February 6, 2009, - 12:22 pm
Sean Vannity’s Anti-Fairness Doctrine: Hannity Told Ann Coulter She Can’t Appear on Larry King, Steve Malzberg
By Debbie Schlussel
As one of the many former friends of Sean Hannity, I know well how he treats his friends. Hint: It’s not much better than his enemies. As readers know, he’s repeatedly read word-for-word from this site and my New York Post columns–without credit to me–on stories I’ve broken, from Imam Husham Al-Husainy’s extremism and Hezbollah support to the Muslim foot baths at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He admitted he stole from me and promised to give me credit, but predictably never delivered. The guy is a rip-off artist and a hack with zero insight. Period. It took the mensch, Michael Reagan, to give me credit for my work on one of Sean Hannity’s shows.
But, then, there’s how he treats the people he’s still friends with, like his good friend, Ann Coulter. When Ann Coulter’s latest book, “Guilty,” came out, Hannity told Ann she had to cancel appearances on Steve Malzberg’s WOR radio show in New York and on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” with the implied or expressed threat that if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be on FOX News or his radio show anymore. Ann apparently notified Malzberg of this in writing in an e-mail. Listen to the audio from the Roger Hedgecock Show–move the cursor on the audio stream to the halfway mark.
I know for a fact that Sean Hannity has had Steve Malzberg blackballed at FOX for a while. He tried to do the same to me. For all his claim to want to further conservatism, he’s really not about that. He’s about Vannity only. . . to the point where he censors his own friends. Ann–whose book remains on the New York Times best seller list–could have even more books had she appeared on Larry King, who gets millions of viewers. But Sean Hannity told her she’s not allowed to appear. I can tell you that I know for a fact that Sean is doing this with other individuals.
For all of Vannity’s faux-outrage when NBC originally canceled and allegedly banned Ann Coulter from NBC, Sean Hannity did far worse to her.
Call it Sean Hannity’s Anti-Fairness Doctrine.
Yesterday, news stories told us how archeologists found remnants of the world’s largest snakes from the times of dinosaurs.
Sorry, but I think we know who the world’s largest snake is. And he lives in contemporary times.
Hey, Sean, you’re not a great American. Not even close.
I hope no one does him a favor when it comes time him to hawk his new ghost-written book.
For a guy who claims to champion conservative values, Sean Hannity doesn’t live by them. Ann Coulter has gotten to see who he really is and its not a pretty picture.
The conservative movement needs frauds like Hannity like it needs enemies.
NormanF on February 6, 2009 at 12:44 pm