title: comey letter backfires as email scandal revival energizes hillary clinton supporters
text: by jason easley on tue nov st  at  pm republicans are so far removed from reality that sean hannity spread a fake news story on his radio show and nobody noticed the difference share on twitter print this post 
  republicans are so far removed from reality that sean hannity spread a fake news story on his radio show and nobody noticed the difference 
  cnn reported the progression of events illustrates how fake news stories expand and spread from fringe web sites to nationally syndicated radio shows with millions of listeners in this case the fake news originated on a dubious site called your news wire which publishes a mix of true slanted and madeup news then like a game of telephone by the time the story got to hannity even the fake facts were wrong 
  some rightwing websites spread the story which turned into a tall tale that added new details at each stop the fake news eventually reached the gateway pundit and to sean hannitys radio show 
  after spreading the fake news to millions of listeners hannity downplayed his responsibility to get the facts right bottom line it was brought up in an insignificant way i was dealing with more important issues like hrc crimes and lies and how cnn has been colluding with the clinton campaign and cheating bernie sanders 
  hannity was busy dealing with real fake issues like hillary clintons crimes and how the election is being stolen from donald trump 
  how hannity put a fake story on the air is a perfect example of how the rightwing media echo chamber works nobody at any level bothered to check the facts because in the republican party belief has replaced fact conservative media knows that their audience wants confirmation of their beliefs so that is what they provide 
  it doesnt matter if the confirmation is true what matters is that the audience wants it to be true 
  sean hannity is pushing fake news and he doesnt care 
  this is why there is such a disconnect between republicans and the rest of the country republican voters are living in a fantasy land that donald trump was able to exploit and ride the whole way to the republican nomination 
  the conservative media bubble is alive and well and because of this things will get a lot worse for republicans before they begin to get better