Sean Hannity Drags ’60 Minutes’ Interview: ‘Anderson Cooper Has Now Turned Into CNN’s Jerry Springer’ (Video)
Sean Hannity says CNN picked up the Stormy Daniels story after Russia coverage didn’t work out
Jon Levine | March 27, 2018 @ 6:28 AM
Last Updated: March 27, 2018 @ 6:49 AM
Fox News fire breather Sean Hannity didn’t care for Stormy Daniels’ interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday. On his his show Monday evening, he said the mainstream media had become unhealthily obsessed with the story and that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was turning into Jerry Springer.
“After back-to-back, lewd, cringeworthy, creepy interviews with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal — again allegations of a consensual relationship — it looks like Anderson Cooper has now turned into CNN’s Jerry Springer,” said Hannity.
The Fox host then played a side-by-side montage of Springer and moments from Cooper’s interview — which were kind of similar.
At the opening of his show’s monologue, Hannity said the Stormy Daniels story had taken the place of Russia for a media desperate to discredit the president.
“Now that the media’s Russia obsession isn’t exactly working out according to plan, well instead of Russia, Russia, Russia, now it’s Stormy, Stormy and more Stormy,” he said. “The mainstream media’s nonstop assault on President Trump and his character and credibility has reached a new low.”
Hannity also trial ballooned the name “creepy Anderson Cooper,” and repeated his declaration that CNN president Jeff Zucker was the “king of porn” for his network’s wall-to-wall Stormy coverage.
Stormy Daniels, who is suing President Donald Trump to try and be released from an NDA, said she had a consensual sexual affair with the real estate magnate back in 2006. The president has consistently denied that there was any physical relationship between the two.
Daniels is also suing Trump attorney Michael Cohen for defamation.
Watch Hannity’s take above.
Fox News' Jesse Watters: His 10 Most Offensive Moments (Videos)
Shortly after O'Reilly was ousted from Fox News, Watters took his own vacation from the network after coming under fire for making a comment about First Daughter Ivanka Trump, which some interpreted as inappropriate sexual innuendo.
Watters' recurring segment on "The O'Reilly Factor" involved sending the host out to various events and locations across the country for man-on-the-street style interviews that mock various cultural subgroups in their own communities. In a 2016 segment, Watters went after Italian Americans at the Feast of San Gennaro festival.
One of Watters' most controversial segments came in the form of a 2016 venture into New York's Chinatown. In the heavily criticized piece, Watters turned his signature schtick on Chinese Americans, resulting in a blatantly racist segment that played on Asian stereotypes and openly mocked its subjects.
Watters' October 2016 venture to the Amish community in Pennsylvania was turned into one recurring punchline -- over the fact that the Amish don't vote or pay much attention to presidential politics. "Lucky you," he tells several people.
In 2007, O'Reilly sent Watters to ambush Bill Moyers in the street after the PBS host released a documentary criticizing the Bush administration for the Iraq War. Bill O'Reilly would later go on to call that segment a contributing factor in Moyers' decision to retire.
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In 2015, Watters went to Penn Station to criticize the "rise of homelessness" in New York City, pointedly asking those sleeping at the station about their drug habits and what they did to make money on the streets.
On the anniversary of 9/11, Watters went to a convention for Muslim Americans to ask them about terrorism and Islamic radicals. When a woman criticized the media for linking terrorism to the Islamic religion, Watters and O'Reilly both balked at the suggestion that "Christian terrorism" could even exist.
In 2009, Amanda Terkel, then the managing editor of Think Progress, wrote a column in which she said she was "followed, harassed, and ambushed" by Watters while on vacation after she ran a column criticizing Bill O'Reilly for his comments toward rape survivors.
Watters was caught on video getting into a fight at the 2016 White House Correspondents' Dinner afterparty with The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim. It was later reported that Grim approached Watters with a camera asking him to apologize to Terkel for his behavior in 2009.
O'Reilly sent Watters to Philadelphia for a tone-deaf segment about racism in which he mocked the Black Lives Matter movement, criticized political correctness and generally failed to elevate the conversation surrounding race relations in America.
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Shortly after O'Reilly was ousted from Fox News, Watters took his own vacation from the network after coming under fire for making a comment about First Daughter Ivanka Trump, which some interpreted as inappropriate sexual innuendo.
