Fox News host Sean Hannity is confounded by all the talk about why there was no “red tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections. After all, he insists, who was saying such a thing in the first place?
As it turns out, he was.
The Daily Beast notes that Hannity made his remarks about the results of the 2022 midterms on his show Wednesday.
“I can’t say for sure whether rumors of the red tsunami started because polls in almost every key race were within the margin of error, mostly only one or two points,” Hannity said at the top of his show Wednesday night. “The glowing predictions of a big red wave were frankly foolish. I have a rule in life: Never overpromise and underdeliver. You want to underpromise and overdeliver.”
And yet, here’s a tweet from the Fox host in January.
He also told former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer:
“All of the foundational issues are there for the Republicans to have a wave election.”
And Hannity used his show in recent weeks to hype others who were predicting a massive win for the GOP.
The former White House shadow chief-of-staff and longtime Trump confidant had used his show in recent months to boost influential conservative voices and GOP candidates relentlessly promising a red wave on the horizon.
“I think it’s going to be a great night,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich beamed last week, predicting Republicans would gain as many as 44 House and five Senate seats.
There’s also this supercut of all the times Sean said he expected that Congress would soon be controlled by Republicans:
Of course, none of this should surprise anyone. Fox and its hosts constantly spread lies and conspiracy theories instead of reporting facts because that’s what their brainwashed viewers want to hear.
But when the bullshit comes back and hits Hannity and Fox square in the face, they just grin and try to act like they never said exactly what the video shows they did.
