How to turn Sean Hannity into food for worms
Rancid words can make excellent radishes. Just shred and compost.
The author has been composting right-wing culture-war books during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Lawrence Downes)
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.
Its part of a collection I have: right-wing culture war books from the Fox-News-angry-White-persons superhero universe. Besides Hannity, Ive got Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik. The list is not comprehensive. It includes Karl Rove and Hugh Hewitt but not Newt Gingrich, Tucker Carlson or Donald Trump.
Nourishing a vegetable garden. (Photo by Lawrence Downes)
I got them from the book sale shelf at my public library, for a dollar each. I would find them tucked in with the everyday discards the cookbooks and gardening volumes, Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, What to Expect When Youre Expecting. The Fox folks seemed so bilious and out of place in that pleasant company, like toadstools among the daffodils. So Id buy them up and take them home.
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