PANAMA CITY — For the second year in row, Fox News' popular "Hannity" show visited Spring Break in Panama City Beach, beaming video of the annual college rite of passage to viewers nationwide.
"Spring Break Exposed," as the four-night segment is called, started Tuesday night and continues Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights this week on Sean Hannity's show, which airs at 9 p.m. CDT.
"Last year our own Ainsley Earhart went down to Panama City Beach in Florida to expose the realities of Spring Break for your college kids, and it looked a lot like the parents' worst nightmare," Hannity said at the beginning of Tuesday night's segment. "This year we heard the City Council had made some changes as the result of this program in order to curb some of the out-of-control partying, so we sent Ainsley back to see what effect, if any, these new rules would have. Did they work? Well, you judge for yourself."
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Viewers then saw a video montage of the white sands of Panama City Beach, with vast crowds filled with partying college kids. The video included plenty of dancing college kids — think twerkin', not ballroom — binge drinking, body shots, making out, breasts exposed (blurred out for the prime-time program) and spring breakers describing the things they've seen on the beach this year: sex (which was mentioned several times), drinking, going to the bathroom in a trash can and various other activities.
"I saw a girl snorting cocaine off a guy's butt," one spring breaker tells Earhart, who spent several days in Panama City Beach filming the segment.
One person she tries to interview is openly smoking marijuana as she asks about drugs and guns and he walks away.
"What have we not seen at Spring Break?" another guy says.
"It doesn't matter how you do it — as long as you do it," a girl tells the camera. (None of the spring breakers Earhart spoke to were named in Tuesday night's show.)
After the video is over, Hannity and Earhart discuss the topic. One question is about nudity on the beach — specifically, how common exposure of breasts. "That's innocent now," she adds.
The talk turns to drugs, and Earhart says marijuana is ubiquitous. She mentions seeing a guy with the drug "Molly" get arrested, and she says police told her there was heroin on the beach, too.
She also discusses meeting a girl at the airport who had been robbed by a group of guys. The girl told said the perpetrators were "100-milers."
"These guys were like 40 years old," Earhart says the girl told her. And Ainsley adds that a lot of the troublemarkers are not just from the surrounding 100 miles — it's 1,000 miles, with people from New York, the Midwest and Missouri.
Hannity asks Earhart how this Spring Break's behavior compares to last year. "Worst than last year," Earhart replies.
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After a commercial break, a two-person panel joins Hannity and Earhart.
Earhart starts off by describing one of the "new things" at Spring Break — spraying a can of whipped cream down a girl's rear end and then "a guy comes and licks it off." She also describes seeing two girls passed out on the beach, with guys on the ground taking selfies with them, smacking them with beer bongs. She adds that a police officer described to her a posted video of passed-out girls being taken advantage of sexually.
The segment ends with Hannity talking about Wednesday night's segment of the show. He makes a snide reference to Panama City Beach Mayor Gayle Oberst, saying that she told Fox News no local politicians would speak to the program, but, he adds, Panama City Beach Councilwoman Josie Strange would be on Thursday night's show, and Sheriff Frank McKeithen's interview would be aired in a later program, too. Wednesday night's show will feature a ride-a-long with police.