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Nov. 27, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Investigative Reporting Is Key - November 26th, Hour 1

Sean talks about how legacy media is failing to do even the most basic research and it's critical that Americans require honesty from their media.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, we're going to have to deal with this because it's my last day before the Thanksgiving holiday.
First of all, we have so much to be grateful for.
I am grateful for all of you in this audience.
I'm grateful, first, that you rallied on behalf of your country in this past election.
You understood the severity, the importance of this inflection moment for the country.
And everybody did their part.
And you did it overwhelmingly.
And I'm going to be very specific.
I want to s I want to thank the people of Georgia and Governor Kemp and his team.
And I want to thank the people of North Carolina.
And I want to thank the people in Pennsylvania.
Wow, Pennsylvania was amazing.
I want to thank the people of Wisconsin and the people of Michigan and the people in Arizona and the people in Nevada.
I want to thank all of you and then every other state that helped Donald Trump and propelled him to winning the popular vote as well as the Electoral College.
And then, you know, for all of us together, I just I I've been putting this out there.
Not anything we have to think about right this second, but for this presidency to be successful, you you just can't voting is is great, winning is great, but it's yet it goes beyond that.
You can see the resistance already, you know, rising up, the 4B movement, shaving your head, you know, vowing to not have sex and be celibate, divorcing spouses, and you know, I guess stockpiling abortion pills,
and you know, the people that believe the big lies of Kamala that oh, he's gonna sign a national abortion ban project 2025, limit access to contraception, stop IVF treatment, all of that crap that has been told people believed it, and so when a vice president and presidential candidate says that, it shouldn't surprise you that some people believe it.
But also I want to thank all of you and and the great gratitude, and one of the things that I remember and know and acknowledge more every day as I get older, that you know, I I I don't have this microphone every day, but for you.
And I don't have that camera every night, but for you, because you all have the ability to fire me anytime you want if you stop listening three hours a day and watching one hour at night.
And for all of that, I'm extremely grateful.
Um I do want to remind people, by the way, that if you'd like to come to the Fox Nation Patriot Awards, you know, we have all these award ceremonies for musical artists and uh hall of fame and this and that.
And then of course you have the Oscars and I don't know, I I can't even name all these things.
Nobody watches them anymore.
But this is this actually what makes this special, and I have the honor this year of MCing it, is the Patriot Awards honors the unsung heroes in this country.
And really that's all of you that listen to this program.
I mean, the pe the nurses, the truck drivers, the farmers, the ranchers, the lawyers, even.
I know they're expensive sometimes, but the doctors that save our lives, the the people, the garbage collectors, the the post office guys, the the the you know, the UPS guys, the FedEx guys, I mean the people that work in restaurants, the people that work in construction, the people that really do make this country great.
You know, the people that work hard, play by the rules, obey the laws of this country, believe in constitutional order, you know, the people that pay their taxes, take their kids to church, help the kids with homework, you know, come home after their 12, 14 hour day, and put food on the table for their family.
They cook dinner, they help the kids with homework, they go to bed and they get up and do it all over again.
It's called the grind.
We all we all have a grind in some way, but the fact that you give me, you know, from when I started in radio, I never thought I'd be successful at all.
Never thought it was possible, but I just knew I the minute the that red light went on, and there really is a red light, that it just changed my life.
That's all I wanted to do.
And I didn't care that I worked for free.
And when I got my first job at $19,000 a year, I was happy.
And no, I couldn't make it me, but I was happy anyway.
Um, and I just lived at the radio station.
I was in a city, Huntsville, Alabama.
I didn't even I didn't know anybody in that city.
And but I wasn't lonely because I hung out at the radio station all day and all night.
And TV was never part of the equation.
I have a face for radio.
And then when the Fox News channel went on the air, there we, you know, I I got hired.
I should have been fired right away.
And because I wasn't any good at it at all.
Uh the camera made me uncomfortable, but you know, you get used to it.
And they gave me time to grow, and I'm now the longest running primetime cable news host in history.
You made that happen.
It's an undeserved life.
And I just want all of you to know this Thanksgiving that I'm deeply, deeply grateful and appreciative, and I'm gonna work hard to earn your trust.
You know, we talked about all the stories yesterday and why legacy media and the state run legacy media mob, because they have a mob mentality.
They all think alike why they're failing.
You know, I learned that lesson with Richard Jewell.
I won't repeat the story.
You know, I was on the air and he's listening, and you know, it comes out with the Atlanta Journal Constitution that he fits the profile of the lone bomber.
