Why (some) Conservatives Hate Sean Hannity

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Not sure if I should post this in Humor or in Politics, but since it isn't written by Peter David I decided to go with the latter.

I've recently begun visiting Daily Kos every day or so to check in on the Jeff Gannon story they've been investigating, and while there today I spotted this very funny item in a diary entitled "Confessions of a Former Dittohead: Why We Hated Sean Hannity".
... Another great moment in punditry came when Sean claimed Democrats were endorsing the torture of children by opposing the war. Seriously! My dittohead business partner and I still laugh about it. During one of his beat-down segments with some poor, outgunned Democrat he had an exchange that went something like:

Hannity: "Saddam Hussein was torturing children. You opposed the war. Therefore you support the torture of children. Why do you support the torture of children!

Guest: "Um...I don't think..."

Hannity: "Answer the question! You're not answering the question!

Guest: "I'm trying to..."

Hannity: "ANSWER THE QUESTION! WHY DO YOU TORTURE CHILDREN!!!"

Coulter: "She's avoiding the question, Sean."

Cameron: "I don't think she's going to answer you, Sean."

Hume: "It's a simple question."

Colmes: "Why won't you answer his question?"

Guest: "HEY! I thought you were supposed to be on my side?"

Colmes: "No, the show doesn't work that way."
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Edited to remove Hannity's final line, because I think Colmes' line is funnier and don't want to detract from it.
 
Another example of this mindset...

http://wwww.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/1527

Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic.


Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter: "I don't think that's right."

McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"

McKeown: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."

Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."

McKeown: "No."

Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
 
I'm glad you all have so much spare time and such an abiding interest in those folks, that you not only keep up with what they say, but apparently hang on every word...I'm sure their sponsors, and their bankers are glad too.
 
crimresearch said:
I'm glad you all have so much spare time and such an abiding interest in those folks, that you not only keep up with what they say, but apparently hang on every word...I'm sure their sponsors, and their bankers are glad too.
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actually heard the clip on Air America radio (the liberal-biased network) a week or two ago and I just googled for the transcript of the call. Didn't require that much spare time and I didn't have to add to Coulter or Hannity's ratings. I don't watch Coulter or Hannity. They're liars whose pants are on fire.
 
My favorite Hannity spiel, the "will you repudiate the tactics of this person?".

I honestly don't comprehend how his radio show does well except that it comes on after Limbaugh in most markets.

Unfortunately I am sometimes obliged to watch him and Colmes on TV since they occasionally have guests I would like to hear.

A lot of people bash Colmes for letting Shawn bully the guests. I think its a good tactic. To me Shawn always looks like a bore who has no real arguement. Why bash Colmes for not being an equal bore?

Colmes really is a talented broadcaster. If he had a prettier face I bet he could have his own TV show. Heck, I wish his radio show was carried in this area.
 
Me: You supported the war. In wars, our troops die. That means you want our troops to die. Why do you support the execution of our troops!?

;)
 
These folks all sound like second rate Joe Pyne and Alan Burke imitators...have they had any 65 year old vets go over the desk after them yet?

It is bread and circuses for the masses...if they didn't have people from the other side faithfully tuning in to be outraged, they wouldn't draw enough to be where they are.

Oh, and as far as the Vietnam comment, I suppose it all depends on what you mean by 'Canada'.
;)
 
HarryKeogh said:
Another example of this mindset...

http://wwww.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/1527

Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic.


Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter: "I don't think that's right."

McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"

McKeown: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."

Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."

McKeown: "No."

Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
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Wow that's severely stupid. She could, of course, just ask any Canadian. :P
 
Count me as one of the conservatives who don't like Sean Hannity. I have never heard his radio show, but I've seen him on Fox, and he does indeed make Colmes look good.

I've read one, maybe two, Coulter articles on the net, and seen her once, maybe twice, on TV. Don't have much of an opinion except that she has nice, long hair and in my single days I wouldn't have kicked her out of bed for eating crackers.
 
Luke T. said:
I've read one, maybe two, Coulter articles on the net, and seen her once, maybe twice, on TV. Don't have much of an opinion except that she has nice, long hair and in my single days I wouldn't have kicked her out of bed for eating crackers.
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What else would she be doing there? :p

(Thanks Normy)
 
Hannity is such a jackass! I cringe when I hear his mindless rants and badgering of guests. He makes O'Reilly look quite moderate by comparison.
 
