Hannity and Kellyanne Conway Fall Over Themselves Trying To Defend Giuliani’s Bad-Husband Behavior

Aug. 20, 2007

Via News Hounds

Now that Rudy Giuliani’s less-than-stellar personal life has come under scrutiny, suddenly Sean Hannity and Republican Kellyanne Conway have developed a heightened sensitivity for candidates' private lives – so long as they’re Republican candidates, of course. Conway hilariously insisted there was no analogy between the married Giuliani trolling for an extramarital date in a cigar bar and President Bill Clinton having a tryst in the Oval Office. Hannity “defended” Giuliani by attacking Obama’s pastor again (and pretending he had not before) and Clinton’s brother. With video.

Naturally, the issue under discussion was not Giuliani’s bad behavior but whether or not the press should be covering his family. Susan Estrich did a very good job in this segment where she was substituting for Alan Colmes. She started off by asking FOX News Contributor Ellis Henican, “(Giuliani’s) daughter puts a Facebook profile up that she’s supporting Barack Obama. His son goes to the press and says ‘I’m estranged from my father.’ What is the press supposed to do? Not write about it? Isn’t it a legitimate issue if your own children don’t support you?”

Henican pointed out that if those were his kids, he’d try to keep them hidden away, too, then made the point that Giuliani had humiliated their mother. “Maybe we should listen to them a little bit,” Henican added.

Next, Estrich turned to Conway and noted that in an interview, the current Mrs. Giuliani said she had met her husband in a cigar bar while he was married to someone else. He took her number and started dating her a year before he separated. “In my book, I’m sorry, that doesn’t speak well for a guy,” Estrich said. “You guys all attacked Clinton for cheating on his wife. Why isn’t this just as relevant?”

In a bitchy, holier-than-thou voice, Conway insisted there was a huge difference. “Excuse me, please don’t analogize Rudy Giuliani’s and Bill Clinton’s behavior, a man out in a cigar bar and one as the Commander-in-Chief in the Oval Office being serviced by an intern.” Memo to married Republicans looking to cheat on their wives. Apparently, it’s no biggie so long as you don’t do it in the Oval Office... or maybe it's the cigar bar setting that makes it not so bad.

Still on her high horse, Conway continued, “I find this entire conversation to be unseemly and unclassy… There’s nothing you just said that saved a single soldier in Iraq.”

As Estrich answered back that impeachment (of Clinton) didn’t save any lives, either, Conway took a sudden detour from the high road. “If you want (Bill Clinton’s impeachment) to be an issue in ’08, we’ll be really happy to revisit that, and what a doormat Hillary Clinton was.”

With phony-baloney Hanctimony, Hannity declared, “I say leave these kids alone… Did anyone else ask Chelsea Clinton about her father’s infidelity or allegations of serial abuse of women?” Probably not, but Hannity’s good buddy Rush Limbaugh called her, “The White House dog.” I wonder if Hannity leapt to Chelsea’s defense then.

“Nobody’s forced these kids to talk, Sean,” Estrich interrupted.

before he took up with the current Mrs. Giuliani. He cheated on Donna Hanover with more than one woman.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/05/11/politics/main194350.shtml

It's amazing that this is all OK with the very same people who blew a gasket over Clinton's infidelity. How do they keep themselves from noticing their own hypocrisy?