Popular Fox News host Sean Hannity became the longest running prime time cable news host on Thursday, ousting previous record-holder and cable news legend Larry King.
Hannity, who has been with Fox News since its 1996 launch, marked 25 years, six months, and 15 days of <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oreilly-weighs-future-fox-news-amanda-prestigiacomo/">hosting in prime time</a> with his Thursday broadcast. The previous record was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/broadcast-legend-larry-king-dies-at-87-after-covid-19-hospitalization/">held by King</a>, whose late-night talk show aired from June 3, 1985, to December 16, 2010.
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Fox News’ <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SeanHannity</a> today becomes the longest-running primetime cable news host in TV history. Today marks 25 consecutive years, six months, and 15 days at the helm of his show, beating the previous record held by the late talk show host Larry King.<a href="https://t.co/HYTkLjmmcn">https://t.co/HYTkLjmmcn</a> <a href="https://t.co/SKjIHi3tnM">pic.twitter.com/SKjIHi3tnM</a>
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Fox News <a href="https://press.foxnews.com/2022/04/fox-news-channels-sean-hannity-becomes-longest-running-primetime-cable-news-host-in-television-history">issued a statement</a> celebrating the milestone on Thursday, saying in part, &#8220;FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Sean Hannity has notched yet another industry milestone, becoming the longest-running primetime cable news host in television history. Today marks 25 consecutive years, six months, and 15 days at the helm of a primetime cable news program, breaking the previous longstanding record* held by the late talk show host Larry King. As cable news’ most enduring personality, Hannity has been a staple of FNC’s primetime lineup since the launch of the network in 1996, where his candid style and passionate commentary have made him one of the most prominent and influential voices in the country.&#8221;
Hannity&#8217;s <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/sean-hannity-breaks-cable-news-prime-time-record/">primetime launch</a> on Fox News was with his <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/foxs-alan-colmes-dies-66-hank-berrien/">late partner Alan Colmes</a>, and the duo hosted the long-running and wildly popular debate show &#8220;Hannity and Colmes,&#8221; overtaking King in ratings within the first five years.
After Colmes left the show in 2008, Hannity rebranded and went solo. In the years since, &#8220;Hannity&#8221; has spent a considerable amount of his time at the top of the ratings charts — ranking first in the always-coveted 25-54 age demographic from 2017-2019, and ranking first in total viewers for four years from 2017-2020.
&#8220;Most recently, Hannity ended 2021 as the top-rated program airing at 9 PM/ET, besting the competition on CNN and MSNBC by double digits in both categories. Currently averaging more than 3.1 million viewers each night, the program routinely ranks in the top five programs in cable news,&#8221; the statement from Fox News added.
&#8220;Sean’s authenticity and insightful commentary have created one of the most enduring connections with our audience and it’s been an honor to watch him over the years. A FOX News original, he has helped innovate the industry, and we are incredibly proud of his extraordinary success,&#8221; Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said of Hannity&#8217;s longevity and success.
The longtime host, now 60, weighed in on the accomplishment as well, saying, &#8220;I am extremely grateful to FOX News Media and to our loyal, dedicated viewers whom I am proud to serve every night.&#8221;

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Legendary broadcaster Larry King, who conducted more than 50,000 interviews over 60 years, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being hospitalized for COVID-19. He was 87.
Born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933, to two Orthodox Jewish immigrants, King had a rags-to-riches story that led from his impoverished upbringing in Brooklyn, New York, to interviewing some of the most famous and important figures in the world.
King&#8217;s father, Edward Zeiger, who immigrated from Ukraine, died of a heart attack at 43 when King was 10, which had a profound effect on him. His mother, Jennie (Gitlitz) Zeiger, who came from Lithuania, was left to raise King and his younger brother Marty alone and had to go on welfare.
&#8220;Prior to his death, I&#8217;d been a good student but afterwards, I just stopped being interested,&#8221; King said in a 2015 interview with The Guardian. &#8220;It was a real blow to me. But eventually I channeled that anger because I wanted to make him and my mother proud.&#8221; His grades were not good enough to attend college, and he did odd jobs to assist his family, such as being a milk man and a UPS truck driver.
