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- SEAN HANNY 'LLED AIDS A GAY DISEASE' AND PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO 'PLAYG A SEWER'
- FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN," WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTTMP PLANS TO DEFEND HIMSELF AGAST ELECTN CHARG BY THROWG HIS LAWYERS UNR THE B: REPORTBY BS LEVCHARLOTTE KLE
- TMP AND MAGA MISFS TURN ON ‘TMP’S BCH’ SEAN HANNYHERESYIT TURNS OUT THAT SEAN HANNY HAS NEVER REALLY BELIEVED TMP WON 2020.ZACHARY PETRIZZOPOLICS REPORTERPUBLISHED DEC. 29, 2022 4:34AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / GETTYSEAN HANNY, ONCE THE MOST IMPORTANT MOUTHPIECE FOR DONALD TMP, SEEMS TO BE CREASGLY ON THE MAGAWORLD OUTS. AND A NEW REVELATN THAT HANNY DON’T BUY THE BIG LIE ISN’T HELPG.IN A JT-RELEASED POSN SURROUNDG DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS’ FAMATN LAWSU, THE FOX NEWS STAR SAID HE’D NEVER BELIEVED—NOT “FOR ONE SEND”—BASELS ELECTN D CLAIMS STEMMG OM THE 2020 ELECTN. THAT STANCE, DIRECTLY AT ODDS WH MANY OF HIS PRIMETIME SEGMENTS AND THE BELIEFS OF MANY OF HIS CLOST ALLI, HAS PUT HANNY AN AWKWARD POSN.AMONG THE MAGA ALL-STARS CURRENTLY UPSET WH HANNY ARE MYPILLOW MAVEN MIKE LLL, FORMER TMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON, FAR-RIGHT RAD HOST STEW PETERS, AND EVEN REPORTEDLY TMP HIMSELF.BUT THE PERSON LEADG THE CRICISM OF HANNY HAPPENS TO BE AN OLD IEND: PRO-TMP LAWYER L WOOD. IN A LENGTHY PHONE TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, WOOD SAID HE’D FIRST MET HANNY 1996 WHEN WOOD WAS REPRENTG RICHARD JEWELL AFTER THE CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK BOMBG DURG THE OLYMPIC GAM ATLANTA, GEIA. DPE HANNY DOG “ALL THE TALKG” THE YEARS THAT WOULD FOLLOW JEWELL BEG EXONERATED, WOOD WENT ON TO NSIR HANNY A “IEND” AND HAD A “GOOD RELATNSHIP” WH THE FOX NEWS PRIMETIME HOST.FAST-FORWARD S LATER TO THE DAYS FOLLOWG TMP’S 2020 ELECTN LOSS. ACRDG TO WOOD, ON NOV. 6, 2020, HE SENT HANNY A TEXT MSAGE OF A CLIP OF WOOD SPEAKG AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE HEADQUARTERS. ALONG WH THE CLIP, WOOD EXPRSED TRATN TO HANNY THAT FOX NEWS CUT AWAY OM HIS MENTS.IN RPONSE, HANNY APPEARS TO HAVE TRIED REDIRECTG THE NVERSATN TO SOMETHG THEY BOTH AGREED ON: ELECTN D.“THEY STOLE ,” HANNY WROTE, ACRDG TO WOOD’S SCREENSHOTTED TEXT MSAG. “AND THEY WILL GET AWAY WH . AND OUR UNTRY WILL BE STROYED.”RPONDG TO WOOD’S PLAT THAT FOX NEWS “CUT OFF” HIS REMARKS, HANNY ALSO MA A RATHER PECULIAR ADMISSN. “I DON’T WATCH FOX,” HE SAID.FOR HIS PART, WOOD SAID HE’S “VERY DISAPPOTED” AND “UNHAPPY” WH HANNY.“THIS OBVLY NTRADICTS ,” WOOD SAID OF HANNY’S RECENT TTIMONY THE $1.6 BILLN DOMN LAWSU.THE PERSONAL JURY LAWYER-TURNED-ELECTN NSPIRACIST HAS SCE POSTED A BLOWN-UP PICTURE OF HANNY’S FACE NEXT TO AN IMAGE OF HIS PBULL RCUE DOG NAMED “HERO.” THE LAWYER CLAIMED SUCH A PARISON WAS TEND TO LEAVE HIS SUPPORTERS ABLE TO “NNECT THE DOTS.” IN REALY, WOOD POSTS THE PARISON PHOTOS OF THOSE HE VIEWS AS FO. NEW YORK TIM REPORTER MAGGIE HABERMAN AND FORMER VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE ARE EQUENTLY PARED TO HIS DOG. SCREENSHOT OF L WOOD'S TELEGRAM BUT WOOD ISN’T ALONE HIS CSA AGAST HANNY.PILLOW-HAWKG, ELECTN-D TE BELIEVER MIKE LLL HAS ALSO SOURED HARD.