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Former CIA Director: Sean Hannity Is A ‘True Propagandist’
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October 25, 2016
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5:00Now PlayingFormer CIA Director Michael Hayden is accusing Fox host Sean Hannity of being a propagandist. He’s right for all the wrong reasons. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, said in a statement Sunday that Fox’s Sean Hannity, one of Trump’s most ardent and vocal media supporters, behaved like a “true propagandist.”
In a statement to Brookings Institute senior fellow Benjamin Wittes, Hayden, a retired Air Force general, wrote that “Hannity has entered the pantheon of a true propagandist.” He added that the Fox host’s “behavior reminds me of a conversation I had with a political office in the mid-1980s when I was the air attaché to Bulgaria. I asked this officer what truth was to him. He responded without hesitation, ‘Truth is what serves the party.'”
Hayden’s remarks were in direct response to Hannity’s praising WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. It was a drastic shift for the Fox host, who was hostile to Assange and WikiLeaks for years. His sudden about-face comes after the organization began making disclosures intended to damage Clinton’s campaign, specifically steadily releasing emails stolen from the private email account of Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta.
Hayden noted that, save for a few personalities — such as Chris Wallace, who moderated the final debate, Bret Baier, and Megyn Kelly— “FOXNews has almost completely jumped the shark.”
“They have given up any semblance of conservatism and focused on an almost visceral hatred of all things Clinton and Obama.””*
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