“Keen to protect his colleague’s honour, Sean Hannity rushed to attack the piece on air, trashing the NYT in time-honoured Fox News fashion,” the site said. In its Thursday newsletter, Popbitch included an item about Hannity doing his colleague’s dirty work and attacking the New York Times for outing Carlson as a “massive gossip” on stories about Fox and Trump. While Hannity’s monologues and a Fox op-ed going after those targets ostensibly centered on his complaints that the paper and its reporters are “Trump stalkers” who “kiss the ass” of President Joe Biden, the impetus for the sudden obsession with the Times has been less than subtle.Īnd by Thursday, any pretense of a facade that this wasn’t retaliation for the Carlson column was all but ditched. Instead, Hannity has seemingly-and surely without any prompting from Fox executives, of course-taken it upon himself to serve as Fox’s attack dog, devoting much of his primetime show this week to blasting the New York Times, targeting its star reporter Maggie Haberman, and personally insulting Smith. In the wake of Smith’s juicy exposé, Carlson did not immediately address the revelations and has remained mum on the air. Another reporter acknowledged that they naturally “go soft” on Carlson because he’s a known resource for stories. “It’s so unknown in the general public how much he plays both sides,” one reporter told Smith. As Smith reported, Carlson’s reputation as a frequent and reliable source serves as “a kind of insurance policy” that protects him from the marginalization other provocative right-wing pundits have suffered over the years.
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