Sean Hannity and Mark Levin both appeared on Brian Whitman’s WABC show in New york today to speak with the outspoken Alec Baldwin. Utter hilarity ensued…

HANNITY: Are you the guy that said of our vice president, while we’re at war, while we’re leading troops in harm’s way - are you the reckless, third-rate Hollywood actor who said that Dick Cheney is a terrorist? Are you the guy . . .

BALDWIN: Yes I am.

HANNITY: … who said to stone Henry Hyde to death? Are you the guy who said our president is a CIA mass murderer? I wanted you to come on the program and defend that, you gutless coward.

BALDWIN: At first I thought this was a joke. But you can hear all the acid venom spewing hatred. It is Sean Hannity. [END EXCERPT]

The exchange got even hotter when Mark Levin joined in.

LEVIN: We’ve only just begun - are you 40 or 50 pounds overweight now?

WHITMAN: Oh, C’mon now . . . .

HANNITY: Once and for all you need to be challenged. You want to call our vice president a terrorist - fine. You want to talk about stoning people to death, say it on my program. If you want to be irresponsible and call our president a mass murderer while he’s at war leading troops in harm’s way …

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do about it, Sean Hannity?

HANNITY: You don’t have the courage to answer questions.

BALDWIN: And what are you gonna do? And what are you going to do about it, Sean Hannity. If I come on your program, what are you going to do?

LEVIN: He’s going to show that you have a two digit IQ - that’s what he’s gonna do.

BALWIN: What are you going to do?

LEVIN: I just told you - you’ve got a two digit IQ.

BALDWIN: And who’s that - who’s your little cabin boy there with you.

LEVIN: I’m not a cabin boy, butt-boy.

Your humble pundit is not exactly sure what was actually accomplished by such a display, but it went a long way in the realms of entertainment.

Wizbang! notes that Baldwin was not up to the debate.
Expose the Left provides the audio from the exchange.
The Moderate Voice,

What’s interesteing is how Baldwin keeps wondering why the host has to have Hannity and Levin on when he has regular listeners waiting on line. But the nature of talk radio is “hot talk” — rage, anger..stuff that gets the adrenalin going. Still, if you can detatch yourself from the whole talk radio culture that we’re all conditioned to now in this country, and you look at it from the standpoint of political debate, you wonder: how did political discussion get so absolutely poisonous in this country?