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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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To: the OlLine Rebel

Hey, what can you say - it was Juan Williams.

I’m surprised he didn’t call the Gadsden “racist”.


61 posted on 04/01/2010 1:16:02 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

you forgot to include Sean’s favorite word “literally.”


62 posted on 04/01/2010 1:16:40 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: AlanD

Mark to see if this crap gets pulled.


63 posted on 04/01/2010 1:17:26 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: MrB

Honestly, I don’t know what to make of Juan Williams sometimes.


64 posted on 04/01/2010 1:18:46 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: AlanD

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?


65 posted on 04/01/2010 1:19:15 PM PDT by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: AlanD

Oh, please. He was mocking the left.


66 posted on 04/01/2010 1:19:27 PM PDT by imskylark
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To: ConservativeMind

While I remain convinced a pet rock would win a debate with Sean Hannity; this is clearly a sarcastic slap at media slurs...


67 posted on 04/01/2010 1:19:41 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Poser
A. It’s April Fools Day

Those were my first thoughts too. I really have been watching which threads I reply on today.

68 posted on 04/01/2010 1:21:17 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2nd.)
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To: Haiku Guy

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.


69 posted on 04/01/2010 1:21:19 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: AlanD

Personal heard the comment and it was definitely sarcasm!!


70 posted on 04/01/2010 1:21:30 PM PDT by ontap
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To: facedown
I agree this needs to be pulled. Who is AlanD?
71 posted on 04/01/2010 1:21:36 PM PDT by helpamerica
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To: AlanD

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.


72 posted on 04/01/2010 1:23:01 PM PDT by the long march
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To: Michael Barnes; ConservativeMind

But then apparently neither is CM since he can’t detect sarcasm when it is dripping in the air....


73 posted on 04/01/2010 1:24:23 PM PDT by the long march
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To: ConservativeMind

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...


74 posted on 04/01/2010 1:24:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Il Douche' and his Douche Baggers will save us...)
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To: AlanD

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.


75 posted on 04/01/2010 1:24:44 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: AlanD

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.


76 posted on 04/01/2010 1:25:24 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)


77 posted on 04/01/2010 1:25:59 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: pointsal

Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)


78 posted on 04/01/2010 1:26:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: AlanD

Sarcasm(and I will post this several times)


79 posted on 04/01/2010 1:26:26 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: ontap

It really doesn’t matter. A reading of the transcript will not reveal that. This simply isn’t joke material.


80 posted on 04/01/2010 1:26:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Il Douche' and his Douche Baggers will save us...)
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