“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
Sean Hannity has been one of the leading faces of Fox News since the channel went live in 1996. His top-rated show has earned the network untold millions of dollars.
But insiders say his days are numbered — and the reason why will make your blood boil.
The younger generation that has taken over Fox News wants to squeeze out pro-Trump voices, according to a stunning new report in Vanity Fair.
The conflict has got Hannity so hot that he’s threatening to bolt the network he’s worked at for 23 years — and take his loyal viewers with him.
That would be fine with a handful of powerful Never Trumpers at the network, who want a more “respectable” (and liberal) image.
Fox News’ reporters and its talk show hosts “have been fighting a cold civil war since Roger Ailes was ousted in July 2016.”
Now FNC’s lowest-rated personalities have gone over the hosts’ heads, and told the network’s CEO they don’t want to be associated with Trump and his voters.
“Reporters are telling management that we’re being defined by the worst people on our air,” according to “a frustrated senior Fox staffer” quoted in the story.
Hannity isn’t their only target. The new liberal regime has got a hit list.
They want the corporate brass to shut up “Fox & Friends,” Judge Jeanine Pirro, and Lou Dobbs.
The story says the new head of the Fox Corporation may just grant their wish.
Rupert Mudoch sold off Fox’s entertainment brand to Disney for $71 million and put his oldest son, Lachlan Murdoch, in charge of what’s left. That includes Fox News.
The trouble is Lachlan “doesn’t like Trump,” a source in his inner circle told the magazine. “There’s a lot of talk of the direction of the network changing under Lachlan.”
Moves the network has taken over the last few months already have lifelong viewers concerned.
It just hired Donna Brazile, the former head of the Democratic Party and a close ally of Hillary Clinton.
It put Paul Ryan, who had a combative relationship with Trump, on Fox’s corporate board.
Fox News suspended Pirro after she criticized Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—and Fox just announced it’s keeping her off the show for another week.
And the hacks at George Soros’ funded Media Matters are gunning for Tucker Carlson next.
The rumors of a network-wide shake up are so strong that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, weighed in on Twitter —
Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro. The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country. They have all out campaigns against @FoxNews hosts who are doing too well. Fox …..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019
….must stay strong and fight back with vigor. Stop working soooo hard on being politically correct, which will only bring you down, and continue to fight for our Country. The losers all want what you have, don’t give it to them. Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019
….to the people that got you there. Keep fighting for Tucker, and fight hard for @JudgeJeanine. Your competitors are jealous – they all want what you’ve got – NUMBER ONE. Don’t hand it to them on a silver platter. They can’t beat you, you can only beat yourselves!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2019
Fox has spent 17 years as the most watched cable news network because it was the only conservative network on TV. And it’s still riding high—for now.
In the hours where it counts most, prime time, Fox News is the second-highest rated channel on basic cable, behind ESPN.
And it owes a huge amount of its success—and its money—to its 9 o’clock show.
“We make the money,” someone close to Hannity told Vanity Fair.
Sean Hannity has been the number one host in cable news since Fox gave Bill O’Reilly the boot back in 2017.
He brings conservative viewers to the channel, that brings advertisers, and advertisers bring in corporate profits.
But if the network gives in to its friends at the D.C. cocktail parties, they can kiss that goodbye.
Hannity may run out the door—and he wouldn’t be the first.
He might just take his show to the conservative upstart, One America News Now (OANN). That’s the network that gave Tomi Lahren her start.
Or he might link up with Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, who just joined forces to form Blaze Media last December.
Not only does Hannity have a close friendship with Levin, but he’s been a fan of “The Great One” since before the two ever met.
Or he might join O’Reilly on Newsmax TV.
But Fox can make bank that Hannity has options—plenty of them.
Over the years Fox News has pushed out O’Reilly, Beck, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Judge Andrew Napolitano.
If the network waters down its conservative views until it’s no different than CNN or MSNBC, it will cut its audience loose, too.
Frank Holmes is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”