There's a great article by Steve Rendall for FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) called, Primetime Racism on Fox: Hannity’s long history of boosting bigots. Rendall catalogs Hannity's long record of cozying up to white bigots at the same time that he remains a hypervigilant critic of black racism. I'm proud to say that several News Hounds posts are referenced. But I would commend the article to our readers regardless.
Rendall covers a lot of ground that I have cataloged, such as Hannity's fondness for anti-black bigotry, especially from his slavery-loving pal Jesse Lee Peterson. Which is not to say that it doesn't bear repeating because I have long puzzled over how Hannity has avoided the kind of scrutiny that threatened to sink the careers of Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, e.g., who just so happened to have been re-hired and rehabilitated by Fox News' sister channel, Fox Business Network.
But Rendall makes some great points of his own. For example:
Hannity and company’s concern for the “wronged” virtually never extends to black people. Extra! couldn’t find a single segment in which Hannity addressed the growing number of inmates freed from prison, in many cases from death row, because of emerging exculpatory evidence, including DNA analysis—a disproportionate number of whom are men of color. It’s a pattern that puts the lie to Hannity’s concern-trolling over murder victims in Chicago, a talking point raised by the host in six of his last 10 segments about the Martin killing (e.g., Hannity, 7/22/13, 7/19/13).
And
(W)hen the rapper Common was invited to the Obama White House for a poetry event, Hannity (5/10/11) played the prig, expressing outrage that Common’s violent and profane lyrics might sully White House decorum and be heard by children: “This is not a good message for our kids. This is not the guy that you invite to the White House for poetry reading. This is the guy that we don’t want our kids to listen to.”
Hannity was also shocked at Common’s use of the word “nigger” in lyrics—which is odd, because another Hannity friend and frequent guest is Mark Fuhrman, who gained notoriety because of his profligate use of the same word (Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/14/96). Fuhrman, a former detective, was convicted of felony perjury for lying under oath during the O.J. Simpson trial about his routine use of the word “nigger.”
It's good to see this subject get the attention it deserves.
Read the rest of the article here.
:^)
Send a link of the article to @reince Priebus and @speakerboehner with the following comment, “Does the RNC supports this mindset?” Tie Hannocchio’s bigotry to the Republican Party for 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Hannocchio’s bigotry goes back before he became a household name. The staffers at KCSB radio found that out the hard way. A bitter, arrogant, bigmouth youth with a huge chip on his shoulder.
He was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood on Long Island. He went to a predominantly white school and had predominantly white friends.
His friendship with bigots speak for themselves. As they say, action speaks louder than words.
Hannocchio is a complicated and troubled man with internal issues.
Coming down the pipe:
1. Hannocchio tries to save his career.
2. Hannocchio tries a different format.
3. Trouble in paradise for Hannocchio.
4. Hannocchio makes a bold move this year.
Hannocchio and the Fox “News” cafeteria Catholics will be reading this article and the comments. Those little freckles on Hannocchio’s body will burst into flames.
NOTE TO HANNITY
Which side of the family did you learn this from?
I should type that up and make it a personal challenge to Hannity, since he’s both the longest running and currently most unrepentant of Fox’s stable.
I’ll read the piece later, but I got a laugh over that first pic of Slanthead in his “tennis” hoodie, with the caption:
“Sean Hannity seems unconcerned about being shot by neighborhood vigilantes, despite wearing a hoodie.”
Of course he’s not concerned. Hannity can protect himself just fine. He never goes anywhere — not even sporting events — without packin’ the two Glocks he always brags about. And maybe one of the three AR-15s he recently admitted to owning (“I want more of them”) is under his seat?
