Hannity bashes Free Republic (February 2005)

[1Old Pro]

Just now on his radio show...says we taken over by fringe people

listen to the audio

[Nowhere Man]

YOUR INSANE- stop listening to SAVAGE. He's WORSE than Hannity, SAVE is a CRAZY ANGRY man.

That's what I like about Michael Savage, he does get me fired up. It's like taking the engine in the 1968 Buick Wildcat we had, 430 cu in, 375 HP, and adding nitrous oxide to it. B-)



Yeah, maybe he is a little over the top, but he is saying and acting how we do think and feel at times. When I feel down and out and feel like we lost, Savage does get the fight in me fired up. If Savage ever came to Pittsburgh, I'd be organizing the "mosh pits." >B-D

On the other hand though, there are times you do need to be mellow, for the longest time, I liked Chuck Harder, but I can't find anyone that carries him. Still though, you do need both methods to get where you're going, but I admit, I'm a huge Savage junky.

[nopardons]

I think you can get Mark's show over the net.

You'll LOVE it...Mark's show is THE best Conservative talk radio show on the air.

[Flyer]

I enjoy the Sean Hanniity show.

[Matchett-PI]

"Indeed. "Savage Nation" is far superior to the tripe known as the Sean Hannity Show."

Savage's numbers prove that there will probably always be a "fringe" audience out there to pander to.

[cicero's_son]

Sean, you owe Free Republic and Jim Robinson an apology. Damn, I am so PO'd right now...

Don't hold your breath.

Sean is an egotistical blowhard. No way he'd apologize--unless he saw his ratings start to tank.

He's every bit as arrogant as your average MSM anchorman. Only difference is that he's slightly more conservative.

[OldFriend]

He's on instant message with Levin or Drudge. Callers are just interruptions it would seem.

[mnehring]

The change wasn't clear using the one with her pic. You could barly read Hannity on the poster.

But just for us here:

[Bald Eagle777]

It is refreshing seeing Hannity hold the liberals' feet to the fire. He is no William F. Buckley however.

Republicans need all the help they can get, so we need to stop any bickering about any differences and make dead certain that the liberals stay very, very far away from the Congress for a very, very long time.

Let the liberals bicker, they are good at it anyway.

[Dan from Michigan]

Judging by the reaction to Hannity's criticism, it would appear a lot of posters on FR, are thin-skinned as well

Agreed.

[jaydubya2]

"Sometimes I can pull in WLS, and I would to listen to hannity now and then, not anymore, I'm not going to watch his Fox show anymore, and I certainly won't be giving his site hits. Sean blew it big time.

Try WIND AM 560. I've been listening to it more than WLS lately. But because it's low on the AM band it sometime does not come in very well.

[wouldntbprudent]

No, not NPR!

[moondoggie]

I stopped listening to his radio show a few months back because his TV show was just a repeat with the same guests he had on the radio.

Then I stopped watching Hannity and Colmes because his talking points were always the same.

He's not the smartest brick in the stack, IMO.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

The majority of scientists believe global warming is real. Scientists look at data and derive results. It's an apolitical process. And scientists all over the world are coming up with the same conclusion, so stop going on about left-wing poltical agendas.

[Stentor]

Just now on his radio show...says we taken over by fringe people

I had been a defender.

[GRANGER]

Thanks mn, I needed that!

[RushCrush]

You guys need XM Radio :)

[Fawnn]

Sean seems (or seemed to be) a nice guy, but he's a lightweight when it comes to thinking on his feet (or on his butt). I can't stand to watch him on Fox News for that reason; he misses or passes up opportunities to ask tough enough questions to smoke out the liberal du jour guest who's into his or her party line speech. An occasional "what's your source for that information?" question would serve the purpose. Something to put the person on the spot to show he or she is just spouting off the same ole, same ole empty phrases. Sean doesn't even do that.

With his increased celebrity, maybe he's fallen victim to that desire that hits those in the DC media that Rush talks about -- to be invited to the "right parties." Last I knew Hannity was still in NYC; I doubt many of the "right parties" there are conservative, so now that he's making the book circuit rounds, he may want broader acceptance.

Regardless of his motive, grouping everybody who posts on a single forum into one broad category (beyond the purpose for which the forum was founded) is narrow-minded, imo.

[Redcloak]

Perhaps Hannity was just trying to start a 1000-post thread.

[DoughtyOne]

This is fast becoming a defining issue. It's not quite as easy today to simply take a pass on the illegal immigration issue. It impacts too much of what conservatives are supposed to stand for, to simply take a pass. If you truly don't care about illegal immigration, there's quite a few other things you don't care as much as you thought you did.

[jaydubya2]

You nailed it!