As anyone who has watched Sean Hannity on television or heard him on the radio knows, he has a specific trick he trots out every time he has on any liberal guest- I call it the "will you condemn this?" game.
You've seen it: Hannity finds a particularly outrageous thing some liberal (usually an obscure blogger, religious cleric or college professor) has said. He then demands that his liberal guest "condemn these outrageous remarks" before the interview can proceed any further. If the guest doesn't condemn, he's being an extremist too. If he does, he's throwing his own colleague under the bus and exposing the Democrats as "divided." If he refuses to answer, he's being "evasive." No matter what, Hannity wins.
Along with talking to black guests as though they were children, it's Hannity's favorite tactic. But this weekend, an interviewer decided to use Hannity's own trick against him. When asked about the Ann Coulter "faggot" comment, Sean says:
I didn’t hear it. I’d rather see it before I comment on it and whatever. You know, no other person is responsible for what a person says except that person. And so, if they have a problem with what Ann Coulter says, blame Ann Coulter. You can’t blame somebody else for what she said. So I didn’t see it.So that's right: the inventor of the "Will you condemn this" game... denounces the "Will you condemn this game"! And it's obviously a mistake to tie Hannity to Coulter; she's only been on his show once a week for the last six years.
And when did he say this? In an interview with Michelle Malkin. When you're being lectured about defending extremist actions, and the person doing the questioning is the author of "In Defense of Internment," it might be time to start re-evaluating things.
I don't disagree ywith ou regarding Hannity - he is a lightweight fool, but I hope you have noticed that the right wing blogosphere and the republican candidates have condemned AC's statements.
Do you really contend that if that if a commentator of the left had said soemthing similarly offenseive or wrong your side would condemn it. We need look no further than the recent statment by Bill Maher that he wished Cheney was killed by terrorists in Afghanistan and the offensive statements about the Virgin Mary and catholicism by the Edwards campaign employees. Nothing but crickets from your side.
There is a double standard at work.
Posted by: J. Lichty at March 5, 2007 07:24 PM