Fresh French Fried Fox in a Fiery Forest Fire Finally Found Fraudulent

Caught flat-footed, red-handed, and lying like a rug

Sean Hannity and Fox News are both big name bullshitters, par excellence and now: WELL, IT'S RETRACTION time as reported on here by NBC News.

Fox News announced Tuesday (May 23^rd) that it had retracted a story published last week that reignited conspiracy theories around the unsolved killing of DNC staffer Seth Rich, whose family demanded an apology from the conservative Fox news network.

Later the same day, the conspiracy's most prominent proponent, Fox News' Sean Hannity, announced on his show that he would stop discussing the case “for now.” It was a major back-down for a prominent host who had used his Twitter account earlier to vow he would never be silenced by “Liberal Fascism.”

Hannity said he made the decision to go mum on the killing “out of respect for the family's wishes,” but he also hinted that he had pressure from bosses at Fox News, where he noted he was under contract.

Rich's family published a Washington Post op-ed in the Washington Post hours before Hannity's show pleading that people stop politicizing their son's death. The op-ed did not mention Hannity's name, but Aaron Rich, Seth's brother, exchanged emails with Hannity earlier in the day, the host said and a family spokesperson confirmed.

BACKGROUND IN A NUTSHELL:

1.  Fox News, citing a single unnamed FBI source, had reported that Rich, who was murdered last year in Washington, DC was a potential source of internal DNC emails published by WikiLeaks last summer, thus implying that he was then assassinated for the leak.

2. The report immediately caught fire among Trump supporters as a preferable alternative explanation to the one put forward by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials, who have always maintained that Russian hackers were behind the breach.

(I Note: And, boy oh boy, were they ever wrong, Seth's death is still an unsolved robbery-murder case).

Even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich amplified the conspiracy theory on Fox News Sunday (May 21^st). Then by Tuesday, Fox retracts the story.

Ironically, Keith Olbermann on his GQ show had just published a fine analysis of the entire BS story along with great logic and key points that tore the entire Fox/Hannity story to pieces in 9-minutes. That fine segment is here from YouTube:

So, bad timing or just plain dumb luck, um, Fox? Also, noteworthy is how the public now truly sees Murdoch and his Fox den of liars who are totally unfair and unbalanced and apparently unhinged as many of us already knew.

Uncle Ruppy Murdoch