Sean Hannity apologized to his viewers for the error during his November 11, 2009, broadcast.
NBC News quoted Hannity as saying: "We definitely had attorney–client privilege because I asked him for that", while Hannity said on his radio show that he "might have handed him ten bucks" for the attorney–client privilege. Lastly, Hannity tweeted that his discussions with Cohen were "almost exclusively" about real estate.
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Fox News host Sean Hannity has criticized Democrats for making a reference to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels's "big lie" when accusing Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz of repeating President Donald Trump's baseless assertion that widespread voter fraud caused him to lose the November 2020 presidential election.
Both Hawley and Cruz have said that they opposed certifying Biden's Electoral College victory because citizen concerns about the election's integrity deserved debate in the national legislature. Both have also criticized Biden for his "vicious" and "disgusting" comments about the "big lie."
Both Hawley and Cruz have said that they opposed certifying Biden's Electoral College victory because citizen concerns about the election's integrity deserved debate in the national legislature. Both have also criticized Biden for his "vicious" and "disgusting" comments about the "big lie.".
You keep repeating the lie, repeating the lie.". Goebbels was the Nazi Minister of Propaganda under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. His "big lie" is a reference to the following quote which is often attributed to him: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.".
The network pushed back on those claims, saying the investigation began "7 minutes" after the complaint was received, and no attempted persuasion occurred.
After voting for Barack Obama in 2008, Stacey Dash endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012 to much criticism. She turned that into a Fox News gig two years later, where she was hired to offer " cultural analysis and commentary " across the channel's bevy of shows.
Bolling recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made," Bowe said in a statement. The following month, the internal investigation was completed and Bolling was out.
Noam Galai/Getty Images. In August 2017, HuffPost reported that longtime Fox News host Eric Bolling allegedly texted unsolicited explicit photos to at least three female colleagues. Some of the fourteen sources, who spoke to the publication under the condition of anonymity, claimed to have seen the photos.
Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images. While Gretchen Carlson's 2016 allegations of sexual harassment ultimately led to the ouster of Fox News chief Roger Ailes, the following year saw the network's biggest star become embroiled in a disturbingly similar scandal.
Of all the dubious information spread about COVID-19 on Fox News, perhaps the most egregious claim came from Sean Hannity. According to The Washington Post, on a March 2020 edition of his primetime show "Hannity," he chided the media for "scaring people unnecessarily" about the virus (via Newsweek ).
It wasn't long after the ignominious firing of Bill O'Reilly that Fox News personality Eric Bolling wound up in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. In August 2017, HuffPost reported that three female colleagues had accused Bolling of texting them an "unsolicited photo of male genitalia." When reached for comment about the allegations, a Fox News spokesperson (who, by that point, was deserving of hazard pay) responded, "We were just informed of this and plan to investigate the matter."
Fox News was sued for billion s for hosts' on-air lies about imaginary election fraud. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images. In the weeks following Joe Biden's 2020 election victory, outgoing POTUS Donald Trump began disseminating what has come to be known as " the big lie ," declaring the election was rigged and he actually won.
Among these was Megyn Kelly, then one of the most popular personalities on the network. According to Intelligencer, it was during the course of Fox News' investigation into Carlson's claims that Kelly revealed Ailes had made "unwanted sexual advances toward her" a decade earlier, describing what took place "in detail."
In July 2017, The New York Times reported Charles Payne, host of "Making Money" on Fox News' sister network Fox Business, was suspended following a report in The National Enquirer in which a woman accused him of sexual misconduct.
CNN personality Larry King said in a January 17, 2007, interview with the Chicago Sun-Times: "They're a Republican brand. They're an extension of the Republican Party with some exceptions, [like] Greta Van Susteren. But I don't begrudge them that. [Fox News CEO] Roger Ailes is an old friend. They've been nice to me. They've said some very nice things about me. Not [Bill] O'Reilly, but I don't watch him."
The New York Times ran an article entitled, "At Fox News, the Colonel Who Wasn't" by Jim Rutenberg, revealing that Joseph A. Cafasso, whom Fox had employed for four months as a Military and Counterterrorism Editor, had bogus military credentials.
Fox News has been described by academics, media figures, political figures, and watchdog groups as being biased in favor of the Republican Party in its news coverage, as perpetuating conservative bias, and as misleading their audience in relation to science, notably climate change.