Sean Hannity

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"The Mongrel Awards"

"The Foghorn"?

Does anyone besides me think that Sean Hannity means well?

I think he's got his own perspective just like everyone else, but that he at least means well,
whereas many people do not. Good intentions score high in my book. Bad intentions, low.
And I think that's a sensible way to look at people.

By means well, I agree.

He thinks that God loves The Republican Party, and Jesus put GWB in charge of America, because America is the greatest country God ever created on this Earth.

So yes, as a diluted American/white/Jesus supremacist who sees the world through 'fundamentalist dogma' glasses. Where it's either my/Jesus' way or the highway, yes he does mean well.


Show me in the Bible where it says it's okay to screw the poor, and it's okay to be rich on the backs of others!

I seem to have forgotten that passage...

His perspective is not the problem, as I've said before. It's the medium and form which it is allowed to broadcast. The form encourages one-sidedness and our-side-versus-them. But I guess it's encouraged somehow.

The first time I saw Fox news (back during the Invasion), I swear my first thought was 'I thought they'd canceled Sliders'...

I've listened to Hannity once or twice (mainly during NPR pledge drives... but he does have a mindset...it doesn't register as much as his sponsor, who cooks steaks at 1,800 degress (why? Are they making pottery as well?...

You can usually peg these sort of guys, and figure what their take on any position will be...it's like a laundry list.

What you're describing is Neuro-linguistic programming.

"Neuro-linguistic programming (or NLP) is a controversial interpersonal communication model applied in psychotherapy and other contexts of communication and change. It was initially co-created by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970s based on the communication and behavioral patterns acquired from gestalt therapist Fritz Perls, family systems therapist Virginia Satir and psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson. The originators emphasize modeling of excellence as the core methodology of NLP, that is, the methods they used to imitate and produce the models of exceptional communicators. They also claim that the basic assumptions of NLP draw from aspects of neurology ("neuro-"), transformational grammar ("linguistics") and cybernetics ("programming"). It has often been promoted as an art and science of effective communication and defined as 'the study of the structure of subjective experience'. Others put more emphasis on the tools, techniques and applications specific to contexts such as psychotherapy, business management and communications training, motivational seminars, personal development, and teaching."

Here's a sample of an interview between Hannity and that other guy with a Professor who has a differing point of view. Some of what the voiceover is translating sounds a tad out there but most of it seems spot on.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTIw7FEg85E[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqRlG2XLNKw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6mA_29sd6g[/youtube]

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The Chickenhawk Award

I don't think so... He was hand picked to play the part. He is an anti-semantic, a racist, a homophobe. Alan Combs was his only redeeming quality, and he ran away because Hannity was an idiot who would never listen.

I think it's worse than this. You end up with moderators at each extreme. Neither side is willing to compromise. So you end up advertising to the country that there are only two really extreme solutions to any problem. This is part of the reason that America is so divided - we're not being given a spectrum of solutions.

And that is exactly what I'm implying.

Many people seem to forget that Hannity isn't doing his radio show out of the goodness of his heart, he's running a business like any other. It's all about stocking the "product" that his customers want to buy, and in his case they want the dirt of Obama. He's hardly unique in this, I mean to hear the liberal media go on about W was just as negative if not more so than anything that's ever come out of Hannity's mouth.

The punk band NOFX gives an honorable mention of Sean Hannity in their song "You're Wrong". It says ur wrong if u agree with Sean Hannity.

Hannity is a radio/television personality. He is not in his position to make friends or to make people happy. He is in that position to make money. Simple.

About not finding anything good to say, well I personally dont like Obama, don't care for him, but he's the president...so like with Bush I'm still behind him because of that. I just think that people overhype him to messiah status.

Parable of Talents??




I try to absorb what that parable is trying to say but I always get a different meaning from the traditional.

People also forget the man makes a ton of money. So naturally his prism of politics is bent towards hording all that dough of his. Anytime he says something you should hear "mine! mine! mine! me me me mine! me."