Sunday, December 21, 2008

The bombastic lad: Media Matters' 2008 Misinformer of the Year


This should make Chicago Native happy. Sean Hannitize gets the Misinformer award for 2008. And a well deserving award. And a shoe should be thrown to the wanker in his honor. ;-)

Media Matters:

As Media Matters for America has demonstrated time and again, Fox News' Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to "demonizing" the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: "That's my job. ... I led the 'Stop Hillary Express.'
By the way, now it's the 'Stop Obama Express.' " Hannity's "Stop Obama Express" promoted and embellished a vast array of misleading attacks and false claims about Obama. Along the way, he uncritically adopted and promoted countless Republican talking points and played host to numerous credibility-challenged smear artists who painted Obama as a dangerous radical. When he was not going after Obama, Hannity attacked members of Obama's family, as well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and other progressives, and denied all the while that he had unfairly attacked anyone.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 "

Wow how nicely professionally and acurately said!

But profession news people find Hannity anything but credible.
And intelligent people as well.

Anonymous said...

cough, cough, cough Thanks Bil for finding my favorite cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..excuse me..cough, cough, cough my favorite cough, cough news guy's award

As you well know Hannity is the most despicable, contemptible, detestable, disgraceful, disreputable,ignominious, loathsome, low-life, eprehensible, shameful, slimy, sordid, vile, wretched individual polluting the airwaves he is such a liar, con artist, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, falsifier, fibber, maligner, misleader, perjurer, phony, prevaricator, promoter, storyteller, trickster that can be found on the airwaves today.

He is also winner of the Biggest Blowhard award, Falafel King is only second to him, but he certainly is trying for the Number One Blowhard award himself.

SP Biloxi said...

lol Anytime, Chicago Native. Quite frankly, I paid no attention to Hannity. He is the crapola stuff that I stepped in accidentally with my shoes. Hannity will be yesterday's laundry in the future.