEE OF HIS NNECTN WH DOCUMENTS RELEASED BY WIKILEAKS DURG THE 2016 MPAIGN. WASHGTON, D.C. POLICE SAID RICH WAS KILLED DURG A BOTCHED ROBBERY. SEVERAL ADVERTISERS PULLED OUT OF HANNY’S PROGRAMS, AND 2018 RICH’S PARENTS SUED FOX NEWS FOR PHG THE NSPIRACY SURROUNDG THEIR SON’S ATH.IN LATE 2017, ACCERS (CLUDG SEVERAL WHO WERE UNRAGE AT THE TIME OF THE EVENTS) ME FORWARD CHARGG THEN-ALABAMA SENATORIAL NDIDATE ROY MOORE WH SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT. HANNY IALLY SUPPORTED MOORE, VG HIM AND OTHER FENRS ON HIS PROGRAMS, LEADG TO ANOTHER WAVE OF ADVERTISERS LEAVG HIS PROGRAMS, FOLLOWED BY UNTER-PROTTS BY HANNY VIEWERS WHO LNCHED A WAVE OF BOYTTS AGAST THE ADVERTISG PANI AND THEIR PRODUCTS.ALSO 2017, HANNY WAS DUCTED TO THE NATNAL RAD HALL OF FAME.BOOKSIN ADDN TO HIS ROLE ON RAD AND TELEVISN, HANNY IS THE THOR OF LET FREEDOM RG: WNG THE WAR OF LIBERTY OVER LIBERALISM (2002), DELIVER US OM EVIL: DEFEATG TERRORISM, DPOTISM, AND LIBERALISM (2004), CONSERVATIVE VICTORY: DEFEATG OBAMA'S RADIL AGENDA (2010) AND LIVE FREE OR DIE: AMERI (AND THE WORLD) ON THE BRK (2020)PERSONAL LIFEHANNY MARRIED JILL RHOS SCE 1993, AND THE UPLE HAS TWO CHILDREN. HANNY AND RHOS DIVORCED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

After an episo which he voiced anti-LGBT sentiments (cludg blamg the gay muny for the AIDS crisis), and later attacked a gay fellow KCSB host, Hanny was taken off the air. Jimmy Kimmel is unr fire for rortg to gay jok his fd wh Sean Hanny. Some cricized him for relyg on the ia that llg someone gay is an sult, notg that actually jt sults Kimmel’s LGBT viewers.

Others said was hypocril of liberals to be okay wh a homophobic joke, so long as the target is a nservative.

Is Sean Hanny Gay? No, Sean is not gay as he has been married to Jill Rhos for a long time and they both got divorced 2019. As a rad host at KCSB, the UC Santa Barbara llege statn, the '80s, Sean Hanny was fired for makg disgtg remarks about gay people, many of them durg a segment which featured Gene Anton, thor of the book The AIDS Cover-up?

JIMMY KIMMEL CALLED OUT FOR GAY JOK ABOUT SEAN HANNY AND TMP

“…They won't let you say 's a gay disease. In the same segment, Mr Hanny lled gay people “disgtg, ” and pared their sex liv to “playg a sewer, ” acrdg to tap obtaed by Media Matters. He also lled homosexualy a “lower form of behavur, ” before accg gay people of beg “filled wh hatred and bigotry”.

SEAN HANNY’S JAW-DROPPG REMARKS ABOUT GAY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED AND THEY’RE REVOLTG: LISTEN

In 2014, Media Matters posted some clips and transcripts of the terview, which you n listen to below which he says gay people are prone to disease, discs how gay people mutilate gerbils and shove them up their rectums, eat each other's fec, and more. In other clips (at the source) Hanny tells a ller he wouldn't allow a gay person to teach his child, he agre wh Anton that gay people “are filled wh anti-sexual heterophobia, ” and he says that gay people prey on homels kids bee all they want is “a new piece of meat.

FLASHBACK: THE REPULSIVE ANTI-GAY COMMENTS THAT ONCE GOT SEAN HANNY FIRED

In one segment, Hanny claims gay people are “brawashg” the public about AIDS:. It seems like they're tryg to hi the facts to keep the public om gettg alarmed about , bee they're aaid, perhaps, of the backlash that they might receive, the homosexuals might receive. In another, Hanny said people who have gay sex are prone to disease:.

HANNITY: I jt want to go to a ltle b, terms of the physil aspects, jt so people know of what happens when you're a homosexual, why is that so prone to disease as has been? And the immune supprsn which we have seen the homosexual populatn is a direct rult not only of other diseas such as Hepatis and the parasism, but of rectal sodomy.

SEAN HANNY 'LLED AIDS A GAY DISEASE' AND PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO 'PLAYG A SEWER'

In a third he said gay sex is like playg a sewer, and “you wouldn't let your child play over a sewer, would you? In another, Hanny engaged a nversatn wh Anton and a ller discsg how gay men cut the claws and teeth off gerbils and stuff them up their rectums a sperate need for a substute woman:.