He lives with his mother.
Like, so what he lives lives with his mother.
He's a wannabe police officer, so he had aspirations to better his life.
Maybe he wanted to save money is why he lived with his mother.
Didn't make him a terrorist.
Turns out he wasn't a terrorist.
Turns out he was a hero.
And the media just tore him up.
They destroyed this man.
And it taught me a valuable lesson.
Listen, don't rush to judgment.
Do your own investigations.
And it has served me well and this show well, and I think legacy media that they've, you know, look at the lies and the conspiracy theories that they have peddled all these years and all the slander smear besmirchment since the moment Donald Trump came down that escalator.
It's not funny.
It's not funny what they did to the the kids at at Duke with the in the Duke LaCrosse case.
I got that case right.
Why?
Because I actually went to meet the families and didn't rush to judgment.
And I realized they had exculpatory evidence that it would eventually come out that I couldn't share at the time, but I knew was coming out.
And we gave them the benefit of the doubt.
We didn't rush to judgment.
I had sources in Ferguson, Missouri, when that Michael Brown incident came up, and an officer Darren Wilson's life was turned upside down.
And he ended up, even though he did nothing wrong, you know, lost he gave up his police career that he had dreamed of.
How did I know?
Because my sources told me there were multiple witnesses on the record that corroborate Darren Wilson's story, and that will be coming out.
When the Freddie Gray case came out, I had sources and law enforcement telling me that the evidence will never convict anybody, and here's why.
And they told me the reason why, and I knew that, you know, so we did not rush to judgment.
George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, I knew there'd be testimony coming out that said exactly that it was George Zimmerman screaming as his head was being pounded into the pavement.
And it was a controversial case, yes.
However, you know, facts matter to juries.
And, you know, some of the UVA case.
And we can keep we got Russia collusion right.
We got the FISA issue right.
You know, I I had a team of dedicated people to the truth.
There weren't many of us.
There were very few when we spent three years on Russia Russia, Russia.
You know, we're the ones that followed these trumped up charges of 34 charges against Donald Trump.
We'll get into this at the top of the next hour.
Lawfair now hope hopefully will be dead and gone and and forever never used again in this country.
But, you know, this was a case whose statute of limitations had expired over a legal non-disclosure agreement, which I'm sure the DA's office in New York City has probably many of them.
And it's and it was done by a lawyer, and it was labeled the legal expense, and the statute of limitations had expired.
And it goes on from there.
You know, four Pfizer warrants based on information that they were warned not to use, a now debunked Russian disinformation dossier bought and paid for by the opponent of Donald Trump so they could spy on his campaign, his transition team,
and later his presidency, or how the intelligence community, like the FBI became weaponized, and 51 former Intel agents just weeks before a presidential election that knew nothing about that very real laptop, you know, took Tony Wink and Blinken's talking point that it was likely Russian disinformation when they knew nothing about it.
I mean, these are horrible things that have happened here.
And the American people heard it all.
They weighed in on what they thought was truthful and factual, and you know, this is where I feel blessed too.
I feel that, you know, this new era of media, I've been on the ground floor of two big big aspects of it.
And there are new ones today.
And I was, you know, in the beginning of talk radio.
I started radio a year before Rush Limbaugh ever came on the scene.
And look what he did.
He forged the path for all of us.
And I'm very grateful to him.
And he took a lot of arrows doing it.
They I mean, they they went after him hard as they go after Levin Hard and then go after me hard and go after everybody else hard.
And then Fox News came on the scene.
And guess what?
You know, what why is talk radio still as successful as it is?
Why is Fox News as successful as it is?
I would argue is because we tell truth they don't tell.
We told you the truth about the economy, about the bad borders, about law and order and the disaster of defundism.
We told you the truth about, you know, we don't need to pay two dollars more a gallon for gasoline.
We told you the truth about you know America's place in the world deteriorating.
We told you the truth about Joe's cognitive state, took a lot of criticism for it.
And you've stuck with us for that.
But we have to earn that trust every day.
And we're committed to doing that.
It is, you know, I'm I'm watching, you know, here we go again.
We're we're being insulted, commenting.
By the way, he's in Italy.
Alec Baldwin, this idiot on tape screaming at his daughter, calling her a pig.
I mean, pretty disgusting human being.
Now he's calling Americans pretty much ignorant, saying they're very uninformed.
But there's a vacuum.
There is a gap, if you will, in um uh information for Americans.
