You Can't Make This Up
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythOkay, so Sean Hannity, the hacktastic Fox news dude, has a new show. And on this new show, he's basically stolen an the idea from Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" segment and Stephen Colbert's "On Notice" Segment. Only his is called Enemy of the State".
Now, leaving aside the happy Orwellian name there, and leaving aside the fact that Hannity's not an actual part of the state apparatus, for all that Fox is the Republican Party Propaganda Channel, what makes it the stupidest is this. The stupidest part is that the first person Hannity names as an "Enemy of the State"? Sean Penn, the actor. Um. Yeah, okay, great sense of priorities there.
Other than that though, this is just another outgrowth of the right-wing culture of hate and declaring your enemies to be traitors and inhuman scum, which has reached ridiculous heights of venom and stupidity over the past decade. That and they must be trying to put parody out of business, because how can you even try and parody something that's already completely stupid on its own?
Now, leaving aside the happy Orwellian name there, and leaving aside the fact that Hannity's not an actual part of the state apparatus, for all that Fox is the Republican Party Propaganda Channel, what makes it the stupidest is this. The stupidest part is that the first person Hannity names as an "Enemy of the State"? Sean Penn, the actor. Um. Yeah, okay, great sense of priorities there.
Other than that though, this is just another outgrowth of the right-wing culture of hate and declaring your enemies to be traitors and inhuman scum, which has reached ridiculous heights of venom and stupidity over the past decade. That and they must be trying to put parody out of business, because how can you even try and parody something that's already completely stupid on its own?
