"[J]ournalist" Sean Hannity gives bogus defense for interviewing Andy Martin
SUMMARY: On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity defended his report featuring Andy Martin -- who has called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew" and accused African-American public officials of corruption -- by saying: "I'm a journalist who interviews people who I disagree with all the time, that give their opinion. Fox has all points of view." However, during the report, Hannity did not challenge any assertion or statement by Martin, nor did he mention any of Martin's anti-Semitic and racially charged statements.
On the October 7 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity defended his October 5 interview with Andy Martin -- who has called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew" and accused African-American public officials of corruption -- by saying: "I'm a journalist who interviews people who I disagree with all the time, that give their opinion. Fox has all points of view." However, during the October 5 segment, which aired on Fox News' Hannity's America, Hannity did not challenge any assertion or statement by Martin, nor did he mention any of Martin's anti-Semitic and racially charged statements.
On Hannity & Colmes, Robert Gibbs, an adviser to Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, said to Hannity: "On your show on Sunday ... the show that's named after you ... [t]he centerpiece of that show was a guy named Andy Martin." Gibbs added that "Andy Martin called a judge a 'crooked, slimy Jew' " and that "Martin went on to write that he understood better why the Holocaust took place." During the exchange, Hannity said: "When I interviewed Malik Shabazz, when I interviewed Al Sharpton, when I interviewed all these controversial figures -- you see, on Fox, we actually interview people of all points of view, whether we agree or disagree." Gibbs later asked, "Why am I not to believe that you're anti-Semitic? Why am I not to believe that everybody who works for the network is anti-Semitic because Sean Hannity gives a platform to somebody who thinks Jews are 'slimy'?" Hannity, who told Gibbs that Martin's anti-Semitic comments are "despicable," further asserted: "Mr. Gibbs, I'm a journalist who interviews people who I disagree with all the time, that give their opinion. Fox has all points of view. We're allowing you on the program, and I don't agree with hardly anything Obama says."
However, despite Hannity's acknowledgment that Martin's comments about Jews are "despicable," not once during the report featuring Martin did Hannity question an assertion or a statement from Martin. And as Media Matters for America has documented, Hannity also failed to note Martin's history of smears against Obama and his anti-Semitic and racially charged comments.
By contrast, Hannity has openly disagreed with statements made by others on his television shows, including those by Rev. Al Sharpton and Black Lawyers for Justice spokesman Malik Shabazz, both of whom Hannity cited in defending his interview with Martin.
From the April 22 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America, in which Hannity debated Sharpton (transcript retrieved from the Nexis news database):
HANNITY: Reverend Al, the only people I see that are using race in this campaign is Barack Obama himself, who brings it up a lot, and a lot of his surrogates. For example, he said many times on the campaign trail, "They're going to try and make you afraid of me. They're going to say I have a funny name. They're going to say I don't look like those guys on the currency. Oh, and did they tell you, he's black?"
Can you name anyone in the McCain campaign, any prominent Republican, that has brought up any of those issues?
SHARPTON: Well, again, I think you missed what I said. I said that I don't think that race is going to be the deciding factor.
HANNITY: I'm not asking you that. Barack Obama has said this five times himself, and I've got it on tape every time. He said this.
SHARPTON: I think that, if I recall, Barack Obama stood in this city, Sean, and made a whole speech about race and how we must get beyond it, so I don't see how the one that tried to heal...
HANNITY: Wait a minute.
SHARPTON: ... the whole racial polarization that was raised about his own pastor, how...
HANNITY: No, that's not accurate. He was there...
SHARPTON: ... how you can now make him the one that is being racially polarized.
(CROSSTALK)
HANNITY: No, he was there -- he was there to stop the political bleeding when his pastor of 20 years, his spiritual mentor, you know, called us the U.S. KKK of A. and "America's chickens have come home to roost," and not "God bless America," "G-D America." So he said it at that time.
But Barack Obama said repeatedly that "they're going to say I have a funny name. They're going to say that I don't look like the guys in the currency. They're going to say, "Oh, by the way, he's black.'"
The only people that I see bringing up race is Barack himself, Kathleen Sebelius, Governor Paterson, and now Michael Dukakis today. All Obama surrogates. Who in the Republican Party is bringing up race?
