I don’t care what anybody says: Sean Hannity has that touch of gray of his cosmetically applied to his temples in order to pretend to a journalistic gravitas that he simply has not earned.
And for that, I despise him.*
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And with that, I have effectively THWARTED both Glenn Greenwald and Peter Daou.
FEAR MY BACKPEDAL!
Another reason to distance oneself: The port security deal with UAE.
wtf????????
Then what will they do without all the republican Rock?
that didn’t work, maybe this will (the old fashion way)
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_firedoglake_archive.html#114032717059164103
Bush lied, Hannity dyed!
(Admit it, you’re just angry you didn’t think of it first!)
Buy stock in Grecian Formula, quick!
Jeff – you know this is going to confuse your fan Peter Daou.
Well, Tom, he must learn of my complexities. JESUS would have it no other way.
Oh, cut him some slack. He doesn’t have rimless glasses.
Maybe not, because Jeff didn’t use any of those baffling -isms.
It’s obvious Mr. Maguire has never been to FreekRepublic.
What lefty recently posted something in response to Hackett and used the words “progressive” and “activist” like 3000 times?
Anyways Maybee, after reading that I found Daou’s little snipe baffling.
You do not come and go from the cult as you please. Expect the vengeance of the Master when you least expect it. And guaranteed, you will never see the wedgie coming!
Bush should have flattened Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, Mecca, Medina and Damascus immediately after 9/11. This crap about bringing freedom to the middle east is wasting our soldiers’ lives and giving the mullahs time to arm themselves with nukes.
There.
I want my label.
Hannity? That’s the one whose IQ is smaller than the number of letters in his name, right?
You got it backwards. The temples are the only part that aren’t GF’d…
Should Saddam have been removed in 1991 or 2003? An analysis of both sides :
Hannity may not be the most likable guy or the most eloquent speaker. He’s probably more than a little vain. But he gets post-911 American in a way that no one else in the media does. He understands that we are fighting a foe unlike any other we have ever seen. Even O’Reilly doesn’t seem to really understand that—he seems mostly to care about his ratings. But I think Hannity really has the nation’s best interests at heart and he makes no apology for that. I give him a lot of credit for that.
Marianna, I understand your point, but couldn’t we please have an effective voice for that point of view who isn’t also a moron?
Please?
Jeff try
Miss Clairol –
Ron Reagan Black asure # 52
Charlie,
You don’t go into a media war with the commentators you want, you go into a media war with the commentators you’ve got.
Plus which: Alan Colmes. Not really balding. Shaves the front of his head twice a week to look more intellectual.
Charlie—I’ll admit that Hannity may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I’m not sure how much intelligence of that sort matters with these issues. I don’t Bush is all that smart, while Clinton was a true wonk, but look at how much better the country is under Bush’s policies. Clinton knew all kinds of facts and figure, but he left us with a recession and vulnerable to a terrible terrorist attack. Now under “dumb” Bush, the econmy is strong the country is safer.
A radical new explanation about why both parties refuse the seal the border.
Totally!
All in all, not a bad day’s work for someone who broke his liver. As for myself, Monday was consumed with an Excel workbook that had to be imported into Access. It contained 182 worksheets, containing data from school districts across Colorado. Sixty-two of the sheets were blank. Draw your own conclusions, but this caused my VBA import-data app no end of troubles.
(Although, actually, one can always end one’s troubles: I finally resorted to “On Error Resume Next.” Good enough for goverment work. Come to think of it, that—government work—is probably why “On error resume next” exists.)
I may be down, in other words, but, to purloin a phrase, I SHALL BLOG AGAIN.
Good meeting you at the Blogger Bash. From one liver to ano … CHENEY! DUCK!
I’m new to this whole cult thing. How are we to punish Jeff for his apostasy?
Wow Charlie, I thought being an elitist, superior, intellectual jerk-off snob was the domain of liberals. Personally, I don’t watch Hannity, and rarley listen to him, But for we uneducated, unwashed, working class slobs, his common sense and passion for the conservitive view are valued for a counterpoint to the democrat talking points. Is your point that his 3,000,000 daily listeners in the ignorant red states are morons too, and the average republican should be embarrassed that such an obvious dolt is making the right-wingers look too dumb to be allowed to vote? Gee, maybe if he just used $10 words as much as possible, and threw in some lawyer jargon, he would be acceptable to you. Course then all those ignoramus, high school educated, blue collar, dopes would tune out, and lose a source of counter MSM information, but thats not important, stupid morons shouldn’t vote anyway, right?
TW- If Hannity isn’t WORKING for you, change stations!
After hearing his name seventeen billion times, I finally looked up “Hannity” to see if maybe I’d recognize his picture. Nope.
But I did find The Obligatory MonkeyShop
Next Dem strategy: “dog whistling” Buck v. Bell.
tw “figure”: Yup, it do.
I won’t permit O’Reilly or Hannity in my home. It’s not that I’ve got anything against the Irish, but goddamn those guys are uppity.
I devalue people immediately when I see they are too proud to admit they don’t know —or were wrong about— something.
I don’t like O’Reilly either, he’s the political Jerry Springer.
Just out of curiousity Toby, whens the last time you admitted you were wrong in a political opinion?
LIBERAL!!!
Honestly, I don’t think you want Hannity to be an intellectual- you want him to be more of an everyman, as he needs to appeal to red staters, who honestly have very few realistic media outlets that dont um “color” the news. Personally, I can’t stand Hannity’s interviewing style- he talks over people, he won’t bait the liberals on his show properly, etc- but he fills an important role on the conservative side of things.
Now I admit, I cannot stand Bill O’Reilly- I won’t watch or listen to the man- everything about him rubs me the wrong way.
