Hannity twists Carter's words to smear Obama
February 24, 2010 11:28 pm ET by Terry Krepel
Sean Hannity is not terribly interested in telling his Fox News viewers the truth, as his track record all too amply demonstrates. So, it's no surprise that Hannity would twist the words of Jimmy Carter in order to portray President Obama as weak.
On his February 24 show, Hannity asserted that Carter is "fuming" that a Foreign Policy magazine article made comparisons between Carter and Obama. Apparently, Hannity insisted, "President Obama has made such a mess that even Jimmy Carter is now distancing himself from the president."
Except that's not what happened at all. Carter was, in fact, complaining about Foreign Policy's attempt to paint Obama as "a new Jimmy Carter" as a symbol of Obama's supposed "weakness and indecision." At no point did Carter distance himself from Obama. His complaint was joined by a letter from Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, making a similar argument.
Hannity has a tired Obama-bashing script he must adhere to, no matter what -- and he's certainly not going to let the facts get in his way.
What has happened with Obama is the exact thing that happened to Clinton in his first two years. The far right lied and lied and lied until they began to stick.
Did Rahm not learn a thing? This is a total repeat of 1993-1994. Spineless Democrats, Rush Limbaugh and his wannabes attacking the president night and day.
They are without a doubt, the two WORST presidents in a half-century.
Sean must now lie more to get normal people angry at him which is a sign of machoism to his fans.
To put it another way, Hannity has no credibility when it comes to criticizing presidents (especially when he does so, as here, with blatant falsehoods) until he acknowledges his lack of judgment in constantly cheerleading the absolute worst presidency of our lifetimes. I.e., "Remove the beam from your own eye."