I listened to most of Hannity's radio show yesterday because I was making a long drive. For hours he hyped an upcoming interview with Clinton's wacky-but-not-mean-spirited former Surgeon General Joceyln Elders.
Hannity incessantly claimed, in promoting the interview and trying to keep listeners tuned in, that "Elders will confirm everything I've been saying for years about Hillary Clinton being a phony."
I knew something was rotten in Denmark when the interview finally began and Hannity, rather than immediately beginning to explore what would have been a major scoop - getting Elders to attack Hillary - instead dredged up the deader-than-a-doorpost controversy over Elders' decade-old comment in favor of teaching kids about masturbation.
Finally, finally, Hannity got around to Hillary's alleged phoniness, and Elders categorically denied she was saying any such thing. All she said was something to the effect that voters are responsible for pushing politicians to say things they can't deliver. It was not aimed at Hillary in particular, and a million miles from Hannity's claim that "Elders will support everything we've always said about Hillary being a phony."
I really felt as if I had been tricked by Hannity into spending an extra hour or so listening to his show.
My husband complained of this same thing yesterday. He was on a long drive and said Sean has incessantly hyped this interview with Elders and then it had nothing to do with her "attacking" the Hildebeast.
He felt like I do when I occasionally pick up the Enquirer in the grocery store line and the headline that caught my eye has nothing to do with the actual story.
In fairness to Sean, sometimes guests change their stories on air and sometimes producers (who do the pre-show interview) get it wrong and lead the interviewer to believe the guest is going to say something other than what they say.
But this was really out there. Bad, Sean.