Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Sean Hannity, Tower of Jell-0

This is how you do it.

First they came for the advertisers, and we said we'd smash our coffee makers.  Then we realized:  advertisers=$$$$$.


And we threw the corrupt and immoral politician under the bus:

″For me, the judge has 24 hours,” Hannity said Tuesday night. “He must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that I just showed. You must remove any doubt. If he can’t do that, then Judge Moore needs to get out of this race.”

Now if 500 Hannity fans smashed their Keurigs and won the lottery to get a replacement free of charge from their erstwhile hero, all will be well.  And if they didn't....

ADDING:  To take this all a bit more seriously:

So when Hannity told his viewers that Moore may not have assaulted a 14-year-old girl — that it's possible the mainstream media and liberal strategists made this up to take down a political opponent — many believed him. He made it feel true that this was made-up.

A few days later, pollsters asked people in Alabama whether the news about Moore made them more or less likely to support him.

About 33 percent said it made no difference. About 29 percent said they were more likely to vote for him (which as Vox’s Ezra Klein explained likely signals they don’t believe the allegations).
So, will Hannity influence the vote the other way?  Or is this the problem with theorizing about the importance of conspiracy theories?

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