Does Hannity have a stick up his butt or what?

Ipecac

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I don't watch Hannity & Colmes so I'm not particularly familiar with them and what side of the political spectrum they inhabit. But I read this transcript on Foxnews.com and think it's worth sharing.

Easter Bunny

They're talking about how some malls in Florida have renamed their Easter Bunnies as Peter Rabbit or Springtime Bunny.

The atheist guy, Silverman, is completely calm and rational, addressing the main point. But look how rabid Hannity gets just by the mere presence of an atheist.

DAVID SILVERMAN, AMERICAN ATHEISTS: Hey, thanks for having me back on the show.

You know, first of all, I want to say that this is about private property and this is about private enterprise. And they can name their bunnies anything they want. They can name them Peter Rabbit or they can name them the Jesus Bunny for all we care. They are private enterprises, and they can do what we wish -- or what they wish, I should say.
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Here is Hannity's first chance to speak:

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: You know something, David? Look, where is the tolerance on the left anymore? I mean, this is the Easter Bunny. This is about Bob's kids and my kids going to the mall. Are you really going to be hurt, are you really going to be offended by a mall identifying a bunny as the Easter Bunny? Is your faith shaken that deeply?
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They later have this exchange:

HANNITY: Should we remove the name of Jesus Christ from the public square totally?

SILVERMAN: We're talking about the Easter Bunny.

HANNITY: Take "In God We Trust" off U.S. coins, right? "One nation under God" out of the Pledge. We go back to the Declaration of Independence and say, "Endowed by our creator," out, too?

SILVERMAN: Absolutely not. We're talking about malls that are allowed to call the Easter Bunny anything they want.

HANNITY: Why not? You're an atheist. Our founding document says "endowed by our creator." That is against your faith. Why don't you call for that taken out?

SILVERMAN: We don't.
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The Guest Host, Beckel, then shows that he's a genius as well.

BECKEL: I have got to tell you one thing. As a Christian, I do not have enough faith to be an atheist. I mean, it takes a lot of faith to be an atheist.

Seriously, don't you think this is the sort of thing -- look, I'm on the left and I am very strongly on political correctness in a lot of things, but the Easter Bunny? The Easter Bunny...

SILVERMAN: Bob, I want to make sure that you guys both understand this. This isn't something from the left that we're pushing. This is just something that's happening.
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And finally,

HANNITY: No, what it is an assault on the very people in the society that lecture us about tolerance. You guys on the left, you are the most intolerant people on the face of the Earth to the point now that the Easter Bunny cannot be named the Easter Bunny without offending somebody in your side.

SILVERMAN: I just told you that it barely offends anybody. I told you that we're not pushing it.

HANNITY: So let it go.

SILVERMAN: I don't push it. I'm not pushing it at all.
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What a complete maroon. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.
 
What's really funny is that the name Easter, isn't even Christian, according to the Venerable Bede, it came from the name Eostre an Anglo-Saxon goddess, whose spring festival occurred around the same time as Easter and the name of the month stuck to the festival.

It's sometimes claimed that her symbol was the hare, but that's disputed.
 
Hannity's responses are almost a parody of an ignorant blowhard. He obviously wants an argument and so doesn't hear a single thing Silverman says.
 
Oh, come on. What could be more Christian than Easter bunnies and Christmas trees? :D ;)

Interestingly, Silverman was promoting the traditionally conservative point of view, i.e. private businesses doing what they want to do. Paradoxically, it's Hannity who is almost promoting a politically correct view by claiming that these businesses are wrong for using terminology that is offensive to a certain demographic of the population, i.e. Christians.

Black is white. Up is down. It's a strange new world.
 
I remember when he was just a local blowhard in Atlanta

honestly I don't think he even understands half of what he is saying. How he got so popular I will never understand.

Jon
 
Reading this I felt like I fell down the rabbit hole... :)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Lurker
 
Re: Re: Does Hannity have a stick up his butt or what?

Upchurch said:
Just to be obnoxious, I made a point of linking to atheists.org from the transcript's site. :D
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Eh, You can edit the content of the transcipt site? I see the link in the transc...oh, wait, you are just pulling my leg.
 
Wow. Just when I thought I'd heard/seen the worst from Hannity.
 
Do you say "Does that Carrottop have to act like such a douche?"

To you wonder why those damn fish hang out in water all of the time?

You are seeing the Hanniety schtick. No biggie. Some people prefer Carrottop, some Hanniety. Same difference. Don't sweat it.
 
Ed said:
You are seeing the Hanniety schtick. No biggie. Some people prefer Carrottop, some Hanniety. Same difference. Don't sweat it.
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Problem is that nobody actually believes that Carrottop has invented a real giant pencil (or whatever his prop commedy sctick is). There are those out there who don't realize that Hanniety is an entertainer. That is the part I sweat.
 
Upchurch said:
Problem is that nobody actually believes that Carrottop has invented a real giant pencil (or whatever his prop commedy sctick is). There are those out there who don't realize that Hanniety is an entertainer. That is the part I sweat.
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I think it's clear from the interview that he laid out before hand how he wanted it to run, what points he would hit, etc. Just bad form to not be able to adapt to a different situation than you wanted/expected.
 
Oops. I prayed to my heathenistic Satanic athiest god while ritualistically sacrificing a Christian, heterosexual, white, male baby over a bonfire made of guns, rich people's money, and reports of all the good in Iraq for Reason, Rationality, and Logic to be inserted into his brain.

Unfortunately, I made a mistake and sacrificed a AmericadestroyinggayhomopinkofagotterroristLIBERAL baby so the Rod of ChristianSelfRighteousA**holeryOverTheEasterBunnyWhichIsn'tActuallyAChristianSymbolAnywayD**kwad ended up in his butt instead.

Sorry, I'll be more careful when using my Athiest powers for EVIL next time.

Edited to add the "America destroying" because stereotype mocking is no fun unless you can get 'em all.
 
Upchurch said:
Problem is that nobody actually believes that Carrottop has invented a real giant pencil (or whatever his prop commedy sctick is). There are those out there who don't realize that Hanniety is an entertainer. That is the part I sweat.
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Well, he has an audience, but I don't for the life of me know why. I'm a talk-radio junky. I even like Rush a little...sometimes. Around these parts we have three talk-radio stations -- all AM -- and one is completely devoted to sports. Sports talk is not a really big interest for me...especially of late with the Baseball Steriod issue...different thread.

When I happen to be in my car between 3 and 6 PM, I therefore have two other choices if I want to listen to talk radio: Hannity or Dr. Laura.

I actually push the FM button.

He is impossible to listen to. He isn't entertaining so if entertainment is his sctick, he's failing. He isn't newsworthy so if news is his sctick, he's failing. He is, frankly, Al Frankin in conservative drag.

I think I'd actually rather listen to Frankin.
 
I find Hanniety a good object lesson in argumentative fallacies: strawmen, double standards, ad hom, etc.

One of the more subtle ones I caught a while back was when he was defending someone he agreed with (can't remember who exactly) who had said something really stupid and later came back and said, "wait, that's not what I meant. I meant to say...". Hannity's whole tirade was about what vultures the liberal mainstream media were jumping on this poor guy who had misspoken and corrected himself.

The very next day (and many days since), he played Kerry's "I actually voted for the $86 billion before I voted against it" sound clip for the umpteenth time.



Or, I'm really just a skepto-masochist and I have a problem.
 
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