Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity says Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the way President Barack Obama has handled Russian leader Vladimir Putin have left him humiliated for the United States.
"What they [Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry] ought to be doing is putting missile defense in the Czech Republic and Poland," Hannity said on his radio show Wednesday. "That's a big 'f-u' back to them."
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Instead, Hannity said, Obama is proving to be weak when compared to Putin, and it's embarrassing.
"Remember when Michelle [Obama] said, 'For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud of my country?" Hannity said on his
radio show Wednesday. "For the first time in my adult life, I am humiliated for my country."
Hannity went on to poke fun at Obama's Harvard background, saying that the president is losing face around the world when compared to Putin.
"So we got a community organizer against the former KGB leader who is getting his butt kicked and embarrassed and humiliated on the world stage," Hannity said. "The Russian media keeps showing a picture of [Obama] in Martha's Vineyard, riding his little bicycle with his little helmet on. It's so humiliating."
But Putin's world picture looks much more tough, Hannity said.
"Just — the picture of Putin swimming the butterfly, which is a really hard stroke," Hannity said. "Yeah, big chested — and by the way, it's in frigid water that he's swimming across a river … and he's out there and he's plowing it, so you got a picture of that juxtaposed next to Obama on a bicycle in Martha's Vineyard with the goofy helmet on riding his bike."
Putin's activities in the Ukraine and Obama's reaction are "embarrassing," said Hannity.
"You got the Russian president sticking his middle finger in America's face and John Kerry thinking he's going to stop what's going on in the Ukraine," he added. "How naive are these people?"
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