Bent Corner

I was listening to right-wing radio talk show host Sean Hannity yesterday while driving home from work. He was talking about his working vacation to Europe this holiday season. He and his family are going to London, Paris, and Rome where he will conduct town hall like meetings with Europeans entitled, WHY EUROPE HATES AMERICA. Something like that. I might have the name wrong, but I don’t think so. He pointed out that Paris and Rome ought to be interesting since he doesn’t speak their language, but “they all speak English over there.”

He then went on to do some French bashing. I guess this is still a popular activity in Republican circles. I wouldn’t have thought it was. Sure, they seemed to have fun renaming French fries “freedom fries” when France questioned the rational of invading Iraq. Imagine that. I just didn’t know that Republicans were still bashing the French. You usually don’t make fun of someone when it turns out that they were right and you were wrong.

He then went on to talk about how “we” liberated “them” from the Nazis back in World War Two. That “they” would all be speaking German if we didn’t go and save them oh so long ago. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought Sean Hannity had personally lead the Allied invasion of Normandy. Storming the beach with a Thompson submachine gun in each hand and cutting through the barbed wire with nothing more then his teeth.

In reality, Sean Hannity refused to serve in the military.

I always get a kick out of people that refer to historical things in the first person. Of course people like Hannity only do this when it concerns something they deem to be positive. Though you will hear Sean Hannity take credit for winning World War Two, you wont ever hear him say we owned slaves or that we distributed smallpox infected blankets to Indians. The word “we” will never be used when talking about these bits of American history. People like him only take credit for the good and distance themselves from the bad.

I also found it funny that Sean Hannity would insinuate the Nazi Germany would still occupy western Europe today if it wasn’t for the Allied forces. As if Russia was not marching closer to Berlin each day the war went on. Germany would have fallen even if the Allies had not hit the beaches of Normandy. The French wouldn’t be speaking German today, they would be speaking Russian.Then again according to Hannity, everyone over there speaks English.

Maybe Sean Hannity ought to read a history book.

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