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A LIBERAL'S (POSSIBLY) LAST LOVE LETTER TO SEAN HANNITY
Steve Young

Posted on 06/20/2003 8:21:32 AM PDT by the monster

As you might have read recently, I spoke to my seeming adoration of Sean Hannity, a conservative talk show host I disagree with 98.786% (statistical major) of the time.

Since I disagree with most conservative hosts OVER 100% of the time, obviously Sean was someone... peculiar.

And when I say "peculiar" I mean it in a good way. Not a great way. After all, I am a liberal.

My rationale for my grudging admiration came from Sean's willingness to bring on opposing viewpoints. Opposing viewpoints from actual intelligent politicos. Is this a big deal? Well, not being the biggest fan of Sean's politics, it just might be the best I'll get. But it is something.

Y'see, some ten years ago a tsunami hit named Rush rolled over the AM dial and captured the ditto'd hearts and minds of what was once to be called "the silent majority."

So much for silence.

And it was Rush they wanted to hear. No need for hearing the opposition. They had it up to here with them.

Then the floodgates opened. Every Xerox'd pretender who followed did so with much of the same. Even the soft-spoken No-Spin-Meister, who brings on those with opposing view points, has a tendency to demean and scream them out of the studio.

Monologuing an argument is no challenge. Try it. Go into a room alone and say the most idiotic thing you can think of. Maybe even say something that is the opposite of what you know to be the truth. Go ahead. Anyone say different? No argument? No debate? Guess it's the truth.

But, truth be told, half a truth is no truth at all -- no matter what side of the aisle. It is only a biased, agenda-driven, political commercial.

Worse is the presumption of your opponent's response or your defining their underlying evil intent, which amazingly supports your argument. It's a pure guess at best; fictionally myopic and a lie at worst.

When's the last time you heard a talk show host say his opponent's positive message was correct and meant to benefit you? Does it not occur to anyone that any thesis which provides that your opponent is wrong nearly 100% of the time might be suspect?

Political diatribing and speech-making should be left to the politicians -- or cranky partisan columnists.

Still, my dear conservative friends. I come not to bury talk radio -- I'd like to, but I don't have a big enough shovel. I come to 'splain my experience with it.

Complimenting Hannity from the outside is one thing, but just listening to someone on the radio is much different from being a caller or better, an actual guest -- someone who had experienced a give and take relationship -- someone who had the pleasure of his argument being made - someone whose mike volume was reduced when the host decided to interrupt -- so my passion for Sean remained one of those long distanced, unrequited, unaired affairs.

And then... the phone rang.

Heart be still. Could it be? I couldn't dare...

"Hello, Steve..."

I couldn't mistake that voice.

"This is James."

Okay. I had mistaken that voice. But it didn't matter for it was Sean's producer booking me as a guest for The Sean Hannity Show.

Just imagine, I would be following in the guesting footsteps of the fabulous Bill Bennett, Matt Drudge, Mark Levin, and a host of other legends who I can't stomach. But, and this is a huge grudging but, I would also be following in the footsteps of those on the adversarial side of Mr. Hannity. Democratic legislators, progressive pundits and the worst of the worst, those evil-doing Hollywood liberals.

I won't go into the specifics of our conversation. Obviously all of America heard it. The question is, did Sean's actions during the interview support my original (yikes!) glowing supposition?

Did Sean allow me to express my views, opposing as they might be? Yes. Did he lower my volume when he wanted to interrupt? Yes, but I did get in what I wanted to get in.

So, was there anything wrong with the way Sean handled our interview? Did he treat me different than the manner he portends with his pals.

The answer: Yes. Big time! He did the worst of the worst. The biggest faux pas a talk show host could commit.

HE DIDN'T PLUG MY BOOK!

And for that, I will never forgive him.

But Flipper? She be da bomb!


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1 posted on 06/20/2003 8:21:33 AM PDT by the monster
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To: the monster
Are you Steve Young? Who is Steve Young?

I won't go into the specifics of our conversation. Obviously all of America heard it.

I didn't.

2 posted on 06/20/2003 8:25:44 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Breaking down the stereotypes of soccer moms everyday!)
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To: the monster
Hey troll, run outside and check your lightening rod.
3 posted on 06/20/2003 8:26:02 AM PDT by hang 'em (WAR IS JUST LOVE CONDUCTED BY OTHER MEANS)
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To: the monster
Steve Young?
4 posted on 06/20/2003 8:26:39 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Freedom is not Free - Support the Troops!)
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To: the monster

5 posted on 06/20/2003 8:27:07 AM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: the monster
Flipper's a moron who needs to blow her nose.
6 posted on 06/20/2003 8:27:17 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: Xenalyte
She's waiting for the rocks and trees to tell her her vibes and waves are lined up correctly to expell the poisons from her body.

