Hannity Hammered!

Ahhhh ... The old "What goes around, comes around" in action.

Following the debate last evening, Obama Spokesperson Robert Gibbs appeared on the Faux News program, 'Sean Hannity' and bludgeoned the warped host with a dose of his own medicine.

Glenn Greenwald - Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News

Over the weekend, Sean Hannity hosted a show on Fox News entitled Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism. The star of Hannity’s smear fest was none other than Andy Martin, who was featured as an honored, credible investigator and source to expose “the real Barack Obama.” There wasn’t a hostile or adversarial word uttered by Hannity about or towards Martin. To the contrary, Martin’s claims were the basis for many of the Fox News show’s allegations against Obama. This is how Fox described him on-screen when he spoke: “Andy Martin, AUTHOR & JOURNALIST”:

Hannity turned to Martin after asking what Obama means by “community organizer,” and Martin explained that Obama “was in training for a radical overthrow of the government” — and Fox then promoted Martin’s book:

All of that led to last night’s masterful appearance by Robert Gibbs on Hannity & Colmes after the debate. Gibbs obviously knew that Hannity was interested in asking him only about the most vital issue of the day in the world of right-wing extremism — the exciting attempt to link Obama to Bill Ayers through rank guilt-by-association — and this is the superb exchange that ensued:

Jason Linkins- Robert Gibbs Confronts Hannity Over Anti-Semite Guest

Well rest assured, America, after the debate there was one venue where discussion on Ayers came hot and heavy: the Fox News Channel. I think it's all they talked about, actually! Everytime we tuned over to Fox, it was "YAAAAAAGHH OBAMA'S TERRORIST PAL!" Fred Thompson wanted to talk about it! Karl Rove wanted to talk about. And most of all, Sean Hannity wanted to talk about it with Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, who'd already endured the business end of Mark Halperin's idiot vlog on the subject. Well, finally, Gibbs decided he just wasn't having any more of it, and in precisely the sort of parry that one wanted to see turned the guilt-by-association game on Hannity, asking him, "Are you anti-Semitic?" Soon, the conversation was a mess of yelling and crosstalk, with Gibbs loudly asking why Hannity would give a hatemonger a primo forum, and Hannity responding, "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU BLURBED MY BOOK! YAAHHHH! LOUD NOISES!"

Why'd he ask that? Oh, because Sean Hannity built an entire smear-job "news" program around the lunatic ravings of an anti-Semitic loon named Andy Martin. He's not the only man of that ilk that Hannity pals around with, either. Hannity protested that he's a friend of Israel, and that it's important for Fox News to respect the viewpoints of crackpots like Martin. Not to repeat ourselves, but that's why Hannity puts the "Sean" in "shonde."

Here’s the exchange;

Robert Gibbs takes on Sean Hannity




Be sure to click over to Keith Olbermann

He has a segment on this, with the additional bonus of a special poem, sent in by a viewer - John Cleese.

Yes, that John Cleese!

Does She Eat Arugula, As Well?

The pitbull with lipstick ... A Hockey Mom in high heels ...

Ya Betch'ya!

If Tina Fey's parodies weren't enough for you, you can add Keith Olbermann's Special Comment last evening, and he didn't need to be co-piloting a helicopter to shoot down Mommy Moose for her insipid bullshit.

She's shot out of her self-conducted stump speech, that passed for a debate, belting out the Right Wings Greatest Hits, firmly anchoring herself to the crashing Dead Campaign Express.

She doesn't want to talk to the media any longer, she only appears before rabid, base-only audiences (in which, shockingly, the Rove Rats are now preventing the media from talking to said rabid, base-only audience, so as not to let any stray anti-McCain-Palin comments seep into the MSM)

Her speeches are inciting people to call for killings.

Say it ain't so, Wasilla Whiz Kid!

Overshadowed, in the Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain version of 'Lost Weekend' (Christ, if Ray Milland's character, Don Birnam were around, he'd keep on belting them down, preferring to remain in a drunken stupor, than having to see and listen to this crap), in which he didn't go as far as his protégé, he only approved of his speech audiences' calling Obama a terrorist, was that the scrappy Governor of Alaska may be a closet elitist.

