2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHannity Attacks Ellison’s ‘Radical Connections’
Conservative pundit Sean Hannity on Thursday ramped up his attacks on Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) in the latest chapter of a feud that began with an extremely heated on-air debate between the two earlier this week. Ellison laced into Hannity on the Fox News host's program on Tuesday, calling the commentator "immoral" and the "worst excuse for a journalist I've ever seen."
On Thursday, Hannity said he found it hypocritical that Ellison would label him "immoral" given the Democratic congressman's "radical connections." The host then highlighted Ellison's previous defense of the Louis Farrakhan and his public appearance with Nation of Islam spokesperson Khalid Muhammad in the mid-1990s. As a law student at the University of Minnesota in the early 1990s, Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, defended Farrakhan against accusations of racism and anti-Semitism something for which the progressive lawmaker apologized in a 2006 letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Ellison wrote the letter as a first-time congressional candidate, and those associations were scrutinized during the campaign. But Hannity seemed unmoved by Ellison's apology.
"Now in 2006, when his past caught up with him, Ellison denounced the Nation of Islam," Hannity said. "But the reality is this congressman not only associated with these radicals, but he spent years spewing their hateful rhetoric."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/hannity-attacks-ellisons-radical-connections-video?ref=fpb
rurallib
(62,406 posts)guess that links him to pedophile priests.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Heather MC
(8,084 posts)nor more radical than say mormans or Catholics or Judaism. All these religions teach separation and sticking with your own kind.
Behind the Aegis
(53,946 posts)They are not to be confused with the religion of Islam anymore then "Jews for Jesus" should be confused with Judaism. It interesting that two of the three groups to which you compared NOI are actual targets of hate by the NOI.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)not to mention Hannity's other longtime pals and radical associates: raging anti-semite Andy Martin, anti-Semite and woman-beater Mel Gibson, draft-dodger and pedophile Ted Nugent, racist and convicted felon Mark Fuhrman, convicted felon Gordon Liddy, convicted felon Tom DeLay, convicted (though overturned only a technicality) felon Ollie North, Pat "America caused 9/11" Robertson, and James "America caused Sandy Hook" Dobson
All these folks have at, one time or another, been regular contributors or recurring favorites on Hannity's show. Some still are.