Despite declaring "I'm not so concerned in what gifts wealthy people are giving each other," Hannity repeatedly discussed iPod gift

On the April 2 edition of his Fox News show, Sean Hannity told Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative Party member of the European Parliament, "Perhaps there's too much fixation on gifts and what Michelle Obama is wearing and meeting the queen -- a little alien to me in as much as, you know, people are suffering. I'm not so concerned in what gifts wealthy people are giving each other, nor am I concerned what the first lady is wearing." But immediately after his interview with Hannan, Hannity teased a segment in which he criticized President Obama's gift of an iPod to Queen Elizabeth II, stating, "You won't believe what Obama uploaded on the queen's iPod before he handed that over to her. That coming up next." Moreover, during the April 1 edition of his show, Hannity also concerned himself with the gift, opening his show with a monologue titled "The Queen and the iPod," and repeatedly addressing the iPod gift throughout the show.

During the April 2 segment on the iPod, Hannity stated, "[S]ince I'm sure the queen can never catch your speeches on television or anywhere else, she's probably so grateful that you uploaded them on her iPod, now she can access you whenever her heart desires. How thoughtful." While discussing the iPod gift during the April 1 show, Hannity said that Obama's iPod gift "seems emblematic of this administration's inability to deal with the leaders of the rest of the world." On April 1, Hannity also asked, "Don't you think we've had one bad gift for a world leader too many? Didn't there come a point where they need to get their act together?"

Additionally, on April 2, Hannity repeatedly aired graphics referencing the iPod gift:

Further, Hannity aired the following graphic on April 1:

From the April 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

HANNITY: Well we certainly do share values, and Great Britain has always been our closest ally, and that the values in this world, especially in a world of terrorism, I think, are ideal. Perhaps there's too much fixation on gifts and what Michelle Obama is wearing and meeting the queen -- a little alien to me in as much as, you know, people are suffering. I'm not so concerned in what gifts wealthy people are giving each other, nor am I concerned what the first lady is wearing. Are we spending too much time and attention, and putting too much focus on that?"

HANNAN: Well except in so far as it was seen to be a snub when Obama was kind of slapping Brown around, and, you know, believe me, Brown is not popular in this country. We all know that he's a ninny but people kind of felt bad that he was being slapped around by Obama when we would rather that we slap him around.

[...]

HANNITY: Daniel, I'm hoping one day you -- I get to introduce you as Mr. Prime Minister. Thanks for being with us. Appreciate it.

HANNAN: Thanks, Sean.

HANNITY: And coming up, as Israel watches the Obama administration meet with Iran, it says it will deal with that threat on its own. Colonel Oliver North is here with analysis. Plus, you won't believe what president Obama uploaded on the queen's iPod before he handed that over to her. That coming up next.

[...]

HANNITY: Finally tonight, we told you yesterday about the video iPod that president Obama gave the queen of England. What we didn't tell you is what videos he uploaded on the device before giving it to her. Now, ABC News' Jake Tapper reports that our always humble president uploaded his own speeches onto the device before handing it over to the queen. But the real question is, did he include some of these epic moments for her royal highness' viewing pleasure?

[begin video clip]

OBAMA: You send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs -- if they just gave -- you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and a breathalyzer or an inhalator -- not a breathalyzer. I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours, so -- if they had an inhalator, inhaler -- I'm still stumbling over this word.

OBAMA: I bowled a 129. I -

LENO: No, that's very good. Yeah. That's very good, Mr. President.

OBAMA: it was like Special Olympics or something.

OBAMA: You start asking, well, what is it exactly that is such a problem that you're seeing? Where's all this waste in spending? Well, you know, you want to replace the federal fleet with hybrid cars. Well, why wouldn't we want to do that?

[end video clip]

HANNITY: All right, since I'm sure the queen can never catch your speeches on television or anywhere else, she's probably so grateful that you uploaded them on her iPod, now she can access you whenever her heart desires. How thoughtful. And that is the news tonight from Hannity's America.

From the April 1 edition of Fox News' Hannity:

HANNITY: All right, we know your hearts all stopped there for a moment during our little April Fools' Day joke. But the world is not coming to an end or maybe it is because the president's adventures in foreign policy, well, they continue today.

And that is our headline this Wednesday night, day number 72 of socialism spread around the world, "The Queen and the iPod." Now while it wasn't the most important detail from the day's events in London, the president's latest gift gaffe seems emblematic of this administration's inability to deal with the leaders of the rest of the world.

Now the Obamas, they had tea with Her Majesty today and presented her with an iPod, but here's the problem. She already had one. Now it might seem like a minor detail, you know, the kind that a 6-year-old would have known after two minutes on Google, but after the Obamas provoked outrage with their gift of DVDs to Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this year, well, you would think that they would be extra careful.

But the administration's tin ear after the last slight of our closest ally is just the latest episode in the administration's not understanding the mood of the globe as they continue to press for an unprecedented redistribution of wealth.

Now, I'm not saying that they necessarily have to listen to the left-wing anarchists rioting in the streets, but this president ran on a platform of engagement with Europe and rebuilding America's image abroad. Now we sure have come a long way from the Brandenburg Gate last summer.

[...]

HANNITY: Now just to stay on the lighter side for a second as we get into more serious issues, you would think that, you know, for example, Kathleen Sebelius, another tax cheat, that they would get their act together. You would think after the Gordon Brown DVD present that maybe they would have been a little bit more thoughtful as it relates to the iPod. I thought that was an April Fools' joke.

STEYN: Yeah, I think it's pretty pathetic. I mean, in fairness to the Obamas, this wasn't just the discount movie set from Wal-Mart like they did with Gordon Brown. They gave the Queen an engraved iPod. I think it might have been a better joke if they had given her an engraved teleprompter. That might have been an appropriate gift from President Obama.

But I think basically it doesn't matter to them that much. They don't think in those terms. And that's what's interesting. This guy who claimed to be a citizen of the world at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin actually pretty much takes the view that the world can go hang when it comes to it.

[...]

HANNITY: Rough day in London for the G-20. Also, what is wrong with in the last two days, before you even get started on this. You can't even nominate, Obama, somebody who's not a tax cheat, and you can't even think of a creative, thoughtful, appropriate gift for, you know, prominent world leaders.

MICHAEL RODRICK (actor): They're protesting over the iPod. I think that's --

HANNITY: Is that what they're protesting?

RODRICK: According to the news today, I think they're protesting over the iPod.

HANNITY: Apparently, he put Broadway hits. I would protest the thought of having --

RICH LOWRY (National Review editor): She should be grateful it's not just a Shuffle. I hope it was like a big iPod. It wasn't just one of those little Shuffles, was it?

RODRICK: If you're going to have a protest, you need to do it in South Korea. The G-20 should always be in South Korea. 'Cause the South Koreans suit up in that Teenaged Mutant Turtles and --

HANNITY: But Peter [Johnson Jr., Fox News legal analyst], you and I often disagree on some substantive issues here. I mean, don't you think we have had one tax cheat a little too many? Don't you think we've had one bad gift for a world leader too many? Didn't there come a point where they need to get their act together?