SHARPTON: I think that -- I think, of course -- I would expect a lot of people that are going to try to attack -- going to try to distort the picture. The fact is I think he's gone out of his way and has even been attacked by some in the black community for going out of his way.
HANNITY: Then why does he keep saying that?
SHARPTON: I would like to be able to finish.
HANNITY: Go ahead.
From the July 16, 2007, edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes , in which Hannity interviewed Shabazz (from Nexis):
HANNITY: Malik, do you believe, because we're talking about Nazi references by Keith Ellison. But in your life, do you believe Jewish people had any evidence of 9/11 ahead of time, as you have suggested in the past?
SHABAZZ: I only know that Ariel Sharon was scheduled for a news conference at the White House that was abruptly canceled on September 11th. Again, the families of those victims of 9/11 are saying that the government had foreknowledge of what was going to happen and could have been prevented. Congressman Ellison is saying that the U.S., that Bush manipulated the war, the 9/11 events to create a bogeyman called the Muslims, like Hitler created a bogeyman called the Communists, to rise into problem.
HANNITY: Here's my problem here. Here's my problem. You were friends with Khalid Mohammed (ph), who once used the term, you know, "hook- nosed, bagel-eating, lox-eating, so-called Jews." You're friends with Louis Farrakhan.
(CROSSTALK)
SHABAZZ: That's off the topic. You are way off the topic.
HANNITY: No, it's not. It's about your conspiracy theory. It's about your associating with known anti-Semites. And now we have a congressman that uses Nazi references to refer to the Bush administration.
SHABAZZ: It's about you. Bush has gone from 90 percent approval to 20 percent. You, Sean Hannity, must face it. He's on a sinking ship with George Bush.
From the October 7 edition of Hannity & Colmes:
GIBBS: Let's do this -- do you think -- so you think he's guilty by association, right?
HANNITY: No, I would -- I, Sean Hannity -- here's my answer -- would never sit on a board with a guy that bombed our Pentagon or our Capitol, and I want to know --
GIBBS: Can I ask you -- can I ask you a question?
HANNITY: No, no -- wait, wait. Why does Barack Obama sit on a board with -- why did he stay, knowing his past, why did he be friends with him?
GIBBS: What William Ayers did was deplorable, and when he did it, Barack Obama was 8. And Barack Obama said it was a deplorable act.
HANNITY: Then why would he sit on a -- why would you sit on a board -- would you sit on a board that a guy that bombed the Pentagon and wasn't sorry about it?
GIBBS: He sat on a charitable board, and a board funded by a conservative Republican and a friend of Ronald Reagan --
HANNITY: Was that poor judgment?
GIBBS: That was Walter Annenberg -- is who that was.
HANNITY: Was that poor judgment on Obama's part?
GIBBS: I don't think that was poor judgment at all. I think what Barack Obama's done throughout his career is talk about the big issues that are important to him.
HANNITY: No, you're giving me spin, now. I'm asking you --
GIBBS: Now let me ask you one question.
HANNITY: All right, you ask me a question.
GIBBS: OK. Are you anti-Semitic?
HANNITY: Not at all.
GIBBS: OK. On your show on Sunday --
HANNITY: Mm-hmm.
GIBBS: -- you, the show that's named after you --
HANNITY: Uh-huh.
GIBBS: -- right? The centerpiece of that show was a guy named Andy Martin.
HANNITY: I know you're reading your talking points you brought in.
GIBBS: No, no. I don't have talking points --
HANNITY: When I interview, when I interview -- hang on, I'm going to answer your question. When I interviewed Malik Shabazz, when I interviewed Al Sharpton, when I interviewed all these controversial figures -- you see, on Fox, we actually interview people of all points of view, whether we agree or disagree.
GIBBS: So --
HANNITY: I -- the statement that you're about to read, I --
GIBBS: Andy Martin called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew" --
HANNITY: I -- I totally, completely --
GIBBS: -- "who has a history of lying and thieving common to members" --
HANNITY: Here's my answer to you --
GIBBS: -- of his race." Martin went on to write that he understood better why the Holocaust took place "given that Jew survivors are operating as a wolfpack to steal my property."
