Hannity rages against Biden and bases his inaugural speech – which received double praise and which by Hannity’s colleague Chris Wallace, a top anchor at Fox, was’ the best ‘inaugural speech he’ ever ‘heard’ as’ truly imperceptible ‘and had it said “sounds like an uninspired speech by the student council.”
Hannity called Biden “weak” and “cognitively struggling” – two themes that he and other allies of former President Donald Trump pushed hard during the campaign, and that voters sounded dismissive – before saying he felt that he must “puke” after watching the news coverage of the inauguration.
In the previous hour, Carlson focused on Biden’s condemnation of white supremacy and domestic terrorism, which the president promised to confront and defeat.
“These are America’s enemies. We must wage war against them, ‘Carlson said, mocking Biden’s promise to confront extremists.
It was a non-subtle suggestion that Biden and Democrats may use the power of the federal government to misdirect their political opponents.
The other arms of right-wing media were not much friendlier.
Newsmax TV, the right-wing cable channel that promoted the lie that former President Donald Trump’s election was stolen, contained segments on Thursday night based on Biden’s ‘radical immigration agenda’, saying he was ‘contradicting'[ed] himself in ‘unifying’ speech. ‘
Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, said Biden’s speech was possibly ‘one of the least memorable inaugural speeches ever’.
Limbaugh framed the speech for his audience: “In this speech, Biden called us domestic terrorists and then called for unity in the same breath.”
On the right web, Breitbart appeared on the front page on Thursday, referring to Biden as ‘GLOBALIST JOE’ and declaring that ‘CORPORATISTS was SALIVATE’ during his presidency.
The top headline on the website of the far-right Gateway Pundit falsely claimed on Wednesday that Trump’s election was ‘stolen’.