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.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
I’d leave it. But if I were a mod, I would alter the headline as
LIE - Update at post 31.
LOLOLOL
The first Tea Party was directed at "taxation without representationn". Our Revolution, the French and subsequent revolutions to free mankind from suppression were violent. Just ask Bill Ayers about "killing" in the name of Freedom!
Oh Lord.
Sean is an intellectual light weight, but it was clearly sarcasm.
Read post 53.
Im assuming someone on the left call the Tea Party people McVeigh wannabe’s ...Sean was probably making fun of THEM (people on the left)
Play dumb, AlanD, play dumb. Good job!
This thread is so stupid it belongs on D.U.
I heard him fumble through that fractured statement. I one were listening to the conversation, one would know he was implying that is what the MSM adn left think...
This is in response to Juan Williams and his idiot statement that McVeigh used the same Gadsden flag that the Tea Party uses.
“This is a real head-scratcher.”
Ain’t that the truth. Tim McVeigh Wannabes? I’m not sure what made Tim McVeigh do anything he did. I don’t think he ever said what it was either.
Anyone with a mini-brain would know that Sean Hannity would not say this without sarcasm. AlanD is stirring the pot, pretending ignorance, and smearing Sean Hannity with the headline of this thread. He must be friends with Debbie Schlussel.
After reading posts 53 and I believe it was 31, I’m going to have to agree that this thread was a ruse. The initial statements were very misleading, and the use of the term by Hannity was used properly, in that he was quoting the voices from the left.
I apologize for getting it wrong.
This thread should go.
It WAS a good joke...one that the lefty loonies will never get...
I’m sure he was referring to something someone in the MSM said.
Bingo!
Yep, sheesh. Like he needed to put a /s after what he said.
Ri-i-i-i-i-ght. Because if he keeps using it, then the folks who originally used the expression, who apparently don't have names, won't be able to use it anymore.
A stupid thing to say. He needs to apologize.
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