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Why Does Sean Hannity Continue to Aid the Terrorists?
Sean–and Rick Santorum–Must Be Prosecuted
by Steve Young
July 2, 2006–HOLLYWOOD (apj.us)–I nearly swerved into a ditch last week when Sean Hannity brought on Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Congressman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) to leak a classified report revealing that we had actually found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Why didn't they just stick a white flag in the back of everyone of our fighting men in harm's way™? Hannity might as well have said that it's okay for seven guys with no wherewithal nor weapons to blow up the Sears Tower.
FOX News's decision to run a story about classified government information revealing our discovery of WMD only supplies terrorists with national security information giving them a heads up that can only undermine the war effort, endangering our troops while they are in harm's way™.
It seems that Hannity and the leakers, Santorum and Hoekstra, feel that TV/radio ratings and getting elected is more important than the safety of our fighting men and the protection of our borders. Don't they realize that we are in a post 9/11 world™ with a post 9/11 mentality and a post 9/11 fear of everything?
Some say the terrorists aren't stupid and they already knew that we are looking for WMD. Does that makes it okay that we reveal the fact that we are have in fact found WMD? Terrorists now know specifically where we have looked and conceivably, where we will continue to look. With Hannity's treasonous behavior, terrorists can conceivably move the WMD from places they are conceivably hiding them to many more conceivable locations where they might use them against our fighting men. Conceivably, those same hidden WMD can be delivered to those intent on attacking America on our own land...conceivably.
Are we going to give Hannity a Pulitzer Prize because this is proper media oversight? I hope not. There can be no excuse for disclosing this vital and damaging information. It's a disgrace. Hannity and Santorum are only tying our hands in the war on terrorism. This obvious hate-Bush™ activity is not worthy of an award. This is worthy of jail. When the media is wrong they have to be held accountable.
Tyranny has its rightful place in a Democracy. I'm sure someone said that. We need to make talkshow hosts like Hannity legally accountable for these outrageous outings of secrets by prosecuting and persecuting them in the most tyrannical manner. Same goes for the leaking politicians who have taken an oath to protect our freedoms. Freedom to prosecute those exercising freedoms that we do not agree with. I don't see anything in their oath that says they can leak secrets and harm our fighting men in harm's way™.
This is not about politics. This is about the security of the American people and is the very reason our founding fathers opened this country. The Founders never showed up on any radio show and revealed Washington's attack on the Hessians sleeping in Trenton. If it were up to Hannity and Santorum, they would have had the Hessians stay up to watch Fox News warning them of the coming assault. If to were up to Hannity, we would be speaking Hessian today.
It's now for Congress to step up and protect our eyes and ears by introducing a resolution, law or whatever they call it, to proclaim the talk show host and his blame America first™ ilk as, um, anti-American. If not, don't be surprised if this July 4th, Tony Snow, Dick Cheney and President Bush make a pro-American proclamation by skewering Hannity and Fox News for indeterminable damage to the war effort.
It's about the security of all of us. It's about freedom for most of us. It's about time.
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/) and the forthcoming "15 Minutes". You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.
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