HarryKeogh said:
Another example of this mindset...

http://wwww.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/1527

Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic.
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Oh, I thought the highlight of the evening was when O'Reilly called the Globe & Mail , "the Havana Times". We missed the next two minutes we were laughing so hard. For those that are unfamiliar with Canadian media, the Glob and Snail is the conservative (note the small "c") national newspaper. They are, however, pretty fair in their coverage.

They made O'Reilly cry, naughty CBC
 
WildCat said:
Hannity is such a jackass! I cringe when I hear his mindless rants and badgering of guests. He makes O'Reilly look quite moderate by comparison.
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O'Reilly is a moderate, like it or not. He just leans Right more often than not. He took the position that the Colorado professor who spoke out in favor of the 9/11 attacks, should not be fired from his job when all the Republicans were calling for him to be lynched.

Anyway, I kind of like Hannity (except his pro-religion garbage) but still found that funny. It's funny because it's soewhat true.
 
Phrost said:
O'Reilly is a moderate, like it or not.
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Now that's funny.

Canadian political spectrum for the rest of you:

Socialism....NDP......Liberals.....old PC party ... Reformatories... old Reform.... Stalin..... O'Reilly
......................................^ ....^ ................................^
.......................... European ..Canadian ................American
............................. centre ....centre .......................centre
 
HarryKeogh said:
Another example of this mindset...

http://wwww.thisisrumorcontrol.org/node/1527

Last night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent investigative news program, "the Fifth Estate," broadcast a one-hour special on the hijacking of the American media by conservative bullies -- whose knowledge of foreign policy seems to run the gamut from A to B and tends toward scream-o-ramas in which dissenters are accused of being unpatriotic.


Coulter: "Canada used to be one of our most loyal friends and vice-versa. I mean Canada sent troops to Vietnam - was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?"
McKeown interrupts: "Canada didn't send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter: "I don't think that's right."

McKeown: "Canada did not send troops to Vietnam."

Coulter (looking desperate): "Indochina?"

McKeown: "Uh no. Canada ...second World War of course. Korea. Yes. Vietnam No."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, took a pass on Vietnam."

Coulter: "I think you're wrong."

McKeown: "No, Australia was there, not Canada."

Coulter: "I think Canada sent troops."

McKeown: "No."

Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
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Wow, are the Military Order of Canadian Vietnam Veterans going to be surprised to hear about this!
 
Phrost said:
It's funny because it's soewhat true.
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Do you support invading North Korea? No? Then you obviously support communism. Why are you a communist, you communist?

Moron.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Wow, are the Military Order of Canadian Vietnam Veterans going to be surprised to hear about this!
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Um, dude, those guys are folks in Canada who fought for the US in Vietnam. If you look at their "About Us" pages, it says specifically:

Members of the Armed Forces of Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand and the United States are eligible to request consideration for membership.
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Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.
 
Nasarius said:
Do you support invading North Korea? No? Then you obviously support communism. Why are you a communist, you communist?

Moron.
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Hmm, I misspelled "somewhat".
 
Cleon said:
Um, dude, those guys are folks in Canada who fought for the US in Vietnam. If you look at their "About Us" pages, it says specifically:



Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.
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maybe Peptoabysmal could take a page from Ann Coulter's book: Coulter: "Well. I'll get back to you on that."
 
Hannity's jealousy of Rush Limbaugh is so transparent. Instead of dittoes, his audience is Hannitized. And like most conservative talk radio guys, you are either a good ass-kissing American, or it's "Shut up! Shut up!"

Speaking of Limbaugh, I think it's hilarious that he has taken to calling himself "America's anchorman" - since he's the anchor AND the reporter AND the vetter AND the commercial. AND full of ◊◊◊◊.

Then you've got Michael Savage, who calls for the nuking of Mecca and Medina one week, then tells stories about his Muslim friends the next.