Americans are very uninformed about reality, what's really going on with climate change, Ukraine, you name it, all the biggest topics in the world.
Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.
That vacuum is filled by the film industry, not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry, which are very important around the world.
Narrative films as well.
Where the filmmakers and the buyers, the studios and the networks and the streamers are willing to go that way.
They're willing to try to make uh films that are not only entertaining but um informative as well.
So I think right now it's probably anymore.
Really, we're garbage, Nazis, fascists, we're Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and and now we're a bunch of uh very you know what the problem is with the idiots like him and idiots like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, they don't understand celebrity culture's dead too.
Because they had no impact on this right here.
You can lie to your husband, honey, did you vote the right way?
Yes, I did, dear, and in the ballot you could secretly vote for Kamala, but don't tell your husband lie to your husband.
You can, you know, George Clooney, you could tell your your your bro friends that you're a real tough guy who's gonna vote for Trump, but in the ballot, you can secretly vote for Kamala.
If you if you if you're not proud of who you're voting for, well, why don't you just say it?
What kind of friendship or relationship do you have with your husband or your spouse if you're lying to your spouse about who you vote for?
I mean, it's insane.
He's pompous, he's arrogant.
It's not a gap of information.
There's alternative information.
It was the beginning was talk radio, then it became Fox News, and it is now expanded out into the social media sphere.
And then you've Got podcasters, and guess what?
Everybody is like a spoke in the wheel.
And then we have all of you that were able to filter through all of the lies and propaganda and misinformation and and all of just all of it.
And decide for yourself.
And these Hollywood elitists, you know, celebrity culture endorsements are dead along with legacy media.
Nobody cares what they think.
And nobody really wants to watch their movies.
I'm just saying this.
Sharon Stone says Americans elected Trump because they are adolescence and arrogant.
You talk about the ultimate in arrogance.
We haven't seen this before in our country.
So Americans who don't travel, who 80% don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.
You understand what happens.
She goes, you've seen this before.
My country is in its adolescence.
He goes on.
Adolescence is very, very arrogant.
Adolescence thinks it knows everything.
Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant.
And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.
Wow.
We haven't seen this before in our country.
Oh, okay.
So we're supposed to believe these pompous, spoiled brat, overpaid, jackass Hollywood New York elites.
Now, there is a Trump-hating Democrat, according to the Washington Examiner, Liz Kruger's a name, uh, from New York City, and he has proposed that New York secede from the union and join Canada before Trump reclaims the White House.
Well, if that's what they really want, don't let the door hit in the ass on the way out.
Um, I'm watching Alec Baldwin, and okay, he's an arrogant elitist, and of course, he's hanging out at the film festival in Italy, whatever it is, I have no idea.
You know, a lot of Americans don't have passports.
Sharon Stone made comments about this.
You know, half the people in the country are happy, half are very unhappy.
It's a difficult time.
Why is it any difficult than the last four years?
Anyway, Americans have an appetite for information.
There's a vacuum, there's a gap.
No, there's been a gap, but now the gap has been filled by the likes of talk radio, Fox News, podcasting, social media, and guess what?
Because the Americans decided they don't trust legacy media anymore, Alec.
And you and your pompous ass friends, uh, the Torino Film Festival.
Uh, frankly, we we really don't need your lectures.
Now it gets even worse.
Let me tell you what happened with Sharon Stone.
When she went on a tear, and you know, she's taking shots at Donald Trump, the win over Kamala Harris.
He was asked about violence against women by a reporter, and she goes on again.
She's at this Torino Film Festival.
How nice of them to be able to enjoy time in Italy while most Americans are working their asses off to pay for the record high inflation and gas prices and energy prices of and for the billions of dollars in the never-ending Ukraine war that has been botched by Kamala and Joe and their lack of support for Israel because they gave into the pro-Hamas wing of their party, and we're paying for all of this.
They're unvetted illegal emigrants from 180 country, and we're ignorant.
Anyway, here's Sharon uh Stone again attacking Americans.
You know, Italy has seen fascism, Italy has seen these things.
You guys, you understand what happens.
You have seen this before.
My country is in its adolescence.
Adolescence is very arrogant.
Adolescence thinks it knows everything.
Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant, and we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.
We haven't seen this before in our country.
So Americans who don't travel, who 80% don't have a passport, who are fortunate.
Are in their extraordinary naivete.
What I can say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.
That's profound.
That is so deep.
That is so profound.
So we are adolescents.
