The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik, their TV critic, took note of Sean Hannity’s week-long infomercial for Israel’s attacks on Gaza and gave it and him just the kind of scathing critique they deserved.
Zurawik’s column was prompted by Hannity’s lapdog interview with TVNewser in which Hannity not only showboated over his Israel PR efforts coverage but attacked other cable news networks for a lack of balance (he also took a swipe at Stephen Colbert).
After calling Hannity a “political stooge,” Zurawik wrote that he had deliberately “ignored Hannity’s ‘reports’ from Israel—those broadcasts in which there wasn’t a fingernail’s worth of difference between what he reported as fact and what the Israeli public relations folks said.” But after reading Hannity’s criticisms of the other networks for not covering the Israeli side, Zurawik had to take action. He listed a number of other reporters from other networks who not only covered both sides (which Hannity did not) but did so at risk of physical harm (which Hannity also did not).
Then Zurawik moved in for the proverbial kill:
You weren’t one of them, Sean. You weren’t even close. You were and are a ridiculous, self-promoting, hustler of a TV “personality” trying to generate a little buzz for your show.
So, really, and I mean this in the most constructive way: Shut up about CNN, CBS and NBC News. And go back to doing your silly propaganda five nights a week for Fox News and the Republican Party.
Zing! I wholeheartedly recommend the entire column.
H/T Aljorie.
Graphic by Nina Brodsky
He’s also a coward who would never risk physical harm to himself. Heck, he is not man enough to waterboard himself for our brave troops, who risk their lives everyday across the world.
This sad excuse for a part-time husband and father is the worst host in the history of broadcast television news. He’s an amateur compared to real journalists who are on the front lines wearing protective vests with the words “Press” written across it.
The people of Israel were used by this satanic man for his evil, vindictive agenda against President Obama and the Democrats. He would never report from Israel if Mitt Romney was president. You can bet on that one.
The Stop Hannity Express wants everyone to get out their phones and call every radio station across the nation. Ask this burning question to the hosts: If Mitt Romney was president today, would Hannocchio report from Israel?" Post that same question in all of social media, YouTube, and send it to all newspaper columnists.
This fool is a sick, twisted and evil man who will stoop to any level to destroy Obama, and the Democrats. That is his primary mission. He is still angry that Obama has not sat down with him for a one-on-one interview with him.
NOTE TO DAVID
This crazy man will come after you. Remind the masses of his past, cozy relationship with a neo Nazi named Hal Turner.
Also, question whether this “report” from Israel was actually a public relations story paid for by the Israeli government. If Bibi paid any money to him for public relation purposes, that must be disclosed to the people of Israel and the United States.
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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