One thing Hannity is very good about is calling out the left when they engage in outright sedition.
It is well past time that we started prosecuting people like Al Gore for their anti-American polemics, which help fuel hatred of American in the Islamic world. There’s also a good discussion of the sedition issue here .
Okay, I guess you can’t do links here?
OT Jeff:
While browsing at Border’s last evening looking for some novice instuction on VBA and LISP I came across a book titled “Blogosphere: Best of the Blogs” or “Best of the Web”, I can’t remember. Anyway it had YOU as one of the best conservative (not humor) sites along with Michelle Malkin. Nice, complimentary little note. Not sure if you were aware of it.
I thought you might want to know in light of the fact that you are a “failed academic”.
marianna,
Not sure what you’re using to create your tags, but the “smart quote” (the curly quotation mark) is what’s breaking the link. It can be done by simply typing the link yourself.
Proof positive as follows: this is a link
Thanks, WhackDaddy!
There once was a laddy named Hannity,
Whose interviews dripped with insanity,
His 2 minute promos
Said, “Kill all the homos”
and “Clinton gets head from a manatee”
*all rights reserved
Heather Wilson is a liberal because she disagrees with George Bush on some issue Tom Maguire mentioned on his site.
There! It is brought on other Mr. Maguire! You’ve been served!
Whoda thunk it. Need to appeal to red staters.
Hannity does have the annoying need to ask questions in the style of “when did you stop beating your wife” …and he does bark over guests while they’re answering him.
He did have Ted Rall on his program recently and Rall had a very hard time when Hannity surprised him with that year old cartoon of Pat Tillman.
Rall cried about being lied to, as if he’d gotten some guarantee from Hannity that Rall’s past wouldn’t be brought up.
I’m too young to have seen the show when it aired first, but these clips of Firing Line make me wish for someone of Buckley’s stature to start a new program.
Careful actus, the term “intellectual” can be substituted for “dickhead” in many instances.
Vladimir,
By playing the Buckley card in actus’s presence, I fear you’ve opened a Pantera’s box that will take all the gods’ power to close again.
I vote we make him do shots while the Armadillo dances.
Wait, do you get a vote in a cult?
Hannity is to the MSM what Starbucks is to coffee…not all that great, but at least exposing the public to something different than what they had available 10 years ago.
If I join the cult, does Jeff get to screw my girlfriend?
I have to keep reminding myself that the political pundits we see on TV and hear on the radio are in the entertainment business. This means that a primary goal is good theater. This explains (in my own head, anyway) why people like Mike Savage, Bill Reilly, etc. are on the air while more thoughtful moderates would almost never have successful shows. Tim Russert might be an exception; correct me if you think I’m wrong.
This also explains the careers of Ricki Lake, Maury Chung, Jerry Springer, that “Zip it!” guy from the mid-80s (what the hell was his name?), and a host of others. They’re not interested in thoughtful, good faith debates – they’re interested in drama and DNA tests (which I have to admit have a certain low-brow appeal; ever watch some young, tearful bimbo swear to Maury that Ricky was her baby’s daddy and swear she wasn’t cheating when they were dating, then have the DNA prove that Ricky wasn’t the donor? Schadenfreude, my old friend, pull up a chair…)
Oh I like Buckley. He’s not as sharp as when he was defending segregation and the white south doing what it has to do to “prevail”—despite you know, “the official history” of civil rights ignoring that Bull Connor was a democrat—but he’s still kind of an interesting guy.
“Pantera’s Box”
Great name for a groupie.
…
What?
Thanks, rls.
Yeah, somebody brought that to my attention a while back, and I bought the book (which, coincidentally, arrived today). I am one of the “Blogs that Make Blue Staters See Red” (a subchapter of political blogs), and the text describes pw this way:
“A very funny blog by Jeff Goldstein that looks at the news from a right of center viewpoint. So cutting, even liberals laugh when they read his site.”
OVER TO YOU, ACTUS!
Oh I agree. You’re very funny. That education really shows. Good show. Much better than reading the Corner or Malkin or Schlussel or somethng.
See what you can learn at Jeff’s blog?
Bumper sticker!
Oh, RLS, you want Peter Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp.
On VBA you’re on your own.
I’ve learned that Bill Buckley is “still kind of an interesting guy”.
Stanley Fish would ask no less of a person.
I’m young, but not blind actus.
http://hoohila.stanford.edu/firingline/programView.php?programID=116
See, Buckley’s quite interesting. A decade of civil rights leads him to think that the Wallace is a racist.
<a href=http://www.amren.com/009issue/009issue.html#cover>A decade before.</a>
“evidence”.
I mean, who would associate a 1957 National review editorial position with WFB? Another one from National Review, on Brown’s 10th anniversary. Unsigned of course. Does that mean that the entire editorial board is responsible, or that none of it is?
But again, the ‘official history’ —which must be corrected by the blogs—leaves out that Bull connor was a democrat and it was the GOP that voted for the civil rights act.
This of course, messes up the GOP / Democrat distinction with the conservative / liberal one.
There’s that “Pantera’s Box” I was warning you about.
That explains it. Only five things to watch on TV.
[1] News. Political debate {CPAC)
[2] Atenborough*s Birds
[3] National Geographic
[4] Seinfeld
[5] Jay and Letterman. (flip back & forth)
[6] Friday night T & A on Drive-in
6 is a partial. TG
Leave it to actus to quote a racist site to “prove” someone is a racist.
Incoherent.
It only goes to show where there’s will there’s a way. Keep on trying. – Buy land. They’ve stopped making it. – Mark Twain 1835 – 1910