King, who always wanted to be a broadcaster, traveled to Miami when he was 22 on the advice of someone who advised him that he would have a better chance of breaking into the industry there than in New York. After taking a janitorial job at WAHR on the condition that he would eventually be allowed to go on the air, King was given his big break when a disc jockey quit.
Shortly before he went on the air for the first time on May 1, 1957, his boss told him to pick a name that sounded less ethnic. Looking to a nearby newspaper advertisement for King Wholesale Liquor, Larry Zeiger became Larry King. For the first five minutes of his first broadcast, he was too nervous to speak.
Finally he summoned the courage to say, &#8220;Hi, my name is Larry King. All my life I wanted to be on the radio. Well, here I am and I&#8217;m frightened.&#8221;
King eventually got the hang of radio and would go on to become one of the most successful interviewers of his time, interviewing every president since Richard Nixon. He is best known for hosting “Larry King Live” on CNN for a quarter century, from 1985 to 2010. King also became a frequent subject of the tabloids for his eight marriages to seven women.
King also co-founded Ora Media, which aired his show &#8220;Larry King Now.&#8221;
Ora Media said in a statement released Saturday:
<blockquote>With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host, and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry&#8217;s many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster. Additionally, while it was his name appearing in the shows&#8217; titles, Larry always viewed his interview subjects as the true stars of his programs, and himself as merely an unbiased conduit between the guest and audience. Whether he was interviewing a U.S. president, foreign leader, celebrity, scandal-ridden personage, or an everyman, Larry liked to ask short, direct, and uncomplicated questions. He believed concise questions usually provided the best answers, and he was not wrong in that belief.
Larry&#8217;s interviews from his 25-year run on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Larry King Live,&#8221; and his Ora Media programs &#8220;Larry King Now,&#8221; and &#8220;Politicking with Larry King&#8221; are consistently referenced by media outlets around the world and remain part of the historical record of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Ora Media sends our condolences to his surviving children Larry, Jr., Chance, Cannon and the entire King family.
Funeral arrangements and a memorial service will be announced later in coordination with the King family, who ask for their privacy at this time.</blockquote>
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Legendary talk host Larry King, 87, has reportedly been hospitalized with COVID-19 for at least a week, according to news reports that began to emerge on Friday night.
King, the long-time host of “Larry King Live,” was reportedly checked into the hospital ten days ago and his family has not been allowed to visit him, reported entertainment news <a href="https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/01/01/exclusive-prayers-for-broadcasting-star-larry-king-87-10-days-into-battle-with-covid-at-los-angeles-hospital">journalist</a> Roger Friedman on Friday evening.
“I’m told that the 87 year old broadcasting star of CNN and radio is battling COVID in a famed Los Angeles hospital,” reported Friedman at ShowBiz411. “His wife of 23 years, Shawn King — yes, they are apparently still legally married, and on very good terms — and their two sons, Chance and Cannon — are not allowed to visit him. But they are in constant contact with the hospital and doctors monitoring Larry’s condition.”
Citing a source close to the family, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/02/media/larry-king-covid-19/index.html">reported</a> King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Southern California for over a week. CNN was home to “Larry King Live” beginning in the 1980s until his retirement from TV. King hasn&#8217;t tweeted since late November, when he shared a picture of him and two of his sons in a &#8220;Happy Thanksgiving&#8221; message.
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I’m thankful for my boys and dinner from Craig’s! <a href="https://t.co/N91GZA9jOj">pic.twitter.com/N91GZA9jOj</a>
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According to CNN, King lives with Type-2 diabetes and was successfully treated for lung cancer following a diagnosis in 2017. More recently, he underwent surgery for angina after being hospitalized for chest pain, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/larry-king-hospitalized-chest-pain-undergoes-angioplasty-1205661">noted</a> The Hollywood Reporter back in 2019.
Less than six months ago, King revealed that two of his children had died in the summer within the span of three weeks. “It is with sadness and a father&#8217;s broken heart that I confirm the recent loss of two of my children, Andy King, and Chaia King,&#8221; he wrote.
Andy King, 65, died of a heart attack in July, and Chaia King died in August after a brief battle with lung cancer, said the former TV host at the time.
“Losing them feels so out of order. No parent should have to bury a child,” wrote King. “My family and I thank you for your outpouring of kind sentiments and well wishes. In this moment, we need a little time and privacy to heal. I thank you for respecting that.”
