Hannity screws on his tinfoil hat real tightly
By David Neiwert Tuesday Jan 27, 2009 10:00am
President Obama the other day threw a sharp elbow back at the man who has been proclaiming loudly his desire to see Democrats fail in their efforts to get the economy back on its feet:
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
In other words, you can play ideological hardball (as Limbaugh urges) and lose, or play real bipartisan ball with Obama and get something done. Sort of that "my way or the highway" approach Limbaugh recommended Bush take back in 2004, but with a gentler touch.
Of course, a dose of their own medicine is exactly what we needed to send these nutcases into a paranoiac frenzy that would make an oxycodone addict blush. See, for instance, Hannity's discussion with his ace panel on Fox last night:
Hannity: Obama says Republicans should stop listening to Rush. I don't know what this obsession is. He said this in this meeting the other day --
Karen Hanretty: He's obsessed with you too.
Hannity: He's mentioned me 10 times by name. [Ed: Keeping count? I guess Hannity does rhyme with vanity.] By the way, keep it coming, more promos.
But I have a theory on this character. And you're the Republican here. He wants to divide and marginalize the Republicans and sort of isolate Conservatives that are the heart of the party. And I think the other thing is, I think they're paving the way, probably not for the Censorship Doctrine, which is what it is, but some backdoor effort to silence people, opposition voices.
Hanretty: Yeah, I think -- look, they call it the Fairness Doctrine, it's not the Fairness Doctrine.
Hannity: It's the Censorship Doctrine.
Hanretty: It is, absolute censorship. I think that is part of what Obama's doing. And it's kind of bizarre that he gives so much credence to -- look, Limbaugh himself says, I'm not a journalist, I'm an entertainer -- and it's almost as if Obama thinks all Republicans are sitting at home with their little tinfoil hats, with their ham radios, waiting, you know, in the middle of the night for Rush to beam his, you know --
Hannity: But he has been the defining voice of conservatism in this country.
Why, yes, according to you the other night, he has: "You are the leading voice of opposition -- conservative. And have defined conservatives for over two decades." When you are the face of the Conservative movement, then you're much more than an entertainer, and it tells us everything we need to know about Karen Hanretty that she tried out that particular nugget. Nice try, but -- whiff!
Meanwhile, did any of these loons happen to notice that no one in Congress, no one in the Obama administration, no identifiable Democrat, not even any of those dirty hippie bloggers -- no one is seriously talking about resurrecting the Fairness Doctrine? The only people talking about it are the folks on the paranoid Right.
In any event, Hannity was just getting his Twilight Zone theme music warmed up. The following rant probably should have been accompanied by a Theremin:
Hannity: Look, there are people that did shut them down, want to shut them down, they wanna go after Imus, they wanna go after Rush, they want me dead. It's like you can't tolerate another viewpoint -- whatever happened to free-speech liberals?
Hmmm, well, they may have gotten tired of their liberality being abused by the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, who write books about them with titles equating them with despots and terrorists. But no one is impinging on their free-speech rights, because should Hannity and Limbaugh be unemployed tomorrow because of the insane crap they spew regularly (if only), they would still enjoy the very same free-speech rights of every other American citizen -- the right to stand on a street corner, stand up at public meetings, write letters to the editor, author a blog, or do whatever it takes to have your say. The right of free speech doesn't guarantee anyone the right to hold the public megaphone; that's a privilege determined usually by market forces, or more precisely, ownership decisions.
Hannity tops it all off with a classic Socialist Hail Mary:
Hannity: I've supported Obama. I think to keep Gates was a good idea. General Jones was a good idea. But I don't support socialism.
When Conservative ideologues like Limbaugh and Hannity proclaim their hope that Obama fails, they're basing their "loyal opposition" on their belief that conservative governance works best and that Obama's "socialism" is doomed to failure. But what do they mean by "socialism"? So far, their definition seems to include such normative ideas as progressive taxation; so they need to present more persuasive evidence, perhaps, that their definition of "socialism" is something other than "anything that deviates from Conservative dogma."
They seem to have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that they're trying to convince Americans that anything other than continuing their narrow economic prescription -- a program that simply continues the failed policies of the past eight years -- is "socialism". And if there was any clear signal in the 2008 election, it was that staying the Conservative course was no longer an option.
