Hannity Flip Flops with Bolton on North Korea's Nuke plan
By John Amato Wednesday Jul 02, 2008 12:00pm
I know this has been out there for a few days, but I had to post it. Hannity is the ultimate tool of the GOP, but I can't remember ever seeing him flip flop on a topic faster. We all know that this North Korean nuke deal is suspect to say the least, but Hannity fawns all over it in his opening to the segment until wingnut hero John Bolton attacks it and Hannity...well...see for yourself.
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transcript via Think Progress:
HANNITY: The news today brings a clear foreign policy victory for the Bush administration. But will the press report it that way? Joining us now for analysis, former ambassador to the U.N. and a Fox News contributor, John Bolton. What do you think this means?
BOLTON: I think it's actually a clear victory for North Korea. They gain enormous political legitimacy...In return, we get precious little. I think this is North Korea demonstrating again that they can out-negotiate the U.S. without raising a sweat.
HANNITY: Boy I tell you they've done it time and time again, and I'm sorta perplexed, Mr. Ambassador, to understand why we keep going back to the well knowing that they haven't kept the agreements in the past. Whatever happened to Reagan's "trust but verify"?
OMG, is this hysterical. Yes, will the press credit Bush with a monumental victory?----to---how could he be such a fool? The only fool is Hannity. Who needs Comedy Central when we have Sean . Should we even mention that since North Korea is one of Bush's Axis of Evil; isn't negotiating with them unthinkable? It made me think of this scene from Chinatown:
Mrs. Mulwray: I'll tell you, I'll tell you the truth.
Jake: Good. What's her name?
Mrs. Mulwray: Katherine.
Jake: Katherine who?
Mrs. Mulwray: She's my daughter.
Jake: (He slaps her.) I said, 'I want the truth.'
Mrs. Mulwray: She's my sister. (He slaps her again.) She's my daughter. (Slap.) My sister, my daughter. (Slap. Slap.)
Jake: I said, 'I want the truth!' (He throws her against the sofa.)
Mrs. Mulwray: ...She's my sister and my daughter!...My father and I - understand? Or is it too tough for you?
And then there's this:
Rep. Silvestre Reyes , D-Texas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement it was not clear to him why the administration would choose to lift sanctions on Kim Jong Il’s regime just weeks after publicly confirming North Korea’s assistance in developing a covert nuclear reactor in Syria — and while the press was reporting the regime may also have a covert uranium enrichment program.
The ranking Republican on Reyes’ panel, Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, had even harsher words for Bush.
“A decision seemingly has been made that it is more important for the White House to reach a legacy agreement than to get to the bottom of North Korea’s nuclear efforts,” he said in a statement. “The administration has repeatedly delayed briefing Congress on North Korean proliferation because it knows any deal reached would not likely survive the scrutiny of Congress. It has never sought to hold North Korea accountable for its nuclear weapons test, its known nuclear proliferation activities or its willingness to sell arms to any nation or group that can pay.”
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Captain Kangaroo and Flubadub Hannity: What a couple they make!
When Clinton made a deal with No. Korea it was worth a shot.
Now it's redundant.
And it flies against boosh's previous stance against meeting with enemies.
And I don't remember Clinton making his deal with Korea part of any legacy attempt, nor of elevating it to the level of the end of the Cold War.
They have to be against it because otherwise Obama has the right idea.
Hannity's head must hurt from this bitch-slapping he gets from HIMSELF.
Sean Hannity is the Lou Costello of punditry.
C'mon, John. Didn't KO talk about this Monday or Tuesday night?
6 thWalrus
I like Lou Costello.
Hannity is more of a Carrot Top, Pauly Shore, Tom Green school of punditry.
sean hannity offers nothing except maybe entertainment
this guy is not objective and repeats himself like
the parrot
osiris @ 1:
How dare you dishonor Captain Kangaroo? ;)
I would have pulled my back out, flip flopping so quickly. That' was friggin' hilarious.