HANNITY: Here's my answer to you: I find those comments despicable. But wait a minute --
GIBBS: You put him on your show. It's the Hannity --
HANNITY: We put Malik Shabazz on the show --
GIBBS: It's the Hannity show.
HANNITY: I put Khalid Mohammed on my show --
GIBBS: Why am I not to believe that you're anti-Semitic?
HANNITY: Let me -- here's -- here's the answer --
GIBBS: Why am I not to believe that everybody who works for the network is anti-Semitic --
HANNITY: Mr. Gibbs -- Mr. Gibbs --
GIBBS: -- because Sean Hannity gives a platform to somebody who thinks Jews are "slimy"?
HANNITY: Mr. Gibbs, I'm a journalist who interviews people who I disagree with all the time, that give their opinion. Fox has all points of view. We're allowing you on the program, and I don't agree with hardly anything Obama says.
GIBBS: Well --
HANNITY: So here's my -- no, no, no -- I'm gonna answer --
GIBBS: I really wish you wouldn't give a platform to virulent anti-Semites, who can't even get a law license in Illinois.
HANNITY: Here's -- I will tell you this -- if I -- if you -- I'll make a deal with you.
GIBBS: Do that.
HANNITY: If Barack Obama admits that what he did by sitting on a board with, giving speeches with, having Ayer -- going over to Ayers' house --
GIBBS: You'll admit you're anti-Semitic?
HANNITY: No, no. I will admit to you -- I will tell you that Barack Obama wants to be president, that it's poor judgment, it is irresponsible, and it's reckless to be -- let me finish -- to be friends with a guy that bombed our Pentagon, was at war with our country, whose motto was to kill our children and kill your parents --
GIBBS: And I think it's deplorable that you have had somebody on TV that's anti-Semitic --
HANNITY: And I think it's deplorable that your candidate for president has not been honest with the American people --
GIBBS: -- that called Jews "slimy" and understands the Holocaust better because of the way he --
COLMES: We only have a short time here.
HANNITY: I'm explaining -- let me finish first -- let me finish. I'm explaining to you --
GIBBS: I can't believe you would give a platform to somebody like that.
HANNITY: So you don't want me to interview anybody I agree or dis -- only I can interview only people you disagree with?
GIBBS: You put your whole show around him, Sean.
HANNITY: Barack Obama -- listen --
GIBBS: Why am I not to believe that you agree with each and every thing that Andy Martin says?
HANNITY: Listen, Barack Obama the president sat in the pew of Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, a guy who hates America. Barack Obama is friends with William Pfleger. I have one last question: Did Barack Obama ever sit and meet with Louis Farrakhan? Has he ever met with Louis Farrakhan?
GIBBS: I don't -- I don't know the answer to that.
HANNITY: Will you give us an answer by tomorrow?
GIBBS: Will you get back to me on whether you're anti-Semitic, or whether you're --
HANNITY: Oh, oh -- I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm the biggest supporter of Israel -- [former Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu blurbed my book.
GIBBS: Let me say I don't think you're Jewish viewers are going to take it very well --
HANNITY: Excuse me -- excuse me --
GIBBS: -- that you put somebody like that on your show --
HANNITY: I am the biggest supporter of Israel, and I've got a 30-year history on the record of it.
GIBBS: Well, ask some of their friends what Andy Martin said. Here, you take this -- you take that --
HANNITY: I'm not friends with a guy that bombed the Pentagon. I'm not friends with a guy who bombed the Capitol --
COLMES: Let me jump in here for a second -- hold on, guys --
HANNITY: Your candidate is friends with him, not me.
[crosstalk]
GIBBS: Ask some of your -- ask Benjamin Netanyahu about him --
HANNITY: Your candidate is friends with a terrorist.
GIBBS: That's not true.
HANNITY: He sits on a board with a terrorist.
COLMES: Hey, guys -- guys, stop it. First of all, he's not anti-Semitic, he's not --
HANNITY: Thank you very much.
COLMES: He's not anti-Semitic. But look, this game of guilt by association I disagree with on all fronts.
"and should be ostracised by those who actually worked four years for one of those degrees"
I guess Sarah Palin should then be upset and/or angry at Hannity then??