Liberals don't need to marginalize right-wing ideologues like Limbaugh and Hannity. They've done that job all by themselves.
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Is it dangerous for those into tinfoil haberdashery to nuke a potato in a microwave?
Cons are protesting too much!
That must mean that the "Fairness Doctrine" will benefit the American public. Ah, how the "Cons" love just themselves and to hell with anyone else.
Is it dangerous? Let's hope so.
Only is they've exchanged their heads for a spud. Samedif! MZ
This eternally dumb mother fucker calls Obama paranoid while claiming Progressives want to kill him.
He's not worth any sort of prison time.
Hell, he's not worth the time it would take to key his car.
I'm sure he gets death threats from time to time just like all celebs. You can either take it as part of the trade off for being famous and incredibly well paid or you can be a big whiney self important cry baby like Hannity (or Russell Crowe) and act like you're the only one it's ever happened to.
any serious left leaning person has way more important things to do and wouldn't act on an urge that would cost time.
People who make those kind of threats, aren't really 'liberal' or 'left,' as committing a criminal act against someone to intimidate them into silence is not a liberal activity. It would go against a hallmark of 'liberal' beliefs, the allowing of the freedom of speech.
So the doer may claim to be liberal, or Hannity and his ilk may take comfort in their delusion that the threat is coming from liberal, left or progressives, but that's not the fact.
Well yeah. That's where the big whiney self important part comes in.
Hannity and the rest of these "Cons" live in a fantasy world.
But lets not give him too much notoriety by mentioning him too often. Look what happened when Obama mentioned Limpballs. You would think that the folks over at Fixed news would get a clue, but just like that did to support Bush's lying claim of WMDs in Iraq, nothing has changed. I am getting sick of tired of these wingers putting down Libs. I am card carrying Lib and if given a chance I would argue Limpballs down to the ground because even though he supposes to represent the Conservatives in this country, I still would win the argument. Former Sec of State Rice was on the view today and was asked about the failures of Bush's presidency. She responded by saying that she wished that they had better intelligence about the lack of WMDs. She said it without blinking an eye. Did she really believe that anyone on that panel believed her with the exception of Elizabeth of course.
is a baptized member and supporter of an organization that actively supports and protects child molesters.
someone owes me a new monitor, i punched this one when i saw hannity's face-thing
what fucking deceitful hypocrites...
watching that hurt my brain........
The far right nutcases will be able to claim that their protests were what prevented reinstitution of the fairness doctrine. They will then claim that Obama is weak because he failed to get the policy back in force. It's a neat little trick.
sunk to their hilts -that would explain a few things.
He would have an enormous schwanzstucker!
He looks more like a giant schnitzengruben
long overdue. Not a repeat of the Fairness Doctrine, but some type of law stating that ANY and all news programs or pretend news programs have to be totally unbiased in their delivery of news or face severe fines. IF the program is not news, then there should be a disclaimer immediately before and after that states which party this program fully supports in their opinions and is in no way intended to be unbiased. And it has to be on the television screen long enough and big enough that people can actually read it.
wake up!
can regulate and do that for cartoons of all things, I'm sure they could do it for television "news". I couldn't see why either party would hate the idea. It would blatantly point partisan news watchers in the right direction.
... 'fairness' to some means having voices on the left braying the same kind of idiocy.
Not even that is necessary. What is necessary is to roll back the media consolidation that was allowed to happen under the Clinton, and especially the Bush administration. Colin Powell's son in particular, leading the FCC, allowed the mainstream venues of news in the US to fall into dangerously few hands. Even in these tough times, action must be taken to return to a more diverse ownership of the media.
Whenever a coworker or friend says some of this neocon crap, I ask them, "Where did you hear that?" and when they say Rush Limbaugh or Hannity, I simply give them a dismissive look, roll my eyes and say, "Oh."
Showing their hero such disrespect, or laughing them off, just makes neocons crazy. Sort of like saying, "Meh.Consider the source."
the best way to handle the knuckledraggers is to not take them seriously, mock them, etc. they WANT to fight, they need to think that the talking points they were handed matter and are worthy of debate. i think olbermann 'worlds worst' is the best example of this: point out their ignorance, mock them, then move on.
