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I can't take watching too much of Hannity's show and try to avoid it for the most part. It gives me the same physical reaction as Jon Stewart had when he endured an hour of torture waiting to hear an apology, only to get a non-apology from him at the end of his show.

I made an exception for this segment flagged by both Media Matters and Mediaite where Hannity was called out for propping up Dr. Ben Carson, only to end up making a pariah out of him in the end.

Hannity may not have liked it, and I'm not impressed that this debacle turned into a shoutfest, but his guest Leo Terrell is exactly right that not just Hannity, but Faux News in general has spent hours of their time propping up Ben Carson as the next great savior of the GOP, even though the man doesn't have any experience in politics. They're touting him as someone the right should take seriously as a potential presidential candidate.

As I noted in the post where Jon Stewart went after Carson, Hannity didn't do him any favors with the interview he gave him and Carson probably threw whatever political aspirations he might have had down the toilet with his remarks equating gay people to pedophiles and people who want to have sex with animals. Carson also didn't do himself any favors with his follow-up interviews on MSNBC and CNN.

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If anyone needed any more proof that the butthurt Rep. Keith Ellison administered to Sean Hannity still smarts, here you go. After having his ass handed to him Tuesday evening by Ellison, Hannity decided for the third night in a row to attack Ellison, and for the second night in a row to hide behind black conservatives to go after Ellison for him.

This Friday, Hannity's guests were David Webb, who is one of Fox's favorites that you can read more about here, and another Astroturf "tea partier" Niger Innis, who again attacked Ellison for daring to attend the Million Man March, and played the guilt by association game we saw from his other two black conservative guests the previous evening.

If Hannity had an ounce of courage or integrity, of which he has neither, he'd allow Ellison back on his show so he could respond to these drummed-up allegations. But he's probably afraid of being made to look like an ass if he allowed Ellison to speak freely.

I really thought I'd seen the worst from Hannity when he went on his months-long attack on President Obama for his association with his former preacher Rev. Wright, but I was wrong in that assumption. With his continued attacks on Rep. Keith Ellison, simply because he dared to let Hannity know to his face what he thought of him, is right up there with that same racial hatred and disgusting flame-throwing we saw over and over from him back then.