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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Hey, what can you say - it was Juan Williams.
I’m surprised he didn’t call the Gadsden “racist”.
you forgot to include Sean’s favorite word “literally.”
Mark to see if this crap gets pulled.
Honestly, I don’t know what to make of Juan Williams sometimes.
Sean needs to EXPLAIN his comments. I will write him, and if there is a really good excuse (not one I can see at this time) his comments are unacceptable. Is he trying to end his career?
Oh, please. He was mocking the left.
While I remain convinced a pet rock would win a debate with Sean Hannity; this is clearly a sarcastic slap at media slurs...
Those were my first thoughts too. I really have been watching which threads I reply on today.
I saw the show and that is exactly what he was doing. It was mocking the MSM elites and what they call the tea partiers.
Personal heard the comment and it was definitely sarcasm!!
No it isn’t. DId you bother to listen to the clip or do you just believe the crap someone writes.
Perhaps you are unaware but the left (Pelosi, Reid and Obama and others) have referred to conservatives as Tim McVeigh wanna bes. If you cannot distinguish sarcasm from his tone of voice then I suggest you need a new set of listening skills.
But then apparently neither is CM since he can’t detect sarcasm when it is dripping in the air....
Absolutely right. And this plays so heavily right into the leftist wheel-house, I am confounded to think Hannity was stupid enough to do this.
Good heavens! With idiots like this on our side...
Merry Christmas lefties. “Hey, did you hear? Hannity admitted those Tea Party folks are wanna be Timothy McVeighs.”
Hanging head... three steps forward, four steps back...
It’s not a head scratcher. It was a sarcastic stab at how the other side perceives us. They are just trying to frame this as some kind of “gotcha” statement.
dumbasses the last part was sarcasm in response to the many complaints of violence and race baiting, which I have yet to see so I can say “Shame on you and get away from us. We want no part of your hateful personality”.
I have had friends, all week, questioning what is going with the violence. I have asked them to point specific incidences, as I am a news junkie and somehow missed them.
I then informed they are being programmed by the news and in fact there are none or you would see the film at 11.
Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)
Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)
Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)
It really doesn’t matter. A reading of the transcript will not reveal that. This simply isn’t joke material.
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