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FOX host Sean Hannity confirms off-the-record talk with George Zimmerman
NY Daily News ^ | April 11, 2012 | Philip Caulfield

Posted on 04/11/2012 9:18:51 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

FOX News host Sean Hannity confirmed on his show Tuesday night he had an off-the-record chat with someone he believed was George Zimmerman.

The neighborhood watchman's former legal team announced they would no longer represent him because the 28-year-old had ignored their calls and said he had reached out to Hannity and special prosecutor Angela Corey on his own.

On his show, Hannity said he wanted to "set the record straight."

"For a few weeks we have been pursuing an interview with Mr. Zimmerman to give him a chance to tell his side of the story," the host said. “Now yesterday I was contacted by an individual that we in fact believe was George Zimmerman.”

"We spoke on the phone about his case, and I agreed not to report on the contents of that conversation. That's it."

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KEYWORDS: blackkk; florida; georgezimmerman; hannity; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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1 posted on 04/11/2012 9:19:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I agreed not to report on the contents of that conversation. That's it.

Then, unless Zimmerman is planning on calling Hannity as a character witness at his upcoming trial, what was the point?

2 posted on 04/11/2012 9:21:46 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Maybe Zimmerman gave Hannity some information to be revealed if something bad happens to him at the hands of the New Black KKK or the (in)Justice Department.


3 posted on 04/11/2012 9:23:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He can keep it quiet until the court orders otherwise, is my guess. Not a good move on Zimmerman’s part.


4 posted on 04/11/2012 9:24:53 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now that Perry's out, I guess I'll just have to vote for "Generic Republican Candidate")
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To: skeeter

To THANK Hannity for his objective and unbiased reporting on this story. That’s it!


5 posted on 04/11/2012 9:28:08 AM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or to be revealed when Zimmerman skips to Peru (and I wouldn’t blame him at all).


6 posted on 04/11/2012 9:29:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs

Oh and, another thing.. He probably told Hannity not to interview his father again!


7 posted on 04/11/2012 9:29:54 AM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“pursuing an interview with Mr. Zimmerman to give him a chance to tell his side of the story,”

That pretty much tells it all. George wants to have his side of the story told. Not sure that is a good idea at this point and maybe should just be quiet but I can understand where he is coming from. I Sean would be a good one to give out his side of the story to. Maybe even Greta.


8 posted on 04/11/2012 9:30:11 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Kinda li dark like wetting yourself wearing a pair of dark trousers.

Gives you a nice warm feeling, but nobody seems to notice.


9 posted on 04/11/2012 9:34:31 AM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Kinda like dark wetting yourself wearing a pair of dark trousers.

Gives you a nice warm feeling, but nobody seems to notice.


10 posted on 04/11/2012 9:34:49 AM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Serious mistakes being made by Zimmerman. When you are facing charges like this you have “NO Advocates” except for your Attorneys. Not the police, not the media, and not even smiling conservative talk show host, and defiantly not those reading your comments on your web site. Talk To Nobody without your attorneys present. Too many people think the Miranda Rights are meant for the guilty. That is dead wrong.

Zimmerman should have watched this video

Don’t Talk to the Police. In praise ofs the Fifth Amendment Right to Not Be a Witness Against Yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc


11 posted on 04/11/2012 9:36:38 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

The problem with that advice is that there is something else on the line and that’s him being lynched. So he has to fight for his freedom in the courts but fight for his life with the public.

I’ve seen that video before and generally I do agree with it. And it has paid off for me and my family when falsely accused


12 posted on 04/11/2012 9:41:27 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: NavyCanDo

THIS———> Too many people think the Miranda Rights are meant for the guilty. That is dead wrong. <———THIS

First time we’ve ever been in full accord I believe.


13 posted on 04/11/2012 9:50:09 AM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: skeeter
If there's a trial Hannity could be subpoenaed by either side to testify. He has no privileged client/lawyer relationship that would preclude it.
14 posted on 04/11/2012 9:54:30 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
To THANK Hannity for his objective and unbiased reporting on this story."

That was my thought also.

15 posted on 04/11/2012 10:03:31 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am beginning to believe that George Zimmerman is starting to crack under the pressure and is making critical errors in judgement. He needs help, from people who believe in his side of the story. I’m sure that he deeply regrets taking the life of Trayvon Martin but he was placed in a position where he felt threatened and acted upon it. The fact alone that he has been tried and convicted in the MEDIA with out a trial would be enough to anyone over the edge. He really does need help.


16 posted on 04/11/2012 10:08:17 AM PDT by Mr. C (Take Back America!)
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs

Yes. And/or possibly to see if there’s some money to be had by coming on the show. The guy is going to need money in a bad way. He’ll have trouble ever getting work again and may have to move out of the U.S. just to be able to live without the constant threat of being killed.


17 posted on 04/11/2012 10:13:45 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If George Zimmerman truly believed he was acting in self-defense, he should have gotten out way ahead of this story by giving an impassioned statement of some kind.

Not necessarily an interview. But a read statement in which he looks into a camera and emphatically declares that he was being attacked and his life was in danger. He should have challenged those who are jumping to conclusions to put themselves in his shoes and imagine what they would have done if they were being beaten and feared for their lives.

In this unique case, he should already be trying to make a positive impression on his potential jurors. He has many advantages that he and his supposed lawyers were not using.

While I support his decision to go into hiding, he has not handled this matter well. In a situation like this, he should make an emphatic plea that he is innocent.

My only guess is that he was asked by the investigators to lay low. But he should not trust them one bit. They are going to throw him to the wolves. He will be a political sacrificial lamb.

This is not the time for Zimmerman to be “going rogue” either. He needs to hire a competent attorney (not the two bozos he had been working with) to help him.

What’s Jose Baez up to? LOL


18 posted on 04/11/2012 10:14:48 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

Jose has already commented publicly in favor of Zimmerman. I’ve known Jose for 20a yrs. This case is right up his ally. Wouldn’t be a difficult case to win. Just a media circus.


19 posted on 04/11/2012 10:32:51 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Spunky
“To THANK Hannity for his objective and unbiased reporting on this story.”

Hannity was almost as guilty of the rest of the press, in the beginning. He was all hung up on Zimmerman continuing to “pursue” Martin after being asked not to. Which we now know that Zimmerman did STOP following Martin.

I tweeted, emailed Hannity to death, criticizing him for being so brutally uninformed on this case. How he was an embarrassment to Conservatives by jumping on the liberal media bandwagon.

He “claims” to have taken a position of not “rushing to judgment”. This was a throw away line, a life preserver, he used in case he turned out to be wrong about indicting Zimmerman. As it turns out, he's lucky to have done so since now he is clinging to that life preserver and pointing out often how he “from the beginning was not rushing to judgment”. Actually he did, and is a hypocrite now.

I will give him credit for being one of the first to do a 180.

You are welcome Sean. You can, by extension, thank me for the Zimmerman “get”. Again you are welcome.

20 posted on 04/11/2012 10:47:38 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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