Posted on 09/24/2004 3:30:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
Sorry for the cheap vanity - - I don't usually do this but I have become perturbed about something.
I am glad to have Sean Hannity on the side of the good guys. He is a tremendous asset to the Republican cause, and he has been particularly relentless and unflappable with many of his liberal guests on Hannity & Colmes.
But I have noticed that on his radio show - - at least three times that I have heard directly - - he credits the discovery of the forged "Rathergate" memos exclusively to the denials by Col. Killian's son and wife, and the doubt cast by Ben Barnes' daughter on her father's honesty.
At first, I thought he was simply omitting the obvious - - the nuts & bolts hard work by freepers and bloggers to determine and confirm that the memos were indeed forged. Without that work, Sean's interviews with the Killians, as well as the gutsy contradiction by Barnes' daughter of her father's '60 Minutes' interview, are merely loud dissensions that carry little weight.
I listened carefully again today, and Sean's failure to give freepers and bloggers even the barest mention when he again credited the whole Rathergate scandal to the interviews with the Killians and Barnes' daughter seemed clearly deliberate.
Does Sean have a problem with role of Free Republic and the bloggers in uncovering the biggest political fraud in the last 30 years, or is he just trying to add importance to his own interviews with the Killians?
For your discussion, if you care to comment.
Yes. Sean doesn't like the fact that some freepers dare to criticize him.
Just to be clear, I like Sean Hannity and I hope he's just being forgetful, but somebody needs to give him a heads-up that there's a lot of people who have done a lot of work on this Rathergate scandal.
I noticed the same thing today..and, lately I think Sean has gotten too self-important.
Maybe he thought he needed the credit for the break in the rather gate story.
I've heard him refer to bloggers as doing the heavy work in uncovering Rathergate, but he has a vested interest in promoting the Killian family since he was one of the first to interview them at the outset of this mess.
In spite of Hannity's probable oversight, we can sure hand it to Rush, who has, on multiple occasions, credited the NEW MEDIA with bringing down the elitist media on this, and other issues.
I sent Rush an email when I first heard him credit the lowly conservative surfers with a major contribution in exposing the fraud and lies of the leftists in the media.
So there is hope -- lots of it -- for we conservative surfers!!! :-)
I think you're reading too much into Hannity's "exclusive" claim - what he had that was exclusive is the commentary from Killian's kin...that's all.
I sure hope Sean's not that thin-skinned.
He'll end up with problems down the road if he doesn't know who his friends are. Everybody - - from Rush to Bush - - gets criticized here from time to time, but when the chips are down, everybody is side by side against the insidious evil of liberalism.
That was well stated, and you are close to the truth.
Face it, Freepers will always be the "little people."
I was thinking the same as I listened to him on my way home. Sean, if you read this, give credit to where credit is due. Way to go, Buckhead and other Freepers.
Sean is not the most intellectual apple on the tree.
I tried listening to him on the radio. I had to turn him off. Just couldn't stand the constant interrupting.
Hope he isn't on some ego trip. He's good on Fox, but horrid on the radio.
Geeez...get over it! It's like you're looking for flyshit in the spilled pepper!
Sean seems to be in need of an egoectomy. I used to listen to him/watch him, but I can't stand his endless self-promotion.
Agreed. He is almost impossible to take on the radio. I want him to defend the conservative position, but he needs to stop shouting down people. It gets old.
He reminds me a lot of Michael Reagan.
He's got a vested interest in his Web site, and I don't think he wants to get people reading blogs who might otherwise be on his site.
FWIW, even powerlineblog.com credits FreeRepublic with the first questioning of the fake memos. [link]
Hannity Vanity. Boo..
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