Cunningham again smears Obama as a Muslim while feigning 'respect'
By David Neiwert Saturday Dec 20, 2008 12:00pm
Sean Hannity tried yesterday to regurgitate Ann Coulter's absurd claim (pulled, as near as we can tell, from her nether regions) that Barack Obama wants to be called by his full name simply because he's following the tradition in which a president's full name is used when he's sworn in.
And to back him up, he brought on Bill Cunningham, the Cincinnati radio-show host who got into trouble during the campaign by haranguing Obama over his middle name at a John McCain rally (McCain in short order repudiated him and apologized to Obama).
Hannity: Now we find out that Barack Obama says he plans to use the name Barack Hussein Obama when he's sworn in on Jan. 20. Does that -- does that now -- have you been vindicated here and is it now acceptable?
Cunningham: You know, Sean, I kind of expect McCain at some point to repudiate Barack Hussein Obama because back in February, I said he was a hack from Chicago, he swam in the deep blue waters of corruption, comes out of the pool without a drop on him. And at this point, maybe McCain would say that Cunningham was right and that he was wrong, and that he might have won Ohio if he had listened to me.
Hannity and Cunningham natter on about how mean it was of everyone to jump on right-wingers who trotted out Obama's middle name with great regularity as a reminder to voters of his alleged "foreignness". Finally, Alan Colmes (who's getting unusually spunky in his final weeks) chirps up:
Colmes: We're missing something here, which is that when Bill Cunningham ... you know, when you say his name Hussein, when Coulter says B. Hussein Obama -- leaving out his first name entirely -- the intent is a little different, isn't it, Bill?
Cunningham: It is not. My intent was to use the three names to show him respect.
[Laughter all around]
Colmes: That is funny.
Cunningham: You know, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lyndon Baines Johnson. I wanted to respect him.
Colmes: Let me get this straight. When conservatives would say Hussein, and underscore Hussein, and Coulter for example wouldn't even say his first name, just go right to the Hussein, it was just to show respect, and not point out that he's got a name that sounds like a guy we deposed in Iraq. There was no intent to do that, right, Bill?
Cunningham: Well, I wanted deep respect, and I wanted to highlight his roots in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was a Muslim for four years in two schools.
Colmes: I see. I see. Here we go with the Muslim stuff again.
These guys don't even bother trying to tell semi-credible lies anymore, do they?
Cunningham blows up his own fake "respect" immediately by admitting his intent was to spread the "Obama was once a Muslim" falsehood.
Is it any wonder they finally lost? Cluestick for Bill: Obama probably won Ohio because guys like you represented the Republican Party.
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Will they work in the Hussein that's understood in that sentence?
Um, actually, Obama DID say he was using his middle name because it was tradition; he said he was not trying to make a "statement" one way or the other.
Coulter claimed he was using it to (paraphrasing) "...make a bridge to the muslim community" or something like that.
How often did Hannity, Cunningham and Coulter say "John Sydney McCain"? What didn't they show "respect" for McCain by saying his middle name. Conservatives used Obama's middle name in the campaign to try to link him to Saddam Hussein. Hannity knows this. He's such an ass. These reichwing liars are scumbags.
Nether Regions sounds like a great title for a TV horror anthology
Must have been a Herculean feat pulling that out of her nether regions, considering all the cobwebs she would had to have fought her way past.
I'd like to show respect for this cocksucker Cunningham, but I just am unsure as to how I should go about it. Guys like cocksucking, no? So, I guess by calling Cunningham a cocksucker, I'm being respectful now (and I'll throw a bit of respect in there for Hannity as well -- he's a cocksucker, too).
Seriously though, these fucks have no sense of reasoning when it comes to stuff this. They are explained what it is, then go back to the "But why was it bad when we were using it as a put down" -- fake dumbass shit. They can have all the nuance they want when it suits, but no leeway with this. Fuck em. I wouldn't waste the time, except I enjoy calling these halfwits every name I can get away with.
I love it when chicks talk dirty...
Is Bill any relation to Sean?
C'mon, miss kitty, don't mince words - how do you really feel?
I am holding back.
You. Rock!!
I could not have said it better should I have tried.
Good job, woman!!
Let it out, Miss Kitty we're with you!
Bill Cocksucker Cunningham. Has a nice ring to it.
Anyone who does little more than promote divisive patriotism to rift a nation in two should be placed on a terrorist list and whisked off to Gitmo for "questioning".
Hannity is not a patriot, he seeks to destroy this nation by pitting itself against each other.
Not to mention the way they say thank you after each kiss of ring - blechh!
You who wish to conquer pain,
You must learn what makes me kind;
The crumbs of love that you offer me,
They're the crumbs Ive left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
Its just the shadow, shadow of my wound.
