Gotta love Fox News trying to excuse using Andy Martin:
Mr. Hannity’s executive producer, John Finley, said that the program was clearly opinion and that the audience — on average 1.5 million to 2 million — knew to take it as such. “ ‘Hannity’s America’ is an opinion show — it’s a show from Sean’s perspective, which is obviously conservative,” Mr. Finley said.
Speaking of Mr. Martin, he added, “It’s one man’s opinion, one of many that was expressed on the show.”
Mr. Martin said he was careful not to present his theories about Mr. Obama as proven fact.
“That is my opinion — expert opinion — if you will,” Mr. Martin said of his commentary on Mr. Hannity’s program. “I don’t pretend to be an exclusively fact-based reporter, though I try as hard as I can to get the facts.”
I don’t hear a repudation there….Is Fox News anti-semitic? Perhaps we need a Hannity’s America devoted to Hannity’s scary ties…
While I do not watch Hannity, I wish someone would publish a list of his sponsers. I would e-mail each to express my displeasure with the presentation of Trigona as a legitimate source of news
Mr. Martin is not an “exclusively fact-based reporter”? His work isn’t fact-based at all, so it’s not reporting. Mr. Obama “probably had met William Ayers in New York”? “(W)as exposed perhaps by Louis Farrakhan to Khalid al-Mansour”? Why all this probably and perhaps? Why doesn’t he know? Doesn’t he have credit card receipts, hotel registers? Eyewitnesses, even?
I’ve found sponsor lists for Mr. Hannity, but they’re a few years old (the site I knew that used to list his sponsors, adnausea.org, no longer exists). I may have to watch the show and list the sponsors. I’ll be sure to take a bath in tomato juice afterward.