“SEAN HANNY IS DISGTG,” LLL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “HE’S A TERRIBLE JOURNALIST THAT DO NOT DO HIS JOB OR HIS DILIGENCE” WHEN TO “ELECTN CRIME.”“HE DON’T SEEM TO HAVE ANY NCERN OVER ANY ELECTN PROBLEMS THE UNTRY, AND ’S DISGTG,” HE ADD.ASKED IF HE’S EXPRSED SUCH TRATN TO HANNY, LLL SAID HE’D “OF URSE” TOLD HIM, BUT THE RIGHT-WG PILLOW SUPERSTAR CLAIMED THE FOX NEWS HOST “NEVER GOT BACK TO ME.”NEHER HANNY NOR FOX NEWS REPRENTATIV RETURNED MULTIPLE DAILY BEAST REQUTS FOR MENT.OTHER FERVENT TMP BACKERS, CLUDG FORMER TMP ADMISTRATN OFFICIAL STEVE BANNON AND FAR-RIGHT MENTATOR JACK POSOBIEC, HAVE ALSO TAKEN JABS AT HANNY OVER THE LAST WEEK.BANNON WROTE THAT HANNY SHOULD FACE “ACUNTABILY” FOR “TERRIBLE ADVICE” TO TMP, WHILE POSOBIEC HAS TAKEN A SERI OF JABS AT THE FOX NEWS HOST, CLUDG POSTG A PICTURE OF HANNY ALONGSI CNN HOST DON LEMON AND MICHAEL AVENATTI. TMP SUPERFAN BILL MCHELL RPOND TO HANNY’S POSN REMARKS BY WRG, “AND JT LIKE THAT, HANNY ENDS HIS REER.”HANNY’S ALSO BEEN LLED A “D” BY NSERVATIVE MENTATORS. FAR-RIGHT RAD HOST STEW PETERS HAS LABELED THE FOX NEWS HOST A “CLOWN” FOLLOWG HIS VOTER D BOOMERANG. “HE REGULARLY WASH AND DRI RECE PRIEB AND SEAN SPICER’S JOCK STRAPS,” PETERS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.CONSERVATIVE MEDIA HAS ALSO NOW GONE AFTER HANNY OVER HIS ELECTN D MENTS, SUGGTG HANNY IS PART OF A “FAKE PATRT GRIFT.”OTHERS ON TELEGRAM, SUCH AS FAR-RIGHT “STOP THE STEAL” ACTIVIST ALI ALEXANR, HAVE FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE, AND ODDLY SPECIFIC LE OF ATTACK—THAT HANNY ALLEGEDLY WEARS A “CIA” LAPEL P ON HIS PRIMETIME SHOW.(WHILE ’S TE THAT HANNY WEARS AN ASSORTMENT OF PS, ’S UALLY UNCLEAR WHAT THE PS ARE EXACTLY ADVOTG, THOUGH THAT HASN’T STOPPED RIGHT-WGERS, SUCH AS FAILED NGRSNAL NDIDATE KATHY BARTE, OM CLAIMG THEY ARE “FBI” PS.)STILL, HANNY ULD PROBABLY DISMISS THE DISSATISFACTN OF MOST OF THE ISLAND OF MAGA MISF TOYS IF WEREN’T FOR ONE PROBLEM: ACRDG TO TWO SOURC CLOSE TO TMP, THE FORMER PRINT HIMSELF IS APPARENTLY “MAD” AT HANNY.“IN TERMS OF DIRECT NTACT WH SEAN, I THK ’S BEEN A WHILE,” A TMP SOURCE SAID.WHILE THE TENSN BETWEEN TMP AND HANNY PRE-DAT THIS LATT REVELATN, HANNY DISCLOSG THAT HE HAS NEVER BELIEVED THAT TMP ACTUALLY WON THE 2020 ELECTN IS SURE TO FURTHER PLITE THEIR RELATNSHIP.“HANNY WAS HIS LAPDOG FOR YEARS, BUT JT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO’S BEEN TMP’S BCH AT ONE POT OR ANOTHER, THE SEND TMP FDS A REASON TO THROW THEM THE GARBAGE, HE TAK ,” A TMP ADVISER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. ACRDG TO THREE TMPWORLD SOURC, TMP IS STILL UPSET WH HANNY BEE THE FOX NEWS HOST ADVOTED FOR TMP TO ENDORSE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE NDIDATE MEHMET OZ. AFTER OZ FELL ON HIS FACE, HANNY FOUND HIMSELF ON THE OUTS OF TMP’S NER CIRCLE.