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It looks like Hannity is still smarting from having his rear end handed to him by Keith Ellison this week, because for the second day in a row after Ellison accused Hannity of "yellow journalism" and being a shill for the Republican party, Hannity's been doing his best to get even.

Hannity brought on Fox regulars, the New York Civil Rights Coalition and ALEC shill Michael Meyers along with FreedomWorks' Deneen Borelli to help launch Hannity's latest Islamophobic attack on Rep. Ellison.

Sean Hannity Launches Islamophobic Attack Against Keith Ellison:

Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity launched an Islampophobic attack against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) during his Fox News show on Thursday night, implying that the Muslim Congressman is a racist and an anti-Semite. The segment came just days after Ellison and Hannity engaged in a confrontational interview on Tuesday night. “We decided to take a closer look at the man who called me immoral and a liar,” Hannity began. “Now it didn’t take long to prove his hypocrisy, as his past reveals a host of radical connections primarily to Louis Farrakhan and The Nation of Islam.”

The Fox host dug up attacks from Ellison’s 2006 Congressional campaign, criticizing the Minnesota lawmaker for defending Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam in his law school newspaper from charges of anti-Semitism and appearing on stage with Farrakhan aide Khalid Muhammad.

In the late 1990s, Ellison worked with the group to organize the Million Man March, but apologized for failing to “adequately scrutinize the positions and statements” of the Nation of Islam and Farrakhan six years ago in a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas.

“I wrongly dismissed concerns that they were anti-Semitic,” he wrote, adding, “They were and are anti-Semitic and I should have come to that conclusion earlier than I did.” “I have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic ideas and statements, as well as other issues.” Read on...

Media Matters has more on how this is nothing new for Hannity: Sean Hannity's Latest Islamophobic Smear Against Rep. Keith Ellison :

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A Fox News guest on Tuesday asserted that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had "become a hate group in America."

Fox News host Sean Hannity asked New York Civil Rights Coalition Executive Director Michael Meyers if President Barack Obama even deserved the votes of black Americans after he sent Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at the 2012 NAACP convention instead of appearing personally.

"Something has happened to the black American population," Meyers explained. "They've become racialized, they've become what they've been preaching against. They will vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama is black."

Meyers, who once accused the president of "ghetto behavior," said that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was also wasting his time speaking to the NAACP because they were "not relevant to the black masses."

"The NAACP has become a hate group in America," he insisted. "They hate anybody who disagrees with them. And, therefore, conservatives and Republicans who don't agree with their agenda, they hate them! Oh, they hate them!"

Meyers then offered Romney some advice about what he should tell the NAACP: "Just because people want to secure the borders, don't make you a racist. Just because people want photo IDs to vote, it doesn't make it the equivalent of the poll tax. Just because people want justice and equality and limited government -- just because people want limited government, doesn't make them a racist. And, therefore, he should tell them the tea party is not racist, standardized tests are not racists."

"He should tell the NAACP the truth. But he won't do that."

When Romney did take the stage at the convention on Wednesday, he found himself being loudly booed after he vowed to eliminate the president's health care reform law.