Of course it took her four different schools to get her degree in Journalism, so I'm not sure that works and since Palin and Hannity share brain cells with the rest of the rightwing ideological twits...........
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with taking more than four years and studying at multiple universities to earn a 4 year degree. Palin's stances on issues (freedom, equality, and environmental protections, for example) are plenty of reason to be disgusted with her candidacy; as good as it feels, there's no call to insult her for the time it took to earn her degree. It took me 8 years of continuous, full time coursework at a total of three universities to earn mine, and I'm richer (though not financially - sigh) for it.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek...... however, I did re-read my comment and then yours and can understand why you wrote what you wrote..... it didn't come off the way I thought..... as it took me three schools (I was 18 for the first school and 33 when I finally got the first degree (Business Accounting)) to finally get my first degree and am at my forth one now to get my second BA (Elementary Education) ..... which is why I wrote what I wrote.... forgetting that no one in here would have known that about me.
But I digress........ I'm still more qualified than Sarah Palin for the office of VP!
I hope your forth school teaches spelling ;-)
i learned spolling in my forth school................
Can I assume that you and Wolf are trying to be funny? I re-read my other posts and unless I'm missing something...... I spelled every word correctly.
Or is there an attempt at humor that I'm not getting? ;-)
I became nervous reading your comment.... of course... spelling here is not a requisite like it is in a classroom... so any misspellings are not that big of a concern..... but repeating ones self might be! lol
Like here ----> But, as I said in my other post... I'm still more qualified than Sarah Palin for the office of VP!
I was posting about Hannity claiming to be a journalist, which is wrong and can be proven. just read his bio. Universities must protect their issuance of credentials and call these professional wannabe's at their lies, For they get bolder and bolder if not called out.
Anybody ever seen Hannity's high school annual ?
Went to sleep right after I posted the reply above..... I've been up for 15 minutes and came in here to see if any replies were left for me..... and it just dawned on me (by re-reading the thread as to what Mr Gibbs had done to Hannity.....
I was seeing it from the point of view that this guy was able to get Hannity riled up simply for being calm and concise.......
When in actuality that was only half the story.... he was making an example of Hannity and FoxNoise by assuming a 'guilt by association' in that Fox and Hannity must be all anti-Semitic for no other reason than they had an obvious racist/Jew hater appear on their station as a way to show just how bad / dangerous / childish / idiotic 'guilt by association' is when used as a defense.....
In fact..... I remember an episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation when Capt. Picard had to defend a crew member who was under fire by an over zealous female admiral.... that admiral was using 'guilt by association' as well..... and was left in the end with her career in ruins....... hmmmm
Funny how a decent nights sleep can allow you to see things differently the next day!
Gail Collins' take on guilt by association in today's New York Times ("Clearing the Ayers") is a real treat: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/opinion/09collins.html?em=&pagewanted=print
One of the phony defenses we've been hearing today is that by impaling Hannity about Martin, it's the same "guilt by association" fallacy that Obama supporters have long been complaining about.
Hardly. It's a false comparison, because Hannity did much more than just "associate" with this bigot. He actually sponsored Martin, by selecting him outright for his eponymous TV show and then making a point to highlight the special appearance.
It is so different in degree with mere "association" that I'm wondering if we are dealing with Hannity apologists who are fools, knaves, both, or something entirely new from hell.
Wolf, Hannity is just as bigoted as Martin, if not more so. Hannity is not only anti-Semitic, Hannity is also anti-black.
As for your last sentence, I'm going to say that each and every one of the Hannity apologists are all 3, plus a lot more other negative things. Ed Schultz correctly said that Hannity is a liar and a fraud.
We should also ostracise each and every ignorant, vile, uneducated, sociopathic, sub-human fool in this country who watches and thinks like Liar Sean Hannity!
HANNITY: Mr. Gibbs, I'm a journalist who interviews people...
I almost threw the remote at the TV when I heard Hannity say that he is a journalist. Refresh my memory, but didn't FOX and Hannity once say, when it suited another argument in their defense, that Hannity was a conservative commentator and not a journalist? Didn't Hannity just say a couple of months ago that it was his job to smear first Hillary Clinton and then Barack Obama? Hannity is no journalist and what he does is as far from journalism as you can get. This is what I love about right wing commentators...every show happens in a vacuum. Forget what they said last month or even last week...it's a new, contrived reality every night. And their audiences are too dumb to know the difference...
