Sean Hannity edits video of President Obama to smear him
By John Amato Tuesday Apr 07, 2009 10:05am
I haven't been able to get myself to watch much of Hannity since Colmes left. Hannity's America, which ran on Sundays when they were still a team, was just so depraved, but I did see this one. Hannity does his usual smear job on President Obama by making sure to edit out his full comment to make it appear that Obama was blaming America first while he was in Europe. It's just so typical of him. I would expect no less. Even Howard Kurtz attacked him over it even, if his critique was a bit tame:
Fox's Sean Hannity played a bite from that speech. Let's take a look at that.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
OBAMA: There have been times where America's shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.
HANNITY: And the liberal tradition of blame America first, well, that's still alive.
KURTZ: But in the very next sentence, the president of the United States said, "But in Europe, there is also an anti-Americanism that can be casual but can also be insidious."
And Sean Hannity's entitled to any opinion he wants. If he wants to criticize Obama for talking about American arrogance, that is fine. But he didn't play the second part of the sound bite, and I thought that was not quite fair.
Hannity completely misrepresented what President Obama said or meant. It was a complete lie and smear job. Saying it was not "quite fair" is so milquetoast, but that's about the best we can hope for. I have another clip coming that is very puzzling indeed regarding Hannity and Co. Howard Kurtz always seems to defend FOX and their GOP-led brigade.
On the April 3 edition of his Fox News television program, Sean Hannity played a clip of President Obama saying in an April 3 speech in Strasbourg, France: "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America's shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." Hannity then said: "And the liberal tradition of blame America first, well, that's still alive." Hannity later asked: "Why is there this anti-Americanism in Europe?" In fact, immediately after the part of the speech Hannity played, Obama criticized anti-Americanism in Europe as well as Europeans who "choose to blame America for much of what's bad."...read on.
Think Progress writes that Hannity compared Obama to the Dixie Chicks:
HANNITY: You know, I’m going to — I resent this. When you consider…all we have done just in the last century alone to save Europe from themselves. I resent this. I think it’s outrageous, the media’s ignored it. But don’t you think this is like the Dixie Chicks? […]
The Dixie Chicks were embarrassed by George Bush and so, by the end of his tenure, were most Americans. They had a point, and didn't edit speeches of Bush to make their point. Yet on Monday night, Hannity was still harping on the same lie.
They will never give up, even if they have to spend every night of the rest of their lives lying through their teeth.
cares what he thinks unless they are the wingnuts...We already know Hannraty is a liar....He is lying to his choir!
Just keep exposing him and the viewership will continue to go down with the educated ---the rest are on their own!
That is a large choir they are preaching to and everyone needs to be prepared to rebut what someone might say in our company.
What drives Hannity and his ilk crazy, is that in spite of all their manipulations, they wake up read this (whether they say believe it or not, these wingnuts and their loons are irrelevant to anything other than motivating some crazies to shoot up the neighborhood... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/us/politics...
Well, you know that Dana Perino a few weeks ago told us that statistics lag. She told us that the stock market was going up because of something Bush mysteriously did late last year. What was it? I don't know. She didn't tell us. But, as she said, statistics lag.
Obviously, if people think the economy is getting better, it's not because of Obama. It's because what dear leader Bush did last year. I just wish I knew what it was.
Why would you have to defend Obama?
to rebut lies. You're not opposed to the truth are you?
but there seems to be "selective" truths coming from both parties.
And I am referring to THIS truth...that Hannity left off part of what Obama said and that it should be rebutted.
there are far more important things going on than anything Hannity and his ilk have to say. They're not credible.
look at how the gun nuts and libertarians only read the second half of the second amendment.
Your comment shows that you haven't read ANY part of the second amendment. Let's not become what we hate.
I'ts not what the Second Amendment says that scares me, it's how the loons exploit it to drive the fear factor about their the government coming to take their guns....Not that they can ever point to anything Obama has said to back it up. Doesn't matter.
of the second amendment that is visible through my scope at 1000 yards.
well regulated NRA and libertarian militias fighting to defend our country...
Unless by "defending our country" the founding fathers meant "shooting at harmless paper targets," and by "well regulated militia" they meant "yeehaw! let's go to a gun show."
typical of hannity. recreate his own truth. he is a master of deception. half-truths,lies,edits anything to supply the haters with talking points. i don't watch this klown so thank you for doing it for me.
