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Hannity: "Ban the Confederate flag? Then ban rap music too!"

It's really starting to crack me up how some on the far-right end of the political spectrum are flipping out over the Confederate flag debate not going their way. Last night, I wrote about Breitbart writer John Nolte and Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association comparing the rainbow flag to the Confederate and Nazi flags, suggesting that if and when the Confederate flag gets taken down, so too should the rainbow flag. Yes, because just like African-Americans were enslaved in the South, Christians have been enslaved by homosexuals. The situations are as identical as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

Well, Fox News' Sean Hannity decided to join the crazy party when he made the following comments on his radio show yesterday:

"A lot of music by those [rap] artists is chock full of the n-word and the b-word and the h-word, and racist, misogynist, sexist anti-woman slurs none of those retail executes would be caught dead using. If it's OK for Obama's teenage daughters and people to go into these stores and buy music chock-full of the n-word, the b-word, well maybe we should consider banning that too. We're in the process of banning everything. Just a thought."

No, it wasn't really a thought. This is Sean Hannity after all. I love the redundancy in the first sentence. He must have been pretty angry. "...misogynist, sexist anti-woman..." Not only are the lyrics anti-woman, but they're also misogynist and sexist. I'll be damned. Perhaps he should have added a bit more to make his statement sound even more ridiculous - something like this:

"A lot of music by those rap artists is chock full of misogynist, sexist, anti-woman, woman-hating, slut-shaming, male chauvinistic, fairer-sex disliking slurs!"

There, that's better.

I also enjoyed Hannity's hyperbole at the end of his statement as well: "...maybe we should consider banning that too. We're in the process of banning everything." Yes, to take down the Confederate flag is to take away everything. That's "Deep Thoughts," brought to you by Sean Hannity.

Lastly, I have to ask, what in the hell is the h-word? Oh, is it hell? Whoops. My bad...

Like with John Nolte and Bryan Fischer before him, Sean Hannity's comparison completely misses the mark. It's so off the mark, it'd be like a quarterback attempting to throw a hail mary pass and instead getting called for intentional grounding. The Confederate flag was what the South stood by during the times of slavery, during the time of the Civil War, which they eventually lost. It became ubiquitous across the South again during the Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s. It has long been a symbol for racism and slavery. Rap music has been largely dominated by the African-American community, many of whom have family that strove for equal rights during the Civil Rights era, many of whose friends and family still continue to battle racism today, and many of whose lyrics shine a light on all of their past struggles to garner acceptance and equality. So, Sean, your comparison is utterly ridiculous. Banning rap music alongside the Confederate flag would be like banning Holocaust-survivor autobiographies alongside the Nazi flag. Yeah, like I said, utterly ridiculous...

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