HANNITY: The news today brings a clear foreign policy victory for the Bush administration. But will Sean Hannity report it that way? Joining us now for analysis, former ambassador to the U.N. and a Fox News contributor, John Bolton. What do you think this means?
I dunno Sean, you tell us.
LMFAO!!!!
That is CLASSIC!
Thanks for posting this. I don't watch Fox News as I have a strict rule to not watch crap, so I would have missed this otherwise.
I wonder how many brain dead Fox watching nimrods made the flip flop with Hannity right there live on the air?
Ya, know we've ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia.
Hannity can't even bullshit correctly. Intelligent design in action.
Where's Mr. Greenjeans?
It's a toss up whether Hannity's dick is smaller than his brain, or visa versa. They're both tiny.
Dont these Fox pundits compare marching orders BEFORE coming on the air ?
13 Chesco Res Says: LMFAO!!!!
That is CLASSIC!
Thanks for posting this. I don’t watch Fox News as I have a strict rule to not watch crap..
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Not sure why, but I watch while I flush.
I like how he stumbles trying to find the right talking point to correct himself. "Um um um, trust but verify."
ysbaddaden @ 18:
I do the same.
Fox is a great laxative.
beltman713 @ 19:
That applies to one's own govermnet as well as a country's adversary.
What Hannity also fails to mention is there was a clear trade off between the United States and North Korea. The North Koreans destroyed a defunct and practically worn down portion of the nuclear program while days later the U.S. transported via ship huge shipments of food stuffs to North Korea. In other words, the North Koreans basically gave up nothing. They retain their nuclear devices and/or weapons, scientists, and technology. Hannity can claim that this was a Bush victory but even Bolton knows otherwise.
ysbaddaden @ 18:
You gotta make sure the floaters like Rush, Hannity and O'reilly go down.
So Hannity is Bolton's sister?
Talk about going whichever way the wind blows.
Faggity and Dolton is just more closet GAY Reslugs.
Hannity's awesome ha ha! keep this guy on the air he's comedic gold!
rush=flush?
"Hannity Sucks ASS"
This is why I hate television. It makes two idiots sound intelligent. There is no bullsh@t detector.
Maybe Roman Polanski could have a little talk with Bu$h ...
when all fails pull the reagan card
What is it about conservatives that they are all such a bunch of knee-jerk unrepentant ass-kissers?
From the article: "It's rare for happy video footage to come out of North Korea, but the other day, it happened. Camera crews were on hand Friday as authorities set off charges at the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, instantly reducing the cooling tower to a heap of rubble."
Yea, thats great for the cameras but it means nothing. A reactor can be rebuilt and besides, it probably isn't the only nuclear reactor North Korea has either. What matters is, North Korea still has their nuclear scientists, engineers, and weapons grade or at best reactor grade plutonium along with the blueprints. Without those nuclear scientists and engineers North Korea would be set back generations because those people are difficult to replace. This North Korean action that Hannity sees as a victory is about as useless as Saddam Hussein's statue falling in Baghdad though it is, as we see good for propaganda purposes.
They are both disgusting ,
Only bolton is revolting
There are very few repigs that make me want to puke and shit my pants at the same time. The only one missing from this travesty of incompetence is Billy chickenshithawk KKKristal.
Spammity needs to be shaken until the nut he calls a brain rattles out of his overly coiffed head. And would somebody please tear that joke of a mustache off Bolton's face? The only reason he wears it is so you don't see what a queen he is.
I heard Bush break this news the other day, and afterwards some newsie said it, "This leaves only Iran as a member of the "Axis of Evil." What does that tell you? Just another reason to line the tanks up on the Iranian border and ignore the NK's.
Hannity is just a lemming for the GOP. He really is not very smart. If Bush says "jump," Hannity says "Ja wohl!"
No wonder he couldn't graduate from high school.
Looks like more pattern reinforcement and it is coming harder and faster than the news cycle churners can handle.
We have the slowly deflating Wes Clark hyperventilation fiasco and now piled higher and deeper we have a nimble footed twinkle toes Hannity doing a most lovely pirouette for a walrus mustache recalling Stalin's dumb general crony Semyon Budyenny, like Bolton, a man with a large mustache and a small brain.