Ultra right winge Republicans hate moderates- particularly moderate Republicans- An irony, since only the moderates can save the Republican party from turning into a Christian fascist party.
But most moderate republicans have left to party to become Independents, others turned Democratic.
But I hope the Republican party slides further to the right- i hope Palin runs in 2012, and decalres she is one with Jesus- The further to the right they go, the more marginalised they become...
My MIL told me the other day that she heard that Carolyn Kennedy let go of the NY Senate Seat because she was having an affair with an editor of the NY Times. Then she told me she knew that cause O'Reilly said it. How does one reply to that from the mouth of a very sweet old lady?
you don't have to say anything. Just give here a copy of the complaint in the Mackris v. O'Reilly sexual harassment lawsuit and have here read for herself what a the moral one enjoys doing while phoning subordinates. If she refuses to believe it then ask her why would a guy who has all the money in the world to lawyer up and fight, settle thereby pretty much admitting his guilt???
The rational part of me is pleased to see Obama take the "higher ground" of bi-partisanship.
But the raging secular progressive part of me would love to see the GOP shut out the same way the Dems were these past 8 years. A lot more would get done much faster if he told those whining wingnuts to shove it.
Oh how watching Fox News pundits squirm pleases me so...
Hannity and Rush both have their panties in a snit b/c they weren't invite to the "conservative" dinner w/ Obama at George Will's house, thus solidifying the fact that they indeed are now irrelevant
... someone were to take Sean Hannity's money and give it to me as a paean to socialism, I'd piss on it and hand it back to Sean.
When we're handing out billions of dollars to corporate executives so they can buy jets and million-dollar office remodels, we're not even CLOSE to toppling over and becoming a socialist state.
Of course, when America realizes Hannity and his ilk are all about fear - fear of the brown people/immigrants, fear of the Muslims, fear of the socialists, fear of the scary dudes named Barack - we'll be on our way to a better world.
What is the deal with these losers and the Fairness Doctrine? It has nothing to do with censorship you tools.
... anything that keeps Limbaugh and his comedy routine off the air, or makes him accountable for singing crap like his 'Magic Negro' ditty is censorship.
Wahhhhhhhhh.
But it wouldn't keep him off the air. It would just require opposing viewpoints also be presented. I'm sure even someone like Alan Colmes would be enough to satisfy it.
Colmes has spent far too much time as Hannity's straight man.
Again, the point of the Fairness Doctrine is not to get into a debate with Limbaugh and Hannity. Fighting a rabid squirrel isn't 'fairness,' and neither is the risk of getting rabies.
The Fairness Doctrine only works when you have an educated and thinking populace. Decades of worshipping at the Temple of Rush has done what fascist dictatorships and cult leaders have only dreamed of - created a compliant culture where the merest pronouncement is taken as gospel truth.
I guess what Limbaugh, Hannity and all the other "faces made for radio" mean by censorship, is that they and their views would get less time on the airwaves, because the opposing views would have to have equal time. Also because there are far fewer progressive radio hosts out there that would mean even less time left for Rush and his ilk to spew out their bile and more time for gardening shows and sports talk and the such.
Sounds refreshing.
This clown at FOX and on hate radio had always
been adored by the fringe hate lunatics of the racist, sexist, fascist republican right until Rove pumped him forefront in during Bush 8 years and that's where Sean Insannity and Bill0'Perv and mAnn Coulter should go back to, mediocrity in their jungle.
Stop hiding behind the Church and Christ, as well.
They won't lose their empires, their money, their mansions.
They don't represent even 3% of America so why should they be blasted down our throats 100% of the time?
are each just a small turd in the toilet bowl of life
the 27%ers.
That's a pretty scary amount of ignorant, uninformed, misinformed voters.
Sarah Palin kept doing this too: confusing the verb censor with the verb censure.
Censuring is perfectly okay. It's free speech. Saying somebody is a f***ing lunatic and nobody should listen to them is not censorship. If you're a f***ing lunatic, especially if you're on TV, then you should be censured. By as many people as possible, including the President.
