Stephen A. Smith hits Fox News for some brutal hypocrisy – while he is on Fox News.
The sports commentator appeared on Tuesday’s edition of “Hannity” and pushed Strictly back when the conservative host repeated the unfounded claim of President Donald Trump that diversity, equity and inclusion caused a recently fatal aircraft accident.
A collision for the air in Washington, DC, between a military helicopter and an American Airlines Jet, last week all 67 people killed the vehicles, for a plane crash on Friday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killed all six people on board and one person on The ground.
Sean Hannity claimed on Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has hired people with ‘serious intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities prior to the crashes, where language was mentioned under the website of the FAA that Trump pointed to a recent briefing on the accidents. He could not mention that the formulation came from a biographical questionnaire that the agency has implemented to broaden and had been broadened on the FAA website since at least 2013.
But Smith was particularly stunned that a Fox News -Gastheer was worried about ‘unqualified’ people in high positions.
“My problem with the extermination of Dei was … the explanation that the Trump administration and others gave about it,” Smith said Tuesday. “I don’t want to hear that dei is automatically about people who happen to be minorities who are unqualified.”
The ESPN personality ultimately told Hannity that she should discuss Pete Hegseeth, a former ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ host who was confirmed last month as Minister of Defense, ‘because he is your former colleague’ -only for Hannity to protest.
“Keep my friend out of this,” he warned Smith.
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“Pardon,” Smith replied Tuesday. ‘Listen, I do not mention anything personal. I just say, “My God, Sean.” If you are talking about people who are unqualified, I wish him nothing but the best – he served our country in the army, I get all of that. “
He continued: “But if you are a weekend host on Fox News and now you are the Minister of Defense of the United States who supervises three and a half million people, that is not qualified!”
Hannity argued differently because Hegseeth served in the army and attended an Ivy League University. But he failed to acknowledge in the lack of evidence that one of the pilots involved in the recent crashes were not – qualified – or without similar performance.
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Investigation into the accidents are underway.