Chickenhawk Hannity’s Phony-Baloney Hanctimony Over Petraeus MoveOn Ad

[Purveyor]

Shortly into his interview with General Tommy Franks last night (9/12/07), Sean Hannity developed a sudden – and one-sided – sensitivity to the nature of political discourse as he decried the MoveOn.org ad about General Petraeus… and conveniently stopped talking about what's happening in Iraq. This, less than a week after Hannity compared liberals to Osama bin Laden and less than a month after he defended Ted Nugent’s vile rant suggesting that Barack Obama should “suck on my machine gun” and that Hillary Clinton should “ride into the sunset” on his gun. With video.

I almost didn’t need to watch the show last night because I knew the ad would be the subject of at least one, probably two discussions. Any doubts were dispelled when I turned on one of the daytime FOX News shows only to find that the ad being discussed and then saw the subject again on the O’Reilly Factor. That may be more than the Iraq war has been discussed all year on the “real journalism” network.

And I could almost recite what Hannity was going to say. “I see a hero being slandered, an American war hero being slandered,” he declared grandiloquently. Then, of course, he proceeded to do exactly that to veterans John Kerry and John Murtha. For the zillionth time, chickenhawk Hannity distorted their criticisms of the Iraq war and either pretended that the two vets had been criticizing the troops or else was so willfully ignorant of the truth that his distortions amounted to actual malice.

Nevertheless, Hannity proclaimed, “I'm a fan of the military. I love, I respect the hard work and the fact that these guys put their lives on the line for us and our liberties and they're doing what their country asks them to do.” Sure he loves them! Just not enough to put his well-padded fanny on the line the way Murtha and Kerry did.

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Colmes made some good points but, unfortunately, took an annoyingly gratuitous swipe at MoveOn by saying, "(Republicans would) rather focus on a crazy, extreme statement" than talk about the war in Iraq.

Democratic "strategist" Michael Brown put in another D- showing. First, he wasted a lot of air time slavering over Steele: "I certainly have to disagree with my very good friend Michael Steele. He's obviously extremely handsome and talented and smart but I have to disagree with what he's talking about." Steele wasted not a moment of his air time on Brown, of course.

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[Pendrench]

1. Dear God...is Michael Steele still around??? I thought that once he lost to Ben Cardin he might

fall off the face of the earth.


Tim

[RebelOne]

2. Hannity has been echoing the same bull on his radio show.

He keeps saying that Petraeus is a 4-star general and how could anyone not believe him.

[npincus]

3. did Purple-Heart Band-Aids trouble him in 2004?