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Article: Hannity: A Fox in the Crowd.(TheFrontPage)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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Byline: Joe Hagan
Sean Hannity, the 42-year-old Fox News star, says he gets no special kick from hammering the lefties on his television program. If they squirm, plead, cry, scream, it's strictly business.
"It has no impact," Mr. Hannity said, then made a chopping motion and added a sound effect: "Shht, shht. Doesn't faze me."
So if lefty radio host, humorist and professional adversary Al Franken wanted to characterize Mr. Hannity as a liar and worse, as he did in his best-selling book, or a "schoolyard bully, narrow-minded, amoral, no compassion, phony to the core"--as he did in a recent interview--Mr. Hannity just wasn't going to respond.
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