Hoisting Hannity

Gibbs asks Hannity if he is an anti-Semite. Not exactly tactful, but it does show the limits of guilt by association. Hannity presented a virulent anti-Semite, Andy Martin, on his anti-Obama propaganda hour last Sunday. Greenwald has a must-read on the exchange:

 

Hannity never once said a negative word about Martin; never challenged him on anything he ever said or did; and never informed Fox viewers about Martin's despicable, truly demented history. Instead, Martin was Sean Hannity's respected source, presented as an "Author and Journalist" to support Hannity's "reporting." As Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel put it: Fox's "star witness was Andy Martin, whose incendiary, unsubstantiated claims about Obama's past were allowed to go unchallenged."