An Introduction to Fox News's Sean Hannity.

Sean Hannity is a strange fellow. He is so stuck on one side of the political spectrum, to such a degree, it makes one wonder if he is being paid to be this way (I mean, he is obviously too smart NOT to notice the contradictions between his opinions during the Bush presidency and his opinions now...)



He also seems to have made allot of people angry, just check out the following extracts of the evidence that people are gathering against him...

Here is a poll on Hannity's website that seems to advocate an armed insurrection (which is literally treason)

The Doctored Clip Sean Hannity Doesn't Want You to Know About

The following extracts make my point for the possibility that Hannity is being paid for his views... (All the following extracts are from this website)

All Hannity quotes from Hannity and Colmes unless otherwise noted.

HANNITY: "You're not listening, Susan. You've got to learn something. He had weapons of mass destruction. He promised to disclose them. And he didn't do it. You would have let him go free; we decided to hold him accountable." (4/13/04)

FACT: Hannity's assertion comes more than six months after Bush Administration weapons inspector David Kay testified his inspection team had "not uncovered evidence that Iraq undertook significant post-1998 steps to actually build nuclear weapons or produce fissile material" and had not discovered any chemical or biological weapons. (Bush Administration Weapons Inspector David Kay, 10/2/03)

HANNITY: "Colin Powell just had a great piece that he had in the paper today. He was there [in Iraq]. He said things couldn't have been better." (9/19/03)

FACT: "Iraq has come very far, but serious problems remain, starting with security. American commanders and troops told me of the many threats they face--from leftover loyalists who want to return Iraq to the dark days of Saddam, from criminals who were set loose on Iraqi society when Saddam emptied the jails and, increasingly, from outside terrorists who have come to Iraq to open a new front in their campaign against the civilized world." (Colin Powell, 9/19/03)

HANNITY: "And in northern Iraq today, this very day, al Qaeda is operating camps there, and they are attacking the Kurds in the north, and this has been well-documented and well chronicled. Now, if you're going to go after al Qaeda in every aspect, and obviously they have the support of Saddam, or we're not." (12/9/02)

FACT: David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all." He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link "evidence free." (Boston Globe, 6/16/04)

HANNITY: "[After 9-11], liberal Democrats at first showed little interest in the investigation of the roots of this massive intelligence failure...[Bush and his team] made it clear that determining the causes of America's security failures and finding and remedying its weak points would be central to their mission." (Let Freedom Ring, by Sean Hannity)

TRUTH: Bush Opposed the creation of a special commission to probe the causes of 9/11 for over a year. On 5/23/02 CBS News Reported "President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11." Bush didn't relent to pressure to create a commission, mostly from those Hannity would consider "liberal" until September 2002. (CBS News, 5/23/02)

HANNITY: "First of all, this president -- you know and I know and everybody knows -- inherited a recession...it was by every definition a recession" (11/6/02)

HANNITY: "Now here's where we are. The inherited Clinton/Gore recession. That's a fact." (5/6/03)

In the following video you will see advocation for nuclear strikes (as opposed to using nukes as a deterrent) and how words can be twisted. Notice in particular the use of the following sentence...

... "Why is it so difficult to speak the truth in this day and age?" -Anyone can confuse an uninformed Fox News watcher with this sentence



I think that one reason people are so angry at Sean Hannity is because intentionally causing conflict in your country is treason according to the Constitution of The United States...

Article 3 - Section 3

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

[Note: Glenn Beck seems to be doing the same thing, i.e. advocating treason, yet nothing is being done about it! - Glenn Beck's Treason Proof 1 - Glenn Beck's Treason Proof 2 -  sorry about the videos, Fox News seems to have blocked their videos from showing on my blogs.]

On a side note:

Here is a video of an interview with the Governor of Wisconsin...



Compare that with the video's on this page  then read the following articles...

As the nation focuses on the efforts of Governor Scott Walker to take away collective bargaining rights from public employees in Wisconsin, new information is coming to light that reveals what is truly going on here. Mother Jones is reporting that much of the funding behind the Walker for Governor campaign came from none other than uber-conservatives, the infamous Koch Brothers. What’s more, the plan to kill the unions is right out of the Koch Brothers play book.

And from the Salon.com;

Ian Murphy, editor of the Buffalo Beast, just did something wonderful. Murphy, pretending to be billionaire industrialist and secretive conservative political activist David Koch, called Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, currently in the midst of attempting to crush the public employees' unions. "Koch" got through to Walker (who hasn't been taking calls from the Democratic state Senate minority leader). He taped the call and put it online.
So Walker will happily take a call from a Koch brother. He says that he considered "planting some troublemakers" among the protesters. He is convinced that everyone is on his side. Like most people who only watch Fox, he has a skewed impression of the popularity of his union-crushing proposals. (His plan is, nationally, roundly unpopular. Except on Fox.)

