Hannity says Palin faced a double standard: 'Obama never got asked tough questions about his radical friends'
By David Neiwert Wednesday Jul 08, 2009 1:00pm
Sean Hannity was whining last night with his "All American Panel" about the unfair treatment of Sarah Palin by the media, including the various sexist remarks:
Hannity: What woman is going to want to get into politics if they're treated this way?
Interesting question. Even more interesting is the question: Why didn't Sean Hannity ever ask that about the sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton from 1992 onward? (Treatment, we should add, he happily administered.)
But the most un-self-aware of his comments came shortly afterward:
Hannity: You know, Jennifer, it makes me mad, because Obama had zero qualifications -- he was a state senator, he didn't even serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, he'd never had executive experience. He never got asked tough questions about his radical friends and associates, except by me and others. I find -- why the double standard exist here?
Actually, Obama was regularly asked about his "radical friends" by not just Fox News anchors but also a number of other journalists. He was also asked about it in a national debate with John McCain. He was challenged about it by Hillary Clinton.
ON THE OTHER HAND ... Was Sarah Palin ever asked tough questions about her radical friends and associates? You know, the ones Max Blumenthal and I dug up in Wasilla and elsewhere -- particularly the Alaskan Independence Party and its Bircherite cohort.
Er, no. Especially not by any Fox News anchors.
So yes, there definitely was a double standard at work there. Maybe Sean Hannity should answer his own question.
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to a secessionist group as part of her curriculum vitae.
So Mr. Hannity, since we're tackling double standards, care to comment on Todd Palin's membership with an Alaskan secessionist group and how that affects Mrs. Palin's standing as being deemed fit for one of the top offices in the land. The same land to which her husband seems to be opposed to belong?
Fair and balanced....
The secessionist part might have been a plus for Hannity and his tea party folks.
Hey maybe that's it. Maybe Palin is going to head the tea party party.
SARAH HUSSEIN PALIN?
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Bets are on...
... In two years Sarah will be the new FOXPRAVDANEWS show host titled:
I bet (ins)Hannity is one of her first guests.
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"Tea bagging party."
A dumbass, complusive liar. Hannity actually enjoys lying. To say Obama never got asked tough questions about his radical friends is a laughable lie.
because he's acting like he's never heard of a little thing called time, which moves forward, so that the past, and the present, are actually capable of being DIFFERENT!
Palin et al are borderline (?) treasonous radicals right now, not in '67.
While horribly misleading, Hannity is being perfectly truthful here. Read the quote again: "He never got asked tough questions about his radical friends and associates, except by me and others." Who are the others of whom he speaks? Perhaps Hillary Clinton, who questioned him about it during a debate, or John McCain, who did the same? Maybe it includes every journalist who got the chance. Hannity's quote leaves open the possibility that Obama received quite a few questions about his friends from a variety of sources. It just makes you think that it didn't.
Speaking of double standards, I waited and waited for someone in the MSM to show the public on prime time the video of Sarah Palin's exorcism where demons were being cast out of her by some crackpot douchebag minister.
For some reason, that clip never got played except on Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert.
If Obama had gotten an exorcism from Reverend Wright on video, don't you think it would have been endlessly played and brought up on the debates?
Palin was treated much kinder by the MSM than her abject incompetence merited.
As Maher himself said about that episode, had it been Obama getting exorcised by that African, the election would have been over there and then.
..numerous times.
I remember one really tough question asked of Palin. She was asked what she read. It was so tough and difficult that she couldn't answer it. I mean it was dreadful for her. So unfair because I don't remember anyone ever asking then candidate Obama what he read.
Does Hannity understand that she quit, she wasn't fired. She chose to run with McCain and they lost. Not everyone got a happy feeling in their pants when they looked at her or when she winked. The woman was a train wreck and the republicans aimed the spotlights on her and let the whole county see it. Not our fault that the spotlights showed what was really there and not there.
Asking her what she read was an unfair, invasive question. Katie should have asked her IF she can read.