What a creepy lookin dude with that smile. Put some make-up on him and he looks an awful lot like The Joker.
on jan 21, he strikes down both hannity and cunningham
amen
If there is a god, on Jan. 21 he transports them both to Iraq - outside the Green Zone.
this video boiled my blood more than most. Do these people really not understand the difference between race-baiting smears and the use of BHO's name respectfully? Silly question, I know. It's all in the context folks. Now excuse me while while my head explodes from listening to these intellectually vapid blowhards. Grrr
I think most of the people in the media who spout shit like this understand how absurd, on its face, it is. But they also know who butters their bread... the people who sit down and only watch Fox News or listen to right wing radiot to inform themselves and so on... and so they act accordingly.
funny, it was going through my head that these people eat far too much white bread. It's bad for them, they look malnourished, it affects the brain, their brains are shrinking.
White bread morons.
These clowns are afraid of a name, a fukking name! What fukking pussies! No wonder they lost on November 4th.
GOP - out of ideas, out of money, out of office! Worx for me!
Proclomation
Bush was "W"
Obama is "H"
end of story
That there was a previous George Bush who was president before GWBush.
but yeah...id like to see video of cunningham giving similar 'respect' to ronald wilson reagan, william jefferson clinton, or james earl carter
Because every time the wingnuts think about President Elect Barack HUSSEIN Obama their blood pressure goes through the roof.
They tried to make it an emblem of scorn and division, but President Elect Barack HUSSEIN Obama has made it a symbol of pride and unification (and Victory!).
Besides, it's the only part of his name that my stupid spell-check seems to recognize.
Who cares what they are saying? Does anyone listen?
The guy's already elected, whatever they want to call him.
It's the whole dumb-assed argument over again, with the 'Democrat' stuff the right has been flogging for the last few years. And then they turn around and tell you it doesn't mean anything when you say it that way, and you really are a little kid who needs to grow some thick skin, and they really ARE so much more evolved than you.
Yeah, it's all so believable and plausible. If you have a double-digit IQ, that is.
Boy, you can see how Hannity has syphilis. He'll screw, or screw-up anybody he can. That's just nasty. But, if God is "the Truth", it's fitting that it's revealled. It's the TRUTH!
This is so playground.
Sean Hannity's middle name is Patrick. A good friend of mine whose first name is also Patrick, once told me that the name was outlawed in Ireland, similar in vein to the outlawing of MacGregor or Gregory, (and all other varients), was in Scotland during the English subjegation.
The MacGregor fact is true and with a quick Google search can be confirmed. I'm still looking for confirmation on the Patrick name though. Can anybody help me on this?
If it's true or not. But some of my family still lives in Scotland.
My Grandmothers parents came from Ireland to Scotland. My Grandfathers side of the family is true Scottish. The Sutherland clan.
Now, My grandmother was a staunch Catholic. And if you know anything about Scotland, it's been divided for decades/centuries over religion.
So much so, that Catholics were considered second class citizens Until recently, not able to hold any public office, or anything above sargeant in the police force. That's all changed now, but the hatred still lingers in the hearts of many there.
If you have the name Patrick in Scotland, you will grow up fighting.
You will learn how to box. Make no mistake about it. Once your name is called out, you will get into a fight.
In Ireland, no ,I doubt it.It wouldn't be banned there. But in Northern Ireland, it wouldn't be a good first name to have. Although I'm sure many carry the name. After all, the patron saint of Ireland is St. Patrick.
It's my understanding that in the ancient Celtic Church they considered their patron saints to be St Columba of Iona, and St Aidan of Lindisfarne. The Roman Catholic church either got rid of the Celtic church or absorbed it, and championed St Patrick.
One of my ancestors was an Anglican archbishop in Scotland, appointed by King Chuckles I.
My ancestor was one of three Scottish bishops that crowned Charles 10 years after his coronotion in London.
He was involved with something called the Letters of Perth that made Scotland have dual religions, the Church of England and the Church of Scotland.
And for that he not only lost his diocese, but was also excommunicated.
But I hear-tell he was buried in Westminster Abbey, along with a couple of 19th century brothers who were his decendents in the 19th century, one a historian and the other a mathematician.
Funny thing though, when I look up Westminster Abbey on-line I can find where my historian ancestor was buried, but not the mathematician.
Here's a picture of the arch-bishop:
http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/images/p3996.jpg
Funny thing, I look something like him without my glasses
But my ruff collar is at the cleaners.
This dual religion was not without precedent, because in 664 the Celtic Church in Scotland founded earlier by St Colomba merged with the Roman Catholic Church in England, (established by St Augustuine in Kent in 597), forming the Church of England, with dual primacies in Canterbury and York, which would be Christianity in England until 1066 when William the Conqueror slew the hero King Harold of the Saxons, and imposed Roman Catholicism by mailed fist. Harold and his men were also exhausted after a fierce battle with Vikings (which they did not know at the time was the Vikings last stand in Britain), and then have to march all the way to the Southern shores to face this invading army.
