I just LOVE MediaMatters.org

I mean you have to love anything that enrages the right-wing "talking heads" with the truth, right? The genius in this website is its simplicity. It simply documents the rantings of radio talk show hosts, journalists, news anchors, and guest pundits... and then points out the various inconsistencies, misleading statements, and flat out lies they tell. These media mouthpieces used to be able to just "float out" whatever dreck they wanted without incident. But since May 2004, Media Matters has been holding them accoutable to their own words.

A good example of their work is this recent conversation from none other than right-wing "poster boy" Sean Hannity.
Hannity recently took on a caller who criticized him regarding Ronald Reagan's legacy. In it, Hannity begins by saying, "I know more about Reagan than you do," and then proceeds to butcher history in the way only a former construction worker can.

You can hear the entire call AND response here.

And here's just a portion of the break-down from Media Matters:

• Hannity repeated his oft-mentioned -- and false -- claim that tax revenues doubled during the Reagan years. As Media Matters for America has previously noted, if the numbers are not adjusted for inflation, federal tax revenue increased 52 percent, not 100 percent ($599.3 billion to $909.3 billion) under Reagan; adjusted for inflation, revenue increased only 15 percent ($1.077 trillion to $1.236 trillion).

• Hannity reasserted that Reagan's tax cuts "gave us the longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history." But, as Media Matters has documented, the longest period of peacetime economic growth in American history occurred from March 1991 to March 2001. Democratic President Bill Clinton presided over most of these 120 months of economic growth, compared with 92 months of growth between November 1982 and July 1990, during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

• Responding to the caller's statement that Reagan "cut and run" from Lebanon, Hannity simply said: "No, he didn't." In fact, U.S. troops withdrew from Lebanon in February 1984, four months after a suicide bomber killed 241 U.S. Marines, sailors, and soldiers at a Marine barracks in Beirut.

You can see the whole "Sean Hannity" entry from mediamatters.org HERE.

By the way, does ANYONE know if Hannity ever graduated from college?