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Howard Kurtz: Hannity Surrendered The High Ground When He Likened Ellison To KKK

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on March 03, 2013 · Flag

Howard Kurtz gave what I thought was a pretty fair rundown of the now-famous confrontation between Sean Hannity and Congressman Keith Ellison. But he let Hannity off way too easy by saying he “surrendered the high ground” by likening Ellison to a black Ku Klux Klan member. Hannity didn’t just hit low, he deliberately ignored the facts, grabbed the ugliest mud he could find and got some like-minded friends to help sling it. More importantly, race baiting is an all-too-familiar Hannity tactic.

As I wrote when Hannity compared Ellison to the KKK, he never managed to come up with a single person who claimed to have been discriminated against by Ellison nor a single official act of discrimination or radicalism – even though Ellison has served in Congress for six years. Even worse, as I noted when Hannity continued his racial attacks on Ellison the next night, the telltale indicator of bogusness was the lack of any Fox News reporter on the job. Does anyone doubt that if there were a black, radical, anti-Semitic, Muslim Democrat in the House of Representatives, Fox’s “objective news” arm wouldn’t be covering that story zealously?

Meanwhile, Hannity still owes viewers some ‘splaining about his own racial history. As I wrote in 2011, Hannity is Fox’s go-to show for race-baiting against African Americans.

In other words, the “KKK” comment was far from an anomaly or anything unexpected. The fact is, Hannity has been smearing Ellison as some kind of black, radical Muslim for years. Chances are he would have done the same during that epic confrontation with Ellison if he hadn’t pre-emptively struck and taken the framing out of Hannity’s hands. Kurtz and any other media critic worth their salt ought to know that and acknowledge it.

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Antoinette commented 2013-03-05 03:50:38 -0500 · Flag
Kurtz should have brought up High End Hannocchio’s past relationship with neo-Nazi Hal Turner and convicted con artist Robert Allen-A name you can trust-Sanford.

The Stop Hannity Express encourages all the masses to ask Kurtz why Hannocchio refuses to be a registered Republican. His distain for the Republican Party was evident during his showdown with Ellison. @howardkurtz
Peter Birch commented 2013-03-04 14:39:30 -0500 · Flag
Notice the disconnect between the two sentences

Meanwhile, the Minnesota Republican Party posted a clip of the appearance on its website and asked for contributions. According to the website, nearly $47,000 of a fundraising goal of $50,000 had been pledged.

Where does it say the clip had anything to do with fundraising?
truman commented 2013-03-04 10:09:25 -0500 · Flag
KKKlannity would not recognize the high road if it rose up and hit him in his fat slanted head.
Peter Lynch commented 2013-03-03 23:33:48 -0500 · Flag
I met this guy Howard Kuntz down the road apiece – we got along like a house on fire. After a while I happened to ask him if he had any kids. He said he had 2 – a boy and a girl. I asked him “How are the little Kuntz?”
mj - the same one commented 2013-03-03 21:08:17 -0500 · Flag
Howard Kurtz: Hannity Surrendered The High Ground When He Likened Ellison To KKK

Impossible. Hannity never had/has the high ground . . .

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Aria Prescott commented 2013-03-03 20:30:58 -0500 · Flag
@aap: I said it elsewhere, and I’ll say it again here…

If the GOP really thinks that raising money by lying about the incident, and trying to paint Ellison as a racist, they’ve almost assured their 2014 loss already. States like Alaska, Arizona and Texas are relatively safe, but outside of them…








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