What if she had answered "I read the Bible"? That would have been classic.
Jeb Bush: "My Brother Was More Popular Than Obama". He must be sharing the booze with his other drunk brother.
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not sure what pres obama has to do with palin's tail-turning... oh, right, deflection
i think dickhead-todd's involvement in the alaskan indep party and its anti-american stance are about as much as anyone needs to know about that trainwreck of a family. so, deflect away hannity... you did such a good job keeping bush's poll numbers high all the way to the end *cough*, palin is so lucky to have you as an apologist and translator *coughs again*
Every time I see this guy he has a very round, open mouth. Look at that screen shot, then watch the whole clip.
He is waiting for something to come in his mouth, I won't say what.
Ok I will. It's a brain. He lost his through his comically open mouth. Or was it something else that poked his brain out?
A fish? He is a manatee, after all.
..just slow-moving and dull.
Fattity has always had ZERO qualifications for anything and still people listen to his braindead Reslug ramblings daily.
she quit. And Hannity, Obama won so, STFU.
He never got asked about his radical friends except by me and others.
The "me and others" cancels out the "never got asked" So Sean just neutralized his own comment.
So, is the GOP talking point now that Palin resigned over questions about the people she associates with?
I must have missed that press conference.
I guess sean doesn't realize or know that there are already more than a few women in politics. Lots of smart educated women and women with families. Sarah just didn't make the grade and she's bummed that her looks didn't take her as far as they used to.
... it is the "smart and educated" part he has trouble with.
Since those are the type of women who do not find people holding pens in their hands to be particularly "impressive" nor a display of "intellectual validation."
If you think about it, that is just about the only "qualification" Hannity has: he can hold a pen so he "looks smart" (he doesn't know how to read or write, so he must assume that is what all those literate people must do... run around with pens in their hands constantly).
I am just waiting for him to discover this thing called "a keyboard" and he will soon enough show up sporting a nice 1980s electric typewriter on his show. Just you watch... he may even hit the keys every now and them... punching random keys. It is the "tick tick" sound of smartness he will be looking for, you betcha!
That makes for a very funny mental image.
1966 Royal manual with a cool case!
Smart people use them electronicly gizmos. They have computers on the interweb now, did you know about that?
but having a manual is like being in a padded room with rubber sheets.
Even Sen Ted Stevens knew about the intertubes and trucks carrying wires from one house to the other at break neck speed.
He would never get an electric car. No room for the 1,000,000,000 feet of cord.
But if they can make one that runs on hot air, he's in like Flint.
... at some point, these assholes will be so full of hot air that they will start to take flight.
I fully expect the retarded fundie segment of the population to misunderstand that with a sign of the rapture.
... and then things will get interesting.
Much more attractive!
True
..don't you love trivia?
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Flynn was charged with statutory rape. He got off and ever since the expression "in like Flynn" has been associated with getting away with something.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/198700.html
Do you mean that internet thing that goes through those tube thingys?
For a Palin fan to admit that Sarah just didn't have the right stuff, is to admit that he/she is a poor judge of character.
In Sean World, Hal Turner is a civil rights advocate, Dick Cheney is misunderstood, Dubya is an unappreciated genius, Ollie North is a national hero, and Joe the Plumber is a 'true American'.
So Palin is in good company.
;o}
That's his best reach around buddy ever. If Rush ever needs a good softball interview to counteract some horrible racist, sexist, anti-american thing he said; Sean is right there in front giving him cover and letting Rush reach around to support their common objective.
"did one heckuva job"
... former presidential medics and some social studies faculty that vandalized a couple of bus stops in protest for the VietNam war.
I speak Hannit-ese.
... can you arch your eyebrows upwards?
You got me, TD. There goes my Halloween costume. And to think, I thought I had Galactic Asshat locked down.
Oh well....maybe if I eat 10 pounds of butter a day and grow a boil on my ass I can have El Rushbo dialed in by October.