Not to bash NYC, but if someone is so concerned with nature and healthy living, why do they live/work in NYC?
7 posted on 06/20/2003 8:28:43 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Breaking down the stereotypes of soccer moms everyday!)
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To: Xenalyte
I wonder of Flipper could even find her nose with a mirror.
8 posted on 06/20/2003 8:28:46 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: the monster
And it was Rush they wanted to hear. No need for hearing the opposition. They had it up to here with them.

No. We've had it up to "here" with thier LIES, and FACTLESS attacks.

Present a point of view backed with FACTS, and people will listen. They may not LIKE it (as with liberals, and Hannity's points) but ya can't dispute the facts. Not with name calling that is, which is the lefts MO.

9 posted on 06/20/2003 8:29:54 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage
JWR contributor Steve Young, Prism Award winner and Humanitas Prize nominee for his television writing, is contributing editor at the Writers Guild of America's "Written By" magazine. He is the author of the forthcoming "Great Failures Of The Extremely Successful," Tallfellow Press, 2002

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0402/syoung042202.asp
"Former Liberal Seeks Conservative Book Deal" and yes, that title is sarcastic
10 posted on 06/20/2003 8:33:02 AM PDT by eyespysomething (Breaking down the stereotypes of soccer moms everyday!)
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To: the monster
IMO, we conservatives should be every bit as accomodating to the opposite point of view as open minded liberals like Dan Rather are.
11 posted on 06/20/2003 8:39:08 AM PDT by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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Steve Young

12 posted on 06/20/2003 8:40:17 AM PDT by lainie
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To: the monster
Blah blah blah blah blah

Forgiveness is not a liberal attribute.

By the way, you forgot to plug your book. Can you forgive yourself?

Cry me a river.
13 posted on 06/20/2003 8:40:24 AM PDT by spectacularbid2003 (War works)
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To: the monster
So do you like Alan Colmes? He's one of the few TV liberals that I actually like. I rarely agree with him, but I like him. He actually seems more polite than Hannity to the guests. I like Hannity too but mostly just because I agree with him most of the time, not because I like his personality.
14 posted on 06/20/2003 8:44:58 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: Bars4Bill; Constitution Day; BlueLancer
Die Hausratte

(Rattus rattus)

Gattung: Rattus

Die Haus- oder Dachratte lebt vielleicht schon mit dem Menschen, seit es ein Menschengeschlecht gibt. Körperlänge 16 bis 22 cm, Schwanzlänge 17 - 24 cm, Gewicht 70 - 300g. Schwanz meistens länger als Körper. Ohren groß, Körper schlanker als bei der Wanderratte. Besonders bei der Unterart Rattus rattus rattus sind schwarze Tiere sowie weiße Brustzeichnungen häufig. Verbreitungsschwerpunkt Südostasien. Viele Unterarten, einige weltweit verbreitet, darunter: Hausratte im engsten Sinn (Rattus rattus rattus), in Europa am stärksten an Häuser gebunden, Alexandriner Hausratte (Rattus rattus alexandrinus) und Fruchtratte(Rattus rattus frugivorus, Unterseite weiß), die beiden letzteren besonders wärmeliebenden, leben bevorzugt in Tropen und Subtropen, sowohl im Freiland als auch in Gebäuden. Alle drei Formen können miteinander gekreuzt werden, vermischen sich im Freileben jedoch nur gelegentlich.

Schon aus dem Eiszeitalter sind Hausratten in Westeuropa nachgewiesen. Vermutlich waren sie bereits damals Nutznießer des Menschen. Aus dem Mittelmeerraum ist das Vorkommen von Hausratten seit Jahrtausenden geschichtlich belegt. Als baumliebende Kletterer sind diese Ratten für Holzwände, Balken und für die oberen trockeneren Gebäudeteile geradezu wie geschaffen, ebenso wie für den Aufenthalt auf Schiffen, besonders auf den Holzschiffen früherer Zeiten. Mehr als 90% der auf Schiffen festgestellten Ratten sind Hausratten. Einige leben dauernd an Bord, andere verlassen die Schiffe in den Häfen und siedeln sich dann in Häusern an. Schon die ersten Seefahrer der Entdeckungszeit müssen Hausratten nach Südamerika gebracht haben, denn die Tiere wurden dort bereits um 1540 nachgewiesen.

