{"id":48664,"date":"2021-03-02T13:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48664"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:50:39","slug":"sean-hannity-trolls-a-year-old-comment-by-dr-fauci-ignores-his-own-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48664","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity Trolls a Year Old Comment  By Dr. Fauci, Ignores His Own Idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly lies by Donald Trump and his media confederates about the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in the tragic deaths of more than half a million Americans. And yet, they continue to brag that their negligence and incompetence has prevented unnecessary fatalities. It&#8217;s a charade that masks a psychopathic disregard for the welfare of human lives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-hannity-trump-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Sean Hannity\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Topping the list of the Trumpian COVID deniers is Sean Hannity of Fox News. From the very start he has been defending Trump&#8217;s reckless downplaying of the severity of the pandemic (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48644\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to which Trump admitted<\/a><\/strong>) and regurgitating his flagrant falsehoods. The degree to which Hannity advanced these lies resulted in a study that confirmed that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44953\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">higher rates of coronavirus deaths could be directly linked to watching Hannity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Hannity thought he would post another of his attempts to <em>&#8220;own the libs&#8221;<\/em> by plucking a year old comment by Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, completely out of context. Hannity tweeted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ONE YEAR AGO: Fauci Tells Americans \u2018There\u2019s No Need to Change\u2019 Their Daily Routines <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MAprokzfBQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/MAprokzfBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Hannity ?? (@seanhannity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity\/status\/1366506568443920392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Hannity was demonstrating his notorious dishonesty and compulsion to distort reality. Dr. Fauci&#8217;s statement was far more nuanced than Hannity&#8217;s deceitful editing implies. What Dr. Fauci actually said in February of 2020, before much was known about the virus, was that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRight now there\u2019s no need to change anything you\u2019re doing on a day-by-day basis. The risk is low, but that could change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He went on to say that there could be a major outbreak, but that it was just not possible to know at that time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH on coronavirus: &quot;There is no need to change anything you&#39;re doing on a day by day basis. Right now the risk is still low but this could change.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PUN4GzL0D0\">pic.twitter.com\/PUN4GzL0D0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TODAYshow\/status\/1233728782651052039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hannity, on the other hand, made some comments around the same time last year that totally perverted any resemblance to the facts. He told his viewers that the whole matter was a plot by Democrats to hurt Trump. He assured them that there were zero virus deaths in the United States, and that there was nothing to worry about because Trump was handling everything perfectly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">thinking about this <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/muM2QRpAXj\">pic.twitter.com\/muM2QRpAXj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndrew_lawrence\/status\/1329839843262783490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That was 500,000 deaths (and 28 million cases) ago. And now Hannity has the nerve to criticize Dr. Fauci who quite correctly assessed the situation at a moment in time &#8211; being careful to make that clear &#8211; and who is informed by the knowledge that scientists understand that things change as new data is acquired.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity, on the other hand, ignores facts in favor of fallacies that advance his self-serving agenda and benefit his political idols. And his perceptions remain stuck in ideological concrete no matter how much new information is introduced, or the harm that his stubborn commitment to outdated information will cause. Just like Trump, he ls literally killing his dimwitted followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, <strong>Be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly lies by Donald Trump and his media confederates about the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in the tragic deaths of more than half a million Americans. And yet, they continue to brag that their negligence and incompetence has prevented unnecessary fatalities. It&#8217;s a charade that masks a psychopathic disregard for the welfare of human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[1402,1397,554,33,129],"class_list":["post-48664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-hannity-trump-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cEU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44953,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44953","url_meta":{"origin":48664,"position":0},"title":"Study Shows Higher Rates of Coronavirus Deaths Linked to Watching Sean Hannity","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/22\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone who has observed how Donald Trump and Fox News have portrayed the emergence and spread of the coronavirus for the past few months cannot help but notice their trivialization of the pandemic threat. 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