Sean Hannity Threatens to Sue CNN for Libel
For breakfast this morning, the nommy delicious irony of a scandal monger suing for slander.
Hannity was likely referring to comments CNN’s Brian Stelter made earlier in the week. Stelter called out conservative media for floating rumors about the Democratic presidential candidate’s health long before she revealed she was suffering from pneumonia.
“These are people who bring up rumors and innuendo about Clinton’s health, and have been doing it for years,” Stelter said, pointing to Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones. “I’m not saying Hannity or Limbaugh fit into these necessarily, but some of these figures want her to be sick. They want her to be dying. They want her to be on her death bed.”
Unfortunately for Hannity, he doesn’t have much of a case for slander. Stelter was accurate in saying that Hannity had speculated about Clinton’s health, and he clarified that the “death bed” remark didn’t necessarily apply to the Fox New host. Only remarks that are both false and defamatory are punishable under current libel laws.