All of them are just like Kerry was on Meet the Press - completely unaware that the election is over.
 
crimresearch said:
I'm glad you all have so much spare time and such an abiding interest in those folks, that you not only keep up with what they say, but apparently hang on every word...I'm sure their sponsors, and their bankers are glad too.
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I think it is important to expose these liars for what they are. Sure we can just brush off these idiots, but we are doing an injustice by letting them go unchecked, allowing them to preach this stuff.
 
Cleon said:
Um, dude, those guys are folks in Canada who fought for the US in Vietnam. If you look at their "About Us" pages, it says specifically:



Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.
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I didn't want anyone to walk away from this thinking no Canadians ever served. In fact, more Canadians joined the US forces than there were draft dodgers who went into Canada.

Lighten up dude. :D
 
Phrost: Anyway, I kind of like Hannity (except his pro-religion garbage) but still found that funny. It's funny because it's somewhat true.

Nasarius: Do you support invading North Korea? No? Then you obviously support communism. Why are you a communist, you communist?
Moron.

An interesting thing about pronouns such as it is that it's often easy to misinterpret what the pronoun is referring to. When I read Phrost's post, I interpreted it to refer to the "transcript" in the opening post, so that the meaning of what Phrost is saying would be: Even though I kind of like Hannity, I still found the take-off on his program funny because it was somewhat true that Hannity and Colmes really do behave that way. That's something I find admirable: being able to find humor even when the target of the humor is someone or something one agrees with.

In contrast, it sounds like Nasarius heard the it to refer to the kind of illogic Hannity is using in the piece. That interpretation did not occur to me in reading Phrost's post, and even re-reading it I think it to be less likely than my interpretation. But it shows how easy it is for different people to read or hear things differently, even when we think we have expressed ourselves clearly.
 
Dorian Gray said:


Then you've got Michael Savage, who calls for the nuking of Mecca and Medina one week, then tells stories about his Muslim friends the next.
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That seems to be the standard line. The conservatives who love Muslims, but hate them, but they really love them, but they hate them.
 
Nova Land said:
Phrost: Anyway, I kind of like Hannity (except his pro-religion garbage) but still found that funny. It's funny because it's somewhat true.

Nasarius: Do you support invading North Korea? No? Then you obviously support communism. Why are you a communist, you communist?
Moron.

An interesting thing about pronouns such as it is that it's often easy to misinterpret what the pronoun is referring to. When I read Phrost's post, I interpreted it to refer to the "transcript" in the opening post, so that the meaning of what Phrost is saying would be: Even though I kind of like Hannity, I still found the take-off on his program funny because it was somewhat true that Hannity and Colmes really do behave that way. That's something I find admirable: being able to find humor even when the target of the humor is someone or something one agrees with.

In contrast, it sounds like Nasarius heard the it to refer to the kind of illogic Hannity is using in the piece. That interpretation did not occur to me in reading Phrost's post, and even re-reading it I think it to be less likely than my interpretation. But it shows how easy it is for different people to read or hear things differently, even when we think we have expressed ourselves clearly.
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Interesting. I didn't even bother to try and get my head around why I was being called a moron for appreciating humor at Hannity's expense.

Gotta love the Internet.
 
a_unique_person said:
That seems to be the standard line. The conservatives who love Muslims, but hate them, but they really love them, but they hate them.
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I've only caught his show once or twice. Best line I heard was his intro:

"Coming to you live, and un-beheaded".

It helps if you listen to talk radio in the right frame of mind. My term for it is "Punditainment".
 
I've suffered through a few afternoon listens of Hannity. The man is truly insufferable.

I'm always amazed (but have moved to deep cynicism) that rightwing GOP'ers love this guy as well as the oxycontin addict. The message these goofballs deliver Is easy to accept if you don't question anything they say. They seem (to me) like something out of 1984.

Charlie (you're a great american) Monoxide
 
I can't stand Sean Hannity. He's awful. He make O'Reilly look like the most fair minded person that ever existed by comparison. (BTW, it may be my imagination but it seems like O'Reilly's show has gotten worse lately in the sense that fewer dissenting opinions are allowed. And the Joe Scarborough Show, which used to be a fair minded albeit right leaning show, has gotten a lot worse lately in the same way. I guess the idea is that if Fox is getting the higher ratings then you try to be like them to increase your ratings too.)