At this rate I get a sense that all the Beltway bobblehead millionaire courtiers in TV World are heading toward some building hysteria over the impending doom staring at their profession.
They are losing ability to stay on the same frayed page.
I always knew Hannitys endless lust for Bush, and Boltons endless lust for blood and guts would one day cause some friction.
Hannity, Bolton and Bush have brought duplicity to a whole new level: triplicity.
He ought to wear a neck brace.
I just had to watch that again. You can just see it on Bolton's face. He knows that what Hannity is touting is actually a farce. The North Koreans played the incompetent Bush Administration like the fools that they are.
That's great.
"Will the mainstream press report it that way (as a victory for the Bush Admin)"
Then they go on to report it as a loss for the Bush Administration.
Someone better get their propaganda together on that show.
Hannity is the ultimate tool
of the GOPThere. Fixed that for ya.
vannity would be laughable, if it wasn't for the braindead sheep that actually believe his bullshit.
As for sam....he's just a frustrated old idiot. Never got any respect, couldn't get confirmed...and he is just another chickenhawk with a platform to spew hate and vitriol.
They are both accessories to war crimes.
Hannity's intellect is quite low. Having no idea what he was talking about he therefore flip flopped without even realizing it. He sums up the juvenile Beavis & Butthead state of Fox News and their creationary cartoonists who all fit in well with the mad march hare that resides in the White House along with the other characters from Lewis Caroll.
Any idea who would play those other Lewis Carroll characters?
I'm curious as to how, even if legit, Korea's giving up the nuke thing gets them off the state sponsored terrorist list? I mean, just because they give up the nukes, does that mean they automatically stop doing whatever it was that got them on the state sponsors of terrorism list?
Lets face it - the bush administration while speaking against nuclear weapons proliferation has been pushing for that same proliferation. The outing of Valerie Plame wasn't an odd coincidence and wasn't just about her husbands trip to Niger.
47 ciloisin
turdblossam and gonzo for Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
osiris @ 1:
Now, that's an insult to Captain Kangaroo up with which I will not put...I was raised by the good Captain. This was a better situation than being raised by the wolves who claimed to be my parents. It may also explain why this 54 year old man still believes he is seventeen.
Use Colin Glencannon instead, at least he was a true rogue and scoundrel (although in a good way).
What an incredible dick!
kindanasty rice as the Queen of Hearts, monica goodling (?) as Alice, if he weren't dead william f buckley as the caterpiller--but since he is dead, Chris Hitchens. The Mad Hatter could be donald rumsfield, and colin powell as the white hare, and william krystol(nacht) as the Cheshire Cat.
And dennis miller as the king.
At least hannity paid the proper respect to St. Ronnie by attributing Lenin's quote to The Gipper.
Note to Hanity--Goat Bolton is NOT ambassator and Bush today has change his FKN mind--N.Korea is not off the list. America the Indian trader!
proof positive that hannity is an idiot
take away his talking points and there is nothing there
and im sorry, but its bush's policies that have allowed nk to become a nuclear super power
I'm waiting for Olbermann to finally put his sights on sHamity.
O'Reilly is a sad, empty, sorry sack of a commentator any more. He has become more of an over the top parody of himself than Colbert could ever try and be. Even Greta Van Sustren's tabloid hour pulls in higher profile guest than Loofa-boy. He is so done the fork is starting to melt.
Its time for the netroots and Olbermann to take Hannity down to that same level of irrelevancy. He can only parrot the same brainless bullshit over and over, so it shouldn't be too tough.
John Bolton just used the Jedi Mind Trick on Sean Insanity.
Sean: This is Great!
John : No it isn't.
Sean: This is obviously not Great!
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Breaking News: Sean Hannity is a tool.
In other news the sky is blue, grass is green, and the sun rises in the east.
Sweet jesus, that Hannity is a smug little prig. Ya just wanna smack him silly.
