{"id":36938,"date":"2018-02-03T10:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36938"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T18:18:14","slug":"the-illness-that-is-sean-hannity-is-infectious-and-has-spread-to-the-trump-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36938","title":{"rendered":"The Illness That is Sean Hannity is Infectious and Has Spread to the Trump White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

The release of the infamous “Nunes Memo”<\/em> may have been the worst anti-climax since O.J. Simpson’s promise to “find the real killer.”<\/em> (Like Trump, Simpson spent most of his time searching on a golf course in Florida). The memo was supposed to crush special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and its interference in the presidential election. But the actual document was about as revealing as a stripper in a concrete burka. (See this breakdown of the Nunes embarrassment<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

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But leave it to Sean Hannity, the Chief Trump-fluffer of Fox News, to continue trying to peddle the pitiful prattle after its public fizzling. Hannity, practicing total abstinence from reality, opened his Friday night program with a monologue that future psychology textbooks will include to illustrate complete cognitive failure (video below).<\/p>\n

Hannity isn’t content to simply spin what he incredulously calls the “FISA Abuse Memo”<\/em> into one his typical pro-Trump rants. Not this time. His spittle-inflected delivery features unsupported hyperbolic nonsense like “shocking”<\/em> and “stunning”<\/em> and “the biggest abuse of power corruption case in American history.”<\/em> Hannity’s unhinged tirade asserts that he has…<\/p>\n

“…irrefutable proof of a coordinated conspiracy to abuse power by weaponizing and politicizing the powerful tools of intelligence by top-ranking Obama officials against the Trump campaign, against the Constitution, and against your Fourth Amendment rights.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holy hallucination, Batman. The only thing we have irrefutable proof of is that Hannity scored some wicked acid. His wind-tunnel of wingnutisms continued with hoary references to the “Deep State,” “unelected bureaucrats,” “undermin[ing] a duly elected president,”<\/em> and the baseless contention that the memo “proves that the entire basis for the Russia investigation was based on lies that were bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and her campaign.”<\/em> And Hannity’s closer was an impotent demand that “The Mueller investigation does need to be shut down. And the people involved – who we will name tonight – many need to go to jail.”<\/em><\/p>\n

All of that was all that Donald Trump needed to make a painfully misinformed analysis of his legal jeopardy. He tweeted that “This memo totally vindicates \u201cTrump\u201d in probe.”<\/em> Notice the sarcastic quotes around his own “alleged”<\/em> name:<\/p>\n

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This memo totally vindicates \u201cTrump\u201d in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n