Monday, April 28th, 2008
The Company You Keep
While we’re on the subject of guilt by association, let’s look at the friends and associates of The Human Talking Points Memo™ — Sean Hannity. It was Hannity, after all, who was instrumental in the political rehabilitation of Randall Terry — the former head of the terrorist organization Operation Rescue — during the Terri Schiavo case. Mind you, this is the same Randall Terry who said this about the appropriate government for America:
Let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good…. If a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It’s that simple…. Our goal is a Christian Nation… we have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want Pluralism. We want theocracy. Theocracy means God rules. I’ve got a hot flash. God rules.
And let’s not forget about Hannity’s good friend Hal Turner — the known neo-Nazi who was a regular caller to Hannity’s radio show in its early days and was known for calling for the deaths of illegal immigrants and making nakedly racist remarks about African-Americans. He also took an unhealthy amount of glee in the murder of the husband and mother of Judge Joan Lefkow, among other horrors.
Naturally, Hannity has denied knowing Turner, evidence — and Turner’s own admission that Hannity and he were friends — be damned.
And yet, Hannity sees himself as such a superior paragon of moral virtues that he feels justified in constantly condemning Obama for his associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weather Underground member William Ayers — even going so far as to feed George Stephanopoulos a planted question with which to smear Obama.
Nice.