Either cut out part of the speech or do a cut and paste job to make it fit whatever rant you have du jour. That is Hannity's style.
Lying is lying. And Fox has that down to a science.
No wonder their viewer's are the dumbest, least informed people out there.
I get up, come onto crooks and liars..
And witness the right wing become more and more unhinged every second...
It is quite sad..
Context is so important... They only can see the world through a tiny crack of their self imposed prison.
What ever happened to self-responsibility Shaaawn you fucking dick head?..
Don't they understand that in order to be responsible they have to also be honest... and being true to ones self is the highest form of honesty..
I don't watch him for just that reason.
People like this will someday realize that ethical conduct is not like some garment that you can take from the shelf and have it when it's convenient, and then put it back when it's not.
You either are ethical at all times, or you're not ethical at all. Sean Hannity has proven he has no ethics.
Why Fox continues to pay this man a salary is beyond belief.
The man does not love this country -- does not respect the choice made by the voters in this country. He is loyal only to the Republican Party the same way Nazis and Stalinists were loyal to their respective parties first and their country second. He sickens me. But I take solace in knowing that he's walking far too fine a line these days -- it's only a matter of time before he says something so outrageous that his corrupt overlords can no longer justify keeping him on the payroll. (Let's just all hope that his rage doesn't incite any more gun violence inspire any of his wacko viewers to extreme acts first.)
I read on another board that Fox News slowed the sound feed from Obama's news conference in France-- it made his pauses longer and he sounded like he was struggling to put his words together. I didn't witness this myself but the guy who reported it is a sound engineer and switched between the Fox and MSNBC feed to verify it. It might be worth pursuing and seeing if Fox does this with future press conferences.
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It makes more sense knowing that after RedState put up a post about how stupid Obama sounded with all the pauses and um's and such. (It's clear that they don't understand someone who is thinking while they are speaking, speech writers and all. One has to think while they speak or they wind up sounding [and thinking] like Bush.)
... sound as clueless as Bush's "It sounds like you're ready for this ... um, ah ... this ... um, ah ... really big storm."
He was, of course, talking about Hurricane Katrina.
Please, PLEASE -- get in touch with Media Matters about this. It's important - and thanks.
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AJC: Sean Hannity could turn Atlanta tea party into a big bash
While John Rich is a gooper, that song is solidly Dem in thought and concept. Have you heard it?
There is NOTHING in that song that screams Republican? Nothing!
I'd say that song is strongly Populist, neither Democratic nor Republican.
Both parties depend as strongly on Populist rhetoric as they depend on Corporate sponsorship.
If the Populists in BOTH parties could see beyond the Clouds of Ideology and the Divisive Wedge Issues, and instead focus on the Bread and Butter issues of, well, Bread and Butter, the Corporatists in BOTH parties would be out on their asses.
He acknowleged that George Will had his facts wrong about climate change but refused to issue a correction. He's still trying to have it both ways.
That's why Kurtz is worse. People expect Sean Flathead Hannity to say stupid things.
... to be a breach of professional ethics to edit/air a soundbite in such a manner that it changes the meaning. This is the same thing as talking about a 'suspect' and showing an unrelated person walking down the street.
Not that Hannity would know journalistic ethics from pig slop.
Even Michael Moore has been acused of that, and been found guilty.
No comparison. But nice try.
with an unbiased eye then do a search on speeches he attributes to people. Yes he does, and he admitted it.
When it came to that part regarding Heston and Columbine...
However I did not take it as alot of people did and I saw that what he was really trying to do was show the overall mindset of the NRA..
Which he captured.. even if he did edit it in a slightly slippery way...
Personally I think his films after Bowling are much better and less prone to those techniques... Sicko had NONE of that.. and is with out question his most hard hitting and best film todate..
from Flint in my opinion.
was a well made movie, but all documentaries are edited to show the maker's point of view. Still a good movie though.
Michael Moore is an entertainer, and never made any attempt at portraying himself as a journalist.
I recall him portraying himself as an Independant, and then stabbing Nader in the back on national television though. He'd do anything for a buck.
But that wasn't even remotely related to what I just wrote. Besides you seem to "recall" or "heard" many things, that most of us seem to have missed. Maybe you can start providing some links about your "recollections."
