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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Sean has never been much of a thinker.
It is a really dark form of sarcasm.
Reality cannot be ignored.Something is breaking in this country.
SOMEBODY needs to call him out on it
I suspect that he
Was mocking the media
That trades in such slurs.
Sarcasm.
“That’s all because the Tea Party movement, the people, all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here.”
Yeah, I really had a hard time figuring out he was
MOCKING THE LEFT.
Hannity...diameter of mouth exceeds his IQ.
Do you really think
That he meant to insult you?
Think for a minute!
HAHA..Nah, he never was.
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.
It is a really dark form of sarcasm.
Reality cannot be ignored.Something is breaking in this country.
It broke in Nov 2008.
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.
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.
I'm not even a fan of Hannity and I could see the sarcasm oozing out of every crevice in that comment.
IT”S CALLED SARCASM, PEOPLE!!!
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.
You mean the author for the misleading headline?
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