He's one of the multitude of "Democratic Party" voices on Fox"News" that are little more than milquitoast shils who are more than willing to half-ass their opinions and let the "stars" have their day.
In this clip from Monday night's Hannity program, Beckle attempts to get Sean to say that Republican Senator John Ensign should resign because of an affair he had with a married staffer.
No officer, I didn't know I was driving 20 miles over the limit. Oh, don't you recognize me, I'm Sean Hannity - from Fox"News".
Of course, Hannity would probably get off without even a warning because the cop would more than likely be a fan.
But isn't this a classic example of a so-called "journalist" feigning ignorance in order to keep from admitting that someone within the party that he unflinchingly champions is a rank hypocrite, an adulterer, and should be fired.
Hannity claims that he doesn't know his positions. Oh, really?
On Ensign's own website, there is a section called - of all things - Ensign On The Issues.
In a 2004 press release, also posted at Ensign's website, he stated his position on marriage:
Marriage recognizes the ideal of a father and mother living together to raise their children....Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded. For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply point out that marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation. Marriage, as a social institution, predates every other institution on which ordered society in America has relied.”
Seems to be in line with what people like Hannity espouse.
Chris Cillizaa wrote in the Washington Post of Ensign's calls for another Senator to resign when allegations of "extra-marital" issues were brought up:
Ensign has been a leading conservative among Senate Republicans, playing a key role in demanding the resignation of Larry Craig in September 2007. Ensign called Craig a "disgrace" after he was arrested in June 2007 in an airport men's restroom on disorderly conduct charges. Craig resisted the calls from Ensign to resign but retired from the Senate last November.
Not only that, but Ensign came out against Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky dust-up:
I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through....He has no credibility left.
Think Progress highlighted the Senator's positions on marriage, the Clinton scandal, as well as his stance on the "standard" which members of both houses of Congress should be judged:
There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
But Ensign got shuffled to the back-burner by Hannity. If he had come through with his supposed bid for the Presidency in 2012, we might have been hearing Hannity talk about how Ensign's affair wasn't such a big deal. After all, Sean has excused others for no less of a sin:
All this hypocrisy kind of makes one wish that Hannity would get caught in an affair with someone that he claims to despise but secretly has burning desires for - like Nancy Pelosi or one of the women from Code Pink. It would probably end up being Ann Coulter though. Wonder who would want to be the "bottom"?
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