Stephanopoulos pushes back on Hannity's Jennings/Hay smear: "One line of praise for a man who was a pioneer in the gay civil rights movement"

You just don't get it, do you fat head!?!

: On your charge that a child was molested, and the crime went unreported.

In the mans own words...

In 1988, I had taken a bus home for the weekend, and on the return trip met someone who was also gay. The next day, I had a conversation with Mr. Jennings about it. I had no sexual contact with anybody at the time, though I was entirely legally free to do so.

: On your charge that Jennings had done some harm to the man in question...

Were it not for Mr. Jennings' courage and concern for my well-being at that time in my life, I doubt I'd be the proud gay man that I am today.

: And finally you charge that Jennings does not deserve to serve as "Safe School Czar" because of this incident, and yet the young man, who you show so much concern for, has said,

I find it regrettable that the people who have the compassion and integrity to protect our nation's students are themselves in need of protection from homophobic smear attacks.

It can all be found in a two paragraph statement, that apparently your staff has seemed to overlook or is intentionally ignoring. Sorry, Sean. You lose!

It would be fun to go through all of tapes of Sean Hannity's broadcast career and pick out every dumb thing he's said...or it might be easier just to play all the tapes in their entirety.

Good on Stephanopoulos for not backing off from Hannity, for sticking to the facts and pushing *context*. Hannity has nothing, nothing but a few buzzwords that he thinks will do all the talking for him.

As if Hannity's past is beyond scrutiny... please.

I graduated from Concord Academy and knew Brewster and Kevin well. Hannity is taking Kevin's comments out of context and no one is mentioning that.

The year was 1986, Kevin was a new teacher in his early 20s who just lost a good freind to AIDS. A student told him he had sex with an older man, and the first thing that came to Kevoin's mind was "did you use a condom". That's pretty normal to me -- people were dying from an epidemic.

At that time there was no GLSEN, there was no forum for talking about sexuality.

People who go on air to defend Kevin need to bring up the 80s and AIDS and the fact that Jenning's was a new young teacher who had just recently graduated college to birng context to the story.