Hannity vs. Evil: A one-man rally for America (Michelle Malkin)

National Review Online ^ | February 18, 2004 | Michelle Malkin

[Judith Anne]

You are hardly likely to be spared. Sounds like you're a victim of a vast right wing conspiracy. Poor fellow...

[kristinn]

Adios, my friend.

[TankerKC]

Are you a Dim? If not, you are one of the reasons why this country is as sick as it is…

Spoken like Hannity himself—if you don’t agree with me, you are a lib. Shallow.

[subterfuge]

Put me down as sort of agreeing with Bluntpoint, but at the same time thinking that Hannity's message SHOULd be kept simple.
That said, I do think Bluepoint has highjacked the thread, is being a jerk, and just may be a disruptor.

[Judith Anne]

BP was all over another Hannity thread, and it WAS funny--I think it went to his head and he thought (like a 5 yo who tells the same joke over and over till you're sick of it) that it would be "fun" and "nuanced" to do it again.

Actually, I'd have liked to see a good thread about the book, instead of all about BP, and us eeeevillll posters who are basically sick of his one trick pony act.

[StopThePress]

Good Point. I'd like to see a discussion on the content of the book rather than a Bash Hannity session, but that's pretty normal for infiltrators. Over at DU if you bashed Michael Moore's book you'd get the hook.

I also find it interesting that even Freepers (if they are) find Hannity so weak in his debate technique, how the hell did he get 12Million listeners? Hell, at the rate he's going, how will they explain a larger listener base than Rush in say 2 to 4 years?

[Constantine XIII]

When people start arguing about how to argue, you know the thread is going nowhere. YAWN! :-P

[Stentor]

When people start arguing about how to argue, you know the thread is going nowhere. YAWN! :-P

It has gone to the place it where it was hijacked intentionally.

[50sDad]

And again, when is you best selling book due out? (Best selling, that is, because real people are buying it, not like Hillary's book which was goosed up the lists by the Libs.)

[Judith Anne]

Agreed.

I wish some posters who have read the book would comment, but I guess that's too much to hope for, now...

[trebb]

Spoken like Hannity himself—if you don’t agree with me, you are a lib. Shallow.

At least I'm not willing to cut off my leg because I have a hangnail on my big toe - you speak more like the average lib by using the old "let's get away from the topic because it makes me look bad, so we'll misdirect with childish criticism" ploy.

Disagreement can be good, but far too many supposed Republicans who espouse real values which are supposedly contrary to to the debased Dim attitudes, start sounding just like the Dims and it will be to the overall detriment of the country. Too many are showing their own shallowness by focusing on the few bad things they see and forgetting all the positive - it's typical Dim "me...me...me" tripe with no regard to the big picture or the ramifications if they actually get their spoiled-child way and "teach this President a lesson for acting honorably instead of doing everything my way".

You can tell a lot about a person by the arguments they use - yours is typical Dim "reasoning" (blind flailing).

[devane617]

"...but I just can't stand more than 10 mins of his self-promotion.
Now this I agree with. I know he is a "good" conservative, enough already with the "I am great" stuff.

[50sDad]

Listen, I would rather have one passionate, dedicated and self-assured Conservative who isn't afraid to say Evil is Evil than a thousand meek little Casper Milquetosts who get walked over by Libs who know that most so-called "Conservatives" who roll over when pushed. You throw Robert Reich and Sean Hannity into a pit, and I will enjoy a good fight and know who is coming out alive. In any event, Sean ranting beats the heck out of listen Rush drone on about golf and football. Sean has teeth.

[Flyer]

When people start arguing about how to argue, you know the thread is going nowhere.

And to think there was a chance it would evolve into a Michelle Malkin photo posting fest.

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

I'm disappointed in the Hannity bashing on this thread.

How much more can you ask of one man? Between his TV & radio shows, he does a lot for the conservative cause.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[wtc911]

Are you suggesting that we start to behave like DU and "yank" anyone who doesn't agree with you? That's how it sounds.

There is some over the top Hannity bashing going on here from one or two posters but there is also good reason for many of us to be less than thrilled or enamored of his self-indulging, self-promoting chatter. He has a uniquely potent pulpit from which to engage in serious argument. Many of us believe he is wasting it. We also know that he has his staff lurking here for mention of his name. If some of our legitimate criticism reaches his ears then maybe he'll evolve into more than a Hannity marketing machine.

As for his audience, if we are going to use the vast American audience as our barometer of quality then we're in deep trouble considering Paris Hilton, My Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Rap, Sex In The City, MTV....etc...

[AnAmericanMother]

Point of order, the proverb "The fox knows many things, the hedgehog one big thing" is Greek, by the poet Archilocus (650 B.C.) It was more recently popularized by Sir Isaiah Berlin.

[contessa machiaveli]

i'm with you bluntpoint, i like sean as a person but his arguments on his program have become simplistic and rote.
what i think has riled a few of us is the CONSTANT hype of his new book instead of talking about issues. we all know he has a new book and i do listen to his show but i've turned it off the past few weeks. the shameless self-promotion is too embarrassing...it cheapens his political message.