How to turn Sean Hannity into food for worms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/sean-hannity-compost-books/2020/08/06/a41b1aa6-d5b8-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html?hpid=hp_save-opinions-float-right-4-0_opinion-card-g-right%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Rancid words can make excellent radishes. Just shred and compost.
By Lawrence Downes a writer and editor in New York, covered immigration and politics for the New York Times
editorial board from 2004 to 2017.
August 6, 2020 at 9:27 a.m. EDT
I didnt set out to compost Sean Hannity. It was something I settled on after considering several other options and rejecting them one by one. The first was leaving him in the basement indefinitely. That worked for a while. I could almost forget about him there, but then I would go down with a basket of laundry and see him and think, I have to do something.
I should explain: I dont mean the man himself, but Hannity the book. Its called Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism.
A friend worried that I might be raising poisoned or indoctrinated worms. I have a book signed by Ingraham, one where she mocks Muslim women in hijab she sees at the gym. Her pages are exceptionally rancid.
Turning propaganda into worm castings is not going to measurably reduce the amount of Fox News-iness in the environment. It is not strictly necessary. But if Hannity and company want to keep telling us that we are all at war, to keep stoking the flames and fanning the fear, then, for the good of this country, the people we love, the democracy we might lose and the world we want, so be it.
The worms and I, we do our part.