Sullivan on Hannity and Fox News:
At the core of real conservatism is a distinction between theory and practice, a deep resistance to ideology, a respect for free inquiry and the philosophic spirit, a respect for social stability and coherence, a moderation in governance and a deliberation in action.
It is really time to point out that […]

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After being nailed by Jon Stewart, for showing footage to suggest last week’s “Super Bowl of Freedom” was better attended than it was.
Will Bunch on why it’s important:
For Fox News, which has stepped up its partisan cheerleading for the right wing since Barack Obama became president, size — of anti-administration protests, that is — matter. […]

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Yeah, well, the teabag rallies are all running together for me too, so why not Hannity?

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Right-wing Chicago radio host undergoes waterboarding to prove to everyone it’s not torture.
The average person, says the Marine sergeant on hand, can take it for 14 seconds.
Right-wing radio hosts lasts a grand total of six seconds, before rendering this verdict:
 ”It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,” Mancow told listeners. […]

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President orders hamburger with spicy mustard. Hannity gets all bent out of shape.
Gawker points and laughs. At Hannity:
Then Sean Hannity plays the old “Grey Poupon” commercial, as if having seen that commercial 20 years ago is the only reason an adult man who lives in Chicago (where ketchup is not considered an acceptable condiment for […]

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Hannity offers to be waterboarded for charity!
I’m telling you - not only do I pay whatever the pay-per-view costs, I’m recording it and using stills for my screensaver.
But, if he really wants to get a flavor of how we’ve gone about this - Hannity should actually be waterboarded 83 times.

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I’m here five minutes and already I’ve got an e-mail from a winger correspondent informing me that Obama is “on the ropes” because Dick Cheney is telling Sean Hannity that torture works, and presumably we should torture even more people.
Never saw that one coming.

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The blind interviewing the blind:
HANNITY: Let me ask you about the outgoing president. I appreciate the fact that George W. Bush went for an NSA program, a Patriot Act, enhanced interrogations - used all his political capital, sacrificed any public opinion approval numbers. And at the end of the day, reformed our national security and […]

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I swear I’m not making this up:
The new Alan Colmes-less Hannity premieres Monday with frequent Fox News guest Al Sharpton filling the liberal seat on Sean Hannity’s newly christened “Great American Panel.”
Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) will fill the seat on the right. (And she should have plenty to talk about given the Senate dispute in […]

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Hannity: Is this an Obama recession?
This is a common step in the grieving process. In the griever’s mind, the cause of his grief becomes elevated to an all-powerful being, responsible for all of his pain and heartbreak. Hannity’s friend, the GOP, is dead, and he blames Barack Obama. So in Sean’s mind, if there is […]

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I think this might be my favorite thing of the year.
Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

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