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This blogger been trying to tell y’all about sedition-conduit Hannity & Fox ‘News’

https://twitter.com/bywillpollock/status/1116520887430283265?s=20 If MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was co-conspirator in criminal activity how do you think media would cover that? It would lead New York Times for a f*cking month. So here we are: Incontrovertible evidence Fixed Noise’s primetime goon was CHINS-DEEP in 6 Jan planning and…

Justin Baragona at The Daily Beast: 

Sean Hannity is apparently above the law at Fox News.

In recent months, Fox’s journalistic ethics have faced increased scrutiny as it courts 2020 Democratic candidates for town-hall events and interviews. The channel’s infamously far-right, Trump-boosting opinion programming is separate from its “hard news” division and, as Fox has claimed, both are subject to the network’s rigorous news standards.

But Hannity, who consistently dominates the ratings across all cable news outlets, brazenly ignores those supposed rules. And news-side employees who spoke to The Daily Beast believe it’s because no one at the network is willing to control the ratings-leading host.

A blaring example of that is Hannity’s treatment of claims from guests whose dubious “reporting” would never pass muster on Fox’s hard news shows. The most commonly cited example of this is Trump-boosting Fox News contributor Sara Carter, whose news credibility is so questionable that, as Mediaite reported in March, Fox News executives allegedly told Hannity to stop calling her an “investigative reporter” on his show.

“Fox News executives have asked Hannity to stop using this title on the grounds that Carter’s reporting is not vetted, and passes none of the network’s editorial guidelines,” the media news site reported. And even without any such dictate, Hannity’s hyping of “reporters” who don’t meet Fox’s news standards would be considered troublesome at any mainstream outlet.

Nevertheless, Hannity has persisted.

In fact, according to a review of Fox News transcripts, he has only gotten more defiant since he was reportedly scolded by executives. This year, Hannity has referred to Carter as an “investigative reporter” at least 18 times, two-thirds of which came after he was told to stop. In several of those instances, Hannity even slapped a network-wide stamp of approval on Carter, calling her a “Fox News investigative reporter.”

Carter has served as Hannity’s go-to “reporter” on the “Deep State” counter-narrative he has incessantly pushed since before the Mueller investigation began. She has been a Fox News contributor since late 2017 and has only ever appeared on the network’s opinion side, with the vast majority of her on-air hits coming on Hannity.

After leaving right-leaning Sinclair-owned news outlet Circa in November 2017, Carter’s reporting has appeared on her eponymous blog. While Hannity has regularly promoted her articles on-air and via his social media accounts, Fox’s actual news division never uses her reporting.

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Carter isn’t the only Fox contributor Hannity has defiantly labeled an “investigative reporter” against better news judgment. He’s also given that questionable title to two other conservative pundits shunned by the network’s news side: right-wing commentator Lawrence Jones, a paid Fox contributor; and The Hill opinion writer John Solomon (who years ago wrote for Newsweek/The Daily Beast).

Jones, a former Glenn Beck employee, was hired by Fox News as a contributor in December 2018 after making frequent guest appearances across the network’s opinion programming. In recent months, Hannity has tapped Jones to do goofy topical man-on-the-street interviews in the vein of Jesse Watters’ career-making outings.

While his segments—including a much-hyped and highly mocked trip to the Mexican border—are relegated to Fox’s opinion shows and never used by the news division, Jones has been introduced this year by Hannity at least a dozen times as an “investigative reporter,” with a majority of those instances coming after the Fox host was reportedly asked to stop labeling Carter as such.

Solomon, meanwhile, isn’t a Fox News employee but has been a frequent guest of Hannity’s for several years. Prior to jumping to The Hill in June 2017 to serve as the site’s executive vice president of digital video, he worked with Carter at Circa, collaborating on a number of stories later touted by Hannity.

In May 2018, as scrutiny of his reporting—which Hannity often labeled “bombshells”—grew, The Hill staffers reportedly complained to management about his flimsy reportage. The Hill’s bosses apparently agreed: Shortly thereafter, the outlet announced that Solomon’s writing would henceforth be explicitly branded as opinion.

Nevertheless, Solomon has proven quite useful in Hannity’s quest to discredit criticism of President Trump via supposed investigative reporting. The Hill columnist, whose own outlet does not consider him a reporter, has been hyped by Hannity as an “investigative reporter” at least 12 times this year, including twice this week.

I know. This is Fox News. They say ridiculous shit.

But this segment on Sandra Bland truly crosses the line. In it, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, without cracking a smile, suggests that Officer Brian Encinia may have been physically threatened by the flaming weaponized cigarette being smoked by Bland. Here's the conversation ....

HASSELBECK: But, what if, I mean, there are times, I'm sure, someone has, in the history of this land, used a cigarette against a police officer, maybe chucked it at him, pushed it at him.

RAFFERTY: Absolutely.

HASSELBECK: If he indeed felt it could be a potential threat, was that the wise thing to do?

The preposterous video, highlighted by Media Matters, can be seen below.

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FOX News Channel celebrates 18 years on air today. http://t.co/udeb5VqZX1

— FishbowlDC (@FishbowlDC) October 7, 2014

Fox News Channel launched on this day, 18 years ago

Fox News continued its transphobic attacks on Private Chelsea Manning, deriding her fight for hormone therapy as a bid for "special treatment" and suggesting that "he" had "already cost us enough" while ignoring expert opinion that hormone therapy is essential for transgender people.

The Pentagon reportedly is drawing up plans to transfer the former Manning, currently serving a 35-year sentence for leaking documents to WikiLeaks, from a military to a civilian prison. In a civilian facility, Manning - formerly known as Bradley Manning - would be allowed to receive hormone therapy.

During the May 14 edition of Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade misgendered Manning and trivialized her effort to gain access to hormone treatment. Teasing the show's report on the latest developments in Manning's case, Doocy asserted that Manning was seeking "special treatment" from the Defense Department, while Kilmeade asked, "he's already cost us enough, hasn't he?":

In the report itself, Doocy continued to refer to Manning as a male:

What Doocy calls "special treatment" is, in reality, medically - and perhaps constitutionally - necessary. The American Civil Liberties Union has highlighted the "serious constitutional concerns" that would be raised by denying Manning medical treatment, noting that denial of treatment to gender dysphoria patients like Manning "can cause severe psychological distress, including anxiety and suicide," thereby violating the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. A federal appeals cout recently ruled that denying hormone therapy to inmates "serves no valid penological purpose and amounts to torture."

Fox has ignored the expert consensus on transgender medical treatment before. In 2013, host Megyn Kelly dismissed a Massachusetts inmate's bid for gender reassignment treatment as a "get out of male prison free card." Discussing the same inmate, Kelly and Bill O'Reilly mocked and misgendered her, lampooning the inmate' appearance and joking that the inmate didn't have to worry about sexual assault because she wasn't attractive enough. (In fact, transgender inmates are frequently targeted for sexual assault.) Kelly has also hosted Family Research Council President Tony Perkins to blast Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its policy in support of hormone therapy for transgender detainees - a policy Perkins lambasted for allowing "cross-dressing as health care."

Fox & Friends' jabs at Manning, meanwhile, are merely the latest in a long line of transphobic commentary the network directed at the Army private since she announced her gender identity last summer. Fox has repeatedly misgendered her, with Fox & Friends teasing an August segment on Manning with Aerosmith's "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)."