Hannity gets mad at his Yazidi guest for thanking Obama

[Enrique]

http://www.mediaite.com/online/hannity-argues-with-yezidi-who-thanked-obama-for-quick-decision-on-iraq/

Thanking U.S. President Barack Obama for deciding to send “humanitarian aid” to the Yezidi people is apparently something you should avoid as a guest on Sean Hannity‘s radio show.

Yezidi Human Rights Organization chairman Mirza Ismael called into the show Monday afternoon and spent several minutes explaining the horrors faced by minorities as ISIS forces push further into Iraq and reportedly kill many Christians and Kurdish groups. Towards the end of his call, however, Ismael thanked the president for deciding to send U.S. military aid to his hometown, prompting some swift pushback from Hannity.

“Yazidi only get two choices: Whether to convert or whether to die,” Ismael initially told Hannity. “[ISIS forces] want to convert the whole world to Islam,” he continued. “We are facing a total genocide.”

The spokesman indicated that some of his family is still missing in the region, and he alleged that ISIS troops have beheaded people as a warning to others who resist conversion to Islam.

After explaining his story, Ismael pivoted to the American response and said: “I would like to thank Mr. Obama for his quick decision and action.”

“What do you mean his quick decision?” Hannity interrupted.

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here is Cenk's take, fun for everybody

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Good for this man!

I did a little reading up on the Yazidi people - cool belief system. No wonder ISIS won't leave them alone - they seem to have common sense and an open heart towards other people and their beliefs.

[Little Star]

2. Hannity, wrong again as usual.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The vast majority of compassionate Americans thank the President. A humanitarian mission is

going to be good news politically for Obama, this frightens the right wing media reich greatly.

No way to distort genuine compassion. No way to paint Obama as anything other than a compassionate man, a hidden truth that will damn them all if it gets out.

[Enrique]

4. "America is coming to help"

he said that when he announced the mission. I'm a cynical guy but that line got my patriotism going a little.

I noticed the day after he made that statement the RW was in a tizzy, no doubt because of that line by Obama.

I also noticed that the pundit class failed to highlight that line. Normally they will dwell on stirring rhetoric by presidents but as far as I know there was no commentary about it. A lot of news stories on the other hand put it in the headline.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Thanks for getting it. America is coming....to help. That arouses patriotism of the good kind also,

does it not?

Obama may be on to something that we are on to also,and the right wing is on to....only the corporate media is stunned to silence with the prospect of a massive human help mission.

And the Yazadi are perfect foils, neither Muslim or Christian...religious idiots can not scream favouritism.

Sorry, I am a cynic also.