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Sean Hannity is not a conspiracy theorist , your page says he is. That’s not accurate. It leads one to question the objectivity of The Wikipedia sight. 2603:9009:C04:A1EE:D6C:D12C:F959:D3A1 (talk) 12:55, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
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Regarding Ainsley Earhardt, the text should read,
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, she hosted her Fox & Friends program from a remote studio in the basement of Hannity's Long Island mansion"
as opposed to:
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been hosting her Fox & Friends program from a remote studio in the basement of Hannity's Long Island mansion." Gkamer (talk) 22:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
FMSky, you may not have consensus to remove the longstanding (some since 2018) content from the third paragraph that you have removed twice in three days.[1][2] Can you please self-revert and justify the removals here, per WP:CAUTIOUS, WP:EPTALK, and WP:CONSENSUS? Llll5032 (talk) 14:34, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
I don't see how coverage of Hannity's association with Trump would be perceived as a negative unless the reader has a bias against the former president. In any case UNDUE concerns the prominence of viewpoints among reliable sources and has nothing to do with "positive" or "negative" coverage. If RS coverage is largely negative then our article rightfully will be as well. –dlthewave ☎ 16:26, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
Where is the evidence that Hannity ever promoted "birtherism," according to this article? There is no link or citation whatsoever to that assertion. Hannity said Obama was born in the US, "period." Other articles I have seen had him mentioning Kenya among a number of other countries like Canada, which is a wild stretch to match claims that he is a birther. The closest anyone seems to be able to come is to say that Trump once made birther claims to Hannity (with 0 quotes or transcripts attached) on his show. Where is the evidence? 2601:C2:680:31B0:71B5:6FF9:C0A3:719B (talk) 01:41, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
To be clear, Hannity was never a "birther" himself. He was more of a birther enabler – he’d adopt a "just asking questions" posture and call it "odd" that the White House refused to accede to the demands of loopy conspiracy theorists and release Obama’s long-form birth certificate. But he’d sympathize with the birthers and lament that they were being "crucified and beaten up and smeared and besmirched."
The following sentence occurs before the article makes any mention of any decision by the university board:
"The university board that governed the station later reversed its decision after ...".
This is extremely bad writing.
I'm definitely not a fan of Hannity, but I was surprised to hear that he's "advocated QAnon conspiracy theories" considering how mainstream conservative he is. The only source is a Vox piece that mentions Hannity as one of the conservatives promoting the theory, without actually detailing what he said. Googling "Sean Hannity QAnon" doesn't get me any results except for when he pretended they don't really exist.[3]
Wikipedia RS consider Vox to be generally reliable, except "some editors say that Vox does not always delineate reporting and opinion content or that it is a partisan source in the field of politics." Without real verification or reports from a nonpartisan source, I don't think it's fair to say in Wikivoice that Hannity advocates QAnon conspiracy theories. His "deep state" rhetoric is pretty close and he gives a platform to real QAnon peddlers[4], but that's not the same as actually promoting QAnon.
So yeah, I propose we remove mention of QAnon from the "Political Positions" unless we can actually show his promotion of QAnon. Woozybydefault (talk) 20:48, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
His "deep state" rhetoric is pretty close and he gives a platform to real QAnon peddlers, but that's not the same as actually promoting QAnon.Um, yea, it actually is. When your rhetoric echoes theirs, and you put the Q proponents in front of 2 million+ viewers, then you become a proponent yourself. Zaathras (talk) 20:52, 4 February 2024 (UTC)