… and he let it go.
Yesterday, a caller identified himself as a 22-year-old conservative who’s backing Giuliani. The caller’s point was that he sees social conservatives as liberals because we want to use “big government” to impose our views on others.
This was the time that Hannity had to choose how to react. He is a social conservative. He’s pro-life. He’s against gay marriage.
He really needed right now to put forward a description about the difference between a libertarian and a conservative. (Of course, then there’s the difference between a libertarian and Rudy Giuliani, but that’s another story.)
He let it go. Instead, he babbled about how Hillary Clinton wants to use the government to tell us what we can do, blah, blah, change the subject, talk about taxes.
The simple fact is that Hannity has sold out. He clearly believes that Giuliani or Romney will be the inevitable nominee, and goes out of his way to excuse the inexcusable so that he doesn’t lose his access.
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Today, he had a caller from a woman who identified herself as a “Christian pro-life conservative” who supports Giuliani. She questioned whether he would veto legislation such as Duncan Hunter’s “Right to Life Act.”
Hannity went on to say that he wishes Bush would veto more things. That had nothing to do with the question. He said that he didn’t want to speak for “Rudy” on that one. My reaction?
Come on, Sean! You’re never afraid to speculate about what other liberals would do …
And let’s be honest. We know what Giuliani would do if he got the Right to Life Act. He’d veto it. He doesn’t believe in it. Of course, Hannity can’t admit that, because he’s too invested in Giuliani and doesn’t want to have to admit his own cognitive dissonance/dishonesty.
Near the end of his show, Hannity had three calls in a row in praise of Mike Huckabee. I don’t recall a lot of details … I’m afraid that I was cooking dinner at the time (swordfish steaks … yummm …) and my wife was caring for the baby. We’re trying to remember them, but I remarked that this had to be causing Hannity physical pain.
Of course, the other choice is … he could just act on his professed principles.
October 29, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Giuliani enjoys a cozy relationship with Roger Ailes and Fox News. Hannity is doing his best to sell Giuliani to America. No thank you, we’ve had more than enough RINOs.
Hannity lied at least twice about the cell-phone text polls being ‘hacked’ after their debates.
Hannity is NOT a Great American. He is rude to anyone who disagrees with him, and cuts them off. I used to listen to him, but now I can’t tolerate him anymore. He lost my respect and any credibility he had with me. Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, and I never liked Bill O’Reilly, who is a bully.
October 29, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I haven’t talked about it a lot here, but I have remarked on a couple other pro-Paul blogs. You’re right … as much as Hannity is maligning Mike Huckabee, that’s nothing compared to his borderline-slander of Ron Paul’s supporters. The “redial” nonsense might have been attributed to ignorance once, but the second time around, it was clearly deliberate — and permitted by his superiors.
I do listen to him and Limbaugh some, but that’s more because I want to maintain credibility with some of my friends as I criticize the two of them. Frankly, though, I do often have to turn them off.
October 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Yes, Hannity has been particularly nasty towards Ron Paul and those of us who support him. The look on his face the first time he realized Ron Paul was winning in their (Fox’s) polls was precious.
One thing about having Ron Paul in the race, a lot of people’s true colors and allegiances are showing. If Ron Paul wasn’t in the race, I’d be voting for Huckabee.
If I had to choose between Giuliani and any of the (other) Democrats, I’m not sure it would be worth my time and effort to go out and vote.
God bless us all. It’s going to be an interesting election, to say the least. I just found out the other day that Texas uses electonic voting machines with no paper trail. Yikes.
October 29, 2007 at 9:15 pm
No paper trail … you know, I’m sure that if it was a Democrat who had suggested that, every Republican would be out in arms accusing them of fascism. As it is, suddenly it sounded like paper trails were instruments of evil, the way some Republicans talk about it.
I can’t believe it.
I do wish I could have seen Hannity’s face, now that you mention it. I don’t have cable, and was listening on the radio, so I missed some of the real outrageous stuff.
If we could get rid of the anointed front-runners, I’d love to see a primary race between Huckabee and Paul. That would be a real race of ideas instead of empty slogans.