Rage Against the (Coffee) Machine
By a stroke of luck, it looks like I will be talking about Sean Hannity again tonight as he has continued to make the headlines with his whining and hypocrisy. I am especially joyous to be covering this man because after all, he is my favorite news anchor ever. I could not pass up the opportunity to talk about him again.
The answer is actually much more bizarre. As I discussed on Monday, Hannity has recently been fired up over the Roy Moore sexual misconduct scandal and has vocally criticized Republicans for �rushing to judgement� on the matter. Amid his defense of Moore, Hannity said that the relationship between Moore and a fourteen-year-old girl was consensual. This sparked a lot of outrage and a liberal lobbying group known as �Media Matters� responded by publishing a transcript and the audio from the interview where Hannity made the controversial statement. They also published a list of companies that advertise on Hannity�s show both on Fox News and on the radio and encouraged people to boycott those companies. One of those companies was Keurig who announced on Twitter on Sunday that they were pulling their ads from Hannity�s show. In response, Hannity�s supporters started posting videos of them smashing, burning, and breaking their Keurig machines. Hannity even played some of the clips on his show on Monday and laughed with glee as the machines were destroyed.
On Tuesday, his tone changed after he read a letter from the chief executive of Keurig to his employees which stated that it was �outside of the company protocol� to talk about advertising practices to the public. Hannity said that the letter was �sincere� and abruptly called for a �cease fire� to the atrocities occurring against Keurig coffee machines. Hannity also spent a lot of air time trying to defend himself for saying that Moore�s relationships with teenage girls were consensual. It was a circus.
First of all, I found the smashing of Keurig coffee machines to be hilarious. The only people who lose in this situation are the people who smashed their machines because they do not have a coffee machine now. Keurig did not lose any money from the destruction of their products and it�s not like the company is emotionally attached to the machines that they make. I think the thought process behind it went a little like this: �Me angry because man on TV say Keurig bad. Must smash my Keurig machine.�On another note, this whole situation is ridiculous. Keurig is being boycotted by one group because they were trying to not be boycotted by another group that was angry after a news anchor made a wildly ridiculous claim about the sexual misconduct of a candidate for the Senate in Alabama. That is a mouthful. And it might seem ridiculous until you take into account that the news anchor in question is Sean Hannity. Knowing that, the situation makes a lot more sense.
With Sean Hannity, it�s always a circus. If he is not being hypocritical he is probably stirring up a controversy or just whining about �leftists� and the �lazy� media. I guess that is what makes him so exciting and appealing to his audience. They love the drama that he creates because they think he is fighting the good fight when in reality he is making a fool of himself.
I think it�s time for some more Sean Hannity jokes, back by popular demand.
1. Sean Hannity also declared war on Barnes & Noble this weekend. There was silence from his loyal fanbase because none of them own any books.
2. Hannity once said, �I like guts in my leader.� I agree. I think our leaders should have guts, mainly because they are necessary for survival.
I cannot think of anymore jokes so that�s all for this week.
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