“A LOT OF THE HEARTBURN STEMS OM THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE RACE,” A SOURCE CLOSE TO TMP SAID.INSTEAD OF PLACG RPONSIBILY ON HIS WIFE, MELANIA TMP, WHO ALSO REPORTEDLY ADVOTED FOR ENDORSG OZ—OR LOOKG WARD AT HIS OWN POLIL ACUMEN—THE FORMER PRINT HAS APPARENTLY JT CID ’S ALL HANNY’S FLT.“HANNY GETS THE BLAME FOR OZ BEE ’S MORE NVENIENT THAN BLAMG MELANIA, AND NOW HE’S BEEN SHOWN TO BE ‘DISLOYAL’ UNR OATH, SO ’S HANNY’S TURN TO GET TOSSED OVERBOARD,” THE SAME TMP ADVISER SAID.WHILE HANNY HAS FOUND THE IRE OF TMP—ALONG WH HIS MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS—A FELLOW FOX NEWS HOST HAS PLAYED HIS RDS MORE REFULLY.ACRDG TO A TMP SOURCE, TUCKER CARLSON “ISN’T OPENLY HOSTILE TO TMP, BUT ANYONE WHO’S PAYG ATTENTN KNOWS HE’S NOT A FAN EHER.”“TMP IS NEVER ON THE SHOW AND RARELY GETS DISCSED,” THE SOURCE ADD. “TUCKER THKS TMP HAS A LOT OF THE RIGHT ENEMI, BUT THAT’S ABOUT .”FOR A PERD OF TIME, MORS WERE FLYG AROUND TMPWORLD THAT THE FORMER PRINT WAS SLATED TO JO HANNY’S SHOW AFTER HIS PRINTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AT MAR-A-LAGO. BUT A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER LLED THOSE MORS “NOT TE AT ALL.”NOW, WH THIS LATT REVELATN THAT HANNY HAS APPARENTLY NEVER BOUGHT TO TMP’S LI ABOUT THE ELECTN, ’S EVEN HARR TO IMAGE THE TWO REPAIRG THGS ANY TIME SOON. ZACHARY PETRIZZO
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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
- JIMMY KIMMEL CALLED OUT FOR GAY JOK ABOUT SEAN HANNY AND TMP
- BILLY BALDW DRAGS SEAN HANNY OVER PAST COMMENTS LIKE ‘ALL GAYS ARE AIDS CARRIERS’
SEAN HANNY 'LLED AIDS A GAY DISEASE' AND PARED HOMOSEXUALY TO 'PLAYG A SEWER'
* sean hannity lgbt *
Hanny asked Brian Silva of Marriage Equaly USA whether the Supreme Court's cisn on same-sex marriage would force church and synagogu to host gay weddgs.
"I had a bate Friday night on televisn wh the pastor for the largt gay church Ameri, and he started talkg about tolerance, " Jefs said.
"So the answer is, if they don't bake a gay weddg ke bee of their relig views, they should lose their bs?
FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN," WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHEVERYTHG TO KNOW ABOUT ARIANA GRAN AND HER NEW BOYIEND, SPONGEBOB (ETHAN SLATER)BY KENZIE BRYANTTMP PLANS TO DEFEND HIMSELF AGAST ELECTN CHARG BY THROWG HIS LAWYERS UNR THE B: REPORTBY BS LEVCHARLOTTE KLE
Hanny spent the remar of the segment attemptg to force Silva to nfsg that same-sex marriage supporters are tolerant of people of fah whose beliefs require them to nsir homosexualy a s. "People are gog to have to bake [gay weddg] k, " he repeated, "bee they're gog to be forced by the state to do so. Father Morris attempted to clarify the issue for Silva by gog to what even Hanny said was a creepily "long scriptn" of a tr of homosexuals who wanted a photographer to document their "betiful" polyamoro weddg ceremony.
