[willyboyishere]

I dunno, he has good relations with Mark Levin, who is an actual (though probably intermittent)FReeper, and Hannity has mentioned FR numerous times, not negatively. HOWEVER, he may have come across references to himself (like several of mine) that were less than complimentary. He has been described, aptly, as a meathead. I for one, have come to NEVER expect an original thought from Hannity; however he is VERY good at holding on to a relentless litany of talking points on his pet subjects, and hammering them home endlessly. I was on the verge of turning him off today when he was making such a big deal of the earth-shaking comments of Charlie Rangel referring to Clinton as a redneck, and Howard Dean making a stupidly possibly racist joke, to a captive audience who happened to be mainly minorities. He needed to pound home once again his thesis that there is a double=standard, see, and that if Republicans made these comments , see, the major media would be all over them.....see...because there's a DOUBLE-STANDARD, see.....
(yawn......)

[26lemoncharlie]

Just don't buy anymore of this GUY'S books!! Don't listen to his Radio Program. He is starting to believe his own propaganda!! LOL

[OregonRepublican]

hes a puppet for the republican party no one cares about Sean Hannity hes carries the water for the republican party.

[Kramster]

You're a 'Great American' Sean.

[GeronL]

Say what???

Hey, we just want the truth, something CBS and the NY TIMES and CNN do not want.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, wait a minute. I thought we were a lynch mob.

[BJungNan]

And how much time does Hannity spend on Free Republic for him to be able to make a statement like that?

[sully777]

Jim Rob is a Great American.

[ConservativeMind]

Sean says Free Republic has the "propensity to eat their own."

So? That is part of the self-correcting mechanism that keeps the board going.

[Gal.5:1]

oh yea, Sean, I'm real fringe. I'm straight, married, stay home mother, I cook, wash, drive my minivan to Little League practice, go to church, visit my mother & grandmother and bake cookies (when I'm not online). Real dangerous. (hehe).

oops, I guess in the SF bay area, this DOES make me fringe! :P

btw, it was nice to meet you and shake your hand when you visited San Mateo. Out here we are just happy to meet anyone who's not ultra-lib. It would be good to keep your FR friends, not tell them to take a hike. jmho.

[Richard Axtell]

Despite all this, I like him. There have been flame wars on FR that have gotten out of hand, many used to call me a Bushbot. So, I guess he got fed up one day and never came back. The guy I really dislike is Al Franken. Boy is that an easy call.

[ajolympian2004]

Vote in this poll: http://www.hannity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=141874

[gnosys]

Think Hannity's aware of the irony of complaining about people who attack their own?

Say, why are so many of today's conservative commentators such loud-mouthed, sarcastic, adolescent jerks? I mean, Rush was fine back when there was only one of him. But what happened to people like William F. Buckley and William Safire, who knew the meaning of the word "subtlety" (probably even knew how to spell it, which I don't)? I can't remember the last time I saw anybody under 60 on TV (except on Nova, Jeopardy and reruns of Hee-Haw) I thought was smarter than me -- and I don't mean to imply I think I'm some kind of genius, far from it. (There are plenty of people posting here that I KNOW are WAY smarter than I am.)

[AmericanInTokyo]

There is so little that I actually LEARN from the Sean Hannity show.

Whenever I turn it on, he is usually in the midst of self-aggrandizement through having other people praise him (while he makes a weak effort to decline their praise.) Other than that, he is plugging a book, or an event where he is the centerpiece, or he is debating and picking on intellectual light weights who are several levels below him, such as yelling at and debating college liberals, instead of fighting in his own weight class.

The guy talks a good talk, but a lot of it is just surface charlatanism, if you ask me. Not very academic.

As I said, if listened for one hour, I would not walk away with much acquired knowledge. To that extent, while he IS on our side, his format is pretty useless. I may not have a good radio voice, but I'll stack up my own academic, work and world travel/experience credentials against Hannity any day (he can read my profile page or my past posts, particularly on analysis of global issues). This man is out of order in calling us whackos (if that is indeed what he did). I take it as an insult. I have better use of my "drive time" quite frankly.

[beachn4fun]

You know what's really funny about this whole thing? Most of the posts here prove what does happen at FreeRepbublic which is relative to Sean's comments.

If I remember correctly, he said that a lot of conservatives have taken the stand to turn on anyone and even their own if those people do not share that person(s) viewpoints (i.e., "eat-their-own"). News Flash......this does happen at the Free Republic.

Take for example, what would happen to me if I said that even though I am a conservative I that I am Pro Choice. Immediately my character would be torn to shreds. Someone would try to tell me that the two don't go together, yada.....yada......

I find that this forum proves he has a point. How many people here, who were loyal listeners prior to his comments, have torn him to shreds because he make that comment?

How many people have been called a troll, told to go back to DU, just because they had an opposing viewpoint? I'm not talking about Bush bashers.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Shame on him for picking this fight with FR.

It is truly akin to ____________ in the wind.

If we can bring down Dan Rather, surely we can bring this bloke down.

Now. Let's do it.

[Huck]

Don't you want to get in on this, or is it too many indians and not enough cowboys for ya?

[chronic_loser]

Amid the howling:

1) do you realize what he is doing? he is giving us an insight into something really cool. The conservative movement is big enough to segment, divide, establish preferences and still maintain market momentum. That is all he is doing by plugging his website at the expense of FR.

2) he is admitting that FR is REALLY REALLY big. There are all types here

3) anyone who thinks that there are not PROMINENT wingnuts over here has never read FR. There are some real cretins within the conservative movement, and a place like FR that allows anyone to post attracts them like flies to dog poop.

4) Sean, like Rush, Tony Snow, Michael Savage, and most others, is IN THIS TO MAKE MONEY. That sometimes pushes you to do things that maybe you shouldn't have or maybe should have done another way. Sean is just trolling for business among the crowd of freepers who may have just disengaged from a particularly vicious thread, thinking "My God, who let the loonies out of the bin??!!" I know I have wondered, at times. Did he choose the best language to do so? Nah.

5) Some freepers are so thin skinned that they go nuclear at the slightest provocation. No dissent is tolerated. I remember the way Peggy Noonan was SAVAGED over here for disagreeing with the tone of the SOU addressed. That same mentality is displayed in this thread, and the people who are disgusted by it are the people Hannity is targeting. It is kinda like saying that if you don't want your home referred to as an insane asylum, then stop crazy aunt Jessica from screaming warnings about alien microbes to the passerbys from the front yard.

I have never been to hannity.com. This particular plug isn't likely to pull me over there.

[Broker]

Hannity's summary of how we degrade, belittle and ridicule each other has been my experience too. My interests are changing.

[IrishGOP]

Hannity is wrong, yes there are threads that get a bit nasty, but there are many more threads that have great discussions and threads with lighthearted fun. Also, if you ask for advice on non-political issues, freepers are very generous with their help.

The problem with Hannity which has been well documented on this thread, is that his show just isn't that good, especially after listening to other talk shows during the day. He completely lost it on election day, believing the exit polls, he should have known better. Personally, I enjoy listening to Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham and Hugh Hewitt.