Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News, dead at age 77

[knapplc]

The Seth Rich conspiracy theory is pretty bad. Fox was right to post a retraction and remove the story from their site. Hannity was, apparently, going off a story created on some conservative message board, and trying to substantiate it by having Kim Dotcom hack into Rich's email.

It's a pretty disgusting story all around. Remember when conservatives were calling for the downfall of Rachel Maddow for the flop of Trump's taxes? She actually had his tax filing - that wasn't a fake story. It just wasn't as big as she billed it to be, so they vilified her.

In this instance, Hannity (and for a while, Fox, until they retracted it) were actively pushing a completely fabricated story.

The life and death of the Seth Rich conspiracy theory

When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a website created by the New Zealand-based Internet businessman and convicted hacker Kim Dotcom, his family knew that something was off.

Over seven frenzied days, Dotcom had become a leading purveyor of the theory that Rich, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee who was shot dead near his home in Northeast Washington last summer, had supplied DNC documents to WikiLeaks and was killed as a result. Multiple security analysts and an FBI investigation have tied the release to hackers with ties to Russia. D.C. police have said repeatedly that they think Rich was slain in a random robbery attempt.

According to experts and Rich’s family, the emailed invitation from welcome@mega.nz appeared to be an attempt to gain access to Rich’s email. Joel Rich, who maintains his late son’s Gmail account, did not click the link. Meanwhile, Dotcom was promising on Twitter to prove that the younger Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks — and Fox News host Sean Hannity was telling his 2.37 million Twitter followers to be ready for a revelation.

Hannity had invited Dotcom to appear on his show for what he said on Twitter would be a “#GameChanger” interview. The implication: that Dotcom would finally offer evidence of his claim that Rich had sent internal DNC documents to WikiLeaks before his death.

All that began to unravel Tuesday afternoon, when Fox News retracted a story that had claimed the same Rich-WikiLeaks connection, telling readers that the article was “not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.” Fox News did not respond to a request for comment, but Dotcom wrote on his website that he would not speak further about his allegations.

The latest revelation — that a hacker from New Zealand may have been trying as recently as this week to hack into Rich’s email — offered fresh evidence that the conspiracy theory is false. Dotcom, it seemed, may have been willing to create a fake archive of emails from Rich to “prove” his role in the DNC hack.

 

[TGHusker]

Hannity has gone off the deep end with his ever growing "madness' against the Dem party and total - "the party can do no wrong' support of whoever the republican nominee would have been. He said he had no favorites during the primary, but he was pretty much in Trump's camp from the beginning. In this diversion noted above he wants to get the heat off of Trump and divert our attention elsewhere.

[TGHusker]

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-sean-hannity-return-1202444145/

Fox stands by their man - probably had no other choice since they lost other high profile, revenue generating commentators.

Hannity is backing away from the Seth Rich story 'out of respect for the family'

[NM11046]

They are quickly losing advertisers for his program too ...

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/25/sean-hannity-loses-advertisers-amid-uproar-over-slain-dnc-staffer-conspiracy-theories/?utm_term=.1bc5f957697f

[knapplc]

You support products you like with your dollar vote. Americans have let these advertisers know they won't support their company if they advertise on Hannity, and the advertisers have correctly followed suit.

 

Hannity just needs to produce a better product (unlike the fake news he's peddling now) and his advertisers will come back. The Darwinian theory of business.

 

Hannity should be celebrating this monument to proper Capitalism. The American people have spoken. Freedom wins again!

[Danny Bateman]

Hannity's next. He's been acting like a guy who wants out with this Seth Rich nonsense.

I hope this is can be the driving force behind forcing out that moron, too.

[zoogs]

Unfortunately, America likes "The Apprentice."

[NM11046]

Hannity's next. He's been acting like a guy who wants out with this Seth Rich nonsense.

 

I hope this is can be the driving force behind forcing out that moron, too.