What's With Hannity?

The Sean Hannity Show (Radio) | 24 Sept 04 | Lancey Howard

[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.

[LittleMoe]

I listen to him regularly but he is starting to annoy me and he better not get too big for his britches like O'Riley

[hosepipe]

[ You must really be an optimist if you're saying this! :) ]

LoL................

[bootless]

Hey there -

Sean and his producer know about FR's role in this - I sent the original thread to Sweet Baby James that Thursday morning, an early one of many... They're hip to FR, big time! :-)

[writer33]

See. You're more of an optimist than you know. I'm glad you got a sense of humor. Of course, I'm an optimist and a realist. I have high hopes for America, but am realistic when thinking about the approaches to getting it done.

[mad_as_he$$]

humm, guess downsizing of weapons of mass distraction has occurred every where. In my day the were missile bras.

[Lancey Howard]

Yep, that was my point exactly.
The forgeries ARE the scandal. All the rest EXPOSES CBS' political agenda and EXPLAINS why CBS and Dan Rather were willing accomplices of the forgers in their effort to smear a sitting Commander-in-Chief. Equally important, to be sure, but the uncovering of the forgeries nails it all down without an escape route. Game, set, match.

[SheLion]

That works. I've had a lot of people say, "I'm not wearing pajamas." Making some sort of an implication.

Well, they better be buffed and well toned. LOL! Don't want to see no "guts" hanging out.

[writer33]

"Well, they better be buffed and well toned. LOL! Don't want to see no "guts" hanging out."


No, kidding! It wouldn't be a pretty picture.

[Screaming Eagle Red Leg]

It isn't a matter of disagreeing with Sean's positions, but rather a matter of disagreeing with HOW he presents them. Screaming "LIAR!" at people - even before they have finished their comment - doesn't advance our position, but makes it appear that he is afraid that the caller might make a good point.

If Sean were more intellectual, he would permit a disagreeing caller to finish his/her point and then expose the flaw(s) in the caller's argument. Shouting down the caller is unprofessional and unbecoming and, IMO, even cowardly.

[Rican]

You know, I like Sean. But, the fact is that he IS in business and probably reading Free Republic for show prep as well.

[LibSnubber]

"Sean doesn't like the fact that some freepers dare to criticize him."

Before I joined FR, I heard Sean say on the radio one day that he was aware that there are people here who do not like him. He said he didn't know why or what he had ever done to offend people here. Having never seen this site and thus not becoming biased - I sensed hurt, confusion and disappointment in his voice but no malice towards Freepers. Don't know if that has anything to do with this though. Take it for what it's worth.

[SheLion]

You know, I like Sean. But, the fact is that he IS in business and probably reading Free Republic for show prep as well.

Someone said that Sean is a registered member of Free Republic and sometimes posts here. But I do not know his screen name. :(

I like him a lot. I just don't know how he can put up with Combs. I would be beating Allen over the head with my high heel every night! Sitting that close!