Shoot the messenger: Hannity filibusters, won't address prior comment brought up by caller citing "non-credible" Media Matters
October 26, 2009 2:17 pm ET
From the October 23 edition of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
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Let me read a quote of yours, something you said, directly back to you and get you to respond to it? Why, that's a gotcha!
The caller's only other option was to hang-up.
They can preface any statement they want with "An anonymous source says:"
Easy? No?
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Hannity is using the "Genetic Fallacy (Fallacy of Origins, Fallacy of Virtue)" argument. See link below for a description.
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#pious_fraud
BTW - It was Hannity's show, so his usual "interruptus maximus" kicked it. An old tactic shared by all on Fox.
And is what you said being quoted back to you so scary?
Clearly it is.
And his baloney about 5 MSM sources not being willing to proceed without FoxNews? FoxNews hadn't ASKED to be included. The other 5 demanded that FoxNews be included to help spread out the cost and the burden.
The one thing that strikes pure fear into cowards like Hannity is--of all things--having to defend their very own words .
It is as much a "news station" as MTV is a "music station". It once was what it says it was, but it's just a shell of what it used to represent.
Fox News = We Distort..You Comply
Self-important much, Sean?
This is the same clown who proposed a "football summit" at the White House -- as if President Obama was willing to waste his valuable time tossing a nerf football with an uneducated radio hack like him . . .
Support Nuclear (PROVEN clean power) energy.
DRILL for oil and natural gas. Alternatives are fine but they aren't going to work unless ALL you left-wingnuts get off the grid.
As far as healthcare goes, WHY are you all afraid of TORT REFORM. Insurance across state lines. Ohhh and what about the 60 billion in fraud scammed from medicare EVERY YEAR. Name ONE GOVERNMENT program that has worked, just one.... SSN (nope) all are huge flops...
Remind me again how much "vacation" GWB took during his eight leisurely years in office? How much brush did he cut on his ranch? In Texas? NOWHERE NEAR Washington, where important things were happening most of the time?
I'm gonna give a pass to the current president if he wants to play the occasional nine holes or a game of horse in between all the actual work (whether you're willing to admit it or not) he's getting done. And in only ten months, no less.
As for your other points:
* Nuclear power. Yeah, good luck with that. It's easy to say that, but what happens when they ask to put a reactor in your hometown? Will you still be so ready and accepting then?
* Drilling. Sure, but it's only going to get harder and more expensive in the future. Why not prepare some alternatives now so that we're not stuck footing the bill when oil starts to dry up?
* Speaking of alternatives: You didn't mention solar or wind - I assume there's nothing wrong with those? Except that they will have to spend some (shudder) TAX DOLLARS to build them. (Same as they would a nuke plant, at that...)
* Tort reform, in my mind, is not really that closely related to getting all American citizens covered under some kind of health plan. I'm not sure where you were going with that. Any further explanation would be appreciated, but I expect you're somewhere else covering for Hannity's long list of delusions.
* Billions scammed from Medicare? Talk to your right-wing friends in Congress, as they've had a whole lot to do with that over the past few decades.
* Government programs that work: The Interstate Highway System, National Park System, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and yes, Medicare. Of course, if one chooses to de-fund all of these programs relentlessly, then yeah, you're gonna see some problems.
You have to pay to play in the modern world. Sooner you ladies and gents on the right begin to understand that, the happier everyone will be.
I also like the old "when you get older you'll become a conservative" crap. I was also fed this line when I was in college but lo and behold I got into the real world and lurched even further to the left. Go figure.
NObama the second coming of jimmy carter....
Someday, mikeskew, you, too, will become a master of sentence composition and the witty repartee.
Translation: "If you stay in school, gain intelligence, and learn about other cultures and tolerance, our ability to brainwash you into narrow-minded, narcissistic, and idiotic thinking is going to be greatly diminished. We conservatives feed off of stupidity, racism, and greed. Please, do not develop your brain toward independent thinking in those elitist universities."
I get to ask the "tough" questions here - not the other way around...
Whaddya afraid of Sean? The young man might call you out on your BS? That might be embarrassing?
ALL of fOX is a POS
Sorry NOoldman: that's a lie. They wanted to control their message---not the media.
So does that mean Fox "News" Comedy Channel will from this point forward stop referring to ABC, CBS, NBC as the liberal media?
These people are a joke.
Federal: 36% is the maximum.
State: 6.76% in New York.
Other taxes do not count because those are luxury taxes and can be avoided unlike the two above.
oreilly never gives examples of what MMfA does wrong, either... he just says it and people believe it. those two are cut from the same cloth. its sickening.
and then after a long fawning diatribe about how much he loves fox's "news" coverage, and how terrible liberal colleges are (typical talking points), hes a nice guy all of a sudden and brings out the bible thumping rhetoric.