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Sean Hannitiy is a conservative talk show host of [[Hannity and Colmes]]. He is known for being a very level headed and patriotic pundit. He provides the conservative view on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" show. He also hosts a radio call in show.
Sean (Patrick) Hannity (born December 30, 1961, in New York City, New York) is a conservative talk show host.
== Early Life ==
Sean was the youngest of four children. His grandparents legally emigrated from Ireland to the United States.
Sean's father,Hugh, joined the Navy after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Hugh spent three years fighting in
the Pacific Theater during World War II.<small>1</small> Sean was born in New York, he
moved to Rhode Island at age 18 and then later to Boston and eventually CA.
== ''Radio'' ==
At age 27 Sean started his radio career which did not start with a boom, he was fired for being too right
on a liberal leaning station. In 1988 after placing a job ad he joined a radio station in Huntsville,
Alabama at WVNN.
Later on Sean finally got a shot at a Top 10 market in Atlanta at 640 AM WGST.
Sean soon gained national recognition during as an occasional substitute host of the #1 radio show of all-time -
The Rush Limbaugh Show. Alegeedly on his first guest show, he dropped the golden EIB microphone
because of a case of high nerves. This nation wide attention paved his way to national syndication.
== ''Television'' ==
Sean Hannity was asked to join the newly formed FOX News Channel (FNC) in September 1996<small>2</small>.
He accepted the offer and became co-host( with liberal Alan Colmes) of ''Hannity and Colmes,''
a prime time one-hour debate driven talk show focusing on the controversial issues and newsmakers of the day.
<small>3</small> Today ''Hannity and Colmes'' ranks among the leading cable TV news show
(just behind ''Larry King Live'' and the ''O'Reilly Factor'').
== ''Books'' ==
In 2002, Sean wrote his first book, "Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism" .
The Book remained on the New York Times best selling list for 17 weeks.<small>4</small>
In 2004 he wrote ''Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism''.
In this book he "reveals how the disgraceful history of appeasement has reached
forward from the days of Neville Chamberlain and Jimmy Carter to corrupt the
unrepentant leftists of the modern Democratic Party from Howard Dean and John Kerry to Bill and Hillary Clinton. <small>5</small>
== Beliefs ==
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== Awards ==
Sean Hannity has been named "Talk Show Host of the Year" and one of the "Top 100 Talk Hosts in America" by Talkers Magazine.
== sources ==
1,http://www.geocities.com/thrawn03/hannity.html
2,http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1242,00.html
3,http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1242,00.html
4,http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/24930/Sean_Hannity/index.aspx
5,http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060514556/Let_Freedom_Ring/index.aspx
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