He should get along great with Hannity, then.
my thoughts exactly. Hannity is twice the douchebag Sharpton could ever hope to be. for almost exactly the same reasons that surferboy uses to criticize the latter. and also because he would be quick to point out these shortcomings in Sharpton without ever admitting to the same shortcomings, magnified 1000 fold, in himself.
[edit] furthermore, though I have not seen this particular interview, I've seen enough of Hannity's interviews (they are all roughly the same) to know that if Sharpton was dodging Hannity's questions, there was probably good reason for it. Hannity does not know how to have an intellectually honest debate because he does not have dialogue with his opponent. The questions he asks are disengenuous and dishonest by careful, calculated design. If he were a lawyer in a court of law, every question he asked would be ruled as leading the witness and stricken from the record. He asks things that are often inconsequential and related loosely, at best, to the topic at hand, then after using his meandering open-ended logic to phrase the question and its relevance to said topic, he demands, over and over again, an extremely narrow response, often in the form of a yes or no answer. When his opponents attempt to give complete and honest answers to these asinine questions, Hannity interrupts and talks over them and does not allow it, hammering away repeatedly over and over and over again "answer the question," because they are not answering the questions
as he wants them to. However, any intelligent speaker would never answer these deceitful questions as Hannity wants them to because they can see already where it is leading and they don't want to fall into the obvious trap. Hannity's screwball logic is that "if A and if B, then C," where A, B, and C are tangentially related if at all. If his opponent answers the questions of A and B as Hannity wants them to, then that leaves Hannity open to conclude C and make his point. Even though his point is always invariably complete fallacy, it appears as though his opponent has just supported what Hannity was trying to say because his opponent confirmed, with the one word answer they were allowed, the twisted logic that Hannity employed to arrive at conclusion C. This is partisan hackery. This is outright lying. This is spin to the nth degree. This is not debate. Anyone even remotely intelligent would realize this and would dodge Hannity's idiotic questions as well.
