Blooper: Hannity punks himself on anti-McCain Campain ad.
By John Amato Thursday Jul 31, 2008 2:00pm
Friday bloopers!
Sean Hannity was in fine form last night as he had his fresh new Obama--GOP--attack--talking points ready to go. (I don't think Scott McClellan passed them off this time.) He wanted his audience to see Obama's newest ad to help lower gas prices, but unfortunately for him he aired an ad that criticized John McCain's energy plan instead. Oppps. He thought McCain had principles. Thanks for the extra publicity. I'm sure Obama thanks you too.
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Hannity: Here is Barack Obama's plan to lower gas prices, in his own words.
Ad: Sen. McCain, you let me and my kids down.
Fire that tech already Sean. You got punked. (h/t Moe)
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a ha ha
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What kind of man promises to unring a bell he promised to not ring?
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You gotta love it. Hannity basically ignored the claim that was brought up in the ad that did show, where drilling for oil wouldn't have ANY impact for at least ten years.
Faux really is staffed with the most incompetent mooks on the planet.
Bang on form...as always. What a moron.
I want to work on his crew!
Gee, they're usually so good at disseminating misinformation and lies. I wonder what happened. Maybe they hired a former McCain staffer to handle the control room. Those guys would screw up anything.
John McCain NOPE T-Shirts & Stickers!
Who let the guy who puts the R's and D's on people's names run the video footage?
Dr. Britney Hussein Matt @ 4:
If you wanted to be a serious news journalist in front of or behind the camera would YOU want to work for FOX??
It's becoming clear that professionals don't want to work at fox anymore.
Actually, Obama is 100% right, according to the FTC.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt064.shtm
"# Keep your engine tuned. Tuning your engine according to your owner’s manual can increase gas mileage by an average of four percent. Increases vary depending on a car’s condition.
# Keep your tires properly inflated and aligned. It can increase gas mileage up to three percent. "
Damn those facts.
RayC @ 9:
They are not 'journalists' by any stretch of the word. They are propagandists and entertainers.
Earlier in the day Hannity was telling his staffers "F*ck it! We'll do it live!" too.
They do seem to have a problem getting competent people to work for that network at any level. Even if one was competent at any given job and sufficiently desperate to work for Fox, how do you explain that on your resume when a decent job prospect appears. As someone already pointed out, you can't urning the bell. The people at Fox News will always aspire to be second raters.
Dr. Britney Hussein Matt @ 11:
That is my point, any competent person who is serious about there job would not work for FOX news.
homina, homina.... i bet some video technician just got shitcanned over at fox...
Bwahahahahahahaha
Does anyone with a brain watch these idiots anymore? I hope Hannity is at church when one of his 1/2 witts comes calling.
OOPS Their job not there job
sorry
Maybe he should stick to the things that he knows - like inciting evildoers to attacking unarmed people in church on Sunday mornings. He did a fine job with that.
Ah,oh! Some truth slipped out there.,,,not good for Hannity.
newt doing his (NEOCON) part to offer a knee jerk response/answer to the crude prices. i would like to hear what they have to say if there is an oil spill let's say off the s. carolina shores and it affects n.carolina beaches......who's going to pay. most of these beaches represent billions of dollars in tourism/real estate.
this is being used as a political issue at the expense of the vulnerable public. since our oil is not nationalized the oil will be sold/bought possibly china.
ask (R) arnold schwartzenegger(sp) about off shore drilling.
i've heard that ANWR could be costly.....having an expensive pipeline on the permafrost. this would require expensive maintenance and security...since it's said it would be a major threat and easy target for terrorism. ask that giant insurer llloyds of london about insuring any of these projeects
Hoist by his own Petard.
linda @ 15:
I'm sure anchor baby malkin has published this technician's email and home addresses by now.
All the McCainWatch coverage is just preachin' to the choir here. All of us here know he is a crook and a liar already. Maybe C&L should just add a mirror site dedicated to their McCainWatch.
Damn, how much echo do you guys need?
What a fool . I was impressed though that he spotted that it was the wrong add but it take him watching the whole thing to figure it out.
Just the kind of helpful friends McSame needs , some dumb ass lost his job last night . HIL-FUCKING -LARIOUS.
I'm not positive but I think that was the new ad by MoveOn. Which, if it is, makes the mistake even sweeter.
We need the guy on the youtube video to replace the Speaker of the House.
