Hannity misleads again on Obama tax plan

On Sunday, I noted that Sean Hannity was falsely claiming that Barack Obama would raise taxes on everyone by letting all of President Bush's tax cuts expire. (Actually, Obama will raise taxes on high-income Americans but reduce inome taxes on people making less than $75,000.)

Then, driving home today, I heard him make the exact same claim. How often does he say this? I went and searched his TV transcripts in Nexis. Here are more examples from "Hannity & Colmes" and his Sunday show "Hannity's America" (I'm sure there are many more examples from his radio show, which is not archived):

June 12: "No. 1 radical liberal in the Senate. Wants $1 trillion of new spending. You know, raise taxes everywhere."

June 23: "[Obama] would let the Bush tax cuts expire."

July 13: "[Obama is] going to let the Bush tax cuts expire." "On taxes - he wants to raise all our taxes."

During these programs, people are telling Hannity that Obama would actually cut taxes for middle-income Americans. But he's just ignoring them and repeating the same misinformation. Even by his exceptionally low standards, it's pretty awful stuff.

Comments

[PhillyKat]

Brendan,

Have you just discovered Sean Hannity and his lyiing? I tune in almost every day, just to hear his daily rants. Every day, he is mis-representing something. I swear, for an entire week, every time I put the radio on, I heard him say "....most radical candidate...", or "...radical friends like Rev Wright, and Bill Ayers..." RADICAL!!!! This guy is a serial liar. You should devote an entire week to fact checking his radio show. I would love it.

Keep up the good work. We here in PhilaPA love it!

[Kit Stolz]

Thanks for not letting him off the hook, and mentioning that callers are taking Hannity to task on his show. Would like to hear one of those some day...but I just can't stand to listen to Hannity.

[Noumenon]

That's not that often, actually, compared to your factcheck.org link showing McCain quoting the "23 million business owners" line on July 7, July 8, July 9, and July 12.

[Noumenon]

Why do I have to sign into Typepad to comment here and do the Captcha? Stupid Typepad.