Media Matters - Hannity and Bennett excoriated Obama over views shared by prominent Republicans

Media Matters - Hannity and Bennett excoriated Obama over views shared by prominent Republicans: “Summary: Sean Hannity falsely asserted that President-elect Barack Obama "talked about in the campaign cutting tens of millions of dollars in defense spending" when, in fact, Obama said he would cut "tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending." Hannity also asserted that Obama said "[h]e's not gonna weaponize space, slow development of Future Combat Systems" and that he would "set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons" without noting that former Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and other prominent GOP figures have advocated similar positions.”

-- I'm not a Sean Hannity fan at all.

Alan Colmes Leaves Hannity & Colmes For Liberal Pastures

Realizing I think that liberalism is back and "in" and "green", Alan Colmes of Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, is leaving at the end of the year .  He's already got a blog up called "Liberland" under the URL http://www.alan.com -- I'm not kidding.

Alan Colmes Leaves Hannity & Colmes For Liberal Pastures

Realizing I think that liberalism is back and "in" and "green", Alan Colmes of Hannity & Colmes on Fox News, is leaving at the end of the year.  He's already got a blog up called "Liberland" under the URL http://www.alan.com -- I'm not kidding.

Obama Aide Robert Gibbs Goes After Sean Hannity For Anti-Semite Guest

Yeah for Robert Gibbs.  The top Obama Aide confronted the ever-irritating Sean Hannity over his hosting of an Anti-Semite guest Andy Martin as Sean was trying to make the stupid McCain-supporting Ayers connection that really has no basis in reality.  


It's too bad Gibbs didn't know about the White Supremacist friend Hal Turner Sean has had on his show, too.

Why This Talk Of Obama Assassination? A Sick Pattern That Must End

The latest was Fox News Analyst Liz Trotta (pictured), and Senator Hillary Clinton was just before her by three days. Then we had Arkansas Governor Mike Hucabee and also White Supremacist and friend to Fox News' Sean Hannity Hal Turner.

What do all of these people have in common? Well, all are over 50 years old, either in the mainstream media or have access to the mainstream media, are White, and all have suggested that Senator Barack Obama be harmed or threatened in some way.

It doesn't matter if it's said in a suggestive way, as Senator Clinton did, or directly as Turner did. The main question is why are they doing this, and also why is it that a frightening portion of people in the mainstream media -- again to date all White -- are giving these comments a pass.

(As a momentary aside, it's wrong regardless of color, but the pattern to date is an alarming one.)

Let's start with Senator Clinton's now famous statement, which you can read here. Regardless of your interpretation, she said what she said and one has to ask why in hell Clinton would even have the possibility of a June assassination in her mind.

Think about it.

Clinton said that it was not a good idea to want her to quit the race and gave several historical reasons why, including mentioning that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. Well, how the hell is one to think anything other than that she had Senator Obama -- the only other person remaining in the Presidential Race -- in mind?

In my view Senator Clinton has a major problem with a moral compass that she turns off when the issue isn't apparently a directly moral one. Thus, she can say "it takes a President" in a very sloppy response to Fox News' Marshall Holman's question regarding Martin Luther King's legacy. This really terrible person filling in for Ronn Owens on his KGO Morning Show was not able or willing to wrap is mind around the fact that Clinton's "policy first" perspective was wrongheaded and so hung up on me on the call-in show this morning.

A very small action of an obviously very small person. I was happy to learn this so quickly.

And thus it -- since that person's part of the mainstream media and White and apparently at, near, or over 50 years old -- brings me back to my main concern: that these terrible comments aimed against Senator Obama are seemingly OK with the John Rothman's of the World.

What I was saying to him got on the air -- Senator Clinton has a moral compass problem. In other words, Clinton's so busy thinking about what she thinks (and Rothman thinks) is the right answer, but in reality is one possible answer and one without a moral adjustment where you consider how those who revere Dr. King (who was killed) would feel -- not the right one.

I didn't waste time calling Rothman back because to do so would have been, well, a waste of time. I've learned to ignore people like that and did so a long time ago.

But what's bothersome is that people like him and Trotta have jobs at KGO and Fox News. I'd love to see them fired and replaced with voices of color and young White voices who represent diverse communities.

I think a big part of the news media's problem goes back to the lack of newsroom diversity; it's all one kind of voice most of the time. This is certainly true for KGO, which is why I seldom tune in, if ever. I used to do so, but over the years I've observed Ronn Owens reflecting a dated viewpoint and the last straw was Owens guest, a totally stupid and psychotically racist man named Burt Prelutsky, who send email after sicko email expressing the desire to debate me online -- rather than in person.

(Owens and Burt are in the photo -- the one with the guys with the shirts I wouldn't wear!)



People like Burt are so sick, debating them in person is easy. I know his weakness and it stems from his own hatred of people of color and the fact that he sees himself as smarter than someone like me because I'm Black (Have doubts? You should hear that cracker!) -- his first error which comes from a personal God complex. He;s not the judge but because he thinks he's the judge makes him so fun to toy with -- in person. His emails I don't want at all. I'll leave it at that. He's a nut and Ronn was not only nuts for giving him a platform, but for sending him to me online and not setting it up so I could embarass Burt on Ronn's show. Ronn thought it was funny; I wasn't laughing but considered calling the cops at one point.

