For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession
of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than
the citizens of America.
John Edwards spoke of the Two Americas, displaying the contrast between
the haves and the have-nots. President-elect Barack Obama said we are not
red and blue states, we are the United States of America.
Then we have Hannity's America.
Unlike the first two examples, an inclusive portrayal of different segments
of one country, Hannity's America is a very limited concept, a bubble where
deep thought, common sense, understanding, and tolerance can not penetrate.
In Hannity's America, Bill Ayres and Rev. Jeremiah Wright are vital issues
before the American public.
In Hannity's America, giving discredited authors Andrew
Martin and Jerome
Corsi a platform is more important than the truth behind both major party
presidential candidates.
In Hannity's America, there are "10
Reasons Not To Vote For Obama" and
no reasons to vote for McCain.
Like most conservatives on television, Sean
Hannity can certainly tear down people? But can he build things? Well,
that's someone else's job.
Hannity has spent the 2008 presidential campaign obsessed about any possible
rumor concerning Barack Obama and beating them into the ground. Yet, Obama
is now set to be the 44th President of the United States.
The election is a vindication for the American public, who for the most
part, saw through the pettiness and small-mindedness of "journalism" such
as the kind practiced by Hannity. In this election, voters were concerned
about real issues that affect real lives: economy, Iraq war, health care,
environment, education, and standing in the world.
None of those things are relevant in Hannity's America. Hannity speaks of
America as the greatest nation on the face of the Earth. But Barack Obama
has a better sense of America, all of America than Hannity has.
Given the furor that Hannity has displayed during the campaign about Obama
-- when there was a chance that John McCain might become president -- one
would hope that Hannity would come to his rational sense, and try, as McCain
said
in his concession speech, to work with the incoming president.
But this is Sean Hannity, so don't hold your breath. So for his long-standing,
irrational, uncredible, obsessive attacks against now President-elect Barack
Obama, Sean Hannity is our Media PUTZ of the Week.
Sean Hannity previously won the Media PUTZ of the week on October 9, 2008, September
25, 2008, March
27, 2008, and September
13, 2007.
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