Sean Hannity attempted to blame the beating of two or three people by members of the far-right, “Western chauvinist” group the Proud Boys on the left, and repeatedly insisted that he had “never heard of” the Proud Boys. Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was a long-time Fox News contributor and appeared on Hannity's eponymous Fox show Hannity 24 times from January 2014 to May 2015, according to a Media Matters review. On Hannity, McInnes espoused deeply racist and sexist views, including that the notion of gender equality makes women vulnerable during spring break, that women earn less than men because “they're less ambitious,” and that he only regretted calling actress Jada Pinkett Smith a "monkey actress" because it cost him Fox News exposure. McInnes founded the Proud Boys in 2016 and announced he was leaving Fox in 2017.
From the October 15 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: