Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday promoted a campaign targeting MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's advertisers after a handful of the conservative television personality's sponsors abandoned his program last week over his relentless promotion of a conspiracy theory. "I'd rather not do this," Hannity said, announcing his support for the cause on his nationally syndicated radioprogram. He said "the left has caused this." Hannity over the course of the previous two weeks peddled a baseless theory that suggested slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was the person who provided thousands of internal emails to Wikileaks, and was murdered in retribution for the leak. There is no evidence to support this assertion and Fox News retracted a previous story related to the claim. Hannity's advancement of the theory resulted in the liberal group Media Matters posting a list of his advertisers on its website. The group did not directly call for a boycott, but several businesses dropped his show after being contacted by their customers. read more http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/30/media/sean-hannity-rachel-maddow/index.html
