An Open Letter to Sean Hannity

Dear Mr. Hannity,

I want to thank you, Sean, for making me care about politics and enjoy the news again. These past few years we have seen the homogenization of the news, the partisanship in politics grow stronger, and a general staleness in the reporting of the facts. I couldn't bear to watch CNN anymore, seeing it become too trite and boring this last decade. I didn't know where to turn for news, and had almost given up until something miraculous happened. I heard your show playing on a co worker's radio. Within minutes I was totally engaged, my eyes opened and my mind able to break free of the dull prison it had slipped into. The most amazing part, you made me able to laugh again.
You must truly be a Great American, if only for the fact that you have made news entertaining again. The wisecracks of Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart are nothing compared to your wildly hilarious claims, things so outlandishly unreasonable only Ann Coulter would believe them true. You kept me laughing right through this recent election, in a time of great economic turmoil and social upheaval. Your amazingly crafted diatribes on popular right-wing political figures makes the likes of Phil Hendrie seem like an amateur. You made Obama seem like a radical, elitist, socialist, un-American Muslim; someone so hellbent on slaughtering unborn children and turning the country into a fascist regime, supporting terrorism AND a woman's right to choose, that sometimes I was laughing so hard that I couldn't keep the tears from my eyes.
At times you were so spot on in character, I almost believed that YOU believed the things you were saying. I was smiling all day when I heard you telling people that living on 100K a year wasn't easy, and pimping yourself out for GM is just priceless. You sound just like a perfect mouthpiece for corporatism, but still decry a bailout of the SAME company who you advertise for! Words just can't describe my overwhelming gratitude for what you are doing. So all I will say is again, thank you, Mr. Hannity, for making me laugh.

-- WiseGuise