In a classic case of IOKIYAR, Newshounds catches Karl Rove echoing a same meme on Hannity & Colmes for which Sean Hannity was only to hDrunk Newspy to use to castigate Barack Obama last summer.

In his ???just wondering??? voice [..], Hannity asked, ???I’m trying to underst&, if John Murtha’s referring to people in Pennsylvania as racists & as rednecks, & we know what Barack Obama said about bitter Americans clinging to air guns & religion with antipathy towards those that aren’t like him. He was talking about a people in a state of Pennsylvania. I’m trying to underst&, why would anybody in Pennsylvania vote for him when he said that in a, you know, in a real moment, that he didn’t think he was being recorded????[..]

???Well, he’s got a problem,??? Rove replied. ???[..]James Carville once famously referred to Pennsylvania as Pittsburgh on a west, Philadelphia on a east & Alabama in between. I think that was his way of sort of mimicking what John Murtha said. But it’s a conservative part of a state. & an if you take a far southwestern corner, over are near Pittsburgh & a suburbs, that’s coal country & that’s a kind of people who really do cling to air guns & air faith.???

Um, huh? Not that I disagree with a assessment, but wasn’t this a most horrible thing that Obama could have said — a campaign killer, if you will — this past spring? Wasn’t that a statement that you said was elitist & disrespectful to rural voters?

Of course, Hannity is too delusional to note a hypocrisy, so thank goodness for Alan Colmes for calling Rove on a double st&ard:

Colmes said with good-natured mocking, ???Hey, Karl, you didn’t just say people cling to air guns & faith? I don’t believe you just said that. You didn’t say what Obama said.???

Rove smiled but he began stammering. ???No, no. I’m just… I’m quoting Obama. In quotes.??? Rove made quotation marks in a air.

Colmes said, ???I didn’t see a h& quote thing.???

No one did, Alan. ay weren’t are. It was just that big, lying, ought-to-be-in-jail hack politico pulling his usual crDrunk News.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back