... it is not just about yapping like an asshole that makes a Hannity, the whole act also involves looking and acting like a supreme douchebag.
It is hard work, that is why he gets paid the big bucks!
I really did underestimate what it takes to be that big a tool.
"a conscience" and "decency"
Don't beat yourself over it... it was never meant to be. If anything you should be glad.
looks like cat butt
Have deeply offended all cats' butts!
Please reject AND repudiate your statement!!
If he looked like my cat's butt, he would look a lot better than he does now.
Tooo easy. That was like spiking a volleyball with a ping pong table.
lol
"That was like spiking a volleyball with a ping pong table."
Actually that sounds kind'a hard.
I know; I knew it as i typed it, but left it anyway. At least it makes for a funny visual, if one is capable of lifting a ping pong table.
Well I must admit it was fun and easy and it made my cat happy too.
with that look of concentration.
Sorry Tyler, but he looks like he has a metal rod of some sort shoved up his ass.
a river of tears.
Idiot.in.his.own.mind
Nazi: I'm a butthurt repub, WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
David, I look forward to your late afternoon posts like this. Seems some days the other posts here get people gnashing their teeth at one another and getting really emotional. Then we get a post from you about Hannity or Beck or BillO and we can all come back together having a little fun verbally kicking some fox ass. My computer day usually ends about six and it's nice to end it reading your posts and comments that are a joke or funny or just plain fun to read. Thank you!
Even though dems/libs/progs truly represent a "big tent" with widely different views on a whole host of topics, there are a few things we can all agree on.
One of those things - Hannity sucks ass.
Yes Hannity does, but please god, don't tell me whose.
I am 6 hours ahead and still would rather be able to go to bed without the vision of idiots dancing in my head.
I know many of us are torn between reporting the morons who "report" and ignoring them in hopes they will go away.
I am starting to thing the site is based on posting these slugs. It's at least 70% of their postings.
I'm of the camp that the animals should not be fed, and left to fend for themselves in the wild. And hopefully eaten by a more talented predator.
But sometimes it's just fun to play with animals a little.
Mercy Sean.
I actually laughed out loud when I read your silly comment.
I mean COME ON.
I guess he wanted Palin to become a lame duck dead fish and go with the flow the rest of her term. Doesn't he see that by quitting mid term she saved her state more
embarrassmentmoney.That's really rich...
"tough guys" and "personal responsibility" are experts at "whining" and "passing the buck?"
They become tough because that "buck" they are passing is usually pretty big and they pass it often.
Hannity is an idiot.
J/K
;-)
...tea-bag'n going on up north of you. Reminds me of the Racism at McCain Palin rallies:
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So much for being "isolationist"... There must be another element in their reasoning?
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
[ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/... ]
... this news has to do what exactly with the topic at hand?
If your truly interested.
and we know it was Obama's fault that Gov. Sanford cheated on his wife.
Didn't Rush already say that?
Yes, Rush did say that.
Gov. Sanford to put his d*ck in another woman's vagina overseas. How is he supposed to feel passionate about his wife, knowing that she comes from a country that allows teh gays to get it on?
The way I see it, the victim in all this is Gov. Sanford.
Send that comment to sean, he'll be all over it.
... where one day FOX comes out clean as them being an elaborate prank carried out by a group of liberal writers. And that Beck, Hannity, and O'really were just a few retarded puppets they got to play along.
The look in the faces of the FOX news anchor lineup will be priceless. I can just picture Hannity and Beck asking out loud in unison "what do you mean puppet?" With O'Reilly being the only one "smart" enough to utter "what do you mean retarded?"
If there is a god, that should happen within the year ;-)
Todd never got asked about his America hating secessionist past and Rumsfeld never got asked about his paling around with Saddam Hussein.
with the Bin Laden family... or the ENRON-chartered planes he got during his electoral campaign.
Or the 100 or so friends and family if Bin Laden Bush flew out of the country on 911 when every other plane was grounded.
