Hannity: War of Attrition
Published by Mike Stark February 28th, 2006 in Podcast, Sean HannitySince the last election, let see:
- Social Security reform died a slow death
- Katrina exposed incompetence in what was supposed to be Bush’s strength: keeping Americans safe and managing crisis
- Iraq has devolved to ever-descending depths
- the budget continues to bleed rivers of red ink
- Medicare prescription drug menefit has proven to be a major-league, big-time fucking disaster
- another corruption scandal bubbles out of the rancid republican swamps every week
- Scooter Libby, Chief of Staff to the real president, was indicted
- We learned that Karl Rove was intimately involved in the leaking of a CIA WMD operative’s name - contrary to previous protestations by the White House
- the right has attacked, virtually every day, the gov’t for not locking down out borders
- we’ve learned that the President wants to spy on our library records, our google searches and listen in on our phone conversations
- Dick Cheney shot a man in the face
So… can anyone name anything that has gone right for the administration in the last year?
That was the point of this call, but Sean made it difficult for me. Once I did make the point, I think Sean did a pretty good job of discrediting me by painting me as a Marxist… I shoulda recognized what wwas going on, but sometimes it’s tough to do in real time… especially when he turns my mic up and down and eleiminates half of what I had to say…
anyway, I’ve got to get to work. I’ll come back to this (probably in the comments) later this evening.
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Good luck Don Quote,
While I think your making a valiant effort to stem the tide of hate and mis-information that spews from the vile right, the house rules are set up against you. Having to listen to Hanity slap you down even when you seem to nail his hide (well GWBs hide) to the barn door is just too much to bear. Face it, the game is rigged your tilting a windmills here – get them out in the open and you might stand a chance.
Dan
Ok - I’ll give you that this wasn’t a shining example of batting down the wingnuts, but if you go through some of the other calls, I think you’ll find some gems.
But I think you are missing the point…
The object of the game isn’t to convince every single wingnut that may be listening to abandon their long held political beliefs and sign up with the Socialists… Instead, the point is that there are no opposing viewpoints on these shows… By getting on, I’m sowing doubt… small seeds at first, but death can come from a million tiny cuts…
Absolutely be not discouraged. I remember after several of my calls to right wing radio, especially Rush, flopped, I felt discouraged and even wondered if I could be hurting the cause since the audience is their choir anyway. But then I started to noitice that these blowhards were having to juggle honest questions about their own lies. For example, I was listening to Rush on the walkman on Ft. Lauderdale beach one winter’s day and snatched up the payphone and as luck would hav it to right in. I wanted to know how he could defend Bush’s career sponsor Ken Lay having called the White House to get the head of the FEC replaced when he demanded better accounting. I asked Rush how overlooking this could be explained vs. investigating Clinton every time he flushed the toilet (Rush laughed). Knowing he was going to cut me off I got some color in to sear the call into listeners minds asking how much longer the GOP is going to be able to pose as a people’s party when every single one of thier planks is thinly disguised corporate giveaway and destruction of civilized society’s safety net. There were at least 3 callers later who asked Rush pointedly how he could defend Ken Lay, such that he became hideously defensive for days (I like to think I drove him onto the pills).
Another call to Rush backfired. I was angry and determined to describe the scene I believe Rush introduced to Americn politics en masse. Every day the GOP trundles out to the center ring a circus wagon, from which backs out an unusually large elephant. He stands on a small stool in the center ring spotlight, turning 360 circles as his tail goes up and the crowd (America) is showered with projectile diahhrea. The call made me feel good but was as low as he goes. In fact, I once asked him how low can he go? He has truly brought us there as a country, more than anyone. His listeners are so robotic that they were even calling into my local station’s host saying they need to figure out who this “Greg” guy is who’s calling Rush so they can “get him.”
I agree. The game is rigged in their favor; they are professionals paid millions of dollars a year to push their particular form of propaganda. All we can do is call and challenge them on it. It’s our duty, as Americans, to do what we can to break up the right-wing circle jerk that is talk radio.
gregrocker: r u by any chance the guy who told Rush around 2000 he is “the caricature of everything he stands for: a fat, belching pig?” I heard the call and notice he stopped belching up his breakfast shortly thereafter and started the thousand pound weight loss.
Hey, don’t give up. I called Hannity yesterday, and I was ranting at him, and, as I said on another thread, his voice was shaking when I hung up and listened to the end of my call. I got a few good punches in, especially at the end when he said “Let’s listen to the crazy lady,” and I heard my ranting, “You are a fool, Hannity, and you make fools of your listeners. You are getting your tax cuts and it is on their backs.”
If you or I can change even one mind, or get 1% of the wingnuts to say, “Hmmm…how much does Hannity make? Maybe that IS why he is supporting Bush,” then we have succeeded.
And I think the approach I am going to take from now on is the personal attack. Like tonight, I was trying to get through to ask Hannity what in the hell gave him the idea that he had ANY clue what was best for black or inner city families, and how dare he preach to Al Sharpton on how to be a uniter, not a divider. Complete a-hole actually thinks he has a clue. God, what a fool.
And we must be doing something right in finally getting our message out - George Dubai is at 34% and Cheney is at 18%. And Hannity’s voice was shaking when I finished with him. Gotta love it!!
I agree (maybe it’s rigged), why do you offer this as evidence of how you are kicking the wingnut’s asses?
I’m not seeing it.