Los Angeles County, which has roughly 10 million residents, has been experiencing a spike in COVID-19 positive cases, and the county&#8217;s 7-day positivity <a href="http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/coronavirus/data/index.htm">rate</a> is currently at 17.5%, according to state data. On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced that California officials were teaming up with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-army-corps-of-engineers-deployed-to-assist-los-angeles-area-hospitals">update oxygen delivery systems</a> at several hospitals in Los Angels County amidst the high demand for it.

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A new report and a video clip from 1993 allegedly shows the mother of Tara Reade, the former staffer of then-Senator Joe Biden who has accused of him of sexual assault, calling into CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Larry King Show&#8221; to discuss problems that her daughter experienced while working for &#8220;a prominent senator.&#8221;
&#8220;Reade has claimed to various media outlets, including The Intercept, that she told her mother, a close friend, and her brother about both the harassment and, to varying degrees of detail, the assault at the time,&#8221; The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/new-evidence-tara-reade-joe-biden/">reported</a>. &#8220;Reade’s mother died in 2016, but both her brother and friend also confirmed Reade had told her mother, and that her mother, a longtime feminist and activist, urged her to go to the police.&#8221;
&#8220;In interviews with The Intercept, Reade also mentioned that her mother had made a phone call to &#8216;Larry King Live&#8217; on CNN, during which she made reference to her daughter’s experience on Capitol Hill,&#8221; The Intercept continued. &#8220;Reade told The Intercept that her mother called in asking for advice after Reade, then in her 20s, left Biden’s office.&#8221;
The August 11, 1993, video was unearthed by NewsBusters late on Friday afternoon. It is important to note that King reportedly did not include the names of callers on his show, although Reade told Politico that the women&#8217;s voice in the clip is her mother&#8217;s voice.
Transcript of the video:
<blockquote>LARRY KING: San Luis Obispo, California, hello.
CALLER: Yes, hello. I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington? My daughter has just left there, after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
KING: In other words, she had a story to tell but, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn’t tell it?
CALLER: That’s true.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: HERE is the video from August 11,1993&#39;s &#39;Larry King Live&#39; described by <a href="https://twitter.com/theintercept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheIntercept</a> (and Tara Reade) as allegedly featuring her mother calling in and alluding to Reade&#39;s sexual assault claims against <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> (blog here by <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJW</a>) <a href="https://t.co/fCgEqBnX7n">https://t.co/fCgEqBnX7n</a> <a href="https://t.co/V5FGHskv56">pic.twitter.com/V5FGHskv56</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1253808940573429761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Politico reporter Holly Otterbein tweeted on the video: &#8220;Tare Reade told me this is her mother&#8217;s voice.&#8221;
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This is my mom. I miss her so much and her brave support of me. <a href="https://t.co/okU80kqWAI">https://t.co/okU80kqWAI</a>
&mdash; taratweets ( Alexandra Tara Reade) (@ReadeAlexandra) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra/status/1253821261928525824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Reade outlined the allegations made against her last month in a podcast interview, saying that the alleged incident happened when a supervisor called her into the office and instructed her to take a gym bag to Biden.
“She said he was down towards the Capitol, and he’ll meet you,” Reade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-woman-who-accused-biden-of-sexual-assault-files-criminal-complaint-with-police">said</a>. “I went down, and I was heading down towards there. He was at first talking to someone.. and then they went away. We were in like the side, like the side area, and he just said, ‘Hey, come here Tara.’”
“I handed him the thing. He greeted me. He remembered my name. And then we were alone,” Reade continued. “It was the strangest thing. There was no like exchange really. He just had me up against the wall. I was wearing like a skirt, a business skirt.”
Reade continued, “It happened all at once…his hands were on me and underneath my clothes. Yeah, and he went down my skirt but then up inside it, and he penetrated me with his fingers, and he was kissing me at the same time, and he was saying something to me. He said several things. I can’t remember everything he said.”
Reade claimed that Biden asked her if she wanted to go &#8220;somewhere else&#8221; and that she responded by rejecting his advances, to which she says Biden responded by saying, “C’mon man, I heard you liked me.”
Reade <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tara-reade-files-criminal-complaint-against-joe-biden-2020-4">filed</a> a police report earlier this month with the sexual assault unit of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department.
