Hannity and the "Two Minute Hate"

Orwell is spinning in his grave.

On Sean Hannity's new Sunday night show, he is designating an Enemy of the State. No kidding. Enemy of the State. He is selecting a fellow American every week and accusing them of treason, a capital offense.

You know what? The leftists who opposed the whole Freund/Fiend dichotomy as the Nazi's rose to power were right then, and we are right this time as well. Designating an *other* to focus anger and venom toward is a unifying theme of an emerging fascist state. Look it up.

You don't go around branding your fellow Americans as guilty of treason. This is the kind of thing that emboldens the Eric Rudolph's and the Tim McVeigh's and the zealots who gun down doctors for providing abortions. It incites the unstable to commit terrorism against their fellow Americans. So - either Hannity knows this and doesn't care, in fact intends to whip up the masses and foment violence, or he's stupid. Indeed, if it's the former, Hannity is an Enemy of the State!!! Either way he should have angry cats thrown at him. It isn't up to Fox to censor him - it is up to Americans to reject his hateful message. What Hannity is doing is exactly the kind of media tactic that divided Germany and allowed the Nazi's to ascend to power with 30% support!

If the Fox viewers accept this, everything bad thing I have ever said about them in my most heated moments...will be an understatement.

For those keeping score at home: Ann Coulter is still ahead in the Wingnut that holds together the Western World sweepstakes, but with his thinly disguised unveiling of the Two Minute Hate, Hannity moved into striking distance.