... one of Moore's books on the recommendation of a co-worker, and while it was amusing, it was also irritating, because it was like watching a poorly-done magic trick. You could see the wires and gaffs.*
This is why viewers/listeners/readers have to be able to critically assess even those sources they consider to be trustworthy. Any effort to break the model of a corporate-agenda media is worthless if consumers can't tell good information from bad information.
*No, that's not a typo, and the word isn't 'gaffe' as in a verbal slip, it's an outmoded term referring to rigging a game.
really hard to be a master manipulator but he really isn't. He's been caught in so many lies, and he's even admitted them openly. Example? Pointing out how bad foreign cars are, he tried to say he owned a Volkswagon made in Mexico, and when it got a little chilly out, it wouldn't start. It was proven he has never owned one in his life.
about our U.S. servicemen and women giving President Obama such a warm welcome in Baghdad today?
It's gonna take some serious videotape editing to turn that into a negative.
That Socialist brain washing programs on our "BRAVE" Troops is destroying the country...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30087747/
Sounds almost identical to Bush, doesn't it? Bush also got cheered at his military photo-ops.
Did Obama have a codpiece on?
don't need codpieces. LOL.
You expect a new POTUS to go there after the clusterfuck that was (and still is due to) Bush?
Thanks, for the concern, hon, but I would like to keep this president alive for a while.
There is no war. It's a charade. Iraq's military was destroyed as has the nation. He still sounded EXACTLY like Bush. Time for Iraqis to "stand up so we can stand down".....where was that heard before. Oh ya. Bush!
Just because I agreed with you once doesn't give you a license to go ahead with your B.S.
Don't become a 20%.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/28/bush.e...
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/con...
Looks the same, smells the same....why it is the same. And if you'd like, I also found clips of other famous Dems saying, well what do you know, the exact same thing including John Kerry.
do you thik he should have something different? Don't "YOU" think it's time for them to take control? Do me a favor. JSTFU!
there's even more comparisons. Open thine eyes and see the light.
Bushies excuse number 14,298 for the invasion was to "bring democracy to Iraq". Lots of links to prove he said it. Obama? Well...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30087747/
Looks the same, smells the same, sounds the same. Does that koolaid come in megapacks?
An original 20%er...who doesn't vote.
Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can....repeat until stuck on Dem.
Canuck, get a fucking hobby, get another catch phrase...please. If I got pussy all day, every day I'd be bored with that too...let it go man. You're killing everybody.
All presidents get cheered when they visit the troops I will argue, however, that President Obama's greeting today was highly enthusiastic -- a step above the (admittedly) welcome U.S. presidents typically receive.
of the Dixie Chicks.
"The Dixie Chicks were embarrassed by George Bush and so, by the end of his tenure, were most Americans."
The Dixie Chicks were embarassed, but I beleive it had something to do with the "blame Texas first mentality."
Last year in Hannity's bio at:
premierespeakers.con/sean_hannity/bio
Hannity claimed to have a made a $10 million donation to "The Freedom Alliance" from his Freedom Concerts in 2007.
" In 2007 the concerts grew into 5 massive events resulting in over $10 million for The Freedom Alliance and were attended by over 60,000 people in Atlanta,San Diego,Dalla,Cincinnati and New Jersey."
This statement is where the out right lying begins. The highest priced ticket went for around $125.00 but if you divide 60,000 into $10,000,000 you end up with each ticket costing no less than $166.66!
I called and asked Freedom Alliance their Tax 990(for 501c3 Charities)Form for 2007, and I received it. Guess what: In their 990 report for 2007 there is no mention of any donation of $10 million dollars,nada,zip,zilch nothing!
If you look on page 1 under Gross receipts: "Revenue,Expenses,and Changes in Net Assests or Fund Balances:" Line L sub line 1b, you will find the number of $10,762,256. In 2006 the amount was approx.$9.6 million! There is no mention anywhere of Hannity donating any money at all in 2006! Where the donations should've of showed up throughout the 990 report, there's isn't one penny of any donation from Hannity or his "Freedom Concerts" to "Freedom Alliance" mentioned! Going all the way back to '03 there is no mention anywhere of Freedom Concerts (when they started up) of any donations by Hannity You can reach Freedom Alliance @: freedomalliance.org
Hannity as vain and stuck on himself as he is,one would think that he would've at last had some billboards up around the country being shown handing a $10,000,000 check to Ollie North of Freedom Alliance! Shucks! If Hannity had done such a wonderful act, don't you think he'd still be bragging about it, today?
