Vlad Tepes video:
Hannity goes a bit over the top when he claims  the movie is the worst of this and that, which is irrelevant. The whole racket is about free speech, not about the movie that literally no one has seen.
Mark Steyn refers in that clip to the president of Libya. Here is the clip to which he refers:
America’s freedom of speech is under attack. Are we to sit by, passively?
Your earlier point on the communist precedent use eof FORWARD is echoed at: http://currmudgeon-patriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/vorwarts.html
I echo your sentiments.