Hannity, GOPer falsely accuse Obama appointee of supporting NAMBLA
Posted Oct 8, 2009, 8:37 AM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Oct 7, 2009
Fox News, Sean Hannity, and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) fantasize about Kevin Jennings, the Department of Education’s Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe Schools:
There are only three problems with Hannity and King’s claims:
- Jennings has never praised NAMBLA. The statement that Hannity claims was praise for NAMBLA was actually praise for Harry Hay’s creation of the Mattachine Society, the nation’s first gay rights group.
- The boy Jennings counseled did not have sexual relations with the man he had met during a bus trip. The boy and the man simply had a discussion.
- Even if they did have sexual relations, the boy was not fifteen. He was 16 — the age of consent in Massachussets.
Another way of putting it: Everything that Fox, Hannity, and King claimed in their "report" was a lie. As usual.
