Carnival barker says Ensign should call it a day

Filthy Fox News demagogue Sean Hannity conditions his call for the Hairdo's resignation on it being in point of fact the actual case that Nevada's junior senator is a sanctimonious churchy prick. As for Hannity himself, well, he wouldn't know -- he contends, all weasel-like, that "I don't know where he stands on the issues."

If true, that would mean that a) Ensign is even more obscure and has been even less effective as a senator than earlier thought, or b) Hannity is an uninformed cynical huckster who is thoughtlessly going through the motions, blithely spewing talking points fed him by his staff and then just merrily strutting like the "great American" he is all the way to the bank. As is often the case, a and b are not mutually exclusive.

Although Hannity is (or pretends to be) ignorant of Ensign's penchant for fooling the hapless rubes by playing the churchy values card, the same can't be said for the host's colleagues at Fox News, who of course know a fellow traveler when they see one and sat on the Ensign scandal long enough to let Ensign win favor with some sycophantic yokels by coming clean on his own.

Question, though: When Hannity says "if you're going to be a family values candidate and a family values politician and you don't live up to that, I think you should resign," does that mean that Newt Gingrich has to resign as Hannity's favorite guest/sidekick/pet presidential candidate?

Comments

[Michael Green]

If Sean Hannity is against him, I may have to rethink my distaste for Ensign.

[judy]

What Hannity did was make an off the cuff remark that someone who runs on Family Values and does not live up to that should resign. I'd like to see him pound his fists and turn 16 shades of red and demand that Ensign resign. Of course we won't see that.

And Micheal there is plenty os room for distain for both Hannity and Ensign..... and Gibbons, and Cheney, and Bush, and..............

[Michael Green]

Judy, I can handle only so much!

[Happygirl]

Hell has frozen over, if the most vapid and knuckle-dragging of gasbags actually agrees that Ensigns needs to slither off into the nearest cold hole in the ground.
After all, even the Right Wing Echo Chamber can only handle so much hypocrisy.

[Nevada Ned]

Gleaner, don't knock Newt Gingrich for "not believing in family values". Newt believes fervently in family values: that's precisely why he has had three families.

Gleaner readers, if you are never-married, or only married once or twice, be always mindful that Newt Gingrich has gotten married three times, so on the family values scale, he is a more advanced and more highly evolved species than you!

You are only allowed to sneer at The Newt if you have been married four times or more.

[Allison Hill]

Michael,

I know that it is hard that there are "so many wingnuts, and s little time to despise them all", but you must try as the wingnuts are determind to take over the earth.