Classic....classic. And all awhile ignoring what the facts are about the situation. "Never mind that man behind curtain" ... and the Newtster giving us his "wisdom"- my God, could anyone be more politically retarded than a Fox News viewer (and I don't mean the ones that watch for comic relief). WE GOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY AND IT"S COMING FROM THE FOLKS WHO SEEM TO HOLLER THE LOUDEST ABOUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS>>>
BIGBONEDED @ 25:
Hannity barely made it through high school.
He is just a talking point echo chamber.
Sean Hannity: If I only had a brain...
BIGBONEDED @ 25:
Remember Hannity has NO college degree, he dropped out. Not the brightess light on the string. He has all his knowledge in lying and deception. and is spoon fed all his material.
Clueless Gingrich Claims Inflating Car Tires Properly To Save Energy Is ‘Loony Tunes’
Yep, I was right the ad does belong to MoveOn. They recently sent out an email showing the ad McCain made, the one with the old fashioned gas pump, and this new one of theirs and asked which did the members want the public to see.
As Fox's senior boob would say:
D'oh!
Hannity...Pwned
....well, they do say "Fair and Balanced" after all....perhaps some tech is helping that along!
Maybe this makes me an elitist, but I'm not going to swallow any information given to me by a college dropout.
Whatever techie got fired from Fox for this... good for him/her.
Tarro @ 17:
Primarily because so many legions of the brainless watch it so faithfully, and you gotta keep up with the enemy...
oh, yeah, they're the enemy, like the zombies in a scare-flick. they're not really "bad," just dead and hungry. So you gotta cave in their skulls. Nothing personal. Just like cleaning up a nest of roaches...
Hannity's a classic type: the aggressive, pretty-boy, dumb-ass, mackerel-snapping Mick bully.
Kick him in the balls. That always stops 'em...
I'm curious, how did Mr. Hannity spin this off or did he not realize he was punked?
i've tried several times to watch hannity&colmes to get
perspective on both sides....but i can't watch it anymore.
it's obvious linguistic framing and propaganda. but it's on the level of hooked on phonics.....hannity repeating himself over and over with his lists of negative labels.
regarding his education that doesn't surprise me for what he does. it doesn't require a degree in journalism from columbia.......i'm lucky to have degrees but i personally won't be disrespectful of people who don't. many of my pts. don't have degrees and many are smart. just saying
That's what happens when you keep hiring hacks. That was priceless!!
Did anybody else hear the gaffe on Limbaugh this morning? George W and his daddy and brother called in to Rushs' show to congratulate him on his 20th Anniversary on the air and when daddy Bush gets on the line he starts talking and suddenly he says "Hey! How's our man Ailes? Have you heard from him?" Limbaugh answers with a short response and one of Bushs' sons must have to daddy that Rush was live on the radio and Bush Sr. says "Oh...are we on the radio? Heh, heh. I better clean up my act, then quickly says goodbye and hands off the phone to Jeb. Senior Bush sounded like he got caught in the cookie jar or something the way he split. It was pretty funny. I hope you can get a clip for the site.
Blooper: Hannity punks himself on anti-McCain Campain ad.
He must be double-jointed
And have to recite 10 Hail Marys.
Why hasn't The Simpsons ever had an episode where Homer becomes a conservative political commentator on the local FOX station?
I guess we have to get pleasure out of Sean Hannity's mistake because once President McCain is in place we will be in mourning and disbelief once again.
The Republican Motto:
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
I wish Democrats and Progressives understood the Republican Motto instead of believing that if you just do the right thing (i.e. the high road) you will be rewarded. The right thing no longer works and Democrats and Progressives continue to be fools believing it will.
It couldn't have happen to a better high school drop-out.
Attn Fox Video Tech:
Come forward. Reveal yourself. Declare you ran the wrong clip on purpose and watch the job offers pour in!
You are the new American Hero!
Dr. Britney Hussein Matt @ 4:
And the biggest share of those mooks are not the techs but the commentators!
Good job Hannity, you're obviously worth the big bucks you're paid.
And thanks to P.O.'d Patricia for pointing out that it's a MoveOn ad, that just makes it even more schadenfreudelicious.
linda @ 15:
he sacrificed himself for a good cause... truth... some form of honor in his memory would be appropriate...
McCain is the Big Oil puppet.
In June 13th, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared at a Town Hall meeting on Wall Street, "I am very angry, frankly, at the oil companies not only because of the obscene profits they've made but at their failure to invest in alternate energy to help us eliminate our dependence on foreign oil."
