Sean Hannity tried to make a fool of NBC but possibly just made a fool of himself
Fox News host Sean Hannity went to dunk on NBC News on Thursday morning, only for the result to be so confusing that some people are convinced he actually just dunked on himself. The whole thing started when the host tweeted links to NBC News stories while calling out "fake news @CNN" and "conspiracy TV @NBCNews."
Hey fake news @CNN and conspiracy tv @NBCNews read and learn. https://t.co/LcIp3BieHC
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) December 21, 2017
So @seanhannity correct AGAIN and @CNN and @NBCNews wrong again. pic.twitter.com/IZ7UMOr6qk
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) December 21, 2017
People quickly pointed out the evident error in Hannity's attack:
you are... literally... tweeting an @NBCNews story. https://t.co/ZjzWNqTkA9
— Hallie Jackson (@HallieJackson) December 21, 2017
You're asking NBC News to read an article from ... NBC News? https://t.co/BQ7v0FyrOg
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) December 21, 2017
Yea hey there, @NBCNews; you better read this story on nbcnews dot com, and learn. https://t.co/2UeCPK9x14
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 21, 2017
Hannity had at least one defender, though:
Hey team, people keep replying to this and saying Sean is dumb cause he shared an NBC News report while trashing NBC...he was trashing CNN,...and was saying NBC News did a story and that CNN should read and learn....save yourself the time on this one.... https://t.co/6oWQWOsxgu
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) December 21, 2017
Still, not everyone was convinced:
I can’t believe I’m trying to parse this.
But there’s a chance he says “Hey, Fake news, CNN. [This comes from] NBC. Read and learn.”
But I’m not sure that’s the case.— Jeremy Binckes (@jbinckes) December 21, 2017
Your interpretation of his lack of punctuation is not just generous. it's flat out wrong.
— Paul Dirks (@phd9) December 21, 2017
Either way, this appears to be less of a dunk — and more of an air ball.