Hannity’s America
mclaughlin-group-243554.php> […] You don’t turn to Tim Russert and “Meet The Press” for a good time. = As much fun as it is to watch Russert’s facial expressions as the = gears grind in his head each week, “Meet The Press” is largely a = solemn affair, an appropriately stodgy follow-up to “The McLaughlin = Group.” If you want more fast-paced Sunday talk fare you have to wait = for the evening to spend some time in the special place on Fox News = called “Hannity’s America.” Sean Hannity’s America is a nation that rocks. You know this because = he always begins the show with an intensely patriotic country song. = On “Hannity’s America” this week, that was followed with Sean’s = analysis of something far more pressing than “Meet The Press’” = depressing War On Terror coverage, truly hateful media whore and = frequent Hannity guest Ann Coulter is out being truly hateful yet again. Hannity predictably feels his fellow talking head is being unfairly = criticized. He alleges that the “liberal media” ignores controversial = comments made by left-wingers while persecuting conservatives like he = [sic - ed.] and Coulter. To prove this point he presented a top ten = list of “liberal hate speech” history lessons for members of the = “mainstream press.” I have always wondered how Fox gets away with touting their ratings = success at the same time that the majority of their on-air talent = relies on the perception that they’re doing some sort of pirate radio = broadcast. That point aside, Hannity’s highlight reel did have some = funny footage of Alec Baldwin screaming about stoning someone to = death, as well as crazy with Joe Biden and Robert Byrd. Perceived = left wing hypocrisy continued to be a major theme on “Hannity’s = America” throughout “2 on 2,” Sean’s blatantly partisan spin on the = standard Sunday talk show roundtable, but it was a lot less = interesting without the funny YouTube clips (even though it had it’s = moments, such as when Hannity described Roger Clinton as a “prominent = democrat”). The show continued with features on child Palestinian suicide bombers = and a theme park where Mexicans pay to cross a fake version of the = U.S. border. At first I wondered why these segments, which were = filmed in foreign countries, were on a show titled “Hannity’s = America,” but than I realized that they kind of made me scared of = minorities, and nothing is more American than that. Hannity’s unique apple-pie-and-ice-cream brand of xenophobia was = further evident “Enemy Of The Week,” which marked the President’s = visit to Latin America by contrasting Hugo Chavez’s “repression” with = George W. Bush’s “agenda of peace and prosperity.” Hannity closed out his weekly romp through this great nation of ours = with a bizarre man on the street segment where he interviewed couples = in Times Square about their sex lives. In one final, attention- = starved “only in America” moment, a man proposed to his girlfriend = with Hannity and his cameras standing by=97leaving Hannity to close the = hour of war-mongering, stereotyping, and partisan politics with the = absurd line: “bringing people together.”