{"id":58174,"date":"2016-11-29T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58174"},"modified":"2016-11-29T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:30:58","slug":"sean-hannity-people-dont-need-fake-news-corporate-media-anymore-landscape-shifting-to-breitbart-drudge-talk-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58174","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity: People Don\u2019t Need \u2018Fake News\u2019 Corporate Media Anymore; Landscape Shifting to Breitbart, Drudge, Talk Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_58175\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GettyImages-513713134-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58175\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58175\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GettyImages-513713134-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Getty\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GettyImages-513713134-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/GettyImages-513713134-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> JOHN HAYWARD<br \/>\nBREITBART<\/p>\n<h2><a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hannity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talk radio host<\/a> and <a class=\" x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/hannity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News star<\/a> Sean Hannity talked about the 2016 election with SiriusXM host Matt Boyle on Monday\u2019s <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cYou know, Matt, we\u2019ve not talked publicly since the election, and I gotta give you a lot of credit,\u201d said Hannity. \u201cI saw you a lot on the campaign trail. You worked really, really, really hard. Like a lot of other people, you took a lot of heat. And you know what? It paid off, didn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/295145051&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boyle contrasted left-wing efforts to delegitimize Donald Trump\u2019s election victory with Trump\u2019s triumph at the Electoral College, where he won more electoral votes than any Republican candidate since 1988.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he won more counties than anyone since 1984,\u201d Hannity observed. \u201cWhen you look at the map, and you look at how little blue is in it, and how divided America is between rural America and big cities, it\u2019s pretty amazing. In that sense, that\u2019s where the divide really is. America\u2019s a very conservative country, in terms of just the actual population. It\u2019s the population centers that tend to lean very solidly Left. That is the big cities, and you see people even leaving big cities because of regulation and high taxes, and then they move to states like Florida, and then they bring their liberal policies with them. They try and ruin those states after they ruined New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyle asked Hannity how Trump won so big on Election Day, especially in his sweep of the Rust Belt states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three factors, but I\u2019ll break it down into one, and I would say it\u2019s the \u2018Forgotten Man, Forgotten Woman\u2019 election,\u201d Hannity replied. \u201cThis is where Donald Trump stood out from 16 other Republicans. He was talking about issues that impact people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, Matt, I spent an entire year on radio and TV giving out statistics,\u201d Hannity continued. \u201cI did it for a reason. It\u2019s not because I want to hear myself talk. I knew the media would never cover it, but when you have in the last eight years, 13 million more Americans on food stamps, eight million more in poverty, the lowest labor participation rate since the seventies, the worst recovery since the forties, the lowest home ownership rate in 51 years, and you\u2019ve got a President that accumulates more debt than every other president before him combined \u2013 look, those millions of people, 50 million in poverty, 50 million on food stamps, these are real people, real lives, real suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a conservative, I knew these Obama policies would fail,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was as predictable as the day was long. That\u2019s why I tried so hard in 2008 and 2012 to warn people that we\u2019re headed down the wrong road. People might like Obama personally, and polls show that they do, but his record is atrocious. On top of that, I didn\u2019t even mention anything involving foreign policy. I didn\u2019t mention Obamacare, that is a massive failure across the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to add in other factors, Hillary is a horrible candidate. She\u2019s not viewed as honest and trustworthy,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe ethics issues really, really hurt her, and she enriched herself. I would argue that in \u201992, Bill Clinton was a change agent. She was, as I said to a friend this weekend, old, she had no warmth, she was cold, and she was ethically challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, to his credit, he resonated with the people that lost their jobs, were in poverty, on food stamps, losing opportunity. He was a great candidate, and he simply outworked her. He wasn\u2019t a perfect person or a perfect candidate. One of the things, I think, attracted people to him is that he didn\u2019t spend his whole life thinking he was going to run for president. If he did, he wouldn\u2019t have gone on <em>The Howard Stern Show<\/em>,\u201d Hannity said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the reason to me. It was the forgotten man, the forgotten woman, the quiet suffering that Americans are going through because of big government, huge bureaucracy, and these people get nothing. All they do is get taxed to death, for the most part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity said that what we learned about the \u201cradical Left colluding-with-Clinton campaign media\u201d from the WikiLeaks revelations was \u201cspectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the most underreported story out there,\u201d he declared. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to cover the fact that they themselves colluded with Clinton, helped Clinton, in some cases, gave questions to her or sought questions for Trump or for Cruz through the DNC, John Harwood advising the Clinton campaign, moderating a debate. It\u2019s pretty spectacular on Election Night that one of the moderators, Martha Raddatz, cried when Donald Trump had won the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, they lie. They\u2019re corrupt. They\u2019re dishonest. They collude. They\u2019re all in this hyperventilating mode about \u2018fake news\u2019 now, but they are fake news. That\u2019s them<i>.<\/i> It\u2019s now on display for the world to see,\u201d Hannity charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just keep pointing out to people \u2013 look, people don\u2019t need them any more. They\u2019re done. I suggested the other day that if any of these organizations were involved in collusion with the Clinton campaign, why do they get a seat in the White House press office? Why does Donald Trump need a White House press office? He doesn\u2019t. You know, you can have a pool person that\u2019s standing by if, God forbid, there\u2019s any bad news about the president that the country needs to know, but his own staff could tweet it out, for crying out loud,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings have changed dramatically, with Breitbart, and Drudge, and cable news, and talk radio, and social media \u2013 Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. People are getting information very differently than they did,\u201d Hannity reflected.<\/p>\n<p>He thought the media lost a vital share of their\u00a0remaining credibility by getting the 2016 election so completely wrong, remembering how author Ann Coulter was almost \u201claughed off the stage\u201d on Bill Maher\u2019s HBO program during\u00a0the summer for saying that Trump had the best chance of winning the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re laughing any more,\u201d Hannity remarked.<\/p>\n<p>On the matter of Fidel Castro\u2019s death\u00a0Thanksgiving weekend, Hannity recalled talking to a woman who made him change his mind about little Elian Gonzalez being placed in the custody of his Cuban father in 2000, an experience that helped him understand the magnitude of Castro\u2019s totalitarian evil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was sort of torn because a part of me says all right, well, it\u2019s the kid\u2019s father. I think a child has the right to be with a mother and father. It was more complex, I think, as an issue than people know. She convinced me that this kid would be indoctrinated. This kid would be destroyed. This kid would be brainwashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI met a guy when I was broadcasting in Huntsville, Alabama,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis guy lived in Decatur, Alabama. He had a pizza place; it was called Mando\u2019s Pizza. He was from Cuba, and he was there during the takeover. His family was wealthy. During the revolution, when Castro came to power, he killed all his friends, killed a lot of his family. He stole all of the land. This guy, Armando de Quesada, who owned this pizza place in Decatur, he barely escaped with his life. There\u2019s a reason that people would get in broken-down, dilapidated, rickety boats in shark-infested waters or inner tubes to come all the way here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hannity concluded by calling Fidel Castro \u201ca murdering, dictating thug.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/11\/28\/sean-hannity-people-dont-need-fake-news-shifting-breitbart-drudge-talk-radio\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/11\/28\/sean-hannity-people-dont-need-fake-news-shifting-breitbart-drudge-talk-radio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}