What's So Bad About Sean Hannity?

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I've been listening to his radio show for a couple of months now, and I really can't see why a lot of the people on this forum deride him so much. Have I just not been listening long enough? Is there some view he holds that is so objectionable? I find myself agreeing with him most of the time, so am I nuts, or what?

(Appologies to John Bently)
 
Upchurch said:
(1 part parody thread, 1 part public service)

I've been listening to his radio show for a couple of months now, and I really can't see why a lot of the people on this forum deride him so much. Have I just not been listening long enough? Is there some view he holds that is so objectionable? I find myself agreeing with him most of the time, so am I nuts, or what?

(Appologies to John Bently)
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Other than him being a blowhard, a shill for the administration, and a rude host who interrupts his guests, nothing much.

On the good side, he is actively involved in Freedom Alliance.

Dulles, Virginia – Sean Hannity, nationally syndicated radio personality and the co-host of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, has teamed up with Freedom Alliance to raise money for the dependent children of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who have been killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty.

Mixed bag.

DR
 
Darth Rotor said:
a shill for the administration
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Boy, aint that the truth.

I can't repeat it in full on the board, but everytime I listen to Hannity's radio show, I can't help but be impress with how articulatly he speaks. That's got be hard when he is constantly {something} on Bush's {somthing else}.
 
I've never heard his radio show, but I have seen the Hannity & Combs show a couple of times. Honestly, I haven't even seen the show enough to enough know who is who. All I got was that one guy seems really self righteous (even when I more or less agree with him) and is there to berate and slam the guests. The other guy tries to ask real questions in a normal tone of voice, but the guest usually gets about halfway through his/her answer before the other guy jumps in with more berating, which makes me want to yell out, "Just let the f***** guy talk!" The loud guy is almost a Bill O'Reilly clone.

Again, that is based on the very small number of episodes (maybe half a dozen at best) that I have seen, so maybe I just saw some particularly inflammatory guests. I'm guessing the loud guy is Hannity, based on the couple of responses on here. If he is like that on the radio show, I can't imagine it being a very good show. Perhaps he is better when he doesn't feel he has to be the "bad cop." (assuming I am even correct about which guy is which).
 
All I know is that he's a "great American." At least that's what all his callers tell him.
 
Whn Colmes once suggested that Jesus was a liberal, Hannity interrupted to say that Colmes was wrong on two counts: first, "was" is not the correct tense because Jesus lives, and second, Jesus is a conservative.
 
Ladewig said:
Whn Colmes once suggested that Jesus was a liberal, Hannity interrupted to say that Colmes was wrong on two counts: first, "was" is not the correct tense because Jesus lives, and second, Jesus is a conservative.
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Wow, won't say I am sorry I missed that, as after seeing H & C three times it reached my "banned from my house" list of poison.

I tend to agree with Alan on that one, if one considers the context of Jesus' activity seen through a political lens. Assuming the scriptures accurately reflect his "platform," he was also a bit of a fundamentalist, vis a vis the Old Laws, and a liberal (in the classic sense) in their application. Paradox?

DR
 
I actually detest the fellow. That probably says more about me than him but I find that I just really dislike people who substitute partisanship for introspection. All events are seen as support for preconceived notions and partisan affiliations. Apparently contradictory evidence to preconceived notions and/or partisan ideals are actually proof that those ideas are right because preconceived notions and partisan ideals are always right.

I think there is a parallel here to religion. The bible is inerrant and so all facts that don't seem to support the inerrancy of the bible are actually proof of the inerrancy of the bible because the bible is inerrant.

A similar personality but on the left might be Randi Rhodes. I find that I don't dislike her as much as Hannity. I am not sure what that says about the situation. Politically I might be closer to Hannity than Rhodes. I think it might be because I haven't listened to Rhodes bully guests or talk over people and that is a standard Hannity tactic.

On the other hand, I think the most important fact in American political life today is that Bushco is an overwhelmingly bad, corrupt, and incompetent administration and maybe all that is going on here is that I don't like Hannity because he disagrees with me on that and I don't mind Rhodes so much because, at least, on that, we agree.
 
zakur said:
All I know is that he's a "great American." At least that's what all his callers tell him.
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JREF Dittos! Oh…wait, that’s reserved for calling Rush.

*Shuffles papers looking for the caller ingratiation list*

If I hear Hannity’s theme song--Independence Day--one more time I’m banning any and all country music cantation’s from my house. Now that wouldn’t be very Christian of me—Damn Right!!
 
Serenity said:
JREF Dittos! Oh…wait, that’s reserved for calling Rush.

