Posted by
Brother-bloviate on Saturday, March 10, 2007 5:53:50 AM
Why I don't listen to Sean Hannity: he is a bellicose, antagonistic rhetorical clown. I gave him a sliver of the "just give me 3 hours, that's all I ask" and, sorry, my time is too precious to waste on his form of entertainment. That should have been the end of it, but Fox News teased me about something Sean said to a pro-life priest, so I checked it out. Sean recently took
Human Life International (that links to a quick and engaging read, by the way) to task for taking Sean to task for his theological buffoonery on lenten activities and contraception. An HLI priest called Sean a "heretical hypocrite" (kind words for Sean's nonsense) to which deep-thinking Sean responded "Judge not lest ye be judged." King James? Never mind. Then, Sean dumps the priest-pedophilia scandal, which has nothing to do with the issue, into the fray. Why not? That's WWJSD (What Would Jerry Springer Do?) and it's great for ratings. Pick on a weak target and rake in the dough from all the morbidly-fascinated eyeballs and ears. There's no genuine engagement just verbal fisticuffs. More examples: Sean argues that he speaks latin and went to seminary. Great. I love buffets, bicycle-riding and pina-coladas. Neither pronouncement is germane. Sean demonstrates the "cafeteria Catholicism," writ large, and reminds me of why I am a Catholic well before I identify as a republican.
A potent reminder of why Dennis Prager is so dearly needed in this age of Jerry Springer wannabe a**clowns.
So, then, Sean is clearly pro-Sean before he will defend (or defer to) his faith. Is he anti-Catholic? That might be too far, but he's clearly not helping his professed faith.