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Grab the pitchforks! Build the pyre! Hannity says the government is protecting  child rapists!

Sean Hannity has dedicated hours repeating discredited fallacies in an attempt to have an openly gay government official removed from office. He is using guilt by association tactics in an attempt to imply that President Barack Obama is guilty by association with someone that has been smeared by FOX news.

Someone who is linked through a statement he made to someone else, who is linked to someone else, and that person is linked through statements to someone who may be linked to someone else that an FBI agent claims that he heard say that infant boys liked to have their penis’ sucked.

Glenn Beck is a hard act to follow, so it apparently takes a ex-FBI agent talking about child rape to top the master Beck, even though it has been claimed that Beck does not ‘appreciate the color‘ of this particular smear.

In related events, Al Franken sponsored a bill that would not allow government contracts to go to companies that contractually obligated their employees to not press rape charges, and not seek compensation through the courts. This bill would eliminate protections that companies like Halliburton and it’s employees now have when they rape women.

On the Senate floor, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., called it “a political attack directed at Halliburton.”

Franken rebutted, “This amendment does not single out a single contractor. This amendment would defund any contractor that refuses to give a victim of rape their day in court.”

Thirty republicans voted ‘no’ for the bill that was passed without their support.

This bill will also disallow NAMBLA from receiving any government contracts, and Sean Hannity has yet to voice his support for it. It is not known if he is just siding with republicans, or if he is siding with rapists.

Media Matters posted this clip titled:
Hannity escalates anti-gay bigotry, asks “Does Kevin Jennings support the group NAMBLA?”