Sean Hannity Ridicules Alec Baldwin For "Offensive" Talk Radio
... But Compared to Sean, Alec Is An Amateur
(Are You Listening, Stephanie?)
by Steve Young

Steve Young

March 27, 2006 /HOLLYWOOD (apj.us)/ Sean Hannity spent most of his Monday radio show ripping into Alec Baldwin, who had been co-hosting Brian Whitman's simulcast on LA's KABC and NYC's WABC this past weekend.

Seems Baldwin's personal attacks were found unseemly by Sean.

BALDWIN: "Why would I want to come on the show with a no-talent, former construction worker hack like you?"

Sean found that to be an insult to construction workers - when it was clear that Baldwin meant it as an insult to only no-talent, former construction worker hacks.

Sean - who never deals in the business of personal attacks called Baldwin - among other non-personal things - a "moron," and a "gutless coward."

I'm also guessing that Sean forgot to mention that his decorous buddy, Mark Levin, who was on at the same time, asked the very non-personal question of Baldwin, "Why was your wife [Kim Basinger] so pissed off at you, anyway?" - then threw in a hilarious non-personal Brokeback Mountain joke.

Hannity made a point - over and over - that Baldwin kept talking about him - get this - after Sean was off the air; something Sean or his Lords of Loud brethren never do. Best part was when a caller phoned in to say that Sean's hung up on him plenty of times. Sean - not noting the wonderful timing of hypocrisy - immediately hung up on him.

I would only hope the liberal talker Stephanie Miller, who has a library of Hannity hypocritical comments, spends her entire show Tuesday morning playing back all the things that Hannity found inappropriate and then plays the zillion times that Hannity has done the same thing and worse to his callers and guests.

One of the tapes I'd like her to play back is when Sean asked me to come on the show as a guest to review his last book to see if I could find anything that was a mistake or fabrication. I showed up at the show and when I started to list the many deceptions in the book, he had his live audience at the Nixon Library yell over my comments.

This isn't to say that Baldwin was a sublime example of talk decorum, but he was only on a couple weekend hours. Hannity is on four hours a day, five days a week. Still, the entire episode gave enormous credence to the fact that real debate has been lost and the biggest losers are the people who listen.

Steve Young is a Senior Fellow at the Extreme Far Centrist Foundation' Political Husbandry Conservation Centre and Stereo Repair. In his spare time, he is also an author, comedy writer, columnist, LA talk show host and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."(What? You STILL haven't bought it? Then visit http://www.greatfailure.com/). You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.