A summary of "Generation Zero," the documentary Sean Hannity devoted his show to tonight

Earlier tonight Sarah Palin tweeted something about a Tea Party documentary being featured on Hannity tonight...



Thinking that since I was in the mood for some comedy tonight, I decided to set the ole DVR to record it. I just watched the whole show, a one hour infomercial for a film produced by Citizens United, a conservative activist group, called "Generation Zero." It's filled with dark storm clouds and expert analysis from the likes of Lou Dobbs and Newt Gingrich, and here's my one paragraph summary of the special:

The recent financial crisis or Wall St. meltdown or whatever you want to call it, is not really the fault of financial industry deregulation as much is it is the fault of the pervasiveness of the hippie culture, the culture of no responsibility, in America. The counter-culture movement of the 60s, where women and blacks shunned the peachy perfection that was the 50s to demand equal rights, laid the foundation for all of this. You see, its this sort of progressive culture, one in which there are few bad consequences to indecent behavior, that led Wall Street dudes to be greedy and do bad shit to get rich, because they didn't think there would be consequences to their actions. Yes, I'm totally serious. This is the central thesis of the film. Oh, and just for extra measure, the film goes to great lengths to explain that it was Democratic politicians, not Republicans, in bed with big business who helped to grease the wheels of the train headed off of a financial cliff.

So now you know why the country is going to shit! Hippies and Democrats!!! Below are the film's official trailer as well as a clip from tonight's Hannity show...