Is a racist drug-addict....how perfect.
Hannity is such a f**king wuss.
But Hannity and Limbaugh don't WANT to be marginalized. They wanna' be Obama's obsession.
Well, maybe they need to frame themselves slightly smaller, like an ingrown toenail, an ant at a picnic, the common cold, a boil on the butt, a case of the trots, a mosquito bite, spinach lodged in the front teeth, etc. Nothing to obsess about at all, just get rid of it.
If you read their diatribe, shutting people down, censorship, quelling the conservative voice, etc., etc., etc. It's mind blowing!! These are exactly what THEY have been attempting for the past couple of decades, most notably the last eight years. Bush would have crowned himself King "Dick" if he could have. With republicans day is night, black is white. They are phuckin' nuts, I mean phuckin" nuts! Jeeeeezzus.
Just gotta say once again that C&L has the best screencaps of these idiots. Whoever does them for ya, John, deserves a raise!
The President is a smart patient man. He'll give these losers a chance to help rescue the Country from their mess. If and when they balk, he'll tell them to shit like everyone else in this Nation with a brain and something to lose.
... that Limbaugh and Hannity care about solving problems in the first place.
It's not like a dog pissing on the grass is thinking about watering the lawn. It's just taking a piss.
You are taking up far too much space and ink to cover this Limbaugh wannabe A-hole.
Hannity is still hoping for his own version of (Limbaugh) Ditto-Heads.
Their problem is espousing untruths +hate +innuendo + demogoguery
to specifically cast such dispise of other "Americans" = unpatriotic harm to the country base on lies.
When Democrat is so associated with socialism, communism, etc to where the republican presidential candidate can't control his hating crowd of other Americans.
When a Ditto-Head that never served his country tells me of the bravery of medical excuse Rush and 5 deferment Cheney as "Hawks" and I am but a coward who is told to be ashamed for not wearing a FLAG PIN. When they assume I never served my country in the military because their hate proagandized to them daily does not allow them the ability to think or consider even Democratc and liberals serve in the military.
% deferment Cheny and the likes have such a tough time with Gays and females in the military because they seem to be able to serve when these "self proclaimed patriotic gods" do not. Their manhood is in jeopardy. There again, their manhood is probably a self inflicted false character defect. Treatment is required and it can be overcame.
If you notice, Sean can't seem to stay on one topic and blasts this guy who is not given the time or respct to answer.
Hannity is another gated community dweller who is out of touch......
I'm sure everyone here is sick of hearing about it, but I'm ex-Air Force (4 years only active/2 reserve/10 years reporting in on every address change), with a Top Secret Clearance, sworn to secrecy for 10 years.
... too young for Vietnam, too old for Desert Storm (not to mention having crappy eyesight - the FBI wouldn't even have me).
Volunteered as a docent on the USS Hornet for about three years. Have Army & Navy veterans in the family.
I was in when the American Embassy was taken hostage by the Iranian students, and we were all setting up appointments with the JAG office to draw up our wills.
I was Honorably Discharged six days before Grenada.
Ah-HA!! It's that Top Secret clearance that allows you access to all the great videos and cartoons you post. (I'm always amazed how quickly you come up with them, too.)
Seriously, thanks for your service to the country.
Wow, these people are mind readers telling the public what Obama thinks.
Sean Hannity is also unpatriotic because he wants Obama to fail.
Goddamn neo-nazi punk ass bitch.
Spot on description!This douche bag used to snivel and whine on local Atlanta radio back in the '90's. Neil Boortz used to just CRUSH him in local ratings.I was stunned when I learned that he had not been shit canned, but actually got a gig sniffing Limbaugh's jock on ABC's NY Flagship. He's always been trifling.
... anyone who writes a book about America that includes chapters on how the horrible evil liberals are going to destroy America is likely to be a closet fascist.
Closeted? Sounds like out in the open to me
:)
... the non-mushrooms in the audience.
The 'shrooms are happy being kept in the dark and fed shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTBeNv9PwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJI7GziR4qI
Anti-American to the bone. All of them (we all know the usual suspects here, so no need to invoke their names)
They should not be allowed on the air...