And Alan Colmes...I have disdain for Alan Colmes because he is a professiona a** kisser. Kissing the a** of someone admirable is bad enough but kissing the a** of Sean Hannity is as low as it gets. I haven't read Al Franken's book "Lying Liars..." but I was flipping through it in the bookstore one day and it had a device that summed up Colmes perfectly. In the chapter about Hannity & Colmes it printed Colmes' name in a really small font. It gets to how Colmes is so meek and timid on the show, constantly deferring to Hannity. It's pathetic.
 
Number Six said:
I can't stand Sean Hannity. He's awful. He make O'Reilly look like the most fair minded person that ever existed by comparison. (BTW, it may be my imagination but it seems like O'Reilly's show has gotten worse lately in the sense that fewer dissenting opinions are allowed. And the Joe Scarborough Show, which used to be a fair minded albeit right leaning show, has gotten a lot worse lately in the same way. I guess the idea is that if Fox is getting the higher ratings then you try to be like them to increase your ratings too.)

And Alan Colmes...I have disdain for Alan Colmes because he is a professiona a** kisser. Kissing the a** of someone admirable is bad enough but kissing the a** of Sean Hannity is as low as it gets. I haven't read Al Franken's book "Lying Liars..." but I was flipping through it in the bookstore one day and it had a device that summed up Colmes perfectly. In the chapter about Hannity & Colmes it printed Colmes' name in a really small font. It gets to how Colmes is so meek and timid on the show, constantly deferring to Hannity. It's pathetic.
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I totally agree. They should get rid of Colmes and make it Hannity and Coulter.

[That was a facetious comment, for the benefit of the context-impaired like Nasarius.]

I caught Colmes' radio show one night and he had on a psychic. It fits the pattern though: Jesus woos on the Right, and psycho-woos on the Left.
 
Luke T. said:
Count me as one of the conservatives who don't like Sean Hannity. I have never heard his radio show, but I've seen him on Fox, and he does indeed make Colmes look good.
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No, you got it backwards. Hannity is the good-looking one; Colmes looks like a horse.

Actually, I've watched the show about a half dozen times and got fed up. Though I have to admit, I thought it was fascinating when Hannity asked Kate Michaelman (president of NARAL - abortion-rights lobby) if abortion was ever wrong, and she danced all around the question but wouldn't answer it, despite Hannity's repeated demands.

Nevertheless, the show is nothing but a shout-a-thon - I've never learned anything important from watching it. Just an excuse to watch some liberal loony or conservative loony get beaten up by the host, and not all that different from bear-baiting.
 
a_unique_person said:
That seems to be the standard line. The conservatives who love Muslims, but hate them, but they really love them, but they hate them.
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Kinda like the liberals who "love" them, but think of them as children.
 
I had a topic on Sean Hannity here in case anyone missed it.

I used to listen to him on my way home from work because there was nothing better to listen to on the radio. For people like me, who are leaning futher to the right as we get older, it's good to listen to people like Sean Hannity, just to remind us of how stupid it would be to cast off our doubts and actually join the Republican party. I'm also glad that the lefties are pushing to have their own talk radio programs, to cure people who may consider joining the Democratic party.
 
Nasarius said:
Do you support invading North Korea? No? Then you obviously support communism. Why are you a communist, you communist?

Moron.
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I'm just bumping this so I can add in keywords in case I need to search for dirt on Nasarius later.


Nasarius reading comprehension "lack of" breakdown public education system
 
Phrost said:
I'm just bumping this so I can add in keywords in case I need to search for dirt on Nasarius later.


Nasarius reading comprehension "lack of" breakdown public education system
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Ohh god, this has got to be the most ironic post ever on this forum. I'll for Nasarius to see it before I explain.

I just want this post enshrined before Phrost has a chance to delete/edit it.
 
I am not sure that I qualify as a conservative (I have voted Republican most of my life though), but I find Hannity disgusting. It is disappointing to me that there are enough people out there that consider his kind of crap entertaining enough that he can find an audience.

Michael Savage was mentioned above. Based on my limited sampling of the two guys I would say that Hannity is more consistently a jerk while Savage is occasionally a more extreme jerk than Hanitty ever is.
 
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