Posted on 06/23/2005 8:32:29 AM PDT by Fruit of the Spirit
Hannity Bucks Pressure on Hillary Book
Talk show host Sean Hannity broke the media censorship of the details of the new book by Edward Klein,"The Truth About Hillary."
But one of the nation's top conservative talkers said the book had ignited a "huge controversy" and that even he was under enormous pressure to cancel his planned interviews with Klein for his ABC syndicated radio program and Fox News TV show.
"I've had more political pressure than I've ever had in all my years in radio," Hannity said to Klein after a blockbuster 90-minute interview with the controversial author.
Hannity did not elaborate on the source of the pressure to cancel the planned appearance.
Nor did he apparently buckle to the pressure, explaining to his radio audience, "We deal in controversy - that's what we do here."
"I've got to tell you," Hannity told Klein midway through the interview. "Do you know the number of requests I've had to cancel you and not have you on this program? I think it was higher than any guest or controversial author we've had on this program."
"I've never in the history of this program had more demands to cancel the guest," Hannity reiterated.
But Klein quickly interjected to say that the Clinton public relations machine had successfully pressured other radio and TV outlets to cancel interviews with him.
"A number of people who have booked me on TV and radio have already canceled," Klein said. "And the reason they've canceled is because the publicity machine of the Clintons is hard at work."
On both his TV and radio shows, Hannity openly worried that the new book may backfire on conservatives since it deals with sensational personal and sexual allegations against the former first lady that he argued were not worthy of political debate.
Klein, a veteran journalist and author who has spent four decades in the media world, including major editing jobs at the New York Times and Newsweek, said he had set out to write a biography that captures Hillary's flawed character, not a political work about her.
Asked if the effort to silence him hasn't made him "afraid," Klein told Hannity: "If I weren't concerned, I'd be nuts."
"I'd be crazy," he said, adding, "Because the Clintons have a well-established career reputation of smearing other people. And I know they're out to get me and I know they're going to do everything in their power to get me."
Klein vowed, however: "They're not going to be successful."
Hillary is a bi-sexual who doesn't mind sexually harrassing her female Secret Service protection until they beg for reassignment. I have it on good authority. I'm convinced.
However it is worth noting that Hannity DID interview the author....more than can be said for O'Realy and the rest of the hosts.
Exactly!! Maybe, Sean has a book deal with the same people.
Good for Hannity. He didn't bow to the pressure.
Yep, here's probably the pressure:
Program Director/Executive Producer: Sean, can this guy produce compelling radio/television? Will there by any groundbreaking information?
Sean: You have my word on it.
Sean later on his shows: I was under enourmous pressure to cancel Klien.
I keep hearing "criticism of the Clintons only makes them rise in the polls". I'd like to hear the evidence of that spin. Sounds more to me like a pre-emptive psyche-strike.
" Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
---John Adams---October 11, 1798
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.
He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero
But he gets dubious credit for having elevated the art of the 'teaser' at the beginning of most of his daily shows followed ad nauseum about this teaser until you finally get a little bit of the interview in hour 3....
(Ruth's Chris subliminal ping...does a steak there cost less than my monthly car payment? who knows)
I do like Hannity and in some ways it might be true that "everybody else cancelled him, but we want him on"--even
though Sean did grill (mmm...grill...steak...) him on the issue of personal attacks.
btw we all love his regular caller Marty, and it's good to hear him on Hannity's Insanty...but I heard Sean once say "Marty uses the regular number to get in on Trash the
Lines..."
Cue that song Ingraham uses: "Why did you lie to me?"
C'mon! It's supposed to be random calls but just before
Marty's voice is heard you can tell from Sean's enunciation of "who's this?" that he KNOWS it's Marty because _they
tell Marty to call in on a special line_! Don't ya think? Probably carpet
kitten and Greg from Cincy too. Oh well.
You have the NRO crowd who are too weak-kneed to tolerate Ann Coulter. They are so afraid that Hillary might stiff Buckley in some social setting.
I am the author of the Hillary bio The First Partner, and I could have written much as Klein did about Hillary's alleged lesbian exploits at Wellesley. I left it out because I didn't know if it was true -- and neither does Klein, I'm sure.
One can argue that all such gossip contributes to our overall understanding of a person. Still, I personally don't much care about a politician's collegiate misadventures -- whether they're sexual or drug or alcohol related. None of this has much to do with why Hillary would be a bad president. Lest we forget:
1. Hillary believes that positive social change emanates from the government. Therefore, she is eager to saddle the tax payers with the cost of moonbat social programs that do more harm than good. She is not alone in this tendency, alas, but certainly its number one advocate.
2. Hillary was instrumental in the operation to intimidate and harass women who might talk about her husband's sexual exploits. Again, the Clintons weren't the first to use private eyes for such purposes, they just took it much farther. (Certainly much farther than Nixon did._
3. The combination of ambition and a closet full of personal secrets made the Clintons wary of the intelligence agencies. Hence, national security was woefully neglected and our enemies abroad got the impression that they could strike with impunity.
Meanwhile, our Hill was proud of the CIA's daycare center. What lunacy! Since the CIA was/is a prime target for terrorist attack, why would employees chose to have their little children in an agency-sponsored facility?
I was scheduled to appear on the Today show only to be summarily disinvited -- and this didn't surprise me in the least. Who would expect otherwise?
And I'm sure Mr. Klein's social life will suffer. But I doubt his "revelations" will have much impact on Hillary one way or another.
Me too. Those 8 years still leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
And that was entirely TOO MUCH
Wow. Bet you took lots of long, hot showers and scrubbed yourself well while in the middle of researching that witch, LOL!
I wouldn't have had the stomach for it, but God Bless You for your efforts. :)
I was turned off from Hanity when he had on that new york radio host who was shot by the mob a few times and kept ranting against the mob and hanity was so timid, saying, "well, on this program we don't do things like that"... etc.. etc.. "we've never said anythign against the mob" paraphrasing..
all defensive life. quite a turnoff.
The publicity drums are pounding in full force....the more the leftwing press ignores this book, the louder the rightwing drums pound. It's just good business.
Sure, pressure from his good friend Lanny Davis, Dickie Morris, and that ilk.
I agree about Sean. There is something very smarmy and disingenuous about him... a Kiss Up. I can't stand how everybody is his "buddy" and everyone is a "great American" (how does he know? because they call his show? THAT makes a person a great American?) and how this one and that one is his "good friend". I would have to have a pretty big table to host a party for all those "good friends" if I were him. Imagine his Christmas list!
He has all the makings of a politician and don't kid yourself that he isn't thinking of running for something someday...
Not good enough; he needs to name names once and for all.
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