Remember Andy Martin? Fox's Hannity presents the former anti-semitic Palm Beach pol as Obama expert

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Remember Andy Martin? Fox presents the former anti-semitic PBC pol as Obama expert

> Posted by Josh Hafenbrack at 11:13 AM
On an hourlong documentary over the weekend, Fox News aired an innuendo-driven program narrated by Sean Hannity called "Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism."

Their star witness was Andy Martin, whose incendiary, unsubstantiated claims about Obama's past were allowed to go unchallenged.

What Fox didn't tell viewers: Martin has long been a fringe gadfly in the Florida political scene, an anti-semite repudiated by his own party.

In 1996, while running for a Palm Beach County state Senate seat, Martin was arrested after attacking a WPTV-Ch. 5 camerman during an attempted interview at the station's headquarters, while the cameras were rolling. In jail, he went on a hunger strike, claiming to be a "political prisoner." And after the election ended, he was given a one-year sentence and ordered to attend anger management classes.

more:http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/palm/blog/2008/10/remember_andy_martin_fox_prese.html

On Fox News, Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- who has called judge a "crooked, slimy Jew," accused African-Americans in public office of corruption -- in Obama smear-fest
Summary: On Fox News' Hannity's America, Sean Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- who made what Hannity called "the explosive claim that 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.

more:http://mediamatters.org/items/200810070011