TMP AND MAGA MISFS TURN ON ‘TMP’S BCH’ SEAN HANNYHERESYIT TURNS OUT THAT SEAN HANNY HAS NEVER REALLY BELIEVED TMP WON 2020.ZACHARY PETRIZZOPOLICS REPORTERPUBLISHED DEC. 29, 2022 4:34AM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST / GETTYSEAN HANNY, ONCE THE MOST IMPORTANT MOUTHPIECE FOR DONALD TMP, SEEMS TO BE CREASGLY ON THE MAGAWORLD OUTS. AND A NEW REVELATN THAT HANNY DON’T BUY THE BIG LIE ISN’T HELPG.IN A JT-RELEASED POSN SURROUNDG DOMN VOTG SYSTEMS’ FAMATN LAWSU, THE FOX NEWS STAR SAID HE’D NEVER BELIEVED—NOT “FOR ONE SEND”—BASELS ELECTN D CLAIMS STEMMG OM THE 2020 ELECTN. THAT STANCE, DIRECTLY AT ODDS WH MANY OF HIS PRIMETIME SEGMENTS AND THE BELIEFS OF MANY OF HIS CLOST ALLI, HAS PUT HANNY AN AWKWARD POSN.AMONG THE MAGA ALL-STARS CURRENTLY UPSET WH HANNY ARE MYPILLOW MAVEN MIKE LLL, FORMER TMP ADVISER STEVE BANNON, FAR-RIGHT RAD HOST STEW PETERS, AND EVEN REPORTEDLY TMP HIMSELF.BUT THE PERSON LEADG THE CRICISM OF HANNY HAPPENS TO BE AN OLD IEND: PRO-TMP LAWYER L WOOD. IN A LENGTHY PHONE TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST, WOOD SAID HE’D FIRST MET HANNY 1996 WHEN WOOD WAS REPRENTG RICHARD JEWELL AFTER THE CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK BOMBG DURG THE OLYMPIC GAM ATLANTA, GEIA. DPE HANNY DOG “ALL THE TALKG” THE YEARS THAT WOULD FOLLOW JEWELL BEG EXONERATED, WOOD WENT ON TO NSIR HANNY A “IEND” AND HAD A “GOOD RELATNSHIP” WH THE FOX NEWS PRIMETIME HOST.FAST-FORWARD S LATER TO THE DAYS FOLLOWG TMP’S 2020 ELECTN LOSS. ACRDG TO WOOD, ON NOV. 6, 2020, HE SENT HANNY A TEXT MSAGE OF A CLIP OF WOOD SPEAKG AT THE REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE HEADQUARTERS. ALONG WH THE CLIP, WOOD EXPRSED TRATN TO HANNY THAT FOX NEWS CUT AWAY OM HIS MENTS.IN RPONSE, HANNY APPEARS TO HAVE TRIED REDIRECTG THE NVERSATN TO SOMETHG THEY BOTH AGREED ON: ELECTN D.“THEY STOLE ,” HANNY WROTE, ACRDG TO WOOD’S SCREENSHOTTED TEXT MSAG. “AND THEY WILL GET AWAY WH . AND OUR UNTRY WILL BE STROYED.”RPONDG TO WOOD’S PLAT THAT FOX NEWS “CUT OFF” HIS REMARKS, HANNY ALSO MA A RATHER PECULIAR ADMISSN. “I DON’T WATCH FOX,” HE SAID.FOR HIS PART, WOOD SAID HE’S “VERY DISAPPOTED” AND “UNHAPPY” WH HANNY.“THIS OBVLY NTRADICTS ,” WOOD SAID OF HANNY’S RECENT TTIMONY THE $1.6 BILLN DOMN LAWSU.THE PERSONAL JURY LAWYER-TURNED-ELECTN NSPIRACIST HAS SCE POSTED A BLOWN-UP PICTURE OF HANNY’S FACE NEXT TO AN IMAGE OF HIS PBULL RCUE DOG NAMED “HERO.” THE LAWYER CLAIMED SUCH A PARISON WAS TEND TO LEAVE HIS SUPPORTERS ABLE TO “NNECT THE DOTS.” IN REALY, WOOD POSTS THE PARISON PHOTOS OF THOSE HE VIEWS AS FO. NEW YORK TIM REPORTER MAGGIE HABERMAN AND FORMER VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE ARE EQUENTLY PARED TO HIS DOG. SCREENSHOT OF L WOOD'S TELEGRAM BUT WOOD ISN’T ALONE HIS CSA AGAST HANNY.PILLOW-HAWKG, ELECTN-D TE BELIEVER MIKE LLL HAS ALSO SOURED HARD.“SEAN HANNY IS DISGTG,” LLL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “HE’S A TERRIBLE JOURNALIST THAT DO NOT DO HIS JOB OR HIS DILIGENCE” WHEN TO “ELECTN CRIME.”