For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
You would think that Sean Hannity and the FOX "News" Channel would
be excited about a Barack Obama victory. After all, they enjoyed their initial
success thanks to the onslaught bashing of President Bill Clinton. And things
can't be nearly as much fun sucking up to George W. Bush as it sounds.
But Hannity is trying really hard to make sure Obama loses, regardless of
whether truth or ethics might stand in the way.
The Fox "News" Channel ran a program Sunday night called "Obama & Friends:
The History of Radicalism."
We realize that Hannity doesn't really come in contact with liberals on
a regular basis (no, Alan Colmes doesn't count. Neither does Hannity's domestic
help.) So his vision of "radicalism" could include Social Security
and a 40-hour workweek.
But this goes deeper than some lame, already disproven allegations against
Bill Ayres. This goes to using a primary source so discredited that even
the Republican Party of Florida denounced him.
Andy Martin is an anti-Semite who has run unsuccessfully for numerous political
posts, including a failed bid for the 2004 U.S. Senate seat currently held
by Obama. (Martin ended up running for the Senate in Florida that year instead.)
The Republican Party of Florida denounced Martin because of his platform
in a prior political bid to "exterminate
Jew power in America."
Glenn
Greenwald digs further back into Martin's career:
In 1986, he ran for
Congress in Illinois under this campaign committee: "The
Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate
Jew Power in America," and he wrote sympathetically of the
Holocaust. As The Washington Times described this year:
In a New York bankruptcy case, he referred to a judge as a "crooked,
slimy Jew." During the bankruptcy dispute, he filed a civil-rights lawsuit
claiming Jewish bankruptcy judges and lawyers were conspiring to steal his
property. He asked a court to bar "any Jew from having anything to
do with plaintiff's property."
In another motion in the case, he wrote: "I am able to understand
how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less
sorry that it did, when Jew survivors are operating as a wolf pack to steal
my property." But Martin, in the "documentary," was portrayed as an author and
journalist. What is some of the wisdom to come from Martin?
"If you love the Cuban revolution and Castro, and if you love what’s
happening in Venezuela with Hugo Chávez, you’ll love Barry
Obama -- Barack Obama, as he calls himself -- in the White House."
Martin is
also credited, as such, as being among the first to assert in a chain
e-mail message that Obama was secretly a Muslim.
Martin was there to promote a book, an item that clearly isn't filled with
facts, just horrible disparaging speculation. But Hannity gave Martin, a
rampant anti-Semite with no credibility, free reign and never questioned
or followed up on any of the baseless accusations. And never disclosed any
background of Martin, his ethics, or his credibility, including but not limited
to the fact that Martin's connection to the Senate race that Obama won
in 2004.
For once again displaying the ethics FOX "News" Channel is known
for, Sean Hannity is our Media PUTZ of
the Week.
Sean Hannity previously won the Media PUTZ of the week on September 25, 2008, March
27, 2008, and September
13, 2007.
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