Hannity Goes On The Five To Smear OWS Protester And Boast About Working At Age 8

A few days ago, I posted about the unfair, imbalanced treatment Fox News gave to guest Harrison Schultz, when he appeared on Hannity to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement. After bullying Schultz during their one-on-one, Sean Hannity got his three-person panel to pile on after Schultz had left the set and without anyone to take his side. Yesterday, The Five added to the pile-on when Hannity called in to further attack Schultz discuss his interview. Predictably, the four conservatives (including conservative-come-lately Kimberly Guilfoyle) fell over themselves trying to think of clever ways to make new smears of Schultz and the Occupy protests.

The very nature of The Five – four conservatives and one liberal – makes mockery of Fox’s “fair and balanced” mantra. So did co-host Eric Bolling’s sneering introductory description of Hannity’s interview as one of the “best take downs I’ve seen ever.”

Hannity claimed he brought Schultz on his radio show, as a follow up to the TV interview, to help him in a fatherly way, that he wanted to try to get him a job but that Schultz refused to take one under $80,000 a year.

Bob Beckel rightly pointed out that Hannity had been “brutal” toward Schultz but then promptly allowed his advocacy to be derailed by Hannity’s argument against higher taxes for the very wealthy.

But then multimillionaire Hannity turned to his "regular guy" shtick: "One of the best things that’s ever happened in my life is I, from the time I was eight years old, I worked… I was doing dishes and washing ‘em at 12. I was a cook at 13.

So please consider emailing Hannity at [email protected] and/or tweeting him @SeanHannity and asking him if working at eight is so great, what job does his son have?

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commented 2012-05-06 01:16:05 -0400 · Flag

Christopher, AIM (allegedly standing for “Accuracy in Media”) is a far-right organization which purports to “correct” news media items which present an “unrealistic” view (if not an outright “liberally biased” view). In other words, their “accuracy” is based solely on a checklist of specific right-wing talking points and how well the media in question—TV, radio, print journalism or websites—presents those talking points.

They’re not concerned about REAL “accuracy in media” as that would tend to put all the right-wing lies, distortions and half-truths on full display. No, their sole concern is keeping the hard-core right-wing extremists (the ones who tend to actually vote in primary elections) indoctrinated with the “correct” talking points.

commented 2012-05-05 22:09:22 -0400 · Flag

Mediaite is in the tank for Hannity & hates OWS

commented 2012-05-05 21:00:02 -0400 · Flag

Thank you Truman. Now Klannity is claiming he entered the workforce at the age of 8. That was after he had been eating beans and rice for the past four years. Dishwasher at 12, cook at 13. All while he was attending a private Catholic school at the time, that his parents were paying for.

Klannity would blow up a lie detector machine if he ever agreed to be hooked up to one.

commented 2012-05-05 20:07:30 -0400 · Flag

@truman: "The next time KKKlannity spews out the fable of his life, it will no doubt start with ‘It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child.’ â In the Jim Crow South, no doubt . . .

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commented 2012-05-05 20:04:27 -0400 · Flag

@Aria Prescott: It sure is funny how Hannity and other rightwing noisemakers constantly claim the “far left” want to foment politically-driven violence . . . . . . Yet, when a Jared Lee Loughner, an Anders Brevik, or this guy in AZ, actually CARRIES OUT that violence, they always turn out to be someone with racist, far-right sympathies . . .

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commented 2012-05-05 18:29:30 -0400 · Flag

First it was eating beans and rice. Then it was working at age 8. The next time KKKlannity spews out the fable of his life, it will no doubt start with “It was never easy for me. I was born a poor black child.”

commented 2012-05-05 16:59:08 -0400 · Flag

If Hannity’s so obsessed with politically driven violence, where’s his extensive coverage of the May 2nd’s Arizona shooting?

Oh, that’s right- the shooter was a White Supremacist that was close friends with almost every elected GOP official (even the ones that publicly denounced him). He was also strongly favoured by the Tea Party when he died.

To be fair, a lot of FNC hosts flat ignored that story, and the few who didn’t, it was scattered attempts to downplay both Ready’s actions and his affiliations, as well as attempts to spin his attempt at switching parties. It was so bad that the brass only let a couple of the better newsblock segments be on the site, so if I missed it on Tee Vee, I missed it.

But Hannity’s special because even O’Reilly’s hatefest against OWS looks like a mildly annoyed shout out in comparison. You’d think he’d have it somewhere- if nothing else, to try proving he can be fair.