HANNITY GETS PUNKED, CLAIMS HE'S A JOURNALIST

This is nice to see! The little bastard gets his own game of guilt-by-association played right back at him and he can't deal with it. From Ellen at the News Hounds:

On the post-debate Hannity & Colmes program last night (10/7/08), Barack Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs pushed back on Sean Hannity's fixation with William Ayers and nabbed Hannity for using a major anti-Semite as a source for smearing Obama at the same time.

Ben Smith at The Politico also caught this and also provided a video clip -




Hannity was so flustered that he tried to justify himself by claiming that he was a "journalist"!!! Let's recall what his TV and radio bosses think:

Giuliani's Fox-y pal cash flap

BY DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

Sunday, August 19th 2007, 4:00 AM

It's no secret that Sean Hannity, the conservative Fox News commentator, has helped to raise Rudy Giuliani's profile - but now he's helped the former mayor raise money, too.

In a little noticed event this month, Hannity - co-host of Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" and host of a popular WABC radio show - introduced the Republican front-runner at a closed-door, $250-per-head fund-raiser Aug. 9 in Cincinnati, campaign officials acknowledge.

In so doing, some believe that Hannity - while clearly a commentator paid to express his opinions - crossed the line from punditry into financial rainmaking for a presidential candidate whose bottom line is now better for it.

Hannity declined to comment, but his bosses at Fox News Channel and WABC, flagship station for his national radio show, defended their marquee star by arguing that he's not a journalist and shouldn't be judged as one.

"Sean is not a journalist - Sean is a conservative commentator," said Bill Shine, Fox's senior vice president of programming. "Sean doesn't hide, and never has hidden, his beliefs from anyone."