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Sean Hannity Calls His Fans “Tim McVeigh Wannabes”
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Posted on 04/01/2010 12:57:54 PM PDT by AlanD

Earlier this week, Fox News host Sean Hannity broadcast his eponymous show Hannity from the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Towards the end of the show, Hannity made a rather startling claim that conservatives won the debate regarding health care. Perhaps more startling, or more to the point, unsettling, was his facetious labeling of his fans as “Tim McVeigh wannabes.”

Hannity’s full quote can be viewed in the video below, but he says “I think we won the debate… When you think of the vast majorities that they have in Congress and they had to bribe, backroom deals, corruption. That’s all because the Tea Party movement, the people, all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here.”

Clearly this is in reference to criticism on the left that the pitched rhetoric from conservatives might lead to violence. To be fair, right of center pundits have made similar claims.

And while Hannity uses the term “Tim McVeigh Wannabes” to deride criticisms with which he disagrees, to casually invoke the name of Timothy McVeigh, a domestic terrorist found guilty for killing 168 innocent citizens (some of which were babies) is rather reprehensible. Or put another way, if Hannity doesn’t like the McVeigh reference, he shouldn’t use it himself.

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This is a real head-scratcher.
1 posted on 04/01/2010 12:57:54 PM PDT by AlanD
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To: AlanD

Sean has never been much of a thinker.


2 posted on 04/01/2010 12:59:47 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: AlanD

It is a really dark form of sarcasm.

Reality cannot be ignored.Something is breaking in this country.


3 posted on 04/01/2010 1:00:25 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: AlanD

SOMEBODY needs to call him out on it


4 posted on 04/01/2010 1:00:40 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: AlanD

I suspect that he
Was mocking the media
That trades in such slurs.


5 posted on 04/01/2010 1:00:45 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: AlanD

Sarcasm.

“That’s all because the Tea Party movement, the people, all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here.”


6 posted on 04/01/2010 1:01:12 PM PDT by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: AlanD

Yeah, I really had a hard time figuring out he was

MOCKING THE LEFT.


7 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Hannity...diameter of mouth exceeds his IQ.


8 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:02 PM PDT by pointsal ( try MagicJack if you have had enough of Verizon)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

Do you really think
That he meant to insult you?
Think for a minute!


9 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:10 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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To: ConservativeMind
Sean has never been much of a thinker.

HAHA..Nah, he never was.

10 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:20 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: AlanD
I'm sure he was referring to something someone in the MSM said.
11 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (FYBO: Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Sean talks quite a bit and for the most part he doesn’t misspeak or goof up. I guess he was being facetious but it just came out wrong. Maybe he meant “so-called Timothy McVeigh wannabes”. Audience reaction was a little bit unsettled.


12 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:32 PM PDT by AlanD
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To: Del Rapier

It is a really dark form of sarcasm.

Reality cannot be ignored.Something is breaking in this country.

It broke in Nov 2008.


13 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:36 PM PDT by stevecmd
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To: AlanD

No head scratcher.

The MSM and the left refer to anyone who opposes Obama as a far right terrorists.

Sean was only saying his fans are, in the eyes of the left, Tim McVeigh wannabes.


14 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:49 PM PDT by Chuck54 (Dollar-A-Day Freeper (on fixed income). Join the club please.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Yeh, I think it is wrong to over analyze things like this. To be honest Sean Hannity is the first person to accept an apology and give someone a pass for a verbal gaffe. Hmm.. I wonder if that is a coincidence of if he knew that his time would come one day too! LOL Whenever you have to rant 4 hours a day it cannot be easy to keep it fresh and stay on your guard the whole time.


15 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:53 PM PDT by ATX 1985 (Time is Breath, Breath is Light, Light is Life)
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To: AlanD
Got Sarcasm?

I'm not even a fan of Hannity and I could see the sarcasm oozing out of every crevice in that comment.

16 posted on 04/01/2010 1:02:56 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: AlanD

IT”S CALLED SARCASM, PEOPLE!!!


17 posted on 04/01/2010 1:03:01 PM PDT by scottdeus12 (Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
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To: AlanD

The Demorats can take it any way they want . He ,Hannity, actually was making reference to accusations by members of the present administration trying to link tea party members with terrorists such as McVeigh.


18 posted on 04/01/2010 1:03:29 PM PDT by Renegade ("Bring it on while I still don't need glasses to shoot your eye out ")
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT
SOMEBODY needs to call him out on it

You mean the author for the misleading headline?

20 posted on 04/01/2010 1:03:54 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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