Sean Hannity Calls Congressman "Asshole"

via Oliver Willis

Sean Hannity, the talking-point spouting mouthpiece on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes was recently caught by Harry Shearer slamming a Democratic congressman as an "asshole" when Hannity didn't realize he was being recorded.

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Strangely, Hannity is constantly decrying the lack of civility from Democrats, but in the recording goes on to say "I hate these people"

From a few years ago. Al Franken is still doing this fabulous schtick (Hey! Does this talent make him too elitist/educated to be Senator?) at fundraisers for his Senate campaign. Go Al!

SITE UPDATE: Harry Shearer, actor and comedian extraordinaire, will be here at C&L for a live chat on Friday, August 8th at 1:00 pm Eastern/10:00 am Pacific to discuss his latest satirical album Songs of the Bushmen.

I can't believe that's Harry Shearer in Karl Rove makeup. "The Turd Blossom Special".

Open thread below...

Harry Shearer, "935 Lies." Open thread below...

From another new source for entertainment on the web, but "teh cool" quotient for this one is fairly high: MyDamnChannel has Harry Shearer and Don Was. And it's nice to see Presidential candidates actually saying nothing (as opposed to saying nothing while pretending to say something) for once.

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Media coverage of the Katrina disaster continues to be on orgy of emotion without analysis, as Harry Shearer observes. Harry suggests some heavy reading instead of this light viewing, to better understand the history of this tragedy - and its preventability.

It's also important to note that the same incompetent leadership that brought you the FEMA f**kup is still in place, and that there are more preventable tragedies waiting to happen.

As I wrote nearly a year ago, the next "Katrina" may very well be a terrorist attack using nuclear materials. And have I mentioned lately that Rumsfeld's military left radiological materials lying around in Iraq for anyone to take, or that some of it was still unsecured two years after we invaded?

The bottom line: the next "Katrina" could well be a nuclear attack on the US, and Halliburton's already prepared to profit from the clean-up.

Have a nice day.

Harry Shearer has some tape of Delay and Matthews before their segment started. Can a guy suck up to a disgraced politician more than this?

Duncan: "I don't know what's more interesting: the fact that Tweety keeps saying "I owe you," the fact that DeLay seems totally bored to tears with Tweety's banter, or DeLay's comment that "there's nothing worse than a woman know-it-all."

FDL has some choice words for Matthews.

Tommy Franks joined Matthews to talk about the six generals (listed here) that have come out and asked for Rummy to get the boot. John finds an interesting nugget embedded in Woodward's book.
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Some of the critics of "the Generals," speaking out have talked about books they may or may not have written as a reason for the criticism. Franks has his book prominently displayed in this interview.

Harry Shearer:

"On Hardball Friday afternoon, Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of the Iraq war, was defending Defense Secretary Rumsfeld against the recent offensive by the retired generals. In passing, he said this:

"Ask him about the 14 months we spent planning this thing."

That would put the operational, as opposed to contingency, planning as having started in roughly January of 2002, about eight months later than what was implied in Joint Chiefs head Peter Pace's statement at the Pentagon briefing earlier this week."

"Demand from local listeners returned syndicated talk host Rush Limbaugh to his midday time slot on WWL AM-870 last Wednesday, so imagine the reaction of all but his most fervid acolytes to his opening-day gut-punch to New Orleans. Limbaugh, the most listened-to radio talker in the land, introduced caller "Ray from New Orleans," where, said the host, "They're getting back to normal in the city." --- Ray set the tone by criticizing President Bush's fabulously framed Jackson Square TV speech to the nation. "All lies," the caller said. "None of the things that he promised are happening." ...read on

I've talked to journalists down there and people are furious. The scope of destruction can't be viewed on your TV screen. Nothing is happening and the money is not flowing while many promises have been broken. Rush is in for a rude awakening if he continues talking like he does in this article.

Harry Shearer has more...

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