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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's no surprise that George Zimmmerman felt the need to reach out to Sean Hannity.
Remember Abner Louima? The black guy that was assaulted, brutalized and sodomized by New York cops?
Sean Hannity had a radio show at the time. Just take a wild guess whose side Hannity took in that case? The NYC cops of course. He launched vicious attacks on the victim of unimaginable police brutality:
When Hannity reported to New York City in 1996 to begin work on what would become Hannity & Colmes, it wasn't long before he'd also landed an afternoon show on the biggest talk radio station in the country, New York City's WABC-AM.
On his WABC show, as with his earlier radio shows, "the left" and its various constituencies were blamed for the nation's problems; and crime, affirmative action, welfare and "illegitimacy," all talk radio staples, were discussed ceaselessly. But Hannity really distinguished himself with his crusading efforts to defend the police against charges of brutality. When Haitian immigrant Abner Louima accused New York City police officers of sodomizing and badly injuring him with a wooden rod in 1997, Hannity used his WABC show for a vicious counter-offensive targeting the victim.
The father of chief defendant Justin Volpe, an NYPD police officer, regularly appeared on show during the 1999 trial. And Hannity and various guests repeated rumors that Louima's injuries resulted from a "gay sex act" and not from police brutality. Playing on the homosexual rumor and inconsistencies in Louima's story, Hannity and his producer sang a parody of Lionel Richie's song "Three Times a Lady," changing the words to "you're once, twice, three times a liar." Hannity stopped referring to the victim as "Lying Louima" only after Volpe confessed to sodomizing Louima with the help of another officer (OnePeoplesProject.com).
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It's no surprise that George Zimmmerman felt the need to reach out to Sean Hannity.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Daniel537
(1,560 posts)I'm sure the first thing he told Zimmerman was "dude, register Republican!"
marasinghe
(1,253 posts)if there's a low road, scum like Hannity will take it.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)And Republicans wonder why they have a problem attracting African Americans to the Republican party.
Go figure.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You're a profanity
Hannity
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I'll be interested to see what he says and doesn't say.
Bryant