In a rare case of old-fashioned, brass knuckle politics, Fox News' Sean Hannity fired back at comedian Jon Stewart for falsely portraying him as a "hypocrite" for expressing support of Cliven Bundy during his Tuesday night program of The Daily Show, calling him a "comedic hack" and "suck-up" to the Obama administration.
Hannity began by showing clips of Stewart mocking him on his program from Tuesday night, accusing Hannity of hypocritically supporting Cliven Bundy's stance against the federal government because he doesn't have the same "buffet style" rule of law on issues like immigration. Though Stewart did relay several past clips of the Fox host to support his case, Hannity pointed out many of the clips went back as far as "eight years ago" and, most importantly, Stewart did not give his audience the full story on Cliven Bundy.
After calling Stewart an "Obama apologist," Hannity then played several clips that were not shown on The Daily Show where Hannity expressed his distaste for the federal government's "lack of proportionality" in the Bundy case and dramatic overreach by sending "200 armed federal agents and snipers pointing their guns at the Bundy family and their supporters."
Hannity then turned the question on Jon Stewart, asking if the comedian supports Senator Harry Reid referring to Cliven Bundy as a "domestic terrorist" or Donna Brazile comparing him to "Timothy McVeigh."
Speaking of domestic terrorists, Hannity took Stewart to task for not once questioning Obama on his association with real domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
"The more I think of it, I guess, I can't expect a comedic hack and his army of writers... I can't take them too seriously," Hannity said.
You may remember that Jon Stewart had a "Rally to Restore Sanity" back in 2010. He held it on the national mall. He invited all of his friends to attend, including Kat Stevens. Remember Kat Stevens? He has since changed his name to Yusuf Islam. That's the same Islam who is infamously unapologetic for endorsing a fatwa, meaning "to kill" a novelist by the name of Salmon Rushdie when he wrote "The Satanic Verses."
The Huffington Post and Politico have both reported on Sean Hannity's attack on Jon Stewart, but neither one offers the full six-minute clip of Hannity's monologue, relaying only tightly edited clips of Hannity just calling Stewart names, nothing else. Only Mediaite has relayed the full-clip.