The Koch Brothers are the same guys who I've written about in my Introduction to Water Politics.

Who is Ayn Rand?

The following extract is from a 'Brief Biography of Ayn Rand':

Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2, 1905. At age six she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine, she decided to make fiction writing her career.

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Notes on Ayn Rand from the above video:

Her philosophy is of rational self interest and she states that the purpose of life is in pursuing your own happiness with NO regard for others.


In the video clip of her interview in the above video you will find the following:
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She claims to be challenging the moral code of altruism

Altriusm is immoral is it is placed above oneself (i.e. nothing should be above you).

If a man of woman is weak they don't deserve love.


In some instances it is appropriate to be selfish and in other instances it isn't ...

"This officer — like so many others I have met with on bases, in Baghdad and Bagram, at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospital — spoke with humility about how hisunit worked together as one — depending on each other, and trusting one another, as a family might do in a time of peril."


One Christian's view on Ayn Rand:

"Last month, author and Coffee Party contributor Michael Stafford's widely read essay decried the "Paul Ryan" budget and humorously compared Ryan's intellectual hero, Ayn Rand, to L. Ron Hubbard. On our blog talk radio show, Stafford described himself as a Republican and a true conservative who refuses to abandon his party to Glenn Beck and the politics of resentment. His writing is that of a man of faith who applies the teachings of the Bible to civic life, without the filter of partisan electioneering. Stafford, and other conservative leaders, are directly confronting political strategists on the far right, including Congressman Ryan, who are using the philosophy of Ayn Rand to supplant the teachings of the Bible with regard to our responsibility to society and our attitudes toward the elderly and the less fortunate, in order to muster public support for policies that benefit only the super-wealthy and multi-national corporations."


On her own Ayn Rand is fine. She had her philosophy. She wrote some fiction books and made allot of sales. I'm happy for her. The problem the United States is facing now is for some odd reason, the leaders of the Republican Party (and thus its news channel Fox) have decided to adopt the philosophy of a fiction writer as their party platform. That is absurd. (Here is a link to a movie about her)


Here is the kind of stuff you will find about the Republican Leaders Ideological Platoform:

The U.S. economy is crumbling. Businesses are collapsing in record numbers. Jobs have disappeared. Tax revenues are down dramatically. Coincidence?

Everything happening today under Obama resembles the storyline of Ayn Rand’s famous book, "Atlas Shrugged," one of the most popular books of all time, selling over 7 million copies. Now, under President Obama, "Atlas Shrugged" has come to life. Rand prophesized a country dominated by socialists, Marxists and statists, where looters, free loaders and poverty promoters live off the productive class. To rationalize the fleecing of innovative business owners and job creators, the looter class demonized the wealthy, just as Obama and his socialist cabal are doing in real life today.

The central plot of "Atlas Shrugged" is that in response to being demonized, over-taxed, over-regulated, and punished for success, America’s business owners were disappearing — dropping off the grid, and refusing to work 16-hour days to support those unwilling to put in the same blood, sweat and tears. They were going on strike. Because of that the original proposed title of “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.”

They were going on strike to teach that civilization cannot survive when people are slaves to government. That without a productive class of innovative business owners willing to risk their own money and work 16-hour days, weekends and holidays, there are no jobs and no taxes to pay for government. If you punish the wealthy, the risk-takers, the innovators, you kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. In Obama’s America, fiction is becoming fact.


Just a few problems withe the above ideological position...

One of the biggest problems in the economy is the housing market, which collapsed after some of Bush's policies on the matter were implemented...




Yet another problem created by Bush...

From Warren Buffet:

Billionaire Warren Buffett said that the Bush tax cuts should be allowed to expire for the richest Americans and that the “trickle down” economic theory hasn’t worked.

“The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on,” Buffett said in the clip from ABC News’ “

Warren Buffet isn't the only rich guy who is fine with being taxed...

More proof that the right vs. left debate is an ideological one.

It is very obvious from the following video that the anchor of Fox News Sunday genuinely believes what he is saying, i.e. he is obviously not lying (an assertion by some 'liberals' on the 'left' about Fox News in general). Also, notice that Jon Stewart respects the fellow and the debate is very civil... and even though they disagree there is an affection between the two.



I have outlined in this post on politics, that the economic debate over the US economy is an ideological one. You can see clearly that the anchor of Fox News believes that the media's ... er, lets say 'war, is an ideological one of liberals vs. conservatives, while on the other hand, Stewart believes that though there is a liberal bias in the other media (besides Fox) their focus is sensationalism and laziness (which he proves).

Another observation. the Fox News anchor didn't like South Park (a rather 'in your face' adult cartoon). That is understandable, many people can't handle that show especially amongst the older generations on both sides of the political divide. This is a normal conservative view irrespective of party all over the world. Also, Jon Stewart is from New York which is a very 'in your face' kinda city compared to the cities and towns of the south (the Republican base).