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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:26 AM Mar 2020

Hannity 3/9 It's a Hoax - 3/18 "We've never called the virus a hoax."

HANNITY, March 9: "This scaring the living hell out of people -- I see it, again, as like, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax."

HANNITY, March 18: "By the way, this program has always taken the coronavirus seriously. We've never called the virus a hoax."



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GusBob

(7,286 posts)
1. its post-truth America
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:28 AM
Mar 2020

lying is in

they used to call it propaganda, now they got this cool marketing term "influencing"

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
2. Naw, the virus wasn't the hoax, it was the over reaction by the Democrats that was hoax..
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:30 AM
Mar 2020

or that is the bullshit he is spreading now.

But now that isn't a hoax either...lying sack

The real hoax was trying to minimize this virus and its consequences from the start.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,007 posts)
8. It's a quibble on wording they are using to wiggle out from under what they said.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 11:00 AM
Mar 2020

They now say they called the panic a hoax, not the virus.

But they clearly greatly downplayed the virus at the same time.

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