From high up on his Faux News bully pulpit, Sean Hannity claims he stood up to Ron Paul supporters outraged over his employer’s unfair treatment of the Republican presidential candidate, who was excluded from the Faux News “debate,” in essence a dog and pony show for selectees handpicked by the global elite.

Hannity tells us he was on his way to “thank the Frank Luntz focus group” for their concerted effort to skew the primaries when the Paul supporters caught him unaware in the cold New Hampshire night.

Luntz is the neocon “pollster” who represents the interests of large corporations, not the people, namely Merrill Lynch, Federal Express, Disney, American Express, AT&T, Pfizer, Kroger supermarkets and McDonalds, to name but a few. Of course, it makes perfect sense Hannity came to kiss Luntz’s pinky ring, as Sean is all about neoconism and corporate fascism.

“Rather than run away from them and call security,” Sean boasts, “I walked right out amongst them, right in front of them, right past them, and they were rude and obnoxious… and, uh, I wasn’t going to back down.”

A brave man, that Hannity, considering most Ron Paul supporters are with al-Qaeda — or so you may conclude if you watch Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean on a regular basis with your incredulity suspended in a mental vapor lock.

“They wanted you to vote for Ron Paul?” the faux liberal Alan Colmes asks.

Naw,” Sean scoffs, “they’re lunatics, they’re absolute lunatics. But we stood right up to them,” the anchor brags as he points at the camera with his mitt, pen clutched so we know he is a journalist. “We walked right past them…”

“What a guy,” Sean’s better half — sort of, that is for a limousine liberal — compliments, and then it is off to a sponsor.

Lunatics, indeed — sort of like the early American patriots were lunatics for impolitely resisting the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, and the Townshend Acts, even going so far as tar and feathering agents of the crown.

If not for that, Sean would be kissing the pinky ring of King George the III’s ancestors right about now.

Come to think of it, he may be anyway.