(Blogged by Brad from the road…)
Yesterday, I focused briefly on the King of Republican Lies and Moral Depravity: Rush Limbaugh, in his role as “apologist” for the torturers and murderers at Abu Ghraib.
Today, we’ll take a look at the Crown Prince, Sean Hannity.
The Center for American Progress, has put together a swell list of just 15 of his greatest “hits”. I think it’s a good idea to occassional post one or two here to remind our friends on the Right of just who it is they are getting their Talking Points from, the accuracy of that information, and the veracity of the person they are counting on to give them their “information”.
So here’s the first in a series. All of these quotes are from the “Hannity and Colmes” show on the Fox “News” Channel.
FACT:
HANNITY: (to attorney Stanley Cohen) “Is it you hate this president or that you hate America?” (4/30/03)
HANNITY: “Governor, why wouldn’t anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?” (6/12/03)
HANNITY: “You could explain something about your magazine, [the Nation]. Lisa Featherstone writing about the hate America march, the [anti-war] march that took place over the weekend…” (1/22/03)
HANNITY: “‘I hate America.’ This is the extreme left. There is a portion of the left — not everybody who’s left — that does hate this country and blame this country for the ills of the world…” (1/23/02)
HANNITY: (speaking to Sara Flounders co-director of the International Action Center) “You don’t like this country, do you? You don’t — you think this is an evil country. By your description of it right here, you think it’s a bad country.” (9/25/01)
In case you’re wondering, the definition of “Patriotism”, the only one given by Merriam-Webster, is as follows:
Patriotism
Function: noun
: love for or devotion to one’s country
Saying one thing, doing another. Flip-flopping. Lying. Misleading. However you wanna put it, it’s the stock-in-trade for the Right’s newest Golden Boy. No wonder the Rightwingers commenting here and elsewhere can’t seem to get any of their facts correct. Look who their role models are!
Brad,
wasnt Colmes originally known as "liberal to be named later"?
Yes, he was. And we’re still waiting.
Brad
(from an Espresso Shop near the beach at Westport, WA)
I thought that TV was for good looking people and radio was for ugly people. That Colmes is one ugly guy!
Maybe I’m missing something here, but nowhere in the above green list of Sean Hannity’s quotes was there any indication of (as you put it) "Saying one thing, doing another. Flip-flopping. Lying. Misleading." Quite to the contrapositive, the quotes you handpicked actually support his patriotism, his "love for or devotion to one’s country." I would argue that Hannity is a devout advocate of American patriotism, as it is he who attempts to debunk the false patriotism in others – that enstilling quality where one’s love for one’s country ends when someone else makes you justify such devotion. I wonder, then, just how patriotic you think you are, and just how well you could withstand "the Right’s newest Golden Boy" Hannity’s scrutiny.
Perhaps you are missing something, General.
In the first quote listed, Hannity says: ""I never questioned anyone’s patriotism."
…And then there are some 5 quotes of him doing exactly that. I didn’t say Hannity was not patriotic. I said that *he* claimed he never questioned anyone’s patriotism, and then, of course, a list (a much shorter one than could have been made!) of Hannity doing exactly that.
Not sure what’s confusing about that.