Coulter slams Hannity – wingnut feud in the works?
Oh please please please let this escalate!
As regular readers of News Behaving Badly are aware, FOX News celeb Sean Hannity is likely the network’s most loyal Trumpling – though he does have robust competition from the trio of cretins who host Fox & Friends, a morning program that has recently been compared to North Korean propaganda (and, for those Trump fans who may have accidentally stumbled on this page, not in a good way).
Recently, Hannity has been showing plenty of love for former Goldman Sachs capodecina and supply-side economist Gary Cohn, who is nowthisclose to Donald J. Trump.
Ann Coulter, who believes that Wall Street is simply too liberal – OMG it’s crawling with liberal progressive Spendocrats WTF??!!1! – first took Trump to task in a Wednesday post to her blog, including a cheap shot at HIV…
Having pulled off the monumental achievement of getting elected with zero help from Wall Street, President Trump is at risk of throwing it all away. He seems to be turning his White House over not only to liberal Democrats, but to the very type of liberal Democrats he railed against on the campaign trail.
It’s like voluntarily getting an AIDS transfusion.
Until Trump, voters had two choices: A Republican beholden to Wall Street or a Democrat beholden to Wall Street.
… then aimed a bit of withering fire at Hannity…
Ninety percent of Wall Street’s money went to Hillary’s campaign. Wherever the other 10 percent went, it didn’t go to Trump.
What does that mean?
[Fox News’ Sean Hannity frantically waving his hand]: I know! I know! Since he owes them nothing and they’re universally reviled, he needs to turn the keys of the kingdom over to Wall Street bankers! …
Touting (lifelong, and still today, liberal Democrat) Cohn’s “great, brilliant business mind,” Trump said, he wanted “a rich person to be in charge of the economy,” because “that’s the kind of thinking we want.”
Sean Hannity, bless his heart, has the zeal of the late Trump convert. He would endorse communism if Trump decided to implement the policies of “The Communist Manifesto.” (Which the GOP’s health care bill actually does!)
On his show last Thursday, he tried to get me to defend Trump’s “rich person” remarks about Cohn. I wish you could see the segment, but, unfortunately, Hannity decided no one would ever see it — NOT, I hasten to add, because he would ever censor criticism of Trump, but simply because he ran out of time.
In a pre-taped interview. It was a time problem. (It may not be evident to most viewers, but three minutes MUST be left at the end of every Hannity show for Nerf football throwing.)
… not to mention the hurling of far heavier objects at the television screen by those who live in the reality-based world.
But I digress.
While it is this writer’s opinion that this tiff isn’t likely to escalate into a full-blown feud, there is a possibility that things could get – well, less polite between Coulter and Hannity. For her part, Coulter is a smart, sharp instigator, and Hannity, who is not only stuck on a cable network that is tanking in the ratings but hosting a radio show whose audience is quite literally dying off, needs every gimmick he can glom onto to draw more eyeballs and earwax.
‘Nuff said!
