← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · xmetalhead
Thread ID: 14135 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-06-11
2004-06-11 15:55 | User Profile
[I]I'm beginning to think these guys actually need each other to promote their own agendas, but nonetheless, Hannity's got nuthin'. He's an empty suit. A paid shill who's in dire need of history lessons. How sad. This guy does not belong on TV where he's able to brainwash millions of our weaker American brethren.[/I]
[B]COLMES[/B]: And that's where I have problems with my fellow liberals who can't get over the election of 2000. They should be focusing on winning 2004.
But you, by doing this, make those on my side look bad by showing know grace, no compassion, no sense of humanity for a man who served this country, whether or not you agree with the things he stood for.
[B]RALL[/B]: Well, I have more sympathy for the 290 million Americans who are living worse lives under a worse economy, being paid less with worse health care, with more homelessness and more poverty than there would have been, had Ronald Reagan never become president.
So for me, you're right, I don't have much sympathy for him.
[B]SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST[/B]: You said you hated him then, you hate him still. You also said, "I'm sure he's turning a crispy brown now."
[B]RALL[/B]: If you believe in heaven and hell, you've got to say, if anyone qualifies for hell it's a guy who lets five hundred thousand people died of AIDS.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: Are you happy he's dead?
[B]RALL[/B]: I don't care that he's dead. I think -- right now, the press is on both sides is examining the man's legacy, and we're not going to have this discussion in two weeks or two weeks ago. It's now.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: You're the guy that said after Pat Tillman who after 9/11 was so motivated he gave up millions of dollars and a football career, you also called him a sap and an idiot.
[B]RALL[/B]: And he went and got himself killed by our own guys with friendly fire.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: And this is -- And his family is back here, and here, they're suffering, just like the Reagan's are suffering, whether you like them or you hate them, in your words, or not. And here you come, and you want to pour salt in their wounds. Here's...
[B]RALL[/B]: No, what I'm really trying to do, I'm really trying to save other Pat Tillmans from making a similar stupid mistake and going and getting themselves killed for no good reason.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: Act as altruistic as you like. You are mean. You are cruel. You are thoughtless, and you are a hateful human being. You don't have a soul. And you don't care about anybody but yourself.
And you do this for shock value so that your name could be noticed. You're a slob. You're an absolutely -- you're a hateful human being to do this to families that are suffering.
There's no excuse for it. There's no rationale for what you're doing. You're mean, cruel and thoughtless.
[B]RALL[/B]: Well, there you go again, Sean.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: Telling the truth about you.
You are a mean person to do this to the Reagan's. You were mean to do it to the Tillmans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. And you ought to take this opportunity to look into that camera and say you're sorry.
[B]RALL[/B]: [COLOR=DarkRed]I think you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Sean, for promoting policies and for -- for indulging in this insane hyped ideology of Ronald Reagan that you've had going throughout this entire show[/COLOR].
[B]HANNITY[/B]: He ended the Cold -- he ended the Cold War...
[B]RALL[/B]: No, he didn't.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: He confronted the Soviet Union. The world is safer because of his leadership.
[B]RALL[/B]: That's not true. That is a lie.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: He doubled revenue for the federal government.
[B]RALL[/B]: That's a lie.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: He had the longest peacetime economically in history.
[B]RALL[/B]: Absolutely not true.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: And he created 20 million new jobs in this country.
[B]RALL[/B]: None of this is true.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: All of which is true.
[B]RALL[/B]: All lies. It's not true.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: You are thoughtless, mean, hateful liberal.
[B]RALL[/B]: He had a three-year economic boom.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: And all liberals ought to condemn people like you.
[B]RALL[/B]: Well, you know, I would say that we can turn this around and say the same thing about you guys.
[B]HANNITY[/B]: I don't know any conservative that would say that.
[B]COLMES[/B]: All right, we've got to go.
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122264,00.html[/url]
2004-06-12 15:54 | User Profile
THis Rall character sure seems like an a-hole to me.
-J
2004-06-12 16:04 | User Profile
Jay,
He is an a-hole. No argument there. Therefore he and Sean deserve each other. I think Xmetal is right. Those guys do need one another. That's how they keep their faithful riled up and the money and ratings rolling in. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that these hypocrites are really good friends who occasionally meet at a private club where they have drinks and laugh at all the suckers out there who think they are for real.
2004-06-12 18:21 | User Profile
Exactly what are Hannity's qualifications? He's too big a simpleton to scheme too much. Fox News seems to specialize in finding kooks to imitate conservatives.
2004-06-13 12:26 | User Profile
Inviting a loathsome Liberal to rant against Reagan at this hour smacks of the lowest form of Commercialism and bad taste. But then its Rupert Murdoch who owns this channel and that is only to be expected.
2004-06-13 14:49 | User Profile
AOR-
Hannity is a former painter/laborer/bartender/cook who never finished college. Now, there's nothing wrong with such a resume, but you'd think one with this background would do [I]something [/I] to bolster his credibility as a political icon, the self-styled heir to "Reagan conservatism". Quite the contrary, to listen to his radio show for any length is to realize that without his script of platitudes and catchprases, he is downright helpless. He glosses over history like it's not that important, and to him, if it didnt happen in the last 50 years, it simply didnt happen. And if it did, everything he knows about it he learned from reading one of his neo-con friends' books.
His audience positively adores him for all his ignorance and simplicity, the women in particular, of course. The message is tailor-made to the audience, which would make him appear shrewd if it were all just an act. But one cannot listen to him for a few weeks without concluding that, unlike some of his cohorts, he really [I]is[/I] that much of a simpleton.