I heard it, it was an explanation, not an apology.
Sean has several times made disparaging comments about us, and I just brushed it off, but yesterday, when he made the comments he no longer comes here and THEN promotes his own website, promoting HIS website by slamming us, that is hypocrisy.
I listened to his show everyday regardless of what he said previously that was negative about us, but, Today I only listened to hear what he would say about FR.
He had on someone named Mike who sounded like HE was apologizing for FR to Sean...when it is Sean who owes us an apology.
It is Freepers who promoted FOX news, not Sean's listening audience, it is US who got people to watch, listen, and write to our cable companies to put FOX news on the cable systems of our towns. It was FREEPERS who were the FOX Fanatics FIRST, we are the ones who posted fliers even in places telling people to watch FOX news, remember one thread on that? People actually went around and told people to watch FOX NEWS! FREEPERS did that...Kooks according to Sean, though.
Sean has had MANY of his shows recapped here with comments from guests, pictures from his show, Sean was congratulated innumerable times, his defense of our country, our President, and our Military, and yet, he chooses to dis us openly and say that we have become a bunch of kooks?
Well, then it was kooks who defended him, Kooks who recapped his shows, kooks who posted quotes from him, his guests on his show, and bought his books...
I only had 1 major thing against Sean, and that was his and Limbaugh's abandonment of their mantra RULE OF LAW as soon as Bush got the Primary Nod, they stopped calling for Clinton to be prosecuted, and instead said all of us who wanted THE RULE OF LAW to succeed were extremists, and it was Hannity and Limbaugh who taught us the phrase!!
Well, that's gone, all the negatives that I just kept to myself are out now, Hannity is just a Limbaugh wanna-Be who only repeats Limbaugh's talking points and tries to call it his own research, when the reality is he and the rest of the media get a great majority of their news from FR themselves!
Sean Hannity, you just trashed your base, and then you had the nerve to tell us that we trashed you???
WE WERE THE ONES WHO BROUGHT YOU UP FROM NOTHING!!!
And to make the claim that he got angry when TRIXIE took off?? TRIXIE slammed JimRob with the most vile insults repeatedly, online and in print in magazines if I remember correctly, while JimRob was nothign but quiet and a gentleman in return. Also, TRIXIE's site banned almost all of us right away as soon as we posted something similar to what we did here, so for Sean to claim some moral high ground based on Lucianne Goldberg, he must not know what happened back then, he only heard one side of the story.
As for Connie, I supported Keyes in the primary, too, I dont know what the real reason she left was, but she came back and joined in with us several times after she left, and never openly insulted any of us and openly enjoyed herself when we were all together. I wish her well, but once again, Sean only heard one side of the story!
Let's get real. Go back and read all the Hannity threads, and it will become apparent how ruthless the attacks have been about his intelligence, etc. You can certainly have an opinion, but let's not rewrite history. And Sean's base numbers in the tens of millions. He has been a great advocate for FreeRepublic and other conservatives, and he experienced one insult too many. Now, let's get past this. The enemy awaits us.
excellent post