We are in our ignorant adolescent and arrogance stage.
And Alec Baldwin, another idiot.
Americans are deliberately ignorant.
Why?
Because we don't think like Hollywood elitists, and Americans can't afford to go to Italy.
You know, um, I have been to Italy.
And you know when I went, I was in my late 50s before I ever went on a trip to Europe.
I remember a friend of mine, I don't know, maybe four or five years ago asked me, well, where did you ever travel?
I said, Well, I've been to most 50 states, but I was usually working.
And the amazing thing is this is a beautiful country.
And it was always an honor to be able to travel for work.
Loved it.
And then I said, Well, I've been to Iraq.
I've been to Israel a couple of times.
I've been to Singapore, Helsinki, and Vietnam.
And the person goes, you mean like all the all work related trips?
No, I said, Yeah.
And then the person goes, well, no, no, no.
Where have you traveled to for fun?
And I'm like, um Florida?
That was my answer.
True story or not, Linda.
You can back me up on this.
It's definitely very accurate.
You are a sunshine state for sure guy.
Yeah.
I mean, that's why I would always go on vacation.
I own property in Florida for you know, probably not close to 30 years now.
So I'm more Floridian than you think.
Now I'm full-time Floridian.
Uh, you have in the wake of Donald Trump's victory, uh, you have uh a state senator in New York, according to the Washington Examiner, prominent Democrat New York City, the chairwoman of the state finance committee, first proposed that New York should secede the union and join Canada back in September before Trump claimed the White House.
He said, Well, I thought, well, why do I have to leave this country?
I love this country.
And if Trump wins a second term, it's not actually my fault or the people in New York.
So I thought that I would suggest to Canada that instead of us trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, they should instead agree to let us be a new Southeast province of Canada.
So she has a secession plan that would also include Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.
And basically everybody in these states are progressive Democrats, and that they would fit in pretty well with the political philosophy of little Justin, I'm at in that part, uh, of at least most of the Canadian elected officials.
Now she got back some unofficial responses, and the idea is probably sellable in the Canadian cap capital of Ottawa.
I don't know.
You know, if there's somebody doesn't want to be your friend or be a part of your family, I've I've always wanted to remain the United States of America, but if New York and Connecticut and Massachusetts and Vermont want to leave, I'm not going to get in the way.
Should I get in the way of that, Linda, or should I just let them go?
Well, I think as a good Christian, in the spirit of giving, we should uh facilitate their leaving uh as quickly as uh we can and get them out.
If they don't like us anymore, I don't even care if they don't like us, just leave.
Just go.
I hear London's doing great with free speech.
Obviously, they don't like us.
I mean, that's the whole point.
Sean, they don't even know us.
They're just they're just talking.
Like, I don't care what Sharon Stone says.
Another person who reads words that somebody else wrote on a screen that makes fake things so we can all disappear for an hour.
Now she's gonna lecture us when she's out of the country.
Just shut up, stay there.
Nobody cares.
Anyway, former Justice Department insider says that Trump's return to the White House is the worst crisis ever in the history of the DOJ.
Why?
Because they don't get to weaponize it anymore.
Because they don't get to go after political adversaries anymore.
And and conservatives actually don't have to live in fear, and and moms and dads won't have to worry if they complain at a school board meeting about proposals like gender affirming care without their permission or putting uh tampons in fourth grade boys' bathrooms.
Uh you want to look at them as possible domestic terrorists or peaceful pro life protesters and I'm gonna be, you know, they're gonna be allowed to peacefully protest in America and exercise their freedom of speech rights.
Then we have over at Wink and Tony Blinken's State Department.
They apparently are receiving therapy, you know, a top-down move, and these therapy sessions have been described as cry-ins.
Anyway, the former DOJ officials said the employees are demoralized that Donald Trump is returning to the White House.
The worst crisis we've ever seen in DOJ history.
No, the worst crisis was you weaponizing that.
Nearly 6,000 Biden IRS agents, according to the Washington Examiner.
Look at this.
They owe back taxes.
Whoopsie Daisy.
That's a big story.
You know, it was over $500 billion what Americans spend annually to fight back against the IRS.
Did you read that yesterday?
Unbelievable number.
MSDNC says they had no idea that Kamala Harris had paid Al Sharpton and his nonprofit $500,000 before Harris sat down for a softball interview with the cable host.
Does this really surprise anybody?
Or building a set for the Call Me Daddy podcast or Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, according to some reports, way more than a million dollars, maybe two and a half million dollars, but she didn't get a penny, she says.
