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April 08, 2004
Sean Hannity is not a big fat drug addict!
This post is not about Sean Hannity. Well, at least I don't want it to be about Sean Hannity. That's because, first, I don't know all that much about Sean Hannity. I don't listen to his radio show and I don't watch much television. From what I do know about him, I disagree with his moral/social/religious conservatism, and probably agree with him to the extent that he wants a free economy, believes in self defense, and stuff like that. But again, I don't know what he thinks. I say this because there are a lot of people out there who hate Sean Hannity (including some people I like) and obviously, they wouldn't hate him unless they knew a lot about him, so if I get into a debate with them about Sean Hannity I'd be sure to lose because they probably, like, hang on his every word waiting for horrors. Besides, as Lee Harris has noted, you can even lose respect for not trashing Sean Hannity. Ditto Mr. Megaditto. I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh either and I disagree with him on the moral/social issues. But I don't want him to go to prison for drugs! And if Sean Hannity were to develop a drug problem, I wouldn't want him imprisoned either. So there. I went out of my way to say that this is not really about Sean Hannity per se. But it is about something Sean Hannity did which I tried to do for many years, without success: he dared -- he had the unmitigated gall -- to ask John Dean about Blind Ambition (still regarded as truthful and awe-inspiring by innumerable historians). Only one website -- an anti-Hannity site -- has even mentioned it, and I think it's important, certainly far more important than whether or not someone likes Sean Hannity. Here's what Dean said in Blind Ambition's introduction: I prepared for the writing of Blind Ambition the same way I prepared to testify before the Ervin Committee, before the special prosecutors, and in the cover-up trial. But in the book I have included dialogue and enclosed it in quotation marks, wheras in my testimony I deliberately refrained from dramatizing the events I was relating.Contrast that with Dean's testimony when questioned about Blind Ambition under oath: WILLIAMS: [Quotes to Dean from his book "Blind Ambition"] "This was the worst blow since Magruder's call. I felt queasy. I really didn't want to know more because I had to assume that if Strachan knew, Haldeman knew, and if Haldeman knew, the President knew. It made sickening sense. Now I understand why Strachan had called earlier." Do you see that?So, not only did Dean not even write his own book, he didn't even read the galleys! Questions should be asked that weren't asked three decades ago. But why John Dean again, with a new, much-touted book, right now? I didn't think that 9-11 would degenerate into an argument about Watergate, but I did not start this. I'm sorry, but I think the Democrats have Watergate on the brain (which includes impeachment on the brain), and it's time to call them on it. By "it" I mean Watergate itself. They trot out the obligatory Watergate "heroes" like John Dean to say the present administration is "worse than Watergate," and today I see that former Watergate prosecutor Richard ben-Veniste is grandstanding it. Is 9-11 becoming a Watergate pageant in drag? I'll say this about Sean Hannity. I might not agree with him on a lot of things, but I admire him for getting to the heart of what's been ruling the country for far too long...... WATERGATE HYPOCRISY!
UPGRADE (4-11): Getting even warmer! Ben-Veniste has now been called a "grandstanding nerd", a "horse's ass." (Via Glenn Reynolds.) High Priest of Watergate, behold the blogosphere! posted by Eric on 04.08.04 at 05:33 PM |
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