Many people are pointing out how Sean Hannity has reacted to the Cliven Bundy comments.   Indeed, arguably – Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have espoused two of the loudest and angriest responses to the comments from Cliven Bundy.
Or are they ?
Are they, Beck and Hannity, responding to the Bundy comments, or are they responding to the New York Times and Media Matters presentation of the Bundy comments ?    I think the latter, but I digress.   Check it out yourself:

There is an intellectual dishonesty at play here.   But why ?   Perhaps because Hannity likes to emotionally swing for the fence on every at bat ?   Perhaps because Hannitys’ show has been suffering in the ratings  ?   Perhaps because he was moved to a new TV hour and a joyful Megyn Kelly is simply CRUSHING HIM (and all others BTW) ?
Or, perhaps, at least from my own perspective, it’s because the constant stress in Hannity’s presentation is like watching Gary Busey eat an ice-cream cone amid a McDonalds playball pit.    Nerve wracking, stressful, stupidly sweaty, unable to sit still, constantly shouting – Busey always comes off like he’s peaking amid a serious dose of amphetamines.   I can’t watch his acting either because I always feel stressed out while sitting on the couch.
Perhaps Hannity is caught in the quicksand of a downward personality where the more you thrash the quicker you sink.   Shouting doesn’t help.

Here’s what it looks like.

Sean Hannity is obviously EXCEPTIONALLY fearful of being called a racist – more fearful than any other current TV personality.    I never realized how intensely scared he was until this Bundy example exposed an insufferable overreaction from him.   Wow, just wow.
In addition to his radio comments he leads off his TV show with a defense of himself.
Note what I just said there : “a defense of himself” – not an admonishment of Cliven Bundy’s comments, but a defense of Sean Hannity.    The transparency, and the difference, is obvious.
In addition to running away from the Bundy statements, Hannity intentionally puts stories from his history where black people are prominent – this is his LEAD.   Why ?  Because he’s overplaying the “I’m not a racist angle”.   The transparency is obvious.
Hannity follows up with his first guest, David Webb, a black commentator.   Again, transparently obvious positioning.    The DREAD of racism obviously rushing through Hannity’s veins like an infection out of control….    The transparency is obvious.
What gives ?    Why the over-the-top “He doth protest too much-ism’s”…
Why such a cognitive eruption of such an over reaction ?
And you can see how desperate he is in his responses to later panel guests who talk warmly toward him.    He’s desperately thankful they are still talking to him.   So much so he looks like Rudolph when told he’s “cute” by the little doe in the Christmas movie:

“She thinks I’m cuuuuute”…. says Hannity Rudolph.

Hannity needs to chill out and seriously consider changing his advisors and assistants.
Take a breath, look at the entire construct of what’s going on, drop the emotion and remember conservative principles are on the right side of the majority.
Then again, sometimes the self-fulfilling prophecy aspect of being your own parody kicks in…. and you can’t escape it defining you like a funny Seinfeld episode.