“HE DON’T SEEM TO HAVE ANY NCERN OVER ANY ELECTN PROBLEMS THE UNTRY, AND ’S DISGTG,” HE ADD.ASKED IF HE’S EXPRSED SUCH TRATN TO HANNY, LLL SAID HE’D “OF URSE” TOLD HIM, BUT THE RIGHT-WG PILLOW SUPERSTAR CLAIMED THE FOX NEWS HOST “NEVER GOT BACK TO ME.”NEHER HANNY NOR FOX NEWS REPRENTATIV RETURNED MULTIPLE DAILY BEAST REQUTS FOR MENT.OTHER FERVENT TMP BACKERS, CLUDG FORMER TMP ADMISTRATN OFFICIAL STEVE BANNON AND FAR-RIGHT MENTATOR JACK POSOBIEC, HAVE ALSO TAKEN JABS AT HANNY OVER THE LAST WEEK.BANNON WROTE THAT HANNY SHOULD FACE “ACUNTABILY” FOR “TERRIBLE ADVICE” TO TMP, WHILE POSOBIEC HAS TAKEN A SERI OF JABS AT THE FOX NEWS HOST, CLUDG POSTG A PICTURE OF HANNY ALONGSI CNN HOST DON LEMON AND MICHAEL AVENATTI. TMP SUPERFAN BILL MCHELL RPOND TO HANNY’S POSN REMARKS BY WRG, “AND JT LIKE THAT, HANNY ENDS HIS REER.”HANNY’S ALSO BEEN LLED A “D” BY NSERVATIVE MENTATORS. FAR-RIGHT RAD HOST STEW PETERS HAS LABELED THE FOX NEWS HOST A “CLOWN” FOLLOWG HIS VOTER D BOOMERANG. “HE REGULARLY WASH AND DRI RECE PRIEB AND SEAN SPICER’S JOCK STRAPS,” PETERS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.CONSERVATIVE MEDIA HAS ALSO NOW GONE AFTER HANNY OVER HIS ELECTN D MENTS, SUGGTG HANNY IS PART OF A “FAKE PATRT GRIFT.”OTHERS ON TELEGRAM, SUCH AS FAR-RIGHT “STOP THE STEAL” ACTIVIST ALI ALEXANR, HAVE FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE, AND ODDLY SPECIFIC LE OF ATTACK—THAT HANNY ALLEGEDLY WEARS A “CIA” LAPEL P ON HIS PRIMETIME SHOW.(WHILE ’S TE THAT HANNY WEARS AN ASSORTMENT OF PS, ’S UALLY UNCLEAR WHAT THE PS ARE EXACTLY ADVOTG, THOUGH THAT HASN’T STOPPED RIGHT-WGERS, SUCH AS FAILED NGRSNAL NDIDATE KATHY BARTE, OM CLAIMG THEY ARE “FBI” PS.)STILL, HANNY ULD PROBABLY DISMISS THE DISSATISFACTN OF MOST OF THE ISLAND OF MAGA MISF TOYS IF WEREN’T FOR ONE PROBLEM: ACRDG TO TWO SOURC CLOSE TO TMP, THE FORMER PRINT HIMSELF IS APPARENTLY “MAD” AT HANNY.“IN TERMS OF DIRECT NTACT WH SEAN, I THK ’S BEEN A WHILE,” A TMP SOURCE SAID.WHILE THE TENSN BETWEEN TMP AND HANNY PRE-DAT THIS LATT REVELATN, HANNY DISCLOSG THAT HE HAS NEVER BELIEVED THAT TMP ACTUALLY WON THE 2020 ELECTN IS SURE TO FURTHER PLITE THEIR RELATNSHIP.“HANNY WAS HIS LAPDOG FOR YEARS, BUT JT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO’S BEEN TMP’S BCH AT ONE POT OR ANOTHER, THE SEND TMP FDS A REASON TO THROW THEM THE GARBAGE, HE TAK ,” A TMP ADVISER TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. ACRDG TO THREE TMPWORLD SOURC, TMP IS STILL UPSET WH HANNY BEE THE FOX NEWS HOST ADVOTED FOR TMP TO ENDORSE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE NDIDATE MEHMET OZ. AFTER OZ FELL ON HIS FACE, HANNY FOUND HIMSELF ON THE OUTS OF TMP’S NER CIRCLE.“A LOT OF THE HEARTBURN STEMS OM THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATE RACE,” A SOURCE CLOSE TO TMP SAID.INSTEAD OF PLACG RPONSIBILY ON HIS WIFE, MELANIA TMP, WHO ALSO REPORTEDLY ADVOTED FOR ENDORSG OZ—OR LOOKG WARD AT HIS OWN POLIL ACUMEN—THE FORMER PRINT HAS APPARENTLY JT CID ’S ALL HANNY’S FLT.