I'll buy that he's a journalist. He's just one that has no concept of what he's supposed to be doing. He doesn't understand that journalists aren't supposed to demonize people of a certain ideology. He doesn't understand that journalists are supposed to give viewers the whole picture about who they're interviewing, so their credibility can be evaluated. He doesn't understand that journalists are supposed to respect facts.
In this scenario, he's the worst journalist in the country, and has essentially admitted that he should be fired. So play along.
It was rather amusing watching Hannity receive the "guilt by association" treatment about Martin considering that was the whole point of the segment featuring Martin on Obama about his alleged "radical" indoctrination at the hands of his political mentor William Ayers and others. No actual evidence was presented in that segment. Lots of "possibly"s and "could/may have been"s.
So, Hannity's a schmuck giving a platform to another schmuck to expound about sh!t they just made up. What's new?
If the majority of voters in this country are actually swayed by this garbage they deserve not only scorn but also what's coming to them if they vote for McCain/Palin.
It wasn't just "association." It was sponsorship. Much worse for Hannity.
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that Fox News personality Sean Hannity introduced Rudy Giuliani at a closed-door $250/head fundraiser in Cincinnati on August 9. Bill Shine, Fox's senior vice president of programming, said Hannity should not be judged according to the standards of journalistic ethics, which speak out against actively helping a candidate in such a manner. "Sean is not a journalist - Sean is a conservative commentator," Shine said. "Sean doesn't hide, and never has hidden, his beliefs from anyone."
Quote from Fox News' Bill Shine, Senior VP of programming.
Sometimes he's a journalist, sometimes he's not. Always a loser.
Thank you for confirming at least part of what I said above...
Sean is not a journalist--Sean is a conservative commentator. ---Bill Shine
That's what I was looking for but didn't find for my post below; one of his bosses saying that he's not a journalist. (I didn't refresh screen again--I guess I should open another screen on same story-- before I posted.)
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you...."
HANNITY woulden't know a journalist if he tripped over one. HANNITY is nothing more than a PROPAGANDA HACK for the REPUBLICAN PARTY and the NEOCONSERVATIVE cause ,kind of like DR. JOSEF GOEBBLES was for the NAZI PARTY.
In the linked article below, published today on Hannity's resigning with Fox through 2012, the author says:
Hannity doesn't call himself a journalist, but rather a talk show host, which is significant because it frees him to offer opinions when he wants.---Richard Huff
It would be interesting to know did Hannity say this outright to huff, or imply it perhaps, or is he just making an observation from listening to Hannity as a professional reporter on television over the years.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/10/08/2008-10-08_sean_hannity_to_stay_with_fox_news_throu.html
How could Sean Hannity be a journalist? I thought journalists were all liberals. ;>)
How could Sean Hannity be a journalist?
Journalists have the ability to reason. Therefore, Sean Insanity is not a journalist. :-)
I take back my insults calling Mr. Hannity the Journalist a Sissy. I was unaware of his secret life as a journalist. Now that he is out of the closet, he is to be treated as a journalist. Guess he'll have to discontinue his Stop the Obama Express. A true journalist such as Mr. Hannity should have no problem using his highly refined jourmalistic abilities in stopping that commentary-type nonsense. Next stop.....Limbaugh to declare he also is a journalist.
Calling Hannity a sissy is insulting the good reputation of sissies!
when did hannity become a journalist? while it's not required that one have a degree in journalism to be a journalist, it is expected that you attempt to adhere to the basic ethics of the profession. mr. hannity, to the best of my knowledge, never has.
he, like his bretheren, rush limbaugh, is an "entertainer"
He said it during his beat-down. And we all know that the Journalist Hannity would never tell a falsehood.
Sean Hannity is a racist gay basher.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least in Hannity also hates Jews.
Public condemnation of the attack was not universal. Fox News pundit Sean Hannity was one of (Abner) Louima's biggest critics during the trial, charging that he had fabricated the rape — calling him "lying Louima" — and using interviews with people alleging Louima had past sexual relationships with men to bolster the claim that he had sustained his injuries during a "gay sex act." Hannity stopped using the "lying Louima" epithet after Volpe confessed to sodomizing Louima with the help of another officer.