Harold and his men didn't have the stirrups like the Normans who had them since Charles Martel,in the 8th century defeated the Islamic invading forces in France in The Battle of Tours. Unfortunately, the Scottish baron we decended from and who's last name we have, rendered fealty to William when he entered Scotland. In the 15th century when the Stewart Line of English Kings under James II had control of Scotland, they imposed their tartan on everyone but our family, the only reason given was they they "respected us." For that reason our family background has been blurred, and it was uncertain whether we'd be considered of English or Scottish decent. The family motto on our coat of arms is "Patior et Portia" (I think) which means We Suffer So That We May Obtain. I prefer to translate it as, Less Filling, Tastes Great!
Can anyone name a President who did not use his full name when sworn in?
Bet ya can't...
IIRC, I believe Carter took the oath as "Jimmy Carter" as was roundly criticized for it.
If not Carter, then it must have been Harry Truman, since he didn't HAVE a middle name (the "S" was merely that: the initial "S.")
Origin: Arabic - "Good Boy, Good Looking Boy"
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Was Bill Cunningham being respectful by not introducing the person he was stumping for by their full name, John Sydney McCain? Me thinks the drowning dog can't backpedal much further. Too bad the token liberal on H/T can't take him on...
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Is it just me or does that Cunningham look like the dumbest fuck ever born ? Perfect bookend for slack jawed Scammity.
part and parcel of the religious right's dogma. If guys like Cunningham want to keep bringing in those advertising dollars for their programs, they've got to talk about something. This is an oldie but goodie to them. I have no clue why the RR seems to care so much about Obama's religion. Most of us don't care about theirs at all.
Hi "Dalton"....I won the bet. There are sixteen presidents who "did not have middle names" including GEORGE WASHINGTON and THOMAS JEFFERSON! Interesting, huh.....
Happy Holidays!
Look at those eyes. He looks like he is a product of an alcoholic mother, meth head father. Can these slimy creepy low IQ dumb fuck, sexual deviant looking scum sucking white trash hillbilly heroin loving XTIANS generate any more hate?
Is this kind of like everyone says, "George W. Bush," to show their utter and complete respect?
What is his middle name, Wonderboy?
His middle name is Wrong!
That just about covers it.
Either that or Wumbfuck.
Maybe his middle name is "doubleyoo," that's what Hannity said in his list of presidents' full names.
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Gee Worst Shrub.
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What is it with these conservatives and really bad, bad hair? Haven't they ever flipped through a magazine? You can show your haircutter a picture, ya know.
Here's the deal.
If you look at most Republicans in the 30's, 40's and 50's, they were mostly all bald-headed old fucks that looked like used car salesmen. Most Americans had bought lemons from used car salesmen and learned to distrust people who looked like them which kept the Republicans a minority party for years.
Then, the Republicans, who had the money but not the morals, thanks to movie actors like Ronnie Raygun, discovered hairdressers and proceeded to get the most perfect hair possible to make them and their tired ideas look "new and exciting" to Americans raised on the theory that beauty equals intelligence and power.
Over the last 12 years of perfect hairdos like Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham they discovered that underneath that perfect hairdo was either (1) an empty head or (2) a toxic landfill of a brain. The one exception is Rush Limbaugh who combined an appearance of a porker with the toxic landfill brain.
After getting screwed by hairdos, Americans are finally saying, gimme somebody with a brain, I don't care what he looks like.
Cunningham is delusional. If the formidable force that was Joe the Plumber couldn't deliver Ohio for McCain, nobody could have.
"..he swam in the deep blue waters of corruption.."
Hmmm,I would have gone with "black" waters of corruption,but that's just me.Incidently why is it all these slugs have the same hairdo?
They all go with that Ventriloquist's Dummy effect.
...on vannity's program.
I honestly want something bad to happen to vannity and this prick.
The right wing nut jobs don't get it. You can't just "lie" and make it "OK". Doesn't work that way in real life. We know damn good and well why this asshole and she-man and the like used Hussein as part of PE Obama's name.
Such nonsense.
Hannity promoting his new line of natural male enhancement products.
"I'm not an idiot, but I play one on TV."
Can't we just send all right-wing radio hosts and TV pundits to Iraq and Afghanistan? They love to talk a good game, let them put their money where their mouth is...
Word is Bill Cunningham and Sen larry Craig were sending morse code to each other in a airport latrine.
Years ago when I first heard of Hammity it was in claiming that he was the MiniMe to fat boy, at this point I think he has surpassed his master and is taking control of the Sith empire. It looks to me as if he wants to be to President Obama, what his master Limbaugh was to President Clinton. Check out his latest award;
http://www.newshounds.us/2008/12/18/sean_hann...
I think we should start a DEAD POOL for all the NeoConArtists and the Self Righteous Right and bid $2.00 for each one we would like to select, with a date of departure, cause of death, and expected last statement of the dead. All moneys can go to the ACLU for their general funds. Of course they are free to do the same thing to what they call or think of as the Left.
It should be lots of laughs for all.
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