SEAN HANNITY
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Sean Hannity is the face of what's wrong with America. He's "why they hate us." He's the spokesperson for the humananzees who compose such a broad stripe of the U.S. and who so embarrass the rest of us, those who wish to be part of the civilized world. The defining characteristic behind all of the above is pride in ignorance. I'm fairly certain that this trait is common only here in America. Only here could someone become a national radio star by loudly and proudly shoving his ignorance and foolishness in your face.
The willingness to openly flaunt his ignorance, rather than disguise it with a bunch of horseshit, is what sets Hannity apart from the other right-wing nut jobs. Only Hannity argues strictly by shouting meaningless slogans, no matter how irrelevant they are to the point at hand and no matter how flat, tired or retarded they are. Hannity is Wally George with no camp value. Rush Limbaugh is a talented broadcaster with a modest gift for sophistry, whereas Hannity is a modestly talented broadcaster who rarely bothers with even false logic. Dr. Laura is a ridiculous dogmatist who can operate rationally within her ridiculous dogma. Hannity is a bellowing sloganeer who might not be able to define "dogma." Michael Savage, my favorite of the lunatic bunch, delivers amusing, mostly crazed rants. If Hannity had been born in Berlin in 1920, he would have ended up shoving the corpse of one of Savage's relatives into an incinerator. Happily.
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Incidentally, I generally refrain from calling right-wingers Nazis but, along with Ann Coulter (who I think might be nothing more than a performance artist), Hannity is one of the prominent two right-wingers who's thinking really is predominantly fascist. I say this because his favorite theme seems to be the submission of the individual to a unified, fiercely nationalistic right-wing agenda; because he dislikes rational discourse, and because he feels that those who disagree with him are "anti-American," if not outright traitors. His utopia is closer to Nazi Germany, and much, much closer to fascist Italy or Spain than it is to the U.S. OK, that description applies to many right-wingers, but only Hannity and Coulter are so fierce in their total war against rational thought. That assault on the proper functioning of the human brain is what allows something as stupid as fascism to triumph and allows someone as stupid as GW to become president. In any case, there's no doubt in my mind that a person of Hannity's disposition would have happily jumped aboard the Nazi choo choo. If not him, who?
How much have I listened to his show? For about fifteen seconds. But I feel that those fifteen seconds were a more than an adequate sample because they span at least ten episodes. He's the only man on the radio that I literally cannot tolerate. Somehow, on radio he is even worse than on TV, where I've been able to endure his smirking mug and the vomit it projects for a total of perhaps two hours. Yet one second of Hannity on my car radio--enough time to absorb a single proposition--and my right hand is moving faster than Roy Jones Jr.'s, delivering an uppercut to any button that will change the station.
Check out this screed Matt Cale wrote about Mr. Hannity--Roast Sean Hannity Alive.
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