Sean Hannity

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, appearing on Fox News’ Hannity’s America program Tuesday, described Minnesota’s election process as having favored rival Al Franken since the recount started. Coleman did not directly dispute host Sean Hannity’s assertion that the State Canvassing Board “was conflicted” and “only allowed the recount for … precincts that would tend to favor Al Franken.”

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Sean Hannity’s “Great American Panel” last night was anything but. Epitomizing America — if I can interpret the name — were cacophonous guests Rev. Al Sharpton, rocker Meat Loaf and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who had a shoutathon about government stimulus packages, “angry and mean” rap and heavy metal, race in the “age of Obama,” [...]

Not even their last engagement at Political Championship Wrestling could prepare you for:
MATCH #2 NORM COLEMAN (American Patriots) vs. AL FRANKEN (Progressive Alliance)
Franken is fired up. Coleman sidesteps the initial charge and wastes no time attacking Franken’s bad leg. … Franken flails on him. He pulls Coleman up by the hair and throws him through [...]

As David Brauer and Emily Kaiser both point out, Michele Bachmann’s Tuesday appearance on Hannity & Colmes also included another “retread”: the now-disproven story about 32 ballots being left in Minneapolis election director Cindy Reichert’s car. Reichert says it never happened, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie swears the same, and even Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty [...]

“The recount has not even started in Minnesota and somehow Al Franken has already shaved nearly 500 votes off the incumbent lead.” So said Sean Hannity on Fox’s Hannity & Holmes yesterday, in a segment featuring Gov. Tim Pawlenty. While Pawlenty pointed out concerns about “statistical irregularities” in the changing vote tally in the race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, he repeatedly said there’s no evidence of wrongdoing. Still, Hannity continued questioning that: “Is the fix in? … Do you suspect cheating is going on?”

What Hannity — and to a lesser degree, Pawlenty — fail to acknowledge is the history of vote tallies changing pre-certification. And both pass on the lie that Minneapolis’ election director found, as Hannity erroneously puts it, “32 absentee ballots hiding in the trunk of her car — all of them conveniently going to Al Franken.”

When I was traveling around the state last week in pursuit of Todd Palin, a frequent topic of conservative talk radio was Michelle Obama’s lavish, mid-afternoon room-service purchase of champagne, lobster and caviar at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. This indulgence was trumpeted as the latest evidence that the Obamas are out-of-touch elitists who can’t [...]

He’s no Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers, but Palestinian academic and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi (pictured) may be next in the parade of radical ghosts from Obama’s past.

To prepare for tonight’s VP debate, Talking Points Memo has put together a compilation of Sarah Palin’s most fabulous moments from recent interviews. Favorite segment: Sean Hannity attempting to look profoundly interested as Palin babbles on and on about being part of Maverick John McCain’s team.

Norm Coleman was having a rollicking good time between RNC floor speeches Wednesday night with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes — bragging about dropping the Xcel’s first puck and tearing into the Dems — until talk turned to Sarah Palin’s husband’s 1986 DUI. That’s when Hannity launched on pols like Sen. Barack Obama whose [...]

Some random observations from this afternoon at the Ron Paul counter-convention:
The Target Center is between a third and a half full. One of the volunteers asked another if any more tickets were needed because she still had 15 left. The guy with her smirked and slowly shook his head no.
Grover Norquist (pictured) gave a speech [...]