Well, company apparently did, according to reports.
I'd like to see the books on that so we can verify it.
I'm sure that that Oprah will be very transparent.
Bernie Sanders is now, you know, I forget about Bernie Sanders.
He's going to be a Canadian and Canadian citizen, I guess, any day.
Um the astronauts aboard this International Space Station were sent into a panic.
This is now our own government.
We have astronauts lost in space.
And they don't want Elon Musk to send up the rocket now and save them because it would be too embarrassing, and Kamala was in charge of all of this.
Now the astronauts have that are stuck in space that is that are going to be saved by Elon Musk, and thanks to him for doing that.
But apparently they had a toxic smell, possible contamination in the form of droplets.
Anyway, the Progress 90 docked with the a Rus Russian module on Saturday, and the cosmonauts identified the smell immediately after opening the hatch.
The Russian crew quickly strapped into protective equipment, activated an extra air scrubbing system aboard their segment for like 30 minutes.
Can we just send the rocket up as soon as Elon says it's good to go and save these people and get them home?
I mean, how long are we going to abandon these people in space?
The president moves forward with his transition at a rapid pace, shocking many, but I think it shows that he's all committed to hitting the ground running on January 20th.
This is going to be fun to watch.
Mexico, you know, the president yesterday threatened to impose uh sanctions on Canada and Mexico until they secure their borders.
And I'm like, that's a 25% tariff.
I'm glad to hear that.
I think that's good news.
Anyway, 25% penalty on imports from Mexico and Canada, an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
Good.
Maybe they'll stop their unfair trade practices and international intellectual property theft.
But anyway, uh now the we're discovering, and I think this is interesting.
Mexico's president is threatening to retaliate against Donald Trump and his tariffs.
And if Donald Trump follows through on the plan to impose a 25% tariff on Mexican exports until they fix their illegal immigration policy, the Mexican president is now threatening to retaliate.
By the way, don't press your luck, President Scheinbaum.
Good luck with that, because you're going to lose.
Anyway, she said during a morning press conference, a tariff will be met with another tariff in response and so forth until we place common companies at risk.
Okay.
Well, I'm putting my money on Donald Trump.
Nine percent of Biden illegals released into the U.S. have criminal records that we know about.
That's only a small portion of what we know about.
Everybody saw this little two-year-old migrant girl found at the U.S. border along with 60 other unaccompanied minors.
This two-year-old little girl.
I mean, it just is if this is not the poster child for the abject failure that is the Harris Biden, you know, immigration system.
I don't know what is the this little girl from El Salvador in a bright pink jacket among a group of more than 200 illegal immigrants, 60 unaccompanied minors.
And we talked about this earlier in the week with the whistleblower that actually from the DHS that says, oh no, kids being trafficked at levels that Americans have no idea about.
We're missing 320,000 children.
Tom Holman, it went kind of viral what he said on my television program.
And that is we were talking about this this mayor of Denver, this mayor Mike Johnston, and he says, you know, anyway, he said he's prepared to go to jail over opposition to the president enforcing the law of the land and deporting people.
And Tom Holman said, Well, you're absolutely breaking the law, and all he has to do is look at Arizona versus the U.S., and he would see he's breaking the law.
But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing.
He's willing to go to jail, and I'm willing to put him in jail.
It was great.
He also predicted a Tiananmen Square moment if the administration carries out their plans to enforce the law.
I'm like, why do you care more about people that are unvetted when we know there are known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists, violent criminals in our country.
Why do you care more about them than the safety and security of people in Denver?
Why do the people at Denver put up with this jackass?
And by the way, this idea that, well, the illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crime.
Well, real clear investigations over at Real Clear Politics suggest no, the crime rate involving illegal immigrants is vastly understated.
And what they discovered is, and uh they have a database that they put together by the Justice Department's National Institute of Justice suggests that the crime by illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. by July 21st cost the country some 166.5 billion dollars.
That's what you're paying.
That's money that should be going to the people in North Carolina, who, by the way, are about to get hammered with cold weather and are desperate.
We'll talk more about that later in the program.
Kamala Harris on her Hawaiian vacation, she's thinking about her political future and her comeback, running for governor of California in 26 or president again in 28.
She can win California.
And then Gavin will think he's gonna win the White House.
Gavin has no idea.
He's more radical than Kamala.
And when America hears about his radicalism, it's not gonna be so easy.
Anyway, eight hundred nine four one Shauna's our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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