Strange doings tonight on “Hannity & Colmes.” Since any rumor, no matter how far-fetched, is deemed worthy of its own H&C segment provided it makes Democrats/liberals/”MSM” look bad, a discussion was held tonight on the issue, discussed through the Blogosphere today, of whether the Associated Press had collaborated with terrorists in Iraq in order to obtain one of the photos for which it was just awarded a Pulitzer.
Never mind that neither of the righty pundits present- Sean Hannity or Brent Bozell- was willing to accept that interpretation as fact. And since Hannity and Bozell are two of the most shameless right-wing prevaricators alive, that’s saying something. There are many smart, fair conservatives out there, but censor-in-chief Bozell and Hannity- who during his three-week Schiavo vigil gave voice to domestic terrorist Randall Terry, among other transgressions- are clearly not among them.
When asked about the "allegation" Bozell, rather than go along with the questionable meme like he usually does, instead denied that anyone has actually made that argument- and when Alan Colmes mentioned that “Power Line Blog” had discussed it that day, Hannity then claimed, absurdly, both that “no major conservative” has argued that the photo was a result of collaboration, and that he had never heard of Power Line!
If that’s the case, and there’s no non-circumstantial evidence to speak of that the photo was staged, and not even Hannity or Bozell would take up the issue, what the hell was the show even doing talking about it? And now that Hannity has implicitly dismissed right-wing bloggers by arguing that they're not "major conservatives"- and has claimed that he'd "never heard of" the Blog of the Year, will they turn on him en masse?
(The other top blogger on the story today was Michelle Malkin. I'd certain call her a major something, but a major conservative she's not).
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 5, 2005 11:22 PM