{"id":199,"date":"2004-05-28T12:13:03","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T16:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-05-28T12:13:03","modified_gmt":"2004-05-28T16:13:03","slug":"sean-hannity-smug-deceptive-hypocrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Sean Hannity: Smug Deceptive Hypocrite"},"content":{"rendered":"

So late last night \/ early this morning, while listening to Air America<\/i><\/a>, I was alerted to a web poll being run over on Hannity.com<\/a> asking “Who should be President of the United States?”<\/p>\n

I stopped by, voiced my opinion, and saw that the results of the unscientific web poll to that point — with some 11,000+ votes cast — was about 65% Kerry, 33% Bush, 2% Nader.<\/p>\n

This morning when I woke up, I checked it again. It was then at 75% Kerry, 22% Bush, 3% Nader.<\/p>\n

Checked back about 20 minutes later to find that “This poll has been disabled.”<\/p>\n

So presumably, there’s a kink in the well-oiled GOP Media Spin Machine. Was the poll taken down because it was soiled after Air America<\/i> alerted listeners to it’s existance? Presumably, Hannity either did, or would have told his<\/i> 10 million or so (largely Republican) listeners to stop by and vote on his web poll and then reported the Fair and Balanced results later on his show.<\/p>\n

Yet the “inconsequential”, “failing”, “nobody listens to it” Air America<\/i> informs it’s<\/i> American listeners about the poll which resulted in numbers — I guess — that Sean didn’t care for. So the poll comes down.<\/p>\n

It’s a rather small point, nothing as outrageous as repeatedly playing the uncut audio of an American screaming in horrific agony as his head is sawed off “live” on the air<\/b> (as I reported in “Sean Hannity: American Shame”<\/a>) but it does<\/i> serve to illustrate the desperate and deceptive Anti-American nature of the #2 GOP Spokesperson who is given free reign on the Public Airwaves coast-to-coast across the nation.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s time for another look at the FCC’s “Equal Time Rule<\/a>” which is seemingly now wholly ignored as it applies to the political propoganda being shovelled out under the guise of “entertainment” on America’s Public Airwaves. I’m not holding my breath.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> After listening to the first two and a half hours of Hannity’s show today, he has not made one mention of his aborted poll. Down the memory hole, I guess…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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