HANNITY IS A LOUSY AMERICAN

Today he had Jerome Corsi, the lying whore who helped write the Shifty Vets book that viciously attacked John Kerry, on his radio and TV show to push Corsi's latest book. Via Atrios, I came across this column in BUSINESS WEEK and here are a few highlights I enjoyed:

The New Normal: McCain's Desperate Ad Hours
Posted by: David Kiley on July 28

This is what some people are calling the Hannity strategy. Right wing nut-muffin Sean Hannity employs a slick strategy of repeating canards very quickly over and over, day in and day out, which aren’t challenged by his TV co-host Alan Colmes or by any of his radio listeners. By relentlessly repeating falsehoods day after day, the theory goes, it becomes embedded in the media.

Hannity enployed the same strategy conflating a passing acquaintance between Obama and former unconvicted Weather Underground activist William Ayers with "an association" with Obama...for months. He talked it up every day. He finally goaded ABC's George Stephanopoulus to ask Obama about it in a televised debate. It didn't matter that Obama has nothing that could be construed by a thinking person like "an association" with Ayers. He raised the question just by repeating it daily.

By the way, lest Hannity try and pretend that he isn’t a tool of virtually any GOP campaign, it’s worth noting that he echoed almost point for point the actual daily McCain campaign talking points on Obama's trip last Friday night, including his “takeaway from the Obama trip” that he had time to work out in a gym but not visit the troops in the hospital.

Hannity can't deny this because he has openly admitted that he's a surrogate for McCain.