Sean Hannity
Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961, in New York City, New York) is an American conservative talk radio host and co-host of Fox News Channel's political debate program Hannity & Colmes, and the author of two books. Hannity is of
Irish descent (all four of his grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland) and
he is a devout Catholic.
Overview
After placing an ad in radio publications presenting himself as "the most talked about college radio host in America",
WVNN in Huntsville,
Alabama hired Sean to be the morning talk show host. From there, Sean Hannity was hired by WGST in Atlanta to fill the slot vacated by Neal Boortz, who had moved on to competing station WSB.
Roger Ailes, founder of the Fox News Channel, took a chance on the relatively unknown Hannity, hiring him to co-host Hannity and Colmes, which is now the #1 rated cable debate
show.
Hannity moved to New York to do Hannity and Colmes and to do a local radio show on WABC. His
radio program went nationally syndicated on September 10, 2001. It is aired from WABC in New York and is now heard on well over 400 stations nationwide. Hannity's program now boasts the
second-largest radio audience in the country, heard by over 13 million listeners a week.
Quotes
All quotes from his TV show unless otherwise indicated.
- "Three hours a day, everyday. That's all we ask." - From his radio show
On George W. Bush:
- "Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?"
On Saddam and WMDs:
- "You're not listening, Susan. You've got to learn something. [Saddam] had weapons of mass destruction. He promised to
disclose them. And he didn't do it. You would have let him go free; we decided to hold him accountable."
On al Qaeda in Iraq:
- "And in northern Iraq today, this very day, al Qaeda is operating camps
there, and they are attacking the Kurds in the north, and this has been well-documented
and well chronicled. Now, if you're going to go after al Qaeda in every aspect, and obviously they have the support of Saddam, or
we're not." [12/9/02]
On the Pledge of Allegiance:
- "Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were
ignorant of its greatness?" [6/12/03]
To attorney Stanley Cohen:
- "Is it you hate this president or that you hate America?" [4/30/03]
On the separation of church and
state:
- "It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state." [8/25/03]
See also
Books
- Deliver Us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism (Regan Books, 2004) ISBN 0060582510
- Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Against Liberalism (Regan Books, 2002) ISBN 0060514558
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