As heinous as that was, the blowback didn’t do too much to hurt Hannity by way of the few advertisers that left, and it all soon went mostly back to normal.
Hannity kept pushing an unfounded conspiracy theory about the murder that Fox News had already distanced itself from after retracting an earlier story about it.
Not exactly the same build-up as O’Reilly’s situation.
Sean Hannity, who was rumored to be thinking of leaving after his colleague’s firing, was meanwhile facing a backlash over making false statements on air about the murder of Seth Rich, an employee at the Democratic National Committee.