Sean Hannity hosted right-wing extremist and Islamophobe Pamela Geller tonight in a deliberate effort to get her to do her hate-mongering thing. And when she did, Hannity at least tacitly approved.

The pretext for the discussion was Yale’s decision to host Sheik Rashid Ganushi “to headline an event” for the law school that afternoon. Hannity announced that Ganushi “was a member of the group that endorsed the murder of U.S. troops. He was banned from the U.S. for supporting Hamas. …So is this the person that schools, Ivy League schools, should be allowing to speak in front of our children?”

In the first place, law school students are hardly children. Secondly, remember how much Fox believed in freedom of speech when anti-Islam activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was invited to Yale? Third, the vague description that Ganushi “was a member of the group that endorsed the murder of U.S. troops” is hardly enough information to consider him an enemy who should be forever banned from the U.S. and to adjudge Yale almost an anti-American for daring to host him. Unless you're a Hannity fan, it seems.

However, whatever Ganushi's malice, he is hardly some Osama Bin Laden. In 2012, he was listed as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. Time said about him:

The Tunisian scholar-politician Rached Ghannouchi, once the enfant terrible of political Islam, is now widely hailed as its voice of sanity. When Ghannouchi, 70, returned home from a decades-long European exile last year after the Arab Spring toppled Tunisia’s dictator… Ghannouchi offered a vision of a moderate, modern and inclusive political movement that was nonetheless rooted in the Muslim faith. When his Ennahda party won a resounding election victory, Ghannouchi endorsed a secular election partner as President. He took no office for himself.

He has also condemned the ISIS caliphate.

But tough-talking Hannity announced, “This guy shouldn’t be in our country. We banned him once. How he ever got in here just shows how stupid we can be sometimes.”

Muslim Mike Ghouse was a hapless guest. He argued on behalf of freedom of speech but never confronted Hannity’s hypocrisy nor the outrageousness of hosting someone like Geller as a credible commentator. Nor did Ghouse confront Hannity’s bullyboy, blowhard behavior – reminiscent of his browbeating of a Palestinian-American guest in July.

Of course, Hannity behaved completely differently with Geller. While Hannity tried to suggest moderate Ghouse is some kind of extremist supporter, Geller is a real extremist - whom Hannity supports.

Some Geller tidbits:

• Obama, she wrote, has been “unmosqued” as the “jihadist in the White House” for whom “Jew-hatred is policy.” (Right Wing Watch, August 2014)

• Geller accused Obama of using the term “ISIL” because he wants “to distract, dissemble, deceive and disarm the American people” by using a confusing term like “the Levant.” … Never mind the fact that Geller actually uses “ISIL” on her anti-Muslim blog and told her own readers that “the correct name is ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant).” (Right Wing Watch, September 2014)

• Geller is a birther who believes that President Obama is the love child of Malcolm X. (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• Geller has previously said on Hannity that Obama is “consistently on the side of jihadic, Islamic supremacist regimes.” (July, 2013)

Geller has also been involved with some very shady characters. From SPLC:

Geller and (then-husband Michael) Oshry were co-owners, along with Christ Tsiropoulous, of at least two car dealerships before the Gellers divorced in 2007. That was the same year Collin Thomas, one of their salesmen, was gunned down while closing their dealership, Universal Auto World, one evening.

The investigation into the murder uncovered an alleged fraud ring. According to the New York Daily News, employees enabled “underground characters,” including “known” drug dealers, to buy luxury cars using fake identities. Eleven people who worked for the dealership, including Tsiropoulous, were arrested, but Geller escaped the scandal unscathed.

Yet Hannity allowed Geller to pretend to be the voice of morality. She accused Ghouse of “shilling for savages.”

And, of course, it’s all Obama’s fault. Geller announced:

This is the norming of jihad. Under President Bush, he (Ganushi) was banned. …But we have a president who is aligned with the jihad force.

Hannity ramped up the fear mongering, as he badgered Ghouse a little more:

"We are allowing our enemies access to our cities and our towns and putting our people in danger. Don’t you get that?"

Watch the unfair, unbalanced segment below from the 9/30/14 Hannity.