Obama Spokesman Confronts Hannity On HIS Radical Association

Then Gibbs said “Let me ask you one question... Are you anti-Semitic?”

“Not at all,” Hannity said.

Gibbs continued, “OK, on your show on Sunday, the show that's named after you, the centerpiece of that show was a guy named Andy Martin.” Gibbs was referring to Sunday's (10/5/08) Hannity's America program in which, as Media Matters has reported,

Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- to make "the explosive claim that [Sen. Barack] Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers." At no point during the segment did Hannity note Martin's history of smears against Obama or Martin's history of anti-Semitic and racially charged comments.

Hannity immediately became defensive, accused Gibbs of “reading your talking points” (as if Hannity doesn't!) and then interrupted to say that he interviews “people of all points of view, whether we agree or disagree.”

Gibbs went on to quote some of Martin's anti-Semitic statements and asked why one should not think that Hannity is an anti-Semite.

Agitated, Hannity said, “I'm a journalist that interviews people all the time.” Not according to FOX News he isn't.