*Shuffles papers looking for the caller ingratiation list*

If I hear Hannity’s theme song--Independence Day--one more time I’m banning any and all country music cantation’s from my house. Now that wouldn’t be very Christian of me—Damn Right!!
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Isn't that song about a woman who murders her husband?

Well she seemed all right by dawn’s early light
though she looked a little
Worried and weak
she tried to pretend he wasn’t drinkin’ aagain
but daddy left The proof on her cheek
and I was only eight years old that summer
and I always
Seemed to be in the way
so I took myself down
to the fair in town
On Independence day

Well word gets a round in a small, small town
they said he was a dangerous man
But mama was proud and she stood her ground
she knew she was on the losin’ end
Some folks whispered some folks talked
but everybody looked the other way
and When time ran out
there was no one about
on indpendence day

Let freedom ring,
let the white dove sing
let the whole world know that Today is a day of reckoning
let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It’s independence day

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of july
by the time the firemen come
they Just put out the flames
and took down some names
and send me to the county home
Now I ain’t sayin’ it’s right or it’s wrong
but maybe it’s the only way
Talk about your revolution
it’s indepenednce day

Yeah, that's a real uplifting little ditty. Reminds me of "That's the night the lights went out in Georgia" and a girl who let her brother get hanged for a crime she committed.

DR
 
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Ladewig said:
Whn Colmes once suggested that Jesus was a liberal, Hannity interrupted to say that Colmes was wrong on two counts: first, "was" is not the correct tense because Jesus lives, and second, Jesus is a conservative.
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Yeah. Like Jesus really cared about the "death" tax. He had no heirs, and nothing to leave them anyway.
 
hgc said:
Yeah. Like Jesus really cared about the "death" tax. He had no heirs, and nothing to leave them anyway.
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Every year, on Christmas Eve, The Wall Street Journal runs the same editorial, titled In Hoc Anno Domini, which argues, among other things, that Jesus was a capitalist...

Their pair of annual Thanksgiving Eve editorials, The Desolate Wilderness, and And the Fair Land, by contrast, are wonderful.
 
Darth Rotor said:
Assuming the scriptures accurately reflect his "platform," he was also a bit of a fundamentalist, vis a vis the Old Laws, and a liberal (in the classic sense) in their application. DR
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How are you reaching that conclusion?

1 At that time Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
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When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
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He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry,
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how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?
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Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent?
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I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
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If you knew what this meant, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned these innocent men.
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For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."
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Moving on from there, he went into their synagogue.
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And behold, there was a man there who had a withered hand. They questioned him, "Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?" so that they might accuse him.
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He said to them, "Which one of you who has a sheep that falls into a pit on the sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out?
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How much more valuable a person is than a sheep. So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath."
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Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and it was restored as sound as the other.
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But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him to put him to death.
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Here in Matthew 12, Jesus is saying that there are things more important than the letter of the law. Fundies focus on a literal interpretation of scriptures.
 
Aren't you using a literal interpretation of that scripture to make your point?:eek:
 
He and his listeners also speak of "Hannitizing" people or "Hannitization." I'm not sure exactly what it means, but from contextual clues I have surmised that it is akin to lobotomization. ;)

To find single Hannity listeners looking for love, check out Hannidate. Good, Christian folks like Mr. Awesome, NRAgirl, True Bloded Patriot, and ashelina63742 need dates. Liberals need not apply.
 
I get the feeling that Hannity is such a shill, that if Bush said next week that we should immediatly pull all forces out of Iraq or Afganistan, Hannity would change gears without blinking and say that anyone who doesn't think that is "anti our troops" or whatever.
 
Ladewig said:
How are you reaching that conclusion?
Here in Matthew 12, Jesus is saying that there are things more important than the letter of the law. Fundies focus on a literal interpretation of scriptures.
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My thoughts on that: the Pharisees et al (whom he called hypocrites, as in spouting the law but not faithfully adhering to it) were not abiding by the law, but rather by what made them comfortable. As a fundamentalist, he was very much on going back to the basics of the Law, which in his view they had perverted, or interpreted poorly in order to exploit the laity. This theme was picked up by a fellow named Martin Luther and replayed to the Pope to start the Reformatio.

I understand that not everyone sees it that way, nor does it bother me in the least.

If one accepts the triune God model, then it follows that he knows the law by heart (having been its author) and thus when he differs with the doctrinaire Pharisees and Saducees, he is doing so from a point of expert knowledge, and is thus more fundamentally correct in his interpretation. That's where I go to as a conceptual reference for Jesus being a proto Fundy. :) ANd a classical liberal, in his theme of empowering each person as a Child of God.

Modern Day fundies strike me as being waaay too much like the Pharisees: doctrinaire.

DR
 
Who or what might Sean Hannity be, and why should anyone, in particular me, care?

Thanks.
 
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