In Mitteleuropa trat die Hausratte lange vor der Wanderratte auf, kommt aber in Nordeuropa aus klimatischen Gründen nur stellenweise vor. Ihre Anzahl ist heute in Mitteleuropa beträchtlich geringer als die der Wanderratte, wahrscheinlich aus dem Grunde, weil bei uns die bevorzugten Holzhäuser und Dielenboden rarer werden. Nur in wenigen Fällen weicht die Hausratte dem Wettbewerb ihrer größeren Verwandten, der Wanderratte, denn die beiden Arten begegnen sich ja nur in menschlichen Behausungen, wo die Wanderratte die unteren und unterirdischen Räume bewohnt, während die Hausratte in den oberen, trockenen Gebäudeteilen lebt, die ihr die nötigen Klettermöglichkeiten bieten.

Hausratten zeigen meist ein glatteres und glänzenderes, vor allem sauberes Fell. Das rührt daher, daß Rattus rattus nicht im gleichen Maße Unratbesucher und Kanalbewohner wie Rattus norvegicus ist. Die Hausratte klettert vorzüglich und lebt vorwiegend von pflanzlicher Nahrung. Ihre Vorfahren und Angenossen in den tropischen Gebieten Asiens und Afrikas lebten und leben noch auf Bäumen. Bei uns ist diese Vorliebe für höhere Regionen geblieben. Die Hausratte haust nämlich in untereinander ziemlich verträglichen Rudeln vorwiegend unter Dächem auf trockenen und warmen Haus-, Stall- und Getreideschüttböden. Sie nimmt nur selten Wasser auf, so nach Regen aus der Dachrinne. Sie macht besonders großen Schaden in den auf Böden aufbewahrten Obstvorräten, aber auch in Kornkammern.

Früher hielt man die zwei in Mitteleuropa auftretenden Färbungstypen für eigene Arten, da man annahm, die seit Jahrhunderten bekannte schwarze Hausratte sei etwas ganz anderes als die oberseits graubraune unten weiße "Dachratte" oder gar "ägyptische Dachratte". Das ist aber nicht der Fall, denn beide Farbtypen pflanzen sich unbegrenzt fruchtbar miteinander fort.

Haltung im Terrarium

Die Hausratte braucht, genau wie die Wanderratte, einen großen Hamster-, Vogel- oder Hasenkäfig, ca. 60x30x40 cm, mit nicht allzu großen Abständen zwischen den einzelnen Gitterstäben oder aber ein Terrarium von etwa der gleichen Größe. In den Käfig sollten ungefähr 2 cm Kleintierstreu gegeben werden.

Eine Ratte kann alle 4 Wochen 4-12 Junge bekommen. Man sollte der Mutter, nachdem sie die Babys zur Welt gebracht hat besser nicht zunahe kommen, denn sie beißt sehr kräftig zu. Nach ca. 1 Woche wächst den Jungratten ein Fell und man kann die Färbung erkennen. Mit 3 Wochen öffnen sie ihre winzigen äuglein und kriechen neugierig herum. Von jetzt an dauert es etwa 4 Monate, bis sie ausgewachsen sind.

Futter: Ratten sind Allesfresser. Man sollte ihnen am besten viel Obst und Gemüse, aber auf gar keinen Fall rohes Fleisch geben, da sie ansonsten anfangen zu beissen. Nüsse und anderes Trockenfutter, wie Getreide und Brot werden auch gerne gefressen.

© M. Widmaier 1994

A. Kunchintzki © 1996


15 posted on 06/20/2003 8:45:20 AM PDT by dighton (NLC™)
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To: hang 'em
"Hey troll, run outside and check your lightening rod. "

Oh come on.. he's not hurting anyone yet.
16 posted on 06/20/2003 8:45:35 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: the monster
Ask Rush's theme song says "Shining the light of truth on America". The truth has a power all of it's own.
17 posted on 06/20/2003 8:46:33 AM PDT by VirginiaBuckeye (Litte "g" god verses the one God.)
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To: dighton

18 posted on 06/20/2003 8:47:43 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Have *you* taunted a liberal today?)
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To: the monster; Admin Moderator
Paging Thor...Mighty Thor....Clean-up on aisle 17....


19 posted on 06/20/2003 8:48:30 AM PDT by mhking
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To: the monster
pssttt...

Click the picture

20 posted on 06/20/2003 8:50:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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