Is Sean Hannity Responsible for 174 deaths?

[_Icarus]

Apparently, he tipped Iran to some fake news that Trump was sending B-52's on the night they mistakenly thought US military was going to bomb them in response to the rocket attacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

Hannity said *all the things* you'd say if you wanted to make battery captains terrified and trigger-happy. He implied an airstrike was *imminent*. He *often* gets his information from Trump—whose information is *often* false. And U.S. officials now say a battery *shot down an airliner*.

Hannity's a Trump adviser who talks to Trump near-daily.
Trump has a history of giving out nonpublic operational information.
Trump's rhetoric on Iran was intended to scare.
Hannity falsely said B-52s were soon to strike Iran.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Are you suggesting Iranian officials are monitoring Hannity for intel, relayed his comments back to Iran, and they shot down the airliner as a result?

- Doc

[_Icarus]

Of course they were. Do you really think they wouldn't be watching US media at that time, especially when it is a well known fact that the Sean Hannity is Trump's right hand man? I'm stunned that this isn't getting the attention it deserves. Dozens of Canadian families should be suing FOX news for gross negligence and Hannity should be fired immediately. I don't know why it is hard to see why it is dangerous to be spewing fake news such as this during war time. The "fog of war" is what Trump created by assassinating Solemani and Hannity exacerbated the problem with his fake news about imminent bombing runs by US bombers.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

The internet says there are SAM sites 3.5 km away from the crash site.

Edit: The yellow airplane is where the plane crashed, so it was hit before that I believe.

- Doc

[_moksha]

Are you suggesting Iranian officials are monitoring Hannity for intel, relayed his comments back to Iran, and they shot down the airliner as a result?

- Doc

This would make sense since they know that Trump monitors Hannity and the two of them have a bedroom phone call every night.

[_EAllusion]

I'm not buying this specific instance - at least not without a lot more evidence - but I also think it would be silly for foreign countries interested in US policy to not have a close watch on Fox News, and especially Sean Hannity in particular, given how influential it is over Trump's decision making process such as it is. Iran not having some people flagged for watching and understanding the Fox-verse right now would be irresponsible.

[_EAllusion]

Iran probably was jumpy about its airspace for reasons you don't need Sean Hannity to understand.

[_moksha]

I'm not buying this specific instance - at least not without a lot more evidence...

Not sure how we could recover the precise targeting coordinates Hannity transmitted to the Iranians.

[_Chap]

And now we have just heard that Iran state TV has admitted that Iranian forces shot down the plane 'accidentally'.

[_MeDotOrg]

If you're talking about brain-deaths, Sean is responsible for a lot more than 174.