Fox News host Sean Hannity ripped Jeff Zucker on Thursday evening after the CNN boss slammed Hannity’s network s as “state-run” and compared them to the Russian propaganda service TASS.
Hannity responded by declaring Zucker a “porn king” for his network’s extensive coverage of the Stormy Daniels story.
“If you’re looking for 24/7 never-ending, looped around porn-related news, CNN Fake News, they’ve got you covered,” said Hannity on his Fox News program. “Now we might have a brand new nickname for their leader, their chief, their CEO, Jeff Zucker, the Porn King of Cable News.”
Hannity also took issue with CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of President Trump’s comments in January, where he said he didn’t want immigrants coming to the United States from “shithole countries” — treating his audience to a heavily bleeped clip reel of CNN’s coverage of that episode.
The rest of the rant from Hannity’s regular opening monologue focused on some classic whataboutism over why the media didn’t care this much about the Bill Clinton’svarious sexual misconduct scandals of the 1990s.
The latest salvo in the ongoing war between CNN and Fox was launched by Zucker at the Financial Times Future of News conference in New York City on Thursday. In response to a question about the competition, Zucker savaged Fox and their journalists and said their content was hurting the country.
“There are a handful of really good journalists there, but I think they are lost in what is a complete propaganda machine and the idea that it’s a news channel is really not the case at all,” said Zucker. “I think does an incredible disservice to this country.”
So far Fox News has not issued an official response — a highly unusual move for the network.