Hannity Meets His Equal

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With an organization as corrupt as Fox News, it’s difficult for anything to really surprise or outrage. But this is one of those exceptions. The guy who is the point of origin of most of the Obama email smears is a rather exotic and peripatetic character named Andy Martin. I suppose like every other news organization we’ve been getting his daily dispatches for more than a year. On Sean Hannity’s recent smear documentary on Barack Obama, Fox had on Martin and allowed him to assert, unchallenged, that Obama “had once trained to overthrow the [US] government.” The Times profiles Martin in this article.

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