The Wrongs of the Right: Hannity's Conveniently Short (and Erroneous) Memory

Sean Hannity isn't the sharpest Crayon in the box. Even on a good day, Hannity's stream of lies, propaganda, misinformation, nonsense and pure B.S. is wildly off the mark.

But even Hannity ought to be embarrassed by the whoppers he's spinning in defense of Sarah Palin, lies so blatant that they defy logic—and, of course, the facts.

From our friends at Media Matters, here's Hannity's latest line of crap:

On the September 1 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity said, in reference to Internet rumors about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, "[T]hey tried to make the attack that she has a young daughter, pregnant and engaged. Is that fair that they would attack that? I mean, I don't remember Chelsea Clinton being attacked. I don't remember Al Gore's children being attacked. I thought there was a general rule that children of candidates ought to be left alone."

In fact, Chelsea Clinton was not "left alone" -- not by Sen. John McCain, and not by Rush Limbaugh, who has hosted numerous prominent Republicans on his syndicated radio show.

The late columnist Molly Ivins reported of Limbaugh:

On his TV show, early in the Clinton administration, Limbaugh put up a picture of Socks, the White House cat, and asked, 'Did you know there's a White House dog?' Then he put up a picture of Chelsea Clinton, who was 13 years old at the time and as far as I know had never done any harm to anyone.

When viewers objected, he claimed, in typical Limbaugh fashion, that the gag was an accident and that without his permission some technician had put up the picture of Chelsea -- which I found as disgusting as his original attempt at humor.