Call em and get your own report and while your at it just ask for the last 3 years reports for '05,'06 and '07.
Sean Hannity edited a video to slime someone? Wow! and I always look to Sean to present a message that is thoughtful, fair and balanced.....Why is everyone looking at me like that?
Hannity is a classic re-Thug.
Re-thug-lics -- the party of immature, voraciously rapacious, depraved, despotic, doughy white, cowardly, angry troglodytes, bigots, racists, perverts, xenophobes, pedophiles, murderers, war criminals, homophobes, misogynists, self-righteous hypocrites, self-hating women, fetid wombs, preeminent whiners and consummate chronic liars.
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Hannity is a useless piece of shit...
"FOX News: We distort, we deride"
The only use for Sean "Aryan Defender" Hannity's mouth is to use it as a public urinal.
of the right wingers, this guy is the worst IMHO. He has nothing but pure unadulterated hate for anything that doesn't conform to his very narrow and simplistic view of the world. Sure Beck is crazy and Billo's a loud mouth, but Hannity takes the cake. If someone just a little to the left of him found a cure for cancer, he would be against it. He's just so smug and hateful.
I'd have to agree with you, Pugilist.
Last night, I was flipping channels when I saw Hannity cutting to a commercial. Before the commercial came on, he said, "stay tuned.....we'll show you how '60 Minutes' crack news team is making the case for nationalized health care."
I didn't watch the segment because I cannot stand that guy, but I did see the 60 Minutes segment. It is a tragedy how people are losing their health care, people who have terminal diseases like cancer. I can only imagine what Hannity said in his own segment. He's a damned hater for sure.
Hannity isn't a "hat." Hannity isn't a "wipe." He is simply an ASS.
We should start a global C&L poll letting Hanratty and his piers compete daily for top of the heap on a new WOW poll.
WOW=Worst of the Worst.
I know this would be a never-ending jockeying for position among the NeoNut crew but it would give something else to focus on besides who has the biggest lie made up for the day..AND, we could probably get HuffPo, C&L, Thinkprogress or even Nate over at 538.com to do a polling graph...or even Polster.com..!! Publish it every day and show the world what the bottom of the ditch looks like!!
Let's see...who could be included??
Hannraty, Limberger (who will be on Cavuto's program tomorrow discussing the new millionaires tax in NY designed to run him out of town), Beck, Billo-the-clown, Cavuto, Toosey, Alex Conant, Coltergeist, Cantor, Boner (Boehner), etc....max. say 20-30 but each would have an equal chance to compete for the weekly WOW award..(you can also submit nominations for the type of award too!!)
I bet we can get Schultz (on his new show) to announce it every Monday!!
Fat Ass, Hattity is nothing but a dumb, hate monguering, ignorant Asshole to intelligent Americans.
In the real world the phrase "blame America first" is known as "Personal Responsibility". The rightists seem to have a real problem accurately using the English language.
If you guys keep ragging on Hannity like this he's gonna send out the Foxarazzi.
Can someone do a story on Sean hanging in out in a whorehouse with Air Force Amy.
http://www.bunnyranch.com/phpAlbum/main.php?c...
NYT already did a story about it.
Why the f*** are they squalking about "taxation without representation?" THEY LOST ELECTIONS! Their representation was denied by the voice of THE PEOPLE.
Hannity's "conservatives in exile" should follow the example set by Napolean... AND DIE IN EXILE!
Sean Hannity uses his editors to disort everything President Obama says. They alter the facts to suit their needs- This is such a far cry from "fair & Balance" it's ugly, incindiary propaganda and he's the worst offender of Fox's anti-Obama bias. Even in "Queen-molestation-gate" they only showed the 1 second clip when Michelle touched the Queen and cut it before they showed the Queen returning the gentle and welcomed gesture.
How does it feel being a terd up Obamas AsS?
Is a fuckin Nazi bitch.
We all KNOW he's gonna say and do Nazi bitch type things.
Because he's a Nazi bitch.
And that's what Nazi bitches do.