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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Agreed. I support him, but realize he is no intellectual heavyweight.
I can see now it was an honest mistake by Sean . . a “joke” that went flat.
Still, when all is said and done, hopefully Sean will remove the Timothy McVeigh line out of his repertoire. Some things aren’t funny under any circumstances.
Sounds like two geniuses had a conversation there.
Hannity was quoting the remarks made by the socialists that attack the Tea Party movement. This administration made the same comments about conservatives when they released their Homeland Security document several months ago.
Hannity is correct in his comments and they aren’t his opinions. Don’t let the leftists change the argument nor cover up their own attacks by attributing them to someone else.
Anyone that fell for this post or the open attack against Sean Hannity is denser than a rock.
It is time to wake up or get out of the way.
As do all people who are able to think for themselves. However, thinking is not within the grasp of those who can only think by instruction.
That was perfect.
Try reading through all the various posts and coming to a thought derived from your own reasoning ability before making such an inane comment.
Good grief, people, he was being sarcastic. I can’t believe the mentality and lack of discernment from some on this forum. That’s what the left calls us, so, Sean was mocking them.
God, when does this stuff stop?
First, all I said was he should apologize.
Actually, I went to the video and listened myself and I did read numerous comments but missed those that corrected the story. The story and headline did distort what he had said. I realized this later after checking back. You should direct your anger towards the person doing the deceiving and less so to those who were momentarily taken in.
Anger? That wasn’t anger. I was simply pointing out your folly.
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