On June 16th, McCain attended a private fundraiser in Texas with Big Oil, and he apparently could not resist the cash flow that would be flowing his way. When 33 McCain staffers and fundraisers have received $9.65 million in lobbying fees from at least 30 oil and gas industry corporations and associations, it is clear MCCain and his staff is greased by Big Oil. Do we really want another oil man for president? How well has it worked out for us?
Campaign Money Watch released It's A Gusher: As John McCain Fights For Big Oil, They Open Their Wallets, a new report that features an in-depth analysis of how John McCain's campaign received an influx of Big Oil dollars after his June 16 reversal on offshore oil drilling.
http://www.campaignmoney.org/mccainoil
Hannity was hard pressed to ad lib[sic] out of that, even he knew the script didn't match what they just showed.
The truly terrifying thing is that his schtick is actually scripted...
Faux's Fat-Ass Fairy proves daily that he is a complete uneducated, moron.
Once you change governments down there, you really have to do something to return the media to the people.
Hahahahaha! An instant classic!
Nya ha ha! you Fred Flintstone lookin' hand job.
Stephen @ 11:
And you know what, that would probably save consumers more at the pump than all these drilling boondoggles offshore. OF course if only the oil companies would pump out of the land in which they already have leases....
That was RICH! Nice going! The propaganda network has some issues...lol.
here is part of obama's plan:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_el_pr/obama;_ylt=AsQlJAtNHbm.N...
ROFLMAO!
Okay, I guess the punk who spooled that clip is now out looking for a job with the guy who put the "X" over Dick Cheney.
Also, only a left wing, ponsy metrosexual wears a PINK TIE and a blazer with BRASS BUTTONS, Joe. You'd better throw on an orange vest and run out to the woods to kill some animals if you want to re-establish your conservative credentials.
karen marie @ 62:
i just caught the very end of a discussion on CNBC about that windfall profit tax...they were belittling the idea......i guess it's not the same as bailing out freddie and fannie..bear stearns
Weaseldog @ 6:
Not until you learn how to spell the word 'WERK,' Charlie.
Stephen @ 11:
Yes, but they're obviously trying to make him look like Jimmy Carter.
Carter said if all American's turn their thermostat down to 68 from 72, and slow down to 50mph from 70mph on the highway, it would save as much oil as we import! Facts! In order to combat FACTS, the Republicans had no choice but to send in a KILLER RABBIT to attack Carter, and make him look like a wimp who was soft on rodents. (Don't laugh, it WORKED, didn't it?)
I can't help but notice that the ad itself overdubbed someone else's voice to make it sound like the guy you see.
Notice, at 0:33 into the clip, an overdubbed voice says, "Which I find out won't produce much oil for ten years!"
It's a good point, but the guy in the ad didn't say it. Why are anti-McCain ads using FoxNews-like tactics?
God help these propagandists if the FCC is ever restored to integrity.
Space Coyote @ 66:
I agree, that was a pretty noticable hatchet-job on the sound. I hope the Obama people are not REALLY planning to use that ad.
HANNITY SUCKS ASS
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6876/hannitysucksaug82006blu7.jpg
When somebody gets fired on FOX and angels get his horns.
It's also funny that the ad he showed wasn't even put out by Obama.
I suppose we are suppose to take Sean words that Obama said what he claims to say since he wasn't able to back it up with a video.
I suppose that since Sean showed something that actually hurt McCain images, that he is now label as a left wing media, and take Alan Colmes Spot.
Can you imagine the firestorm that rained down on the control room guy who screwed that up? You know he took a beating for that - probably fatal to his (or her) career at Fox.
Don from Canada @ 57:
What? then we would be just like Hugo Chevez and become a socialistic country. It would be a media waiting for disaster. Why wait? Facist way is truly the fastest way for disaster!
J.C. @ 72:
He'll be force to wear a Frito lay emblem on his arm band!
The only thing more overly inflated than Hannity's ego is probably the pay check he brings home.
The guy defines the word douche-bag.
The one thing that still confounds me to this day is not that he has sponsors that support
his ideological blather, but that there are real people out there who believe this gasbag.
I suppose to some extent it explains why there is even a presidential race still worth talking about.
It seems the story may be the fact they had the MoveOn ad loaded in the first place. Certainly Fox had NO INTENTION of showing it, so what were they intending to do with it? My guess is they were up to no good for sure, so they certainly got what they had coming by letting it slip out and air .... FOR FREE no less! LOLOLOLOLOL I'll bet Hannity did see to it that someone got fired for sure though, but given that anyone stupid enough to apply for a job with Fox is also evil incarnate by implication, good riddance I say!
