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Judi Lynn

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Thu Oct 18, 2018, 03:25 AM Oct 2018

Republican senator and Sean Hannity clash over claims in new book


BY OWEN DAUGHERTY - 10/16/18 05:44 PM EDT

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) reportedly tears into Sean Hannity in his new book, accusing the Fox News host of creating divisiveness in American politics.

The Nebraska Republican devotes 20 pages of his new book, “Them: Why We Hate Each Other—and How to Heal,” to rip into Hannity for catering to a subset of the nation, according to the Daily Beast.

“Hannity tells a lot of angry, isolated people what they want to hear,” Sasse writes. “And he has the delivery down to an art form. We’d all be better off, as would our communities, if we understood the game he and his colleagues — on both sides of the spectrum — are playing.”

He said shows like Hannity’s highly rated Fox News program are “polititainment” that do not inform the public, and that many stories on Hannity’s show fall into a basic formula: “Liberals are evil, you’re a victim, and you should be furious.”

More:
https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/411707-republican-sen-ben-sasse-rips-fox-news-host-sean-hannity-in-new-bookreport
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THE LYING BASTARD REPUBLICANS ARE CORRUPT CRIMINAL ROB-ROX Oct 2018 #1

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1. THE LYING BASTARD REPUBLICANS ARE CORRUPT CRIMINAL
Thu Oct 18, 2018, 06:35 PM
Oct 2018

They lie so much these simple people think they are hearing the truth. It will take generations to get these simple people on the correct track to being better THINKERS. The GOP has already taken better education away from these people........

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