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Misinformer Of The Year Time
Oliver Willis — Sean Hannity is the honoree this time around.

Wednesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... ? * Congratulations to Sean Hannity for winning Media Matters' " 2008 Misinformer of the Year " award. On second thought, maybe "award" is the wrong word. Anything to add? Consider this an open thread.— ...

Late Afternoon/Early Evening Thread
Daily Kos — And the winner loser is... Fox News' Sean Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied his talents for spreading misinformation as he did to the 2008 presidential race, focusing his energies primarily on President-elect Barack Obama. Day after day, Hannity devoted his two Fox News shows and his three-hour ABC Radio Networks program to "demonizing" the Democratic presidential candidates, starkly explaining in August: "That's my job. ... Because of the ...

Sean Hannity: Misinformer of 2008
News Hounds — ... from Media Matters? No, but there were lots of runners up on FOX. And how did the winner receive the news? By acting like a sore loser. Bullyboy Hannity, who nightly promotes and relishes character attacks on others, can't seem to take what he so readily dishes out. Within hours of his coronation, Hannity announced that Media Matters had won the "first-ever Left-Wing Obamamania Media Propaganda Sleaze Award." And all this time, I had felt certain he hated me more! As Media Matters wrote in bestowing the award: Fox News' Sean Hannity has been a ...

Hannity suggested Time named Obama its Person of the Year because Biden hired Time ’s Carney as his communications director
The Hollywood Liberal — ... that Obama is the “quintessential” Person of the Year. Hannity later said, “[T]he Obama story is a pretty amazing story. No one — no one is denying that,” and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell stated: “I think Time magazine can defend naming him the Man of the Year. They normally name the winner of a presidential election campaign the Man of the Year.” On December 17, Media Matters for America named Hannity the Misinformer of the Year for promoting and embellishing a vast array of false and misleading claims about Obama and attacking members of Obama’s ...

Stephen Elliott: As Long As We're Talking About Rick Warren, Did You Know Rush Limbaugh Is A Drug Addict?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Something else to keep in mind is that the right wing nutcases are already on the attack with "The Obama Recession," and attempts to link Obama with the Nation of Islam. And we're not helping. Politically, inviting Rick Warren to speak at the inauguration is not a mountain, it's a molehill. There are much bigger fights on the horizon. We need to keep our powder dry. ...

Hannity Ignores His Own Experts' Comments In Order To Paint AG Candidate As Terrorism Supporter
News Hounds — ... , one that allowed the company's officers and directors to escape any liability. Holder's role may be worthy of scrutiny but it's quite a disingenuous stretch to say that it indicated any sympathy with terrorists or terrorists. But that didn't stop Hannity, Media Matters' 2008 Misinformer of the Year. ...