They are spewing hate. Not differing opinions. Hate. Fear. Misinformation. Rightwingnut PROPAGANDA!
That's their bread and butter.
And until they are off the air, America will remain divided.
some backdoor effort to silence people, opposition voices.
Hannity: It's the Censorship Doctrine.
interesting documentary: this divided state
subject matter: a college in utah invites michael moore to come speak to the student body. part of the community tries to get this speech canceled as they don't feel that moore should be allowed to speak in their community. they bring in hannity to speak the day before moore and he supports the effort to ban moore from speaking at
utah valley state college.
yet, sean 'bumblefuck' hannity is now marching out his faux-paranoia about a 'censorship doctrine', nice.
censorship done by the rightwing = patriotism.
fuck hannity
could pinpoint when the worship of intellectual/emotional retards became a national fixation. There is no value in discussing their statements, nor is there in trying to decipher what a monkey has written on the wall with his feces. Fox should not have the fairness doctrine applied, it should have their studios sealed and fumigated after their broadcast license is revoked for the good of humanity.
in the early 90's with the fat ones daily spewage of rightwing hate and fear.
But then again, I'm no media historian...so...yeah.
When Bush was in the WH, how many of the librul media were invited in to discuss their talking points?
They were rarely invited to anything but weeny roasts and public hangings.
by telling Hannity he could screw the hat on himself by just holding it in one hand and twisting instead of hiring all those little guys to lift the chair and run around in circles.
Hannity shows us why he only got a high school diploma by picking a fight with a Harvard law grad
Memo to Sean: Just because your know-nothing listeners call you a "great american" doesn't mean that you are.
Didn't Rush Limbaugh start in the 1980's? Geeeez.
It's like parading Elizabeth Taylor around in her
wheelchair as the Queen of Hollywood. That wouldn't work.
The scary thing is we still have fat f*ck face Rush
and Conservative Diva Hannity around, wow. (No disrespect
to Hollywood legends or homosexuals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-Fv_1uq-w
Alright Mr Murdoch, I'm ready for my close up.
Thank you for the better comparison! Gloria Swanson in the last scene of 'Sunset Boulevard'. I certainly hope you are correct! For those not familiar with Sunset Boulevard, a one time big star, now an aging actress, and making a complete idiot of herself on the last dance...
Truth lie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNZS9ZuZcrg
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
Unless of course you're Eusebius.
on the tip of your tongue, continues to amaze me! Thanks for the lesson ysbaddaden. :-)
The story is that the rival popes Eusebius (I'm not sure it's the same one) and Marcius partisan fighting was so violent and so lethal that Roman authorities had to break them up.
Some today think the bulk of the early martyrs in the Golden Legend that weren't fictional or euhemerized Gods were Christians killed by other Christians, or executed by the state for leading such lethal rioting.
..is with Congressional Hearings on Dissemination of Propaganda. Haul them up, put them under oath and expose them for what they are: propagandists for the rightwing. We know many of them were directly fed disinformation from the Bush WH. They can't hide behind being journalists - clearly they are not journalists by any stretch of the imagination. And it's not a free speech issue (as they would like to make you believe). I see no other rational way to deal with this. Debating them on theor own turf is pointless.
is screwing the world up faster than a person can blink. Republicans wrote the book on it, but no major political party is without it. Without partisanship, there would be no greed. Without greed, there would be no economic clusterf*ck.
Hannity this is for you to answer,cause either you or one of you groupies at Fox News are reading this blog."
Please produce a cancelled check,certified check or any banking draft that shows you donated $10,000,000 to Freedom Alliance last year (2008!)
As quoted from: premierspeakers.com/sean_hannity/bio
"In 2007 the concerts (Freedom Concerts) grew into 5 massive events resulting in OVER $10,000,000 for The Freedom Alliance are were attended by over 60,000 in Atlanta,San Diego,Dallas,Cincinnati,and
New Jersey."
That would mean that everyone of the 60,000 attending these faux concerts paid at least $166.66... to attend! The high-end tickets didn't cost that much!
After calling,requesting and receiving Freedom Alliance's 2008 (for the year tax year) 2007) Tax Form 990(a 501c3 Charity) guess what?
