Why didn't Hannity blast Jack Kemp about his praise for Farrakhan?

Any time Sean Hannity discusses Sen. Barack Obama, he always brings up the praise of Rev. Jeremiah Wright for Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan.

Any time a fire-breathing person who is white comes on, he lets them rip Obama, Wright and Farrakhan. Any time he gets a black critic of Obama, he lets them rip on him, Wright and Farrakhan. And any time he has a supporter of Obama, he rips into them on Wright and Farrakhan, trying to make them denounce both.

So why last night DIDN'T Hannity rip into his buddy, former Republican Congressman Jack Kemp and ardent Sen. John McCain supporter, for his words of praise for the Nation of Islam and Farrakhan?

Oh, you guys didn't know about that, right?

Well, way back in 1996, Kemp was the vice presidential running mate of Kansas Sen. Bob Dole.

Kemp said that he wanted to meet with Farrakhan; praised their focus on economic empowerment, family values and the pull-yourselves-up-by-the-bootstrap-message - which is right in line with the GOP talking points; and even said he wanted to speak at the Million Man March.

Boy, was he torn apart by Jewish critics, and many in his own party.

Kemp summarily criticized Farrakhan's comments about Jews and whites, but he didn't take his words back.

So again, WHY didn't Hannity ask Kemp about these comments? Is it because he didn't want his mostly white and mostly Republican audience to know that one of their own highly respected leaders has praised Farrakhan?

The issue here isn't about defending Obama, Wright or Farrakhan. It's about the SELECTIVE memory of Hannity, who is nothing but a foaming-at-the-mouth terrier who can't even present the facts straight.

So, Sean, WHY won't you denounce, condemn and repudiate your buddy Jack Kemp for HIS comments about Farrakhan?

I know Hannity hates the fact that guys like me know how to read and we have a memory. So as long as he keeps going with his distorted reality, we'll be sure to remind him of the truth.

Comments

[H Johnston]

Hannity is not worthy of your time. You should waste no more energy on the man. I appreciate the information about Jack Kemp, however. He, though a republican, is a man of character. Much to my great sadness, it seems Bill Clinton is not. I don't think he's a racist, but as a former Clintonite, I feel thrown under the bus about this patriotism remark. Senator Obama's speech was the greatest display of patriotism I've ever seen. What a shame the Clintons damaged their legacy in a power grab. It was not even over beliefs.

[NPC from Columbia SC]

Poor Sean and the Fox and Friends Morning Show. They are quite a pair "We Report, You Decide." Their "Obama Bashing" has a small crack in their talking points. Maybe they'll regroup this weekend and come out fresh and anew on Monday. I've noticed the last few days (after Barack's speech), there are a few dissenting folk who just "ain't" having this constant mashing, smashing and bashing.

[Nola]

I agree 100% - Hannity is so beneath you - engaging in any form of debate with this type of person will only bring you down to his level. The only thing to do for someone so full of hate is to leave them to God to handle.

Thanks for keeping us informed

[politicojunk]

From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102554_Comments.html

gandalfthegrey wrote:
Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero
Posted March 16, 2008 | 04:23 PM (EST)

When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association.

But when my late father -- Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer -- denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.

Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father's footsteps) rail against America's sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the unborn," has become "Sodom" by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, "under the judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction.

By comparison Obama's minister's shouted "controversial" comments were mild. All he said was that God should damn America for our racism and violence and that no one had ever used the N-word about Hillary Clinton.

Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right.

In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party. (This was while I was my father's sidekick before I dropped out of the evangelical movement altogether.)

We were rewarded for our "stand" by people such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The top Republican leadership depended on preachers and agitators like us to energize their rank and file.

No one called us un-American.

Consider a few passages from my father's immensely influential America-bashing book A Christian Manifesto.

It sailed under the radar of the major media who, back when it was published in 1980, were not paying particular attention to best-selling religious books.

Nevertheless it sold more than a million copies.

Here's Dad writing in his chapter on civil disobedience:
If there is a legitimate reason for the use of force [against the US government]... then at a certain point force is justifiable.

And this:
In the United States the materialistic, humanistic world view is being taught exclusively in most state schools... There is an obvious parallel between this and the situation in Russia [the USSR]. And we really must not be blind to the fact that indeed in the public schools in the United States all religious influence is as forcibly forbidden as in the Soviet Union....

