Fake News: CNN Falsely Claims Sean Hannity Pulled Gun On Juan Williams
‘It’s not news, it’s’ CNN is becoming a parody of itself, and rivalling The Onion for satire. Seriously, it’s getting out of control.
Dylan Byers, one of the media writers at CNN who works for media industry defender Brian Stelter, printed a story on Thursday alleging: “Last year, after ending one of his many spirited on-air arguments with liberal contributor Juan Williams, Hannity pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at Williams.” Byers cited “three sources with knowledge of the incident” to make the claim.
“He even turned on the laser sight, causing a red dot to bob around on Williams’ body,” Byers wrote, adding in parentheses: “Hannity was just showing off, the sources said, but the unforeseen off-camera antic clearly disturbed Williams and others on set.”
Byers added in the next paragraph that the alleged incident was investigated, and it was determined nothing bad happened.
So yeah, Sean Hannity is a violent sociopath white guy who threatened innocent unarmed ‘gentle giant’ black guy Juan Williams. Seems legit. Except …
(1/2) This incident is being sensationalized – everything was under total control throughout and I never felt like I was put in harm’s way.
— Juan Williams (@TheJuanWilliams) March 17, 2017
(2/2) It was clear that Sean put my safety and security above all else and we continue to be great friends.
— Juan Williams (@TheJuanWilliams) March 17, 2017
Whoops. Fake news.
This is not going to help Jake Tapper’s relationship with his son at all.
“[He] now does an impression where whenever I’m bothering him he says, ‘fake news,’” Tapper said.
Hannity also addressed CNN example of the new standard for ‘journalism’ in the US:
@CNN fake news lies. Juan is one of my best friends. Love u my friend. https://t.co/ZqXsRXWHDw
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 17, 2017
@CNN is as hysterical and insane as Rachael Maddow. https://t.co/ZqXsRXWHDw
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 17, 2017
‘Very fake news’ CNN also said Hannity has a brown belt in Karate.
Oh and by the way. I never did "Karate"
In my life. Another lie https://t.co/eztXMHCHQE— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 17, 2017
Now, you’d think that after your report got shredded for the mythology it is by both subjects of your report, alleged assailant and alleged victim, that you’d back away. Especially after the laughable karate bit, right?
[Tweet theme=”basic-full”]You’d think after ur report got shredded for the lie it is by both subjects of the report that you’d back away. Nope[/Tweet]
I stand by my reporting, Juan. Every word. 110%. https://t.co/vvYMdWCs4E https://t.co/Um7dZfIqnq
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) March 17, 2017
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I guess not.
Fake news hack. Of course u do. Lol. It's not true. Unless u r calling me and Juan liars. Shocking from "White Lash" network. https://t.co/1ueCKtPirX
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 17, 2017
Alleged image of Sean Hannity threatening Juan Williams with his pistol.
It’s a high capacity tactical assault pistol with single-use 30 mag clips.