After my show was compeleted on my way home yesterday, I flipped over to Sean Hannity's radio show. Sean has been very kind to me in the New York market. He's used my columns on-air, and when we've been at events together - he's been a truly humble, nice, guy.
Having said that, I say this - with all due respect...
On his show yesterday, and his television broadcast last night he missed the major point of the Democrats' Imam. Sean kept pounding the issue of "occupation and oppression" from the Imam's prayer.
In Sean's defense that part of the Imam's prayer - could in fact be accurately translated to mean that he was referring to the one arena in which "occupation and oppression" are most mentioned in today's context. (Only from the political left mind you...) Iraq!
But to a larger degree the issue that is more disturbing is that the Imam prayed the prayer of conversion over the democratic faithful gathered, and that in doing so he invoked a request to Allah to destroy Christians and Jews.
Why no one is hitting the Imam harder for his religious intolerance/bigotry and comparatively what Christianity and Judaism have to say about it is beyond me. Come on... someone book Dr. Ergun Canor, or Robert Spencer for these segments...
Sean almost seems ill-equipped to handle a discussion of spiritual matters, even though he invokes the biblical passage, "let not your heart be troubled," all the time.
He had the same problem on Hannity and Colmes last night - see for yourself:
No one is arguing that Sean needs to become something that he's not. But when it comes to the matters of faith - put someone on that actually knows the theological viewpoint enough to present it with cogent, material substance.
That way everyone wins - and the real matter of the discussion moves the debate considerably forward.
But the Imam, hemmed, hawed, grinned, and lied away around Sean the entire time... I guess I was just hoping for more.