America's cultural defender
Sean Hannity doesn't understand why America's fine retail establishments would stop selling Confederate flags when
they still sell The Rap Music.
"I have a question: can you still buy a Jay-Z CD at Walmart? Does the music department at Sears have any Ludacris albums? Can I download 50 Cent on Amazon? Can I do that? Can I get some Snoop Dogg albums on eBay?" he asked on his radio show after discussing stores that will no longer sell Confederate flags.
"Why do I say that?" Hannity continued. "Because a lot of the music by those artists are chock-full of the ‘N word,’ and the ‘B-word,’ and the ‘H-word,’ and racist, misogynist, sexist, anti-woman slurs none of those retail executives would be caught dead using."
Leading us once again to the obvious question: Does Cliven here believe the things that come out of his mouth, or does he just have a
lot of airtime to fill? We may never know.
Of course, most of these stores have previously refused to sell things that they deemed too offensive to be financially worth it, because free market and all that; what Sean is asking here is why the flag of slavery and segregation and Klan lynchings is deemed more offensive than The Black People Music These Days. I'm sure his audience is just as stumped as he is, because there are probably a hell of a lot more of them with the rebel flag stuck on their bumpers than there are Snoop Dogg aficionados, and because a good chunk of daily Fox News programming consists of outlining why black Americans are wrong and shiftless and handout-addicted and poisoning our culture with their rap music and constant whining about getting murdered by police officers for no discernible reason.
There's an obvious answer here. Sean could let Walmart decide what Walmart decides to sell—perhaps there will come a day when they no longer want to sell guns, probably about two weeks after a mass shooting in which the killer was found to have bought his guns from Walmart—and Sean could maybe not keep trying to explaining why black American culture sucks, since he seems to have gleaned all he knows of it from Jay-Z albums, and instead maybe Sean Hannity could focus on explaining to the one group that he knows really, really well—resentful conservative white people with chips on their shoulders—why it is considered rude in 2015 to wave the single most prominent symbol of American racism in people's faces even if you really, really want to.