Conspiracy-Theorist Sean Hannity Blames Republican Woes On Media Effort To Suppress The Vote
Reported by Ellen - October 21, 2006 -
Sean Hannity, unhinged over the idea of Republicans losing on November 7, came up with his most novel explanation for Republican woes yet: It’s a media conspiracy to suppress voting. With video.
During a discussion about the upcoming election with Newt Gingrich on last night’s Hannity & Colmes, Hannity said: “The media seems somewhat complicit. I argue that there’s even a sort of an institutionalized bias to sort of suppress voting and take away initiative from people. That’s how I feel, based on the news coverage. Let me give you two recent examples. We know in the State of Virginia the coverage of Senator George Allen. But his opponent in this race just this week used the term ‘towel head’ and used the term ‘red neck.’ And I can only imagine if a Republican did that, it would be considered outrageous. Steny Hoyer campaigning for Ben Cardin, the Democrat in Maryland, he actually said of the African-American candidate for the senate for the Republicans, ‘he was slavishly beholden to the Republicans’ after two years ago having used the term he was a token.”
In fact, Hoyer quickly apologized for his poor choice of words (which Hannity conveniently forgot). Webb’s remark was a comment about pejorative racial stereotypes whereas George Allen used those terms, himself, in their normal context. You can read Webb’s comments in context, not that that would matter to the unhinged Hannity.
