Posted 9:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

Recent Evidence that Romney is Pandering to the Wing-nuts
Last week, Mitt Romney was interviewed on Sean Hannity’s radio show. Every time Romney referred to Democrats or the Democratic Party, he engaged in the de rigeur wing-nut practice of using the word “Democrat” as an adjective. Even Hannity usually uses the word “Democratic” as an adjective. Here are the instances from the interview in which Romney pandered to the far right: “We’re not going to let him [Obama] forget that for his first two years in office, he had a Democrat [sic] House and a Democrat [sic] Senate, that he did not need a single Republican vote to push through his healthcare plan, Obamacare.”

ADDENDUM: It’s not surprising that during Hannity’s interview with Romney that Hannity, in his attempt to portray President Obama as a secularist, trimmed an Obama quote in mid-sentence to give a different meaning to what Obama actually said. Here’s the Obama quote that Hannity aired: “Given the increasing diversity of America’s population, the dangers of sectarianism are greater than ever. Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation . . .” Hannity trimmed the quote in mid-sentence. Here’s the complete sentence: “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation–at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

Hannity is an old hand at trimming quotes in mid-sentence in order to give the quote an entirely different meaning. Check out this hilarious clip of Jon Stewart taking Hannity to task for using a truncated quote to suggest that President Obama was giving “a voice to 9/11 sympathizers.”