Media Matters calls out Sean Hannity for echoing Speaker Boehner’s claim that President Obama is “gutless”, pointing to the President’s unwillingness to compromise on budget legislation or go against his own party.
Yet they play a clip of Hannity where, in an interview with House Majority Whip Eric Cantor, Lawrence O’Donnell asks the following “question”:
Speaker Boehner told a group of people that ‘President Obama doesn’t have the guts to do what needs to be done’ [t]hat’s pretty personal, and I wonder if it’s helpful in terms of reaching compromise on legislation.
And Matt Lauer, in an interview with Speaker Boehner himself, goes on the following question/rant:
calling the President of the United States out in such harsh terms today, on the day of his State of the Union address, and questioning his guts, questioning his courage, and he’s gonna walk into that chamber tonight and he’s gonna hand you a copy of his speech and he’s gonna stand in front of you and people are going to be watching your face through that entire speech and you know what I think a lot of people are going to say? ‘Here we go. Same old division. Same old animosity.’ Don’t they have a right to say that?
Neither of these count as questions, they’re merely political statements with question marks at the end. If media truly mattered to Media Matters, they’d be exposing the clearly biased “journalism” of O’Donnell and Lauer, versus Hannity, who hosts an opinion show.