I like how every screen shot of Hannity looks like he's trying to stifle a fart.
republican = insanity!
Bitter Bud Hussein @ 61:
hannity is a stifled fart.
Bitter Bud Hussein @ 61:
And Bolten always looks like he smells one.
great is great until it's not, eh Sean?
so they blew up an outside cooling tower , biga deal, most likely they allready rebuilt one inside of a mountain!
Looks like Hannity is bucking for a fat new contract like his buddy Rush and Beck.
Joe O. @ 34:
Even worse, all they blew up was a hollow concrete cooling tower. It could be rebuilt in a month. I guarantee you it was expendable and so the DPRK nuclear program goes on.
Another Bush administration stunt, nothing more.
Jay @ 58:
Sorry.... I know Eddie Murphy is a little extreme.
That's so far past flip-flopping that it deserves a new category ... whiplash. A feat of verbal punditry so abrupt and sever that injury could occur.
Sean Hannity is a professional and with physical therapy and a precautionary neck-brace he should be fine having whip-lashed his nuanced take on the North Korean Nuclear deal worked out by the Bush Administration in the space of ........ fifteen seconds.
Clearly he didn't get the Neo-Con talking points, but once set straight by John Bolton he doesn't skip a beat.
OMG Sean Hannity is a total tool.
John, Sean Hannity is not simply a TOOL, he is a WEDGE, the SIMPLEST of tools.
I'll go you one better and suggest that Hannity's actual reaction was edited. Notice that during his stammering reply there is a continuous cutaway to scary looking contraptions and not a single shot of Hannity. I think that his reaction was dubbed after the fact. Watch it again, and listen to the sound change.
Hannity is a complete tool. What's amazing is that you could probably play that video right in front of him and he'd still deny that he flip-flopped.
Hannity once again shows what a dope he is! To think that people listen to this clown as some sort of guiding light makes my head spin.
Hannity, "you're a dopey American"!
brilliant,, one could do a PHD thesis with that blurb.
The reich wingers (Hannity included) need to understand that almost all the people that chuckle happily when reagan is cited are dead. Much of America was born after his terms, so they don't really care what reagan said. The reich wingers are living in the kennedy-past, much as democrats did for most of a generation. It will come back to haunt them, I assure you, just as it did the democrats and the JFK worship. The parties have got to stop looking for a savior and looking for a leader.
Hannity is simply a new way to spell HYPOCRITE.
If a Repug does it... he's a GREAT AMERICAN.
If a liberal does it... he's a flip-flopping, un-patriotic, no-lapel-pin-wearing socialist obviously under the influence of dangerous close associations of persons of questionable character... and married to somebody who hates her country.
Hannity wouldn't recognize an honest political position on ANY issue... even if it hit him over the head. He is SO FAR UP THE ASS of the "daily campaign" of the Bush Administration I think he has lost the ability to think for himself.
Has anyone ever told John Bolton he looks like a scumbag?
Just curious.
Does anyone besides me not find it highly laughable that now that North Korea 'abandons it's nuclear weapons program' the US wants to take them off the list of rogue states?
Just like when Libya handed over their laughable arsenal of WW2 WMDs they became so legit that now everyone can trade with them. Heck France wants to sell them modern attack helicopters.
A pig with a tie is still a darn pig!
The west is pulling off their little games again and then people will suffer again.
And when the winds change again, guess who will be coming to the rescue?
The same scum that supported the bad guy.
We are just as bad as the scum because we let them get away with it.
Hannity is just imitating his lord and master, the king of flip-flops, John McCain.
Hannity is infected with foot in mouth dis-ease, which perhaps explains his mind-blowing 180-degree shift when contradicted by someone a bit right of Bush: John Bolton, that darling of the neocons and U.N.-bashers of every type. Having no brains of his own, Hannity has to switch gears when he asks a dumbass question and gets a dumber answer. Good way to ruin a transmission.
Dumb and Dumber.
Should have had El Rushbo on too, then they could-a had a tri-fecta of stupidity.
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