In yet another amazing example of Republican hypocrisy, Fox News host Sean Hannity has expressed his disgust with the recent mudslinging directed at the wives of the current GOP candidates.
In a March 28 segment with Newt Gingrich, Hannity lamented that the infighting is distracting candidates from tackling the real issues.
“For the life of me, I don’t understand when families and wives are brought into it,” Hannity said.
This seems an odd position for Hannity to claim after the numerous digs he’s taken at Michelle Obama’s every move. Criticizing her attempts to encourage kids to go to college and attempting to paint her as an angry and bitter race-baiter. He’s also not above giving his guests a forum from which they are free to hotly attack the First Lady.
Now that his own party is deservedly coming under-fire, for behaving like children and embarrassing the country, Hannity wants to pretend he’s above getting a politician’s family involved. As if he’d advocated the high road all along.
He didn’t seem so reserved when he was distorting a passage from Michelle Obama’s Princeton senior thesis to imply her advocating for black students to unite in opposing a white oppressor. He seemed more then willing to bring wives under scrutiny, when he constantly attacked Michelle Obama’s patriotism after she claimed that for the first time in her adult life she was proud of her country.
“It all begins to coalesce around the wrong things we ought to be talking about,” Hannity said, clearly missing the irony of such a comment in light of his previous statements.
Fortunately, Gingrich cuts to the real issue Hannity seems unwilling to address. He said that while the democrats are running a “real race,” Republicans have had, “one of the dumbest weeks in Presidential politics that I can remember.”
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