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Hannity & Kimmel trade shots over Melania
FOX NEWS anchor Sean Hannity on Friday slammed ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel as “Harvey Weinstein Jr.” as they embarked on a TV-and-Twitter war over Kimmel’s jokes about First Lady Melania Trump.
“I have just had it with the utter hypocrisy — the unrelenting attacks against not only a sitting president, but his wife and his daughter and his 11-year-old son,” Hannity said on his TV show Friday night during a 20-minute rant against Kimmel.
After the show — at 10 p.m. — Hannity tweeted: “Game on, you pervert.”
“I’m starting to think someone has a crush on me!” Kimmel replied.
Earlier Friday, Hannity ramped up the drama with a new hashtag, #PervertKimmel, based on Kimmel’s work hosting Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” years ago.
It began Thursday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” when Kimmel called Hannity an “a-- clown.”
Kimmel mocked the Fox News anchor after Hannity slammed his monologue about the White House Easter Egg Roll. In it, Kimmel mocked Melania Trump’s accent and said she planned a White House escape tunnel.
Hannity, 56, hit Wikipedia to look for revealing material about Kimmel — and settled upon his hosting of “The Man Show,” which ran on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2004.
“So Much to choose from regarding Harvey Weinstein junior,” Hannity tweeted at 1:05 p.m., along with a photo of a piece of paper that seemed to contain some of his research.
That began hours of backand-forth tweeting.
“Today's poll,” Hannity wrote. “So tonight will @jimmykimmel be 1- Asking 18 year old girls to touch his crotch. 2Make fun of the First Lady reading books to children. 3- Be a racist a--hole. 4- all of the above?”
Kimmel, 50, replied that Hannity’s tweets trivialized Weinstein’s victims.
“I vote for whichever one best helps you trivialize the horrors of Harvey Weinstein by comparing them to televised comedy bits in which every woman was a willing participant who gladly signed a release,” he wrote.
Kimmel hosted “The Man Show” with Adam Carolla. It was focused on “things men enjoy” like beer and women and off-color jokes, often sexually charged.
Hannity tweeted a clip in which Kimmel appears to ask a young woman to feel his pants and guess what’s inside.
“Jimmy that’s you being a pervert a--hole,” Hannity shared. “How would you feel if that was your daughter? I bet @Disney is so proud.” Disney owns ABC.
Hannity also dredged up a clip of Kimmel in blackface as NBA star Karl Malone.
Kimmel mocked Hannity for being unable to get an erection until Trump became President.
“This is the guy who defended the multiply-alleged pedophile Roy Moore. And I’m a despicable disgrace. I’m the A-- Clown! If I’m an A--Clown — and I might very well be — you, Sean, are the whole A-Circus,” he said.