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Zorro

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Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:22 PM Aug 2020

How to turn Sean Hannity into food for worms

Rancid words can make excellent radishes. Just shred and compost.


The author has been composting right-wing culture-war books during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Lawrence Downes)

I didn’t set out to compost Sean Hannity. It was something I settled on after considering several other options and rejecting them one by one. The first was leaving him in the basement indefinitely. That worked for a while. I could almost forget about him there, but then I would go down with a basket of laundry and see him and think, I have to do something.

I should explain: I don’t mean the man himself, but Hannity the book. It’s called “Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism.”

It’s part of a collection I have: right-wing culture war books from the Fox-News-angry-White-person’s superhero universe. Besides Hannity, I’ve got Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik. The list is not comprehensive. It includes Karl Rove and Hugh Hewitt but not Newt Gingrich, Tucker Carlson or Donald Trump.

Nourishing a vegetable garden. (Photo by Lawrence Downes)

I got them from the book sale shelf at my public library, for a dollar each. I would find them tucked in with the everyday discards — the cookbooks and gardening volumes, Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” The Fox folks seemed so bilious and out of place in that pleasant company, like toadstools among the daffodils. So I’d buy them up and take them home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/sean-hannity-compost-books/2020/08/06/a41b1aa6-d5b8-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html
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How to turn Sean Hannity into food for worms (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2020 OP
What I'd like to see at the check-out stand fishwrappers: Turbineguy Aug 2020 #1
So they are alt-radishes now? Nt torius Aug 2020 #2
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