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Tucker Carlson talks about the recently unearthed video that appears to show Tara Reade&#39;s (<a href="https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReadeAlexandra</a>) mother talking about her allegations against then Senator Joe Biden. <a href="https://t.co/eKpSSxgrDu">pic.twitter.com/eKpSSxgrDu</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1253845183336153091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/larry-king-unequivocally-denies-groping-allegation.html">Former CNN host Larry King says that he did not &#8216;inappropriately touch</a>&#8221; the late actor Eddie Fisher&#8217;s wife, Terry Richard, while the pair posed for a photo at an event in 2005, and again at a &#8220;baseball event&#8221; in 2006.
Richard accused the longtime broadcaster of groping her twice in an interview with DailyMail TV, and claimed that King &#8220;gets a thrill&#8221; from touching women while they&#8217;re on camera because the women are unable to do anything about it for fear of ruining the picture.
“Larry put his hand behind me on my back and as the photographer was taking our picture, Larry slid his hand down from the middle of my back to putting his hand inside of my dress and it ended up with about three or four of his fingers in the crack of my ass, resting in the crack of my ass,” Richard said.
“Larry groped me in front of everyone where I couldn’t say anything,” she continued. “He gets a thrill doing this in front of the camera, knowing I couldn’t do anything.”
King emphatically denied the allegations, issuing a statement to People magazine appearing to accuse Richard of fabricating the incident from whole cloth. King “flatly and unequivocally denies these claims” and &#8220;intends to file suit and prove that they’re utterly false,&#8221; the statement, sent to entertainment media, read.
The former host of &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; also issued a cease and desist letter to the Daily Mail through his attorney. &#8220;That assertion is entirely and unequivocally false and defamatory,” the letter said referring to Richard&#8217;s claims. “Mr. King did no such thing then or ever.”

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On Wednesday, California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/democratic-congresswoman-between-5-and-20-percent-of-muslims#.yf7ZqboWm2">told</a> Larry King that up to 20% of Muslims are willing to do anything to anything to achieve the dystopian dream of a caliphate.
“We know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20%, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible,” <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/democratic-congresswoman-between-5-and-20-percent-of-muslims#.yf7ZqboWm2">stated</a> Sanchez. “They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world. And again, I don’t know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they are certainly — they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use and they do use terrorism.”
The California Democrat’s pronouncement is perhaps more straightforward than anything heard by the Republican establishment, let alone liberals. Sanchez is certain to send shock-waves through the Left, although they may excuse her “outburst” because she is a Hispanic woman, a “female person of color (POC),” as the Left patronizingly puts it.
Throughout her interview with Larry King, Sanchez <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/democratic-congresswoman-between-5-and-20-percent-of-muslims#.yf7ZqboWm2">reiterated</a> the self-evident truth that a substantial number of Muslims, albeit not all, are “willing to use and they do use terrorism” to achieve religiously motivated goals.
Sanchez is right. Today’s Muslims, especially refugees from Syria, come from relatively unstable, Islamic-centric societies where religion is both a public and private exercise. The wall of separation between personal Islamic faith and public Islamic law is virtually non-existent in Muslim-majority countries. Islam encompasses every aspect of life from marital relations to government administration.
As a result, Muslim refugees may have sympathies and views antithetical to Western values. According to a recent <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/01/nine-things-youll-learn-from-pews-poll-of-the-worlds-muslims/">Pew Research Center</a> poll highlighted in The Daily Caller, a significant proportion of Arab Muslims endorse sharia law as the ideal legal code for society and favor harsh punishments for non-believers that violate the tenets of Islam:
<blockquote>86 percent of Muslims in Pakistan, 84 percent in Afghanistan, 81 percent in the Palestinian territories, 80 percent in Egypt, 65 percent in Jordan, 57 percent in Iraq and 54 percent in Malaysia and Bangladesh favor stoning as a lethal punishment for adultery. A majority of Muslims in several countries also support the death penalty for Muslims who convert away from Islam, including in Afghanistan (79 percent), Egypt (88 percent), Pakistan (75 percent), the Palestinian territories (62 percent), Jordan (83 percent) and Malaysia (58 percent).</blockquote>
Sanchez&#8217;s full interview with Larry King is posted below:
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