There wasn't any donation made of $10,000,000 by you or anyone!
How come no-one was around to take your picture with the check? As vain as you are one would have to believe that you had your picture taken! Stand up for once in your life if your such a do-gooder and produce the proof that you donated anything to Freedom Alliance!
These guys know - if they know nothing else - that they're full of crap. That they're on the wrong side of history, free speech, censorship, public opinion, reasonable hair, etc. ...
They fully intend to stand right in the way of America's best and most critical interests, with a bad hairdo, and watch time march backward.
Here's InShannity with a friend ....
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/LiveFor...
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It saddens me that perfectly good oxygen is being wasted on these dingbats.
The only people talking about it (the Fairness Doctrine) are the folks on the paranoid Right.
And a few of us on the Left, and some of us are actually in favor of socialism.
And it's not quite true to say that any American has free speech rights that extend to standing on street corners and declaiming to passersby. A police permit is required for that these days, something that can require a great deal of advance notice. Several other countries of the world don't have such restrictions on free public speaking.
is just a fancy word for what socially well-adjusted kids grow up to become, while Capitalist is what the self-centered selfish kids become.
Hannity: "I've supported Obama. I think to keep Gates was a good idea. General Jones was a good idea. But I don't support socialism."
This is the big nod by Conservatives like stupid here toward "bipartisanship"Acknowledging that Obama has done some things they approve of.Where is the reciprocation in this equation?
Why the little pat on the head about Gates and Jones of course.Whoop-dee-fuck-ing-doo.
I can see where the Stan Smith character came from. I wonder if Hannity is also wearing a wig and is bald just like Stan Smith did on Sunday.
When you see people like Hannity i understand why abortion should always be legal. Pity he slipped through the net!
Wouldn't it be great if for say 10 minutes out of every hour on Limbaugh's show, someone got to say "yesterday on this show, Limbaugh said ...... and here are the facts ......".
Some otherwise intelligent people get their news primarily from Fox and talk radio. Think what a difference it would make if we could reach some of these people.
let alone creating non-issues. We should instead refer to the Fairness Doctrine as the "Douchebag Doctrine."
can lick me. He is such an asswipe.
If Limpballs is only an "entertainer," then why was he given a long interview which aired at least 2 nights on Vanity's show? Why did Limpballs sound, act, and look like he was quite angry in that interview, if he was only an "entertainer?" Why did BillO the Clown advertise for the Vanity show, saying that Mr. Dillwad would be giving an interview with Mr. Limpballs? Why did Greta van Susteren air part of that interview?
And Hanretty says that it's as if all Repugs are sitting at home listening to Limpballs.....he does have the number one talk radio show, doesn't he? Why did Bush the Chimp invite Limpballs to the White House for a secret meeting a week or so before he left office and then surprise the bastard with a birthday cake? Why did Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Jebbie all call Limpballs on his 20th anniversary of his show and congratulation him???? In that same call, why did Bush Sr. ask Limpballs if he has "seen our man Ailes," not realizing he was on air?
Didn't limpballs call himself a "general" during the presidential campaign, urging his followers to screw up the Democratic contenders in his so-called "operation chaos?"
Limpballs has not only been the mouthpiece for the repug party; he has also been the one sending out marching orders for that same party.
... then I love it. So ordinarily Id say let's bring back the Fairness Doctrine for that reason alone. Frank Z makes an excellent point above.
But, strategically, by advocating for the FD we may just be giving Rush et al the ammunition they need to continue to derail the national conversation. Instead, they are just flailing in space for all to see.
Besides, the FD was for a bygone era before the internet. Were it not for the internet, the FD would be indispensable. But we dont need it.
What needs to happen is the de-monopolization of the media. Restrict the number of radio stations one company can own, and update and enforce antitrust laws. Pass rules requiring diversity of ownership and significant local control of programming in the public interest. While on the topic, anybody know if Obama has named anyone to chair the FCC? That's the next big venue for media reform.
... is the grownup version of the Fairness Doctrine.
Please don't make the mistake of thinking the corporations aren't drooling over the possibility of turning the net into the same kind of mess that is cable and conservative talk radio.