I'm serious.

It's people like those that are apologists for Senator's Clinton's RFK comments. Geez.

And if not the KGO myopics, then we have people like Liz Trotta, who are so mentally stuck in the "us" versus "them" mentality that talking about bring harm to Senator Obama is within the realm of possibility. Heck, Trotta did it.



But the real person who's just beyond the pale is Hal Turner (pictured with the cartoon-like comment(, the White Supremacist who's rants calling for Obama's assassination were so threatening the FBI and Secret Service were contacted. Sean Hannity's a friend of Turner and even had him on his show as recently as 2005.

To me the only remedy is the wholesale sacking of people like these and by others within their peer group who have enough internal strength to say "Look, that's enough. You're finished." Only then will this crap stop and we can move on toward achieving a more healthy American Society.

Right now, it's pretty fucked up.

Sean Hannity's Messed-Up Obama Reporting Features Security Threat

Yes, you read my title correctly. Fox News' Sean Hannity should be FIRED. Yanked off the Fox News telecast by his legs, upside down , by the Secret Service and in full prime-time view of the American Public.

Sean Hannity's a total jerk of a TV personality who thinks it's cool and good ratings to assist by association in placing a respected U.S Senator in danger, which is what he has done by featuring one man, a friend of Sean's who's a white supremacist named Hal Turner and who Sean's frequently had as a guest, and who also threatened Obama.

Yes, you read that correctly. Sean Hannity is -- as newshounds put it -- "ever-vigilant-against-black-racism but ever-sympathetic-to-white-racism". But to the point of allowing a person he's friendly with to threaten the life of Barack Obama? This is nuts, and Sean's just plain horrible.

Hal Turner's had bomb-making tips on his website and has written such dangerous and really sick words as ""smart Frenchman Burned The Place Down To Prevent More Savage Negros From Gaining Access To France" and who's page is linked to from a Neo-Nazi groups website. And add to that, he's not even supposed to have a webpage, because he's been rejected by so many people. Maybe the Secret Service should take this down.

And with all of this, Sean Hannity has a relationship with this idiot? WFT?!

(I'd link to Turner's page, but it makes me barf to even write the link code to do it. But on second thought, if it helps the FBI and the Secret Service, I'll do it...here's the link.)

This means Fox News speaks for Hal Turner.

I can't believe Fox News is to desparate for rating that on top of the whole short skirts, upskirt legs habit they've launched on the part of their female hosts, they harbor as a TV personality a guy who has no problem -- none at all -- giving voice to someone who wants to eliminate Barack Obama.

I can't figure out which is worst: Hannity or Turner, or Fox News itself. I guess I'll take all three of them put together.

According to Newshounds, Hannity, this total piece-of-shit fuck in my free-speech opinion regarding a public figure who's played agent to the threat of Barack Obama, has " has never renounced Turner." Moreover, according to McSweeney's Internet Tendency , Hannity has helped Turner overcome a drug problem and has invited him to the set of his TV show. Think about it. Sean Hannity maintains a friendship with a person in Hal Turner who -- again according to McSweeney -- advocates killing African Americans, and I'm way not making this up.

It's about time Sean rejected Turner on his show, or get booted from his show. But really, it's about time Fox News got some real balls and kicked Hannity off the air, regardless of the appology. It's totally un-American to have a person who's arguably a threat to national security on the public airwaves. Get his stupid, ignorant, racist ass off television now.

Now for those of you who think Hannity has a point about "The real Barack Obama," you're smoking something other than a very good Mike Ditka Cigar. According to Newshounds, which "watches Fox so you don't have to" ...

Obama has renounced Farrakhan and the radical organization the Weather Underground, of which two former members developed a seemingly loose association with Obama 40 years later. Naturally, those renunciations were not good enough for Hannity. But Hannity, to my knowledge, has never renounced Turner.

Obama’s “connection” to Farrakhan is tenuous at best. Obama’s pastor’s daughters awarded Farrakhan some kind of lifetime achievement award. It’s worth noting that Obama has said he disagrees with the award. But that did not satisfy the ever-vigilant-against-black-racism but ever-sympathetic-to-white-racism Hannity.

Obama’s connection to Ayers is also sketchy. It has been reported that Obama met with the two former radicals, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, in 1995; Obama served with Ayers on the board of an anti-poverty group; Ayers donated $200 to Obama's 2001 state senate campaign;

I'm glad Patriot Boy called the Secret Service about Hal Turner; the Secret Service should keep a watch on Sean Hannity, too. I've seen the real terrorists, and they're Hal Turner and Sean Hannity.

There are some who say Hannity is a moron , but I say he's just plain a threat to our country. Please get him off the air; he's done far more damage than Don Imus ever did, and Imus got the boot. Hannity should get the jail.