Instead of discussing the substance of recent comments on race by Attorney General Eric Holder and First Lady Michelle Obama, Sean Hannity used the opportunity to attack them. First, he gathered an all-white panel, then fed them race-baiting prompts.
First attack: Hannity compared Holder's and Obama's comments to Condoleezza Rice talking about how wonderful it was that, having grown up in the segregated south, she could now run for president. The implication was clear: that Obama and Holder are just resentful sourpusses who don’t love their country enough. However, both Obama and Holder, in their speeches, also made similar remarks marveling at the progress of race relations in their lifetimes. Funny how that got ignored, eh?
“Very interesting, isn’t it?” Hannity said about the cherry-picked clips. His innocent tone disingenuously hid the racial animosity he was clearly looking to engender.
Props to guest Deirdre Imus for immediately smacking down the agenda. “Everyone comes at life at a different angle and a different perspective… So I don’t think it’s fair to compare," she said. "…Don’t deny that there’s racism and racial disparity!”
Hannity, perhaps trying to hide his own very ugly record on race, said, “There’s white on black racism, black on white racism but it is not the majority of Americans by any stretch.”
Well, that’s good to know. Because when Hannity’s pal, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson announced on Hannity & Colmes that “most blacks” in Tennessee are “so racist,” Hannity didn’t even let his other guest rebut. In fact, Hannity seems to have some kind of obsession with black racism - and a special affinity for white bigots. Check out the Fox Attacks Black America video below (I assisted in the making of it) and note which Fox host has a starring role.
Guest Katie Pavlich jumped at Hannity’s race bait. Which is no surprise given her blatantly condescending and hostile attitude toward African Americans. First, she sneered that Holder did not, like Rice, suffer segregation (suggesting he was more “black” than patriotic) and moved on to blame President Obama for opposing school choice (which, Pavlich questionably claimed, would erase school segregation). “So if anyone’s at fault here, it’s the Obama administration,” she said in a taunting, mean-girl voice.
But leave it to guest Gavin McInnes – who last week likened gay advocacy to sharia law – to be the most deliberately offensive. “That Eric Holder attitude is crippling for blacks. Because when you portray the world as ‘they’re out to get you. You can’t make it. It’s no use even trying,’ that’s much more harmful than any of this mythical racism.”
Well, that’s good to know, too. Because if there’s any group that continuously whines about their victimhood, it’s conservatives on Fox. So we’ll look for McInnes to speak out about their crippling attitude. But don't hold your breath.
Meanwhile, Hannity quickly suggested Michelle Obama and Eric Holder were in some kind of racial cabal: “To me it was suspicious, her and Eric Holder, the same weekend? Why?”
Pavlich had a racially hate-filled answer at the ready: "Because they have to keep the bar lowered because they have a certain sector – voting block – that keeps them in office based on…” I couldn’t hear the rest of her answer but I think we can guess the gist.
Watch Hannity's panel whitesplain racism in America below via Media Matters.
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Today, Hannocchio lives in a predominantly white neighborhood, he and his wife’s friends are predominantly white, his spoiled kids attend predominantly white Catholic schools, i.e. all boys and all girls, they have white friends, Hannocchio’s staffers and colleagues are predominantly white, his friends are predominantly white, and he hangs around mostly white people.
He also befriended hatemongers like Neo Nazi Turner, Uncle Ted, Cliven Bundy, Rusty the Radio Clown, his long term girlfriend, Annie, George “CCC” Allen, Dog the Bounty Hunter, among other hateful individuals.
His hate was too toxic to the Santa Barbara college radio station in 1989. The other hosts had voted to oust this skinny, New York street rat from the station.
He is a hateful and crazy man. His parents should have locked him up decades ago.
Now, Obama’s talking about a very real racial divide that was started by right-wing opponents of his presidency… and he needs to shut up about it, because… Whatever the hell point Hannity was trying to make today.
You know what I took away from this? That, in Hannity’s world, only white people can talk about race relations.