Misinformer of the Year

[Dardedar]

Sean Hannity

Media Matters' 2008 Misinformer of the Year

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.

No end of specific well documented examples provided here

[Dardedar]

Hours after being named Misinformer of the Year, Hannity awards Media Matters his "Left-Wing Obamamania Media Propaganda Sleaze Award"

Summary: Hours after Media Matters named Sean Hannity its Misinformer of the Year, Hannity announced on his radio show that Media Matters was the "winner" of "our first-ever Left-Wing Obamamania Media Propaganda Sleaze Award." He added: "Now, this award goes to the group or the person that does more lying and smearing than your average left-wing Obamamania media supporter."

Media Matters

DAR
Notice the important difference here. Media Matters makes a claim and backs it up with many substantive examples. Hannity provides not a single one to support his claim. I guess I can never be a conservative because I couldn't take the embarrassment of being associated with leading conservative assholes like Hannity.

[L.Wood]

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I guess I can never be a conservative because....

I can never be conservative because free markets don't work.

I can never be conservative because endless wars are a stupid waste of national resources. Just buy from others what you need.

I can never be conservative because I find the level of conservative corruption unfathomable.

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[Savonarola]

I guess I can never be a conservative because....

I guess I can never be a conservative because I'm not an idiot.

[Doug]

I guess I can never be a conservative because I'm not an idiot.

DOUG
I can never be a conservative because I like to base my decisions on reality.

And because I can't lie as a way of life.

[Betsy]

I guess I can never be a conservative because I don't believe everything my leaders tell me and then regurgitate it as if it's the absolute truth.

[Dardedar]

DAR
More, standard reasons we see every day:

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Keith Olbermann hit a conservative trifecta on Tuesday night's "Countdown," naming Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity and Washington Post columnist George Will his three worst persons in the world.

Will took the bronze for his column suggesting that liberals are trying to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, specifically to derail the right's hold on talk radio. However, as Olbermann pointed out, Will could not name any Democrat who pushed for the Fairness Doctrine because none have done so.

Hannity took the silver for complaining that Democrats rushed to indict Ted Stevens and vote him out of office, while it was Stevens himself who called for the speediest trial possible.

And O'Reilly took the gold for his ambush of New Yorker writer Rick Hertzberg, who O'Reilly claimed had rejected requests to appear on "The O'Reilly Factor." However, as Olbermann reports, Hertzberg and The New Yorker deny that he was ever invited, and say he will appear if asked.

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[Betsy]

Yes, and unfortunately the people who watch those three tell their lies do NOT watch Keith Olbermann, so they still believe those lies and will repeat them and defend them. Then when you tell them to stop watching FOX noise because they're just being brainwashed, they think YOU are a whackjob. There's no way to get through to these people. Fox news should be stopped.