‘Why’s the fence up, Bernie? Oh, a barrier is acceptable if they protect you personally? They are only wrong if they are used to protect our border and the American people?’
That’s Fox News personality Sean Hannity going after Sen. Bernie Sanders for standing behind a barrier during the Vermont independent’s presidential campaign kickoff in Brooklyn over the weekend.
Yes. Sanders opposes Trump’s wall but uses a crowd-control barrier for protection. The let-not-your-heart-be-troubled Hannity, described in the week’s much-discussed New Yorker piece by Jane Mayer, as a virtual shadow White House chief of staff, is not about to let such hypocrisy slide.
As a senior researcher at Media Matters, a nonprofit media-tracking organization “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation,” Andrew Lawrence has certainly stumbled upon plenty of dubious claims over his career. So when he suggests Hannity’s segment tops them all, well, that’s saying something:
Please watch the dumbest thing you'll ever see in your life pic.twitter.com/6YU5V1RKhV
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 5, 2019
But is it really the “dumbest thing” ever? Not much argument from the internet, at least among those crossing paths with the Lawrence tweet, where the response could pretty much be summed up like this:
Not a great deal of backing was to be found on Twitter for Hannity’s deductive reasoning:
Oh man. It's dumber than that. https://t.co/AorZWKtKAa
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 5, 2019
Bernie doesn't support the wall but he closes the door to the bathroom