New attack ad by McCain compares Obama to Jesus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id1IKJGVkvg
Sean looked like he was just cheated on by Newt and his producer. Poor Sean, looks like a boob again.
He wasn't "punked," he was a victim of Fox's own sloppiness and incompetence. That's poetic justice, since many others fall victim to this all the time. But "punked" implies that someone at Fox purposely cued up the MoveOn.org ad instead. Surely you don't really think that was the case.
Faux News is just like the Bush Administration. They don't hire people for the competency, they hire them for their politics.
The mishaps in various departments of government under this administration are just like the ones at Faux News. They wouldn't happen if they hired people for the skills and not their political affiliations.
Hahaha! Take that, Sean "Fan Hands" Insannity! I did it! I made the switch! Muhahaha!
Vote For Pedro!
[leaps out FoxNoise first-floor window in heroic fashion]
You can almost hear someone say: "YOU'RE FIRED!!!"
Hannity sucks Ass. Again.
interesting that they let it play all the way thru.
I know. What a dumb-ass. It probably didn't even hit him that it was the wrong ad. Newt knew though -- you could tell by the look on his face. I'm lovin this political season!!! The Repugs heads are exploding - A black man is going to be the next president! A black man is going to be the next president! You know it, son.
At some point, some of these people who listen to Faux crap have got to have an a-ha moment!
Otherwise, we may be doomed!
To Republicans, not keeping tires inflated and engines tuned up is an issue of personal freedom. Really. They're that dumb.
huzzah!
too bad I never watch the jackass.. well, not really - you know!
anyway: wouldn't it be too bad and a gosh-darned shame if
SHAMnity were to get a beat-down with a pillowcase full of
doorknobs? it sure would! of course I would never encourage
anybody to do such a thing 'cuz that would be just awful.
so hannity is a bufoon and his techies are idiots
but the dems arent getting the real message out
the real message is that the oil companies arent going to drill...they just want cheap leases
and even if they drill...it wont bring down gas prices in the slightest
because this message isnt getting out, polls are showing that a majority of californians now favor offshore oil drilling
this despite the fact that the majority of oil taken from california ends up in japan
It's insHannity I tell you.
Wahahahah... some intern who got fired today is reading these responses going.. oooohh yeahh it was totally worth it.
I'm sure that sean hannity handled this with all the manliness that is, in fact, sean hannity.
He called a bunch of his friends over and they beat the crap out of the editor that put that on TV.
Because nothing says manly like a gang beating.
haha Sean! You got served on your own damn show. So funny to see the wheels come off the propaganda machine just for a second, anyway.
VegasRage @ 90:
Stop the insHannity!
I love karma!
You can bet a social dominator like Hannity got very upset at something like this.
Not that I am complaining, but why did they let the wrong video run for that long? Pretty damn funny though;)
It would have been funnier if he'd gotten rickrolled.
How funny
Yep, Sean running Newt's and the GOP's talking points that he recieved that morning. I would bet that ORielly got the same memo and ran it on his radio show. Oh, thats right. Billo doesn't get those memos and doesn't know anyone that does at FOX.......
Sean and Newt should understand, the air pressure and tune ups make your auto run more efficiently. I guess these guys never tell their children to turn off the lights at home when leaving the room?
Would the oil companies allow a 100 gal oil leak a day to continue and do nothing because they are pumping thousands of gals a day? When they could fix the leak and put that 100 gallons a day in the profit book for the year????
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Please, I beg McCain to pick Newt as his V.P..
Newt, the man that did a circuit of speechs to suspend all free speech of American citizens to thwart terrorism.
Newt, what a guy, what a V.P. choice he would make for McCain. The Steven King entertainment touch, he would bring to this election...!
Being "Incompetent " isn't their problem , it's their lack of honesty and integrity and that's like saying John Dillinger was bad at making bank deposits . Any idiot can read a teleprompter , but if you put up crap you know is damn lie , like " OBAMA SAYS PUTTING AIR IN YOUR TIRES AND GETTING A TUNE UP , IS EQUIVALENT TO DRILLING OFFSHORE" . oBAMA never SAID IT WAS equivalent TO OFF SHORE DRILLING . hANNITY LIES AS EASILY AS HE BREATHS AIR , SO DON'T EXPECT ANY COMPETENCY .