Hannity – Just another Elitist

10/13/23

I have watched Hannity sparingly over the years. I find him to be too vitriolic for my taste but his politics lined up for the most part, with mine. I thought Tucker bordered on bombastic at times too but his content was better. I am interested in Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy and watched his “interview” with Hannity. It only served to show me that Hannity is a partisan hack who is doing the bidding of some amorphous political cabal that has a strangle hold on the Republican party. He’s in the DC bubble and does not want it burst.

Hannity in a “gotcha” pseudo interview, conflated Vivek’s statement in a Tucker interview on Azerbaijan, where he says powerful financial connections drive moral outrage, with the current Israel war.

https;//www,youtube.com/watch?v=30ECi1Ps5ea

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-loses-it-at-ramaswamy-over-his-comments-on-israel

Instead of what should have been a reasoned conversation about Vivek’s policy positions, as it was in Tucker’s conversations with Vivek, Hannity was confrontational throughout the “interview”. He began the segment with a video of her criticism of Vivek. When “asked” to respond, he refused to allow Vivek to explain his position. Hannity’s “just answer this simple question” turned into a speech. Using the same tactics we decry in the leftist media, he used an excerpt of Vivek’s comments to incorrectly cast his position. When Vivek tried to correct Hannity, he refused to let Vivek complete his explanation. Hannity eventually cut off the interview when Vivek confronted Hannity about his parroting mass medias talking points and falsehoods.

For me, this is another example of why outsiders are critical to putting this country back on the right footing. Instead of debating the notion of monetized public service, or the differences between the conflicts in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Israel, ad hominem slurs fill the “news” that is supposed to educate the public. Piercing the bubble of the elitists on both sides, is now apparent. They are too close to the sun to realize they are burning up.