Hannity Overlooks His Own Direct Association With White Supremacist While Attacking Obama...

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Hannity Overlooks His Own Direct Association With White Supremacist While Attacking Obama’s Indirect Association With Farrakhan

Sean Hannity and FOX News played the race card against Barack Obama again last night (2/28/08) on Hannity & Colmes as yet again they deliberately tried to smear him as a black racist because his pastor’s daughters gave an award to Louis Farrakhan and Obama did not denounce Farrakhan as thoroughly as Hannity thought was required. Meanwhile, Hannity ignored the endorsement of John McCain by anti-Catholic evangelist John Hagee which Alan Colmes showcased. But as Hannity worked himself into a self-righteous lather against Obama, he conveniently overlooked his own direct and repeated association with white supremacist Hal Turner. With video.

In Colmes’ scripted introduction, he read “(Obama’s) campaign continues to be a magnet for racial controversy.” FOX News is doing its best to make that happen, of course. They have hyped every racial angle they can – and then some – since Obama declared his candidacy last year.

During Colmes’ segment, the first half of the panel discussion, Colmes noted, “Nobody is talking about the endorsement yesterday of John McCain by Pastor John Hagee.” Colmes played a clip of Hagee smearing the Catholic church and added that Hagee has also said, “Jews are responsible for being persecuted.” You can read more about Hagee on Colmes’ blog, Liberalland, and on Glenn Greenwald’s blog, Unclaimed Territory.

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Hannity, with melodramatic Hanctimony, asked the liberal guest, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, “If my pastor gave a lifetime achievement award to David Duke, what would you think of me?” Memo to Hannity: That’s a lot less racist tarnish than you already wear. As Max Blumenthal wrote in The Nation,

During an August 1998 episode of the show, Turner reminded Hannity that were it not for the graciousness of the white man, "black people would still be swinging on trees in Africa," according to Daryle Jenkins, co-founder of the New Jersey-based antiracism group One People's Project. Instead of rebuking Turner or cutting him off, Hannity continued to welcome his calls.
And let’s not forget Hannity’s championing of Duane “Dog” Chapman shortly after he was caught in his own racist rant.

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http://www.newshounds.us/2008/02/29/hannity_overlooks_his_own_direct_association_with_white_supremacist_while_attacking_obamas_indirect_association_with_farrakhan.php

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1. Answer: Hannity isnt running for President.

..and thank god for that..