Then this:
There does come a time when force, even physical force, is appropriate... A true Christian in Hitler's Germany and in the occupied countries should have defied the false and counterfeit state. This brings us to a current issue that is crucial for the future of the church in the United States, the issue of abortion...

It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God's law it abrogates it's authority. And our loyalty to the God who gave this law then requires that we make the appropriate response in that situation...

Was any conservative political leader associated with Dad running for cover?

Far from it. Dad was a frequent guest of the Kemps, had lunch with the Fords, stayed in the White House as their guest, he met with Reagan, helped Dr. C. Everett Koop become Surgeon General. (I went on the 700 Club several times to generate support for Koop).

Dad became a hero to the evangelical community and a leading political instigator.

When Dad died in 1984 everyone from Reagan to Kemp to Billy Graham lamented his passing publicly as the loss of a great American.

Not one Republican leader was ever asked to denounce my dad or distanced himself from Dad's statements.

Take Dad's words and put them in the mouth of Obama's preacher (or in the mouth of any black American preacher) and people would be accusing that preacher of treason.

Yet when we of the white Religious Right denounced America white conservative Americans and top political leaders, called our words "godly" and "prophetic" and a "call to repentance."

We Republican agitators of the mid 1970s to the late 1980s were genuinely anti-American in the same spirit that later Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (both followers of my father) were anti-American when they said God had removed his blessing from America on 9/11, because America accepted gays.

Falwell and Robertson recanted but we never did.

3/22/2008 2:33:38 PM

[New Yorker]

H Johnston | March 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM

How much more race baiting must Bigot Bill Clinton express before you recognize the Southern racist for who he really is?

http://www.geocities.com/republican_strategist/clinton-racist.html

How much more dismissive, derisive and divisive must Bigot Bill Clinton be towards Obama ALONE before you can recognize the racism coming out of the Southerner?

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/18/232405.shtml

If you don't know by now that Bigot Bill Clinton is a racist, then try listening to the Southern whites who explain the hints given by the racists.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Voting_Rights_Act

The racist Clintons are happy with Blacks so long as Blacks appear to be in a servile/slave position; but any challenge to the bigots for leadership, and their racism come CLEARLY to the surface.

Anyone who does not know that Bigot Bill Clinton is racist needs to go back and look at his time as Governor of Arkansas.
African Americans were being denied their Constitutional rights to political participation until the Clinton Arkansas administration was taken to court!

Bill Clinton is an intelligent LAWYER. It's not difficult for him to deceive the undereducated with respect to Bill Clinton's HISTORY OF RACISM.

"First Black President" my arse!
What the hell was Maya Angelou thinking or smoking? lol

[april]

the real question is this: why are YOU, roland martin, instigating and egging-on your readers with this fringe lunatic NONSENSE? why aren't you re-directing the tone of the discourse to something more POSITIVE and RELEVANT??? how about advising folks to stop consuming the fox circus ALTOGETHER? the hannitys of the world wouldn't exist if we didn't watch them! demand better from YOURSELF and your readers!

please join the msnbc boycott re. pat buchanan's racist diatribes. click the link for more information:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/22/134324/021/852/482225

[KIT]

I just read the Pat Buchanan blog http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969. This is what we should be protesting, this kind of hatred of black Americans by an old white racist man. I encourage anyone who watches MSNBC to call, write and email the sponsors, executives and advertisers and demand that they remove Pat Buchanan from the MSNBC lineup. I was totally disgusted with this crazy man's comments, literally implying that black folks should be thankful that we were brought here as slaves! What the H*ell?!!

[Ellen of News Hounds]

Despite Hannity's denial on the air last week that he had had an association with neo Nazi/white supremacist Hal Turner, Turner has now written: Yes, we were friends and yes, Sean agreed with some of my views

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/03/23/neo_naziwhite_supremacist_hal_turner_confirms_friendship_and_kinship_with_sean_hannity.php

Let's keep exposing this bigoted hypocrite!

[Cynthia]

Yes, I read the article also and thought it was despicable. How can people spew such vial words about humans? America is such a mighty nation and I just believe we can rise about this. We have to in order to move this country forward. I just don't believe as a country we can stomach 4 more years of this hatred toward others.

[Kevin Facey]

To be honest, I understand what some of the posters are saying. I personally would not want to debate someone who could debate with facts in hand anyway. People like Hannity are afraid of the fact that someone who is not white, could have the possibility of being President of the United States. Mr. Martin, I have too much respect for you; do not lower yourself in debating with Hannity. However, if you do, debate him with facts that he cant debate with.