$1000 per second to be water-boarded, Manatee. Olbermann's offer is still on the table. Did you chicken out, chicken hawk?
BAWWWWWK....BAWWK, BAWWWK.....
Did we ever prove that Michelle Obama was "an angry black woman"?
Is Hannity saying a relationship between two men who met a few times is the same as that between a husband and wife? Particularly when one party is a seccessionist?
The thing about Hannity is he only has to SAY this stuff. He can lie all he wants. His audience does not look elsewhere for the truth or the other side of the argument. How many times have you seen his talking points repeated by commenters on right wing sites or sprinkled in on other comment pages? Nobody who is able to will ever tell him to quit lying. When he lies he gets more attention.
I don;t remember President Obama giving him an interview let alone answer a question from him. Hitler Jr's only option is to lie.
Yes, this is so unfair to poor poor Sarah. Now she is getting it from the right and the left. I think she should start a new political party. That way she can get her point across much easier. Yes a new political party will do the trick. If she would only listen to me.
"He never got asked tough questions..., except by me and others". Interesting sentence.
Hannity never drinks alcohol-- except for every day and most nights.
Actually I remember Obama having to call a press conference regarding his association with reverend wright.
But palin put her church off limits, although her minister was in a Dominionist Group called Joel's Army; and she put her family off limits, even though she was the one constantly putting them in the limelight, and never having to explain her husband's secessionist views, or her delivering a formal speech to the group.
No her questions were what does a vice president do, and what Supreme Court cases do you not support?
damn right! the media never really ask question about her husbands
seccesionist,background.or even his membership,how come?
So bitter- He acts like a man with a non-functioning little acorn in his pants
..but if you see it happening, plz record it and post it on youtube so the rest of us can get to see it too.
Here's a suggestion
How about by his pubes?
..has pubes..??
That, I don't want to see on youtube.
This guy is a traitor. Plain and simple. Oh, he's also a fucking liar.
Hannity makes Goebbels look like an amateur.
..where Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly (the list is endless, but three nimrods are enough for making a simple point) get all that energy for all of their angst, anger and vitriol..?
Not saying that I'd take that potion even if it was commonly available, mind you. Just wondering how cretins like these (and Malkin, Coulter et al) can wake up in the morning, "get out there" and deliver so much hate, lies and disinformation on a daily basis.
What is their source of all of this negative energy??
source = $$$$$$$
as long as these guys have voices on the radio and TV, and generate ad sponsorship, they will continue to shill their spew because the suckers are buying.
.." He never got asked tough questions about his radical friends and associates, except by me and others."
So, that means he WAS asked questions right, Sean? So your whole argument has been thrown out by, well, YOU!
Second of all, Sean Hannity, WHO THE F CARES?
Right! Sure! Does he mean that Obama never had to deal with FoxNews and the constant harangue about radical friends. It's like he forgets all the furor FoxNews made during the campaign. Like he wasn't there.
I'd like to find this alternate universe these people live in. Must be a wonderful place where everyone just makes up their own version of reality and never has to live in the real world. It's easier that way, I guess.
If only we could build an alternate place of residency and put them all in it together and study them. What wonders would be disclosed.
Yes again the Closet Queen of the right misrepresents, lies twists and manipulates the news, isn't there any way the Rabid Racist Nazi Committee (RNC) Wacko mouth pieces can be held accountable, (now there is a joke the right taking accountability).
Remember when you see a repuke call them what they are they cringe.
Hannity again proves himself to be the biggest ass in a world full of asses
Palin was indeed asked a tough question by Katie Couric: "What do you read to stay up on what's happening" or words to that effect. That was an unfair question according to Palin supporters. Just terribly tough--well, maybe for Sarah but not for most intelligent people.
Faggitty is really wetting his panties and chugging the Reslug Kool-Aid now. He always wanted to get into her terrorist loving panties, but being Gay Faggitty just couldn't do it.
No, of course not. I got so sicked of hearing "Ayers" I almost puked.
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