She ,,, hmmmm ... boasted of drinking a Starbucks Mocha Coffee...Reading 'The New York Times'

Did it come with a side of arugula?

I would have thought the Shooting-Wolves-from-Helicopters spouse of the First Dude, coming from the rugged, frozen tundra, made her own coffee, like a, kind of, frontier Martha Stewart.

Especially out on the stump, just go around the grounds, scrounge up some leaves and branches, spend a few minutes rubbing the sticks together, to get the fire going, and then boil herself up a good, steamin' Cup-of-Joe.

Or, is this Hockey Mom-Joe-Six-Pack-With-Lipstick really a closet elitist?

The Elmira Gantry was out on the stump, in Carson, California, where she, gosh darn it, lived right up to our post from the other day, sliding comfortable into her Emily Latila mode.

Looking to fire up the crowd, Palin quoted the saying from her Starbuck Mocha Coffee.

From Nico Pitney, over on HuffPo;

The statement came after Palin had recounted a "providential" moment she experienced on Saturday: "I'm reading on my Starbucks mocha cup, ok? The quote of the day... It was Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State [crowd boos] and UN ambassador. ... Now she said it, I didn't. She said, 'There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women.'"

Actually, Albright didn't say that. The real quote is, "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women."

(You can watch the video of it here)

Screwing up the Reagan quote ... Now this ...

Jesus, someone, a staff member, a campaign intern, buy this woman 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations', so she can set it to memory, the way she did with the talking points at the debate the other evening.

I have to think it's going to be tough campaigning, with constantly putting your foot in your mouth.

But Wait, There's More!

Apparently, in her heavy-duty coaching and studying, they gave her Fly Boy's World Atlas to bone up on, for it was news to many that Afghanistan is now a "neighboring country" to us.

Palin calls Afghanistan ‘our neighboring country.’

“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.

I haven't noticed any Taliban moving into my neighborhood, and none of the local travel agencies are running promos for a "Two-Nights-Three-Day" getaway to Jalalabad.

I wonder, if Mommy Moose climbs up on her roof, or maybe, a nearby hill, if she can see Afghanistan from Alaska?

Maybe that's what has her thinking it’s a neighboring country.

It seems, that we were rather close, on target, with pegging Sarah Palin as the new Emily Latila

First Thing For Obama To Say At Tuesday's Debate ...

This is rather opportunistic.

If Leonard Pinth Garnell were around, he might describe it as "Bad Character Assassination Theatre"

Since the Rove Rats (and likely, the Turd Blossom himself) has pointed Mommy Moose, and the Dead Campaign Express, to throw mud on Barack Obama - over the William Ayers thing (Hey Guys, Hillary tried to work this and it didn't fly ), Obama might like to open Tuesday's debate along these lines

John ... Since your campaign has started another negative campaign against me, calling me unpatriotic, the old William Ayers story, which another major publication, the NYT, just did another story on it, citing my extremely limited connection to Mr. Ayers ...And since our debate this evening is to be about the economy of the country, why don't you spend a few minutes and tell our audience, many who are likely too young to remember it, refresh us all on the Keating Five scandal, and your role in it ...I think, especially with the troubles we have now, the audience here, and at home, would like to hear that ...

If McCain doesn't faint, or have a heart attack, it will likely cause Fly Boy to put together a Palinesque string of sentences, with reddening face and bulging neck veins, that will included a bevy of "My Friends", "Maverick", "Country First", and a POW-POW-POW story, or two.

And Garnell's assessment of the McCain-Palin Smear Job?

"Monumentally ill-advised!"


Bonus McCain Smear Job Links

Juliet Eilperin: Palin Turns to NYT, Citing Article on Ayers

A Tiny Revolution: Yes, How?

Katharine Mieszkowski: Quote of the day: Palin on Obama

Ben Smith: A shot across the bows

Steve Benen: YES, PALIN CAN GET WORSE...

Greg Sargent: Palin's Attack On Obama's Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About The Palins' Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist

Joe Sudbay: McCain wants to talk about candidate's "associations." Let's start with Charles Keating

Nate Silver: Why It (Probably) Won't Work