Naw…. I’m just kidding you…
I think you are changing MILLIONS of undecided hearts and minds! Great job!!!!!
If we can get a thousand callers, we’ll REALLY OWN TALK-RADIO!
Great job!
Mike
I listened to your call again - I think you were very, very good at getting out all of Bush’s screw-ups. I think that with the power of the mic, Hannity was able to paint you as wanting the govt to take care of you, which is not our point.
Don’t forget - he has had years to perfect his bullying. And how hard is it to turn down a mic? But I think we need to throw him off balance. I think you should have asked him what his fancy high school education has taught him - he always jokes about being a dope, so that is his weakness. He really is as dumb as an old shoe, so push that. I would say, “Sean, it is a fact that those who cannot think for themselves need a leader who allows no thought.” And: “Sean, how can the president be so strong on security when Osama bin laden is still out there, 4 1/2 years after 9/11? If you were the slightest bit educated, Sean, you would understand the absolute illogic of calling a man who could not catch a 6ft6in man on dialysis in Afghanistan in 4 1/2 years.” He does NOT want his listeners to think of him as a dolt or a dope, so we must paint him as such.
And finally, this drives me crazy: the Homeland Security, weak Dems memo: “Hey Sean, you are either forgetting or lying to your listeners, but the Republicans fought the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security tooth and nail. Bush wouldn’t even testify under oath for it, your listeners should all look this up for themselves. How is THAT strong on security?”
Really, he is dumb and sensitive about being dumb. Obviously, also sensitive about how much he makes. If we just call and ask, “How much do you make? No wonder you love Bush and his tax cuts,” we will get the message out a bit.
Keep the fight up. BTW, I live near Albany, and think I heard you on 810 talk radio a few weeks ago. Good work!!!
yeah - lol - when i did my post-mortem, I thought to myself that I should have said, “Sean, do you even know what hyperbole means?” for comic effect… but you always do that after the call - especially if you have a recording of it. Can’t help arm-chair quarterbacking yourself.
ugh.
but I wouldn’t have this website if I was easily discouraged. and next time you are on a show, email me directly soon thereafter. Note the time so that I can grab it off the internet and post it to the site.
Linked to you from Kos. Why did I just waste five minutes of my time listening to Sean Vanity hand you your ass for dinner? If you’re going to call these morons, bring your A game.
Hannity mentioned the housing market as one of the feathers in Bush’s cap. You should refer him to this article: “Massachusetts Home Sales Hit 10-Year Low For January.” Pretty much the opposite of everything Sean was saying.
Keep up the good work!
Tilting at windmills?
Perhaps
But when they go over they hit the ground, hard.
Like when O’Reilly was nailed last week for the Iraq Occupation flip-flop. Six more of those and he’s Morton Downey Jr. all over again.
So it’s not about winning the entire call. Instead, it’s about getting them on the record so that when they turn turtle six weeks form now the watchdogs or a re-con mission can nail them.
And as b.monkey points out Mike managed to get Hannity on record with some pretty outrageous statements today.
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“Hey Sean, you are either forgetting or lying to your listeners, but the Republicans fought the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security tooth and nail. Bush wouldn’t even testify under oath for it, your listeners should all look this up for themselves. How is THAT strong on security?”
I’m no Republican but i never wanted that damned DHS. It’s a money-wasting disaster.
DHS is the reason Katrina was such a nightmare (besides the winds and flooding, of course).
The DHS was a bad idea from the get go.
A few points for Sean Insanity to look up. First, as far as thinking that “to each according to his need” was Marxism, Engels acknowledge that this phrase came from the bible, Acts 2:44-45, “All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.” So, if Hannity thinks that’s Marxism then he is calling Christianity Marxist as well. Secondly, puppet governments in Iraq and Afghanistan are not freedom. His moronic repug talking point is that Bush gave freedom to 50 million people, but at a cost of $500 billion so far, that’s cost us $10,000 per person. That’s way worse than welfare, particularly because it doesn’t work. Having daytime curfews in Iraq and the opium warlords running afghanistan is dictatorship, not freedom and it creates enemies faster than we can kill them. Thirdly, as to the economy, this is the weakest recovery ever, propped up by a housing bubble that is already starting to burst and defense spending that only helps the massive military corporations. McJobs are all that the bush administration has created as they have steadily outsourced everything from our ports to our high tech research.
Also, as far as Hannity bluster about being a self-made man, I wonder if he ever attended public school, or used public libraries or if the college that he dropped out of got government financing. Certainly he drives on government roads and breathes air protected by the clean air act and drinks water that, until recently, was clean because of government oversight. Yet he insists, contrary to all objective facts, that he doesn’t need government and he does everything for himself. We do need public transportation, especially in big cities too congested to drive, and without public education the average republican would actually be illiterate, rather than simply acting like it. We are losing jobs to countries like canada because they provide health care to their citizens and companies don’t have to pick up the tab. Our economy would be in much better shape if we extended the public school system to provide day care, so that mothers could get back into the job market. Hannity says we should work, but a women with young kids can’t work because she is legally obligated to supervise her young children and this often prevents her from going to school or work. If Shawn was really pro-life, as opposed to just being a pro-lie blowhard, then he would realize that providing public day care would make abortions less necessary.
Quibbler, thank you for that information. Your post provides exactly the kind of information I look for on blogs.
Mike, your site and your work are excellent. Thank you for your time and your humility.