According to IJReview, Sean Hannity is thinking about leaving Fox News, and is not returning calls while doing so on his Memorial Day break.
Hannity has gone “underground” and is actively considering whether or not he will return to Fox News on Tuesday, a source close to Hannity told Independent Journal Review. It’s a stunning development at the network, which has seemingly remained in a constant state of turmoil since the ouster of the late Roger Ailes.
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But the well-placed source said Hannity has since retreated to isolation — even temporarily “swearing off” social media — while he makes a decision regarding his future at Fox News. Hannity’s last tweet was posted on Thursday afternoon.
“He has stopped answering his phone, and communicating even with his close friends,” the source added.
His close friends? You mean Newt Gingrich and a blow-up doll of Trump?
Of course, that would be a terribly Trumpian thing for him to do, as he mocked the very idea in a tweet before leaving:
Uh oh My ANNUAL Memorial Day long weekend starts NOW. Destroy Trump/Conservative media breathless coverage starts! Did Hannity do last show?
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) May 25, 2017
The motivation for leaving makes too much sense:
The source, who possesses intimate knowledge of the internal dealings at Fox News, said Hannity feels like the network failed to sufficiently support him after he came under attack. The source also alleged there may be an active campaign to force him out of the network — led by none other than James Murdoch.
Again, he’s whined about this before – when his former producer Bill Shine was fired from the show, he wet himself on social media:
Gäbe i pray this is NOT true because if it is, that's the total end of the FNC as we know it. Done. Best Sean https://t.co/W3BJ2wjzRD
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) April 27, 2017
IJR’s source says that Murdoch is “is literally obsessed with getting rid of everyone associated with the old Fox and turning Fox into a respectable news network like CNN.”
And Hannity played right into their hands by pushing an absurd conspiracy theory and giving the left an opening to attack his advertisers. Then he backed down – showing how little he actually believes in a story that would secure four terms for Trump and make Hannity a hero forever….