The Andrew Breitbart lionizing on Fox News probably reached its peak on the Hannity show last night. Sean Hannity and Monica Crowley didn’t just speak adoringly of Breitbart, FoxNews.com joined in the exaltation, too.  FoxNews.com’s logo says, “fair and balanced,” so presumably it is not part of the network’s “opinion” programming. Yet their internet video of the segment is called, Andrew Breitbart: A fearless, conservative leader. The video has the subtitle, “new media pioneer leaves behind a legacy of courageous reporting.” But given Breitbart’s record of lies, dissembling, unhinged rants and on-air threats, you have to wonder, what on earth did Fox News find “courageous” about this guy?

There’s only one explanation: He hated liberals and Democrats and he was willing to do or say almost anything to destroy them.

If you don’t believe me, take a look at the clips aired on the Hannity show for its “look back” designed to honor the show’s dear friend. A montage was shown with Breitbart saying:

Conservatives used to take it and we’re not taking it any more.

Look, mainstream media, the gig is up. We’ve figured you out. You’re not on our team. You’re not on the American team. You’re on the progressive team.

I’m going to stand up to those bullies (in the "liberal" mainstream media).

I don’t know why I decided to make my career trying to destroy the institutional left. I thought that would be a fun thing to do and it looked good on a resume.

Hannity appeared next on the montage, saying admiringly to Breitbart, “You really want to save the world!”

The montage ended with Breitbart saying, “This is my war cry for 2012. You need to join me in this war against the institutional left. This is not your mother’s Democratic Party. “

“He was so brave and he was so exuberant,” Crowley gushed. She went on to say she thought of him as “a huge rockstar” when she met him. She later said, “Andrew saw himself as a truthteller. And that’s what he saw his job – that’s who he was… (he told Americans) the truth that the left-wing media would not tell them.” This from the woman who just a few months ago announced that Americans are “sick of attack politics.”

Apparently, Crowley has a different view of attack politics now. Or maybe it’s only a matter of who’s doing the attacking. She said about Breitbart, “He made conservatism hip and cool. That’s no small thing.”

The panel also discussed the pending release of tapes of President Obama at Harvard that Breitbart had which may, as Hannity said enthusiastically, “change the election.” You can read more about Breitbart’s Obama tapes in my previous post.