I am a former Vannity listener and occasional defender. No longer.
He is now a big radio and TV star and his head has puffed up like a hot air balloon. I hear he's a bestselling author, too.
What really did it for me was one day a few weeks ago. He is constantly inserting the sound of a hiccup whenever Ted Kennedy is mentioned. A caller made reference to Kennedy's alcohol problem, and Vannity tore into him, and defended Kennedy. He said Kennedy might not have had a drink in years.
Vannity is always running on about how he is "intellectually honest". How is it intellectually honest to use the hiccup soundbite to say one thing and then, in words, say the opposite?
He's probably afraid of a lawsuit. He needs to protect that big pile of money he's raking in.
Vannity would be nowhere today if he hadn't had the good fortune to follow Rush when he was on just one station.
And furthermore...
Intellectually honest? How about before his last book came out, he was talking about how there was going to be some sort of bombshell in there about Kerry, and that Kerry's unswift boat was going to the bottom because of his silly little book?
What ever happened to that one? After the book came out, he never mentioned it again.