{"id":37518,"date":"2018-04-07T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37518"},"modified":"2018-04-07T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:28:49","slug":"hannity-vs-kimmel-fox-news-hosts-obsession-with-other-peoples-sexual-lives-is-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37518","title":{"rendered":"Hannity vs Kimmel: Fox News Host’s Obsession with Other People’s Sexual Lives is Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past couple of days Twitter has been the stage of an epic battle between the top dog at Fox News, Sean Hannity, and a formidable political intellectual and social scientist – oops – I mean comedian Jimmy Kimmel. And even a late night jokester has proven to be too much of challenge for Hannity’s severely limited cognitive abilities. Kimmel took the whole thing as good, not-so-clean fun. But Hannity had a cerebral spasm that threatened to burst a blood vessel in his ample forehead.<\/p>\n

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The feud began when Kimmel made a lighthearted joke<\/a><\/strong> about First Lady Melania Trump’s accent when reading to kids at a White House Easter event. Kimmel merely repeated her pronunciation of “dis and dat.”<\/em> Dat’s it. It was hardly a sharp elbowed political jab. But it drove Hannity to distraction wherein he literally couldn’t think of anything else. Much of his day on Friday was consumed with manic tweets attacking Kimmel as a “despicable,”<\/em> “perverted,”<\/em> “racist asshole.”<\/em> He took to calling Kimmel “Harvey Weinstein, Jr.”<\/em> in a callous trivialization of a real perpetrator of sexual assault. Most of the Twitter battle can be seen here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Later that evening, Hannity spent most of his Friday program ranting about Kimmel and vowing to destroy him. Hannity criticizes Kimmel for “losing his mind for five minutes on his show,”<\/em> just before devoting almost the whole hour of his own show to Kimmel bashing. And after getting so freaked out over Kimmel’s joke directed at a First Lady, Hannity attacks Michelle Obama. His tantrum also included baseless accusations that Kimmel relentlessly bashed all Republicans 24\/7 and “kissed Obama’s ass.”<\/em> Actually, Kimmel has been fairly apolitical until the recent difficulties he had with his sick newborn. It was after his advocacy of healthcare reforms that the right started attacking him. And Hannity promises to escalate this one-sided war. On his program he said that…<\/p>\n

“I am going after Jimmy Kimmel tonight. We’re gonna pound him with his own words. […] I’m throwing down the gauntlet. I’m not gonna stop. They are gonna stop by the time it’s done. […] For me this is it. I’ll just stay on this, and I’ll roll tape of Jimmy Kimmel every night for the rest of my career.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that at least would be more entertaining than having to watch Hannity. But his sanctimonious sermonizing about some Kimmel bits that Hannity dug up from the two decade old Comedy Central program “The Man Show”<\/em> don’t really help him much. Mainly because it casts Hannity as the sexually obsessed pervert who finds salaciousness in what everyone else sees as just raunchy comedy. And Hannity shouldn’t be throwing stones. He’s the guy who sees secretly placed images of sperm<\/a><\/strong> in President Obama’s portrait. He charged CNN president Jeff Zucker with being the “scandal-plagued”<\/em> “king of porn.”<\/em> He’s had his own run-in with allegations of sexual harassment<\/a><\/strong>. And then there was the time he propositioned a “really hot looking chick in the third row”<\/em> of his audience and asked if she would “Wanna meet me later?”<\/em><\/p>\n