“HANNY GETS THE BLAME FOR OZ BEE ’S MORE NVENIENT THAN BLAMG MELANIA, AND NOW HE’S BEEN SHOWN TO BE ‘DISLOYAL’ UNR OATH, SO ’S HANNY’S TURN TO GET TOSSED OVERBOARD,” THE SAME TMP ADVISER SAID.WHILE HANNY HAS FOUND THE IRE OF TMP—ALONG WH HIS MOST LOYAL SUPPORTERS—A FELLOW FOX NEWS HOST HAS PLAYED HIS RDS MORE REFULLY.ACRDG TO A TMP SOURCE, TUCKER CARLSON “ISN’T OPENLY HOSTILE TO TMP, BUT ANYONE WHO’S PAYG ATTENTN KNOWS HE’S NOT A FAN EHER.”“TMP IS NEVER ON THE SHOW AND RARELY GETS DISCSED,” THE SOURCE ADD. “TUCKER THKS TMP HAS A LOT OF THE RIGHT ENEMI, BUT THAT’S ABOUT .”FOR A PERD OF TIME, MORS WERE FLYG AROUND TMPWORLD THAT THE FORMER PRINT WAS SLATED TO JO HANNY’S SHOW AFTER HIS PRINTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AT MAR-A-LAGO. BUT A SOURCE FAIAR WH THE MATTER LLED THOSE MORS “NOT TE AT ALL.”NOW, WH THIS LATT REVELATN THAT HANNY HAS APPARENTLY NEVER BOUGHT TO TMP’S LI ABOUT THE ELECTN, ’S EVEN HARR TO IMAGE THE TWO REPAIRG THGS ANY TIME SOON. ZACHARY PETRIZZO
Sign up to our Eveng Headl email for your daily gui to the latt newsSign up to our ee US Eveng Headl emailLong before he beme a nservative media in, Fox News host Sean Hanny was yanked om his llege rad statn for allegedly llg AIDS a “gay disease” young Mr Hanny – then on his third, unsuccsful attempt to graduate llege – hosted a rad show at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara 1989.
The show trafficked the brash, nservative opns Mr Hanny beme known for, on everythg om homosexualy to the liberal one notable segment, Mr Hanny terviewed Gene Antonn, a Lutheran mister and thor of the book “The AIDS Cover-up? Mr Hanny ld the book for tellg “the real tth about this adly, adly disease, ” and praised Mr Antonn for sayg “what the homosexuals don't want you to hear.
“…They won’t let you say ’s a gay disease. )Sean Hanny attacks gun ntrol after Las Vegas shootgIn 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”.
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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
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JIMMY KIMMEL CALLED OUT FOR GAY JOK ABOUT SEAN HANNY AND TMP
"Fox’s LGBTQ staff group's nouncement of Fox News’ verage of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and other issu regardg sexual orientatn and genr inty offers a valuable glimpse to the ternal dissensn across Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
BILLY BALDW DRAGS SEAN HANNY OVER PAST COMMENTS LIKE ‘ALL GAYS ARE AIDS CARRIERS’
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In 1989, Hanny was fired om a short-lived lol rad show Santa Barbara, CA, after makg a number of extreme anti-gay remarks, cludg accg gay people of “brawashg” the public about the spread of HIV/AIDS, spreadg the myth that gay men are prone to disease bee they nsume each other's fec durg sex, and sayg that gay men get sick bee they engage the myth of “gerbil stuffg. ” In 2009, Hanny hyped anti-gay smears agast openly gay former Department of Edutn official Kev Jenngs, cludg phg a fabrited lk between Jenngs and NAMBLA, the North Amerin Man/Boy Love Associatn.