Black talk radio, specifically "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison http://www.joemadison.com, and Waren Ballantine http://www.thetruthfighters.com, and Mark Thompson, and Clifford Kelley, Perri Small, and Matt McGill http://www.wvon.com, along with black female talk radio host Beverly Smith, have all ripped Liar Hannity and his racist listeners and racist fans for their collective racist anti-black sentiments!
I doubt that Sean Hannity could even spell the word "journalist".
Why is Allen coombes on that program , he never challenges Hannity, most of the time he says he agrees.They don't want a strong antagonist of the liberal persuasion.Gibbs had that dinosaur Hannity on the ropes and Coomes rescued him by saying Hannity was not anti semetic. Let get rid of Coomes
I tend to agree with you. Colmes ended up just being a decoration on the Hannity show. besides, it doesn't appear Mr hannity does need help from anyone, except Mr Ailes.
"Why is Allen coombes on that program , he never challenges Hannity, most of the time he says he agrees"
Answer: Alan Colmes is there to be Hannity's peronsal tank jobber, since Colmes tanks to Hannity and the rest of the lying right wing.
I don't think this means Hannity or Fox are anti-semitic and I don't think that's what Gibbs was getting at. I think he was using their own argument style against them. If Obama is gulty by association with Ayers then Hannity and Fox are guilty by association with Martin. The truth is Hannity had Martin on because the right is desperate. They're going to throw poo at that wall until something sticks and they have know scrupples about whose poo they use.
Let's try this again, and see if I can get the link to show up right...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/6/6165/93743
They are capable of self policing but choose not to. I remember O'Reilly throwing a tizzy fit over the finances of the Red Cross after the 9-11 thing. And o'reiily occupies the same building hannity does.
And o'reiily occupies the same building hannity does.
This building would be more appropriate for both of them:
Or this one:
I have noticed when Hannity has Mr "Contra ' North on the show, he becomes a marine wannabe and huffs and puffs.
Chickenhawk Liar Hannity still hasn't given any type of credible reason for why he avoided joining the military at the time of Desert Storm.
Oh, wait. Hannity was here yelling "HELL, NO, YOU ALL GO!", just like the rest of the lying flag-scamming chickenhawk conservatives.
But Barack Obama said repeatedly that "they're going to say I have a funny name. They're going to say that I don't look like the guys in the currency. They're going to say, "Oh, by the way, he's black.'"
The only people that I see bringing up race is Barack himself, Kathleen Sebelius, Governor Paterson, and now Michael Dukakis today. All Obama surrogates. Who in the Republican Party is bringing up race? --Sean Hannity
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Hannity apparently hasn't seen this campaign ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU
He probably hasn't been to a campaign rally with "Joe Six-Pack" lately either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhZEJiu03MU
More than that, Hannity is also an anti-Semite and a racist himself. Not that this is news, either.
Like I sai earlier, not seeing Gibbs bust Hannity goes down as one of the few times I regret not watching the Fox Lies Channel.
Since when is Hannity a journalist? These right-wing mouthpieces are all alike. If they are criticised for having on racists and fascists they are "journalists." If they are criticised for what they say themselves suddenly they are "commentators" not journalists. It is nothing but a smear machine.
Insannity isn't anti-semetic. He praises Israel, and not also that his co-worker, Colmes is a Jew himself.
But WAIT! Isn't Sean Hannity the same person that said if Obama was around during the Rev. Wright's Anti-American speech or whatever leaked on the net, that that will make him a Racist becasue he didin't do anything about it? But Hannity was with this guy who called Jews' Crooked - was friends with a Neo-Nazi and quite certainly I'm sure he knew. So that there will make Hannity a racist. And not also that, he didn't condemn Ted Nugget's comments about Bill - I mean Hillary and Obama, but he was still slamming Obama about what his pastor said, even after condemning what Wright has said; "but Nugget is a close friend, i could never go against him" - but Sean sure did forgive Imus for what he said last year - "but Imus god down on his knees, lols"
Sean Insannity basically set himself up.