Today in Austin, Texas, Republican presidential nominee – it still feels weird to type this – Donald Trump will tape a two-hour interview with his trained news poodle Sean Hannity. The event will likely entail 120 minutes of the Fox News host offering the sentient tangelo peel open-ended softball questions from which Trump can spin out extended rants about every conspiracy theory and nasty, subversive rumor he has ever heard about Hillary Clinton, egged on by the chuckles of the live audience brought in for the private, closed-to-the-press affair.
There is nothing new about Sean Hannity playing lapdog for a conservative political figure. Still, The New York Times’s media columnist, Jim Rutenberg, published a pieceover the weekend endeavoring to show just how deeply enmeshed with the Trump campaign Hannity has become....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/sean-hannity-erases-impartiality
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