Your shopping list omits one important factor: we need people to start thinking, and able to hold rational discussions rather than spit back the drivel that Rush funnels into the space between their ears.
You are absolutely correct here. I posted something similar in a reply above before I made it down this far.
I doubt that these blowhards would be even close to as popular as they are had they their views not been rammed nationwide down peoples throats for years by owners that had little competition to deal with. Who cares if they made you little money at first, as long as over the long run they could convince millions to vote against their own self-interest, which as an owner of a near monopoly was likely in your self interest?
Times being what they are, we are going to be lucky if the media isn't allowed to consolidate even more, just like the banks and financial companies are doing. Colin Powell's son worked us over good, and it is going to be tough to dig our way back out.
It was also very hard for any media owner that wanted to keep growing and growing to attack any of President Bush's policies, even if they did happen to disagree, when he was directly contributing to allowing them to amass a media monopoly.
WTF is up with Hannity's hair? It looks like something out of 1920!
Hmm, matches his pin headed thinking....
... Force 10 Hairspray. Nary a hair will go astray while you're on camera, essential for primping, self-absorbed buffoons like Hannity.
(Really, all it is a very 'liberal' application of hair gunk.)
Monica has some to spare.
sporting a pencil-thin moustache too.
So what are his briefs made out of
Sandpaper?
... cause a spark when he puts his head up his arse?
Don't fart.
I've been a ham radio operator for many years. I've never heard Rush Limbaugh on our radio spectrum allocations yet... as he's not licensed, that's a good thing. He's more of a, erm, talk radio kind of guy, y'know? As in broadcast radio? 535 to 1700 on your AM radio dial?
All The Republicans have done the last 8 years is slam Democrats that peeped any critisism of Bush and the conservatives- and equated dissent with treason- But now they are out of power, and crying victim.
WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
And does Hannity even know what socialism is? Yeah, it's really failing in Sweden...
I'd say Capitalism, as practiced in the US, is failing...
Too bad the talking blowhards won't own up to the fact that we have socialism here--we have free health care. No one will be turned down at the Emergency Room if they go there with no money or health insurance. If Hannity and Rush Limbutt disagree, then they should state it planely: have security turn away people who cannot afford either private insurance or the direct health care costs.
Otherwise, the debate should be about two things:
How do we create a more efficient and cost effective universal health care system which we already offer?
should there be profiteering by people not directly involved with the health care process (e.g. money managers who's sole motive is profit and cost cutting over administering better health care)
Once again, I am forced to bring to light the old axiom that anyone who attacks with such hyperbole and distortion is making up for their small wanker.
For all you Americans: that means small penis. Poor little Hannity
What is it with this obsession and irrational fear of socialism?
Jesus, even if it were socialism, which I don't believe it is ... so what?
Who cares?
Since when is socialism a bad thing?
Caring for my fellow man is just good sense.
I am my brother's keeper. I do unto others as I would have them do unto me. I believe our society is only as strong as the least of us, therefore it behooves us to help those ones rise to higher heights.
You get the idea. Does this make me a socialist?
I'm beginning to think that we on the left need Limbaugh, Hannity Coulter, etc more than the right does. Ignore them - really. Try it for a week and you'll be amazed at how good you feel. All the time we spend agonizing over what these pinheads say just legitimizes them even more. Ignore them and they will go away.
Is anyone dumber and more annoying than hannity, oh! yeah rash limbaugh... it doesn't get more pathetic then these two clowns...
Being a Ron PAul supporter I am not in this group:) Rush is a moron.
Ron schooled the clueless on the 'Morning Joe' over the economy this morning. Obama should be listening a lot closer to him.
Ron Paul: 'What we're doing is absolutely wrong'
Jan. 27: Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul argues the government has spent, borrowed, and inflated too much, and spending more on the bailout will only make the problems significantly worse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/vp/288723...
Ron did great, and I agree with just about everything he said there.
Our social philosophies may differ, but economically speaking he's bang on.
Awesome, thanks:)
Sean's going to tell us what's going to fail, we should all be listening, no one has more experience than he does.
i thought president obama was using rush as an analogue for kiddie talk when our state leaders need to discuss problems like mature adults. don't be a rush.
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