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TheBig3 04-21-2009 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by The Unfan (Post 642395)
A certain scandal comes to mind. Also, he was sort of gung ho about the whole war thing.

Vietnam is a cancer on this nation. Please remind yourselves that no one, your high-minded, morally-superior people included, that no sitting president wants to be the first one to lose a war. None.

He was gung-ho about finishing it, sure. As I recall he ended it as well, and he opened communications with China. (there buy burying the hawkish policy on Communism).

I'm wondering What the scandle has to do with his policies.

@Boo Boo

Those debates where what made me start reading "god is not Great." As a writer he drives me nuts, but his arguments are pretty amazing.

boo boo 04-23-2009 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Wayfarer (Post 643259)
oh man, i must've missed it the first couple of times watching that Falwell video, but Hannity calling Hitchens a "pseudo-intellectual" nearly had me in tears.

He didn't even need to add "pseudo" in there. For Hannity and a lot of people like him, the word "intellectual" is an insult as it is.

But yeah, they need to start making compilation DVDs of Sean Hannity's greatest hits, that way people won't have to actually watch FoxNews to get them.

It's hard to pinpoint Hannity's biggest douchebag moment. But one time he kicked a guy out of one of his "freedom" concerts for being a liberal. I'll post the vid when I can find it.

EDIT: It should also come as no surprise that Hannity is defending Texas gov. Rick Perry. Which btw, that whole thing? The most retarded damn thing I've ever heard.

boo boo 04-23-2009 05:27 AM

Video: Stewart to Wingnuts: Defeat Is “Supposed to Taste Like a Sh*t Taco”

Why Stewart is the man.

TheBig3 04-23-2009 08:34 AM

A couple things about the Hannity position...

1. The guys in a competition by himself trying to unseat Rush. As much as you may dislike Rush, he's got the right stuff. He may take bizare positions occasionally but he can stick to positions and philosophy on the days he's not entertaining.

Hannity is the John Kerry of conservative talk. Blows in the wind, says whatever is most "right" at the time, interviews Michele Bachman far too often.

He's getting smoked by O"reilly and Rush on a consistent basis despite having near Regis levels of Umbiquity.

2. Best line of that interview: If you gave Jerry Falwell an enima you could bury him in a matchbox.

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Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 644784)
He didn't even need to add "pseudo" in there. For Hannity and a lot of people like him, the word "intellectual" is an insult as it is.

I think pseudo in there wasn't for the listeners, but more of a direct shot at Hitchens. I think it shows clearly didn't do his homework, I've read Hitchens's books and I can tell you without embarassment I had to read them with a ****ing dictionary.

Speaking of which Ethan, I did read your paper and I thought you should give "Why Orwell Matters" a read.

boo boo 04-23-2009 11:34 PM

I will say that Rush and Coulter are the more intelligent and less hypocritical of the neo conservative pundits. But that's pretty much like being the most talented member of the Insane Clown Posse.

O'Reilly is a huge hypocrite, he contradicts himself all the time. He's reached a new douchebag high recently in his constant stalking of a female blogger for "hurting rape victims" when all she actually did was post a video of O'reilly clearly blaming two girls for their own rape and murder.

Hannity seems to be becoming even more obsessive, I think Hannity is trying to out nutjob all the other guys, now that Glenn Beck is a member of FoxNews he has some serious competition in the "biggest neo con psychopath" market, Beck is already rivaling Hannity in the ratings, it won't be long until he gets into primetime, possibly replacing one of Hannity's two shows.

But I will give Hannity and Beck this much credit. NO ONE is as stupid and full of sh*t as this guy.



Future FoxNews employee.

TheBig3 04-24-2009 07:29 AM

While I don't believe it medicating children save for cases of actual benefit, that is stupid.

Granted he's a talk show host so this is just more press for him, but this breaks that old political rule of "speak only when it improves the silence" or more broadly, whats the return on my investment.

He didn't stop children from being medicated, but he did serve to insult parents and children with actual medical conditions. What an ass.

Speaking of conservative commentators, you guys all say this one, right?


boo boo 04-24-2009 07:55 AM

Michael Savage is the worst of all the pundits, he dosent pass what he does off as journalism, I'll give him that, but as far as being a hatemonger he dosen't even try to hide behind a false sense of objectivity and being fair like Hannity, Beck and O'Reilly do. So he never holds back with his generally hateful and moronic views on everyday life. But he's not even as smart as Hannity or O'Reilly, hell, he actually made Glenn Beck the smart guy in an argument. :laughing:

He believes in just about every over the top right wing conspiracy there is, the way he simplifies everything is extraordinary, he says things like "Obama is gonna fire all our white policemen and firemen" which shows that he doesn't even have the basic understanding of politics that Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, O'Reilly and Beck have at the very least. Everything he says is downright hateful and slanderous, and completely idiotic. No one else compares, no one comes close. He is the most loathesome human being on the planet. Unlike the others he goes beyond the boundries of being so stupid it's funny to being so stupid it's actually disturbing.

Normally I wouldn't consider some idiot who says stupid sh*t for money to be that much of a threat, then again this guy has the #3 radio show in America.

half_baked87 05-09-2009 02:16 PM

fox news? hannity? have any of you ever watched keith olberman? that little lapdog no-ball having ****-****? his hair is obnoxious, he has that aloof sense of superiority that you get from typical white liberal douchebags. and NBC, CBS, and ABC don't even try to have balanced debate. frankly i find fox news to be the most watchable, i may not like hannity, but at least they make an attempt at representing both sides of the spectrum. the problem is we've all gotten so used to the lefties in the other major news networks that FOX seems like a nazi propaghanda channel by comparison. i'm sure i'm opening myself up to all kinds of ridicule with this one.

TheBig3 05-09-2009 04:43 PM

Not with your position, more with your delivery, and the fact that you're a pot-smoker from Canada telling American's whats liberal...

maybe because of that.

If I called you a dope, would that be too clever?

boo boo 05-09-2009 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by half_baked87 (Post 655885)
fox news? hannity? have any of you ever watched keith olberman? that little lapdog no-ball having ****-****? his hair is obnoxious, he has that aloof sense of superiority that you get from typical white liberal douchebags. and NBC, CBS, and ABC don't even try to have balanced debate. frankly i find fox news to be the most watchable, i may not like hannity, but at least they make an attempt at representing both sides of the spectrum. the problem is we've all gotten so used to the lefties in the other major news networks that FOX seems like a nazi propaghanda channel by comparison. i'm sure i'm opening myself up to all kinds of ridicule with this one.

If by attempt you mean let a few liberals on so they can be yelled at for a few minutes then yes.

There's only two kinds of liberals on fox.

1. The kind that are never allowed to speak and always get cut off.

2. The kind that never challange the crazy right wing sh*t that's being spewed.

A good example of the first is guys like Christopher Hitchins and Ted Rall appeared on Hannity, the guy just plain wouldn't let them talk, their only purpose was to serve as a catalyst for Hannity's dumb rants.

And let's not forget the O'Reily/Glick incident.

But the typical FoxNews liberal is a total pushover, they're all moderate and hardly even disagree with the fanatical far right pundits that often.

Jane Hall for example, she's supposed to be a liberal, but her real job is to basically agree with everything O'Reilly says, she just raises her raise and pretends to be arguing with him, creating that illusion of "fair and balanced" debate.

Colmes is gone, so FoxNews fans can't even make the "What about Colmes?" argument anymore.

And then there's D*ck Morris. :laughing:

I will agree with you on one thing, Olbermann is a huge c*nt.


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