Hannity Stops Interview After A Brutal Ass Kicking By Keith Ellison

[Grassy Knoll]

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. This show is designed for people with the IQ of 2nd graders

Ask a guy a question, then, when he answers, cut him off and say he's 'ranting,' then act aghast that he's angry with you.

[freshwest]

16. Goebbels Central. Give the impression the one they cut off is weak and their ideas foolish.

[IrishAyes]

53. Also

... don't forget to accuse them of being Angry. Apparently that's some kind of mortal sin in the face of fascist efforts to make everything all better. The charge, false or true, looks especially bad on women because God only knows what we'll do next! Maybe that's the reason some people call blacks angry, too. Underhanded rightwing scare tactics.

Well, I for one still have the backbone to get angry and I don't care who knows it. But I admit it's ever so much finer when you can shred a belligerent opponent with a sweet innocent smile.

To be thrown off Hannity's show is quite an honor.

[Plucketeer]

31. Aw C'mon!

Don't slander 2nd graders like that!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I'm proud to say Ellison is my rep. He rocks.

[Warpy]

13. He does, he's wonderful. Lucky you!

Hannity is a muzzy-headed halfwit on his best day. I'm delighted Ellison went out there and called him on it. Unfortunately, no typical Hannity fans would understand what he was saying, it went right over their heads.

I applaud him for the effort, though. Very plucky of him to try.

[MNBrewer]

23. Agreed! he's an awesome Rep.

[valerief]

36. +1000

[Tx4obama]

3. Below is a link to the FULL segment 6:29 minute video segment

Here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-congressman-gets-thrown-off-after-calling-hannity-a-liar-immoral-you-say-things-that-arent-true/

Ellison starts out at the :40 second mark calling Hannity: 'The worst excuse for a journalist that I've ever seen...'

LOL

[Grassy Knoll]

5. The whole video was a classic ass kicking....

could only find parts as per DU rules only from youtube.

[Jamaal510]

4. Hannity said he's a "registered conservative".

I didn't know there was a political party in the U.S. called the "Conservative Party". I know that there is the Republican Party, the Constitution Party, and the Libertarian Party (which are all pretty conservative in ideology). But I never heard of a "Conservative" Party. And Bill O'Reilly does the same thing by calling himself an "Independent". They both shill for the GOP and bash Democrats every day, so why are they so ashamed of calling themselves Republicans?

Also it's interesting that Ellison got conveniently cut off when he mentioned the debt that was created prior to Obama taking office. It's as if the GOP wants people to forget that we had a president from 2000 to 2008.

[SunSeeker]

6. Cracks me up. Hannity is embarrassed to admit he's a Republican.

As usual, he just makes stuff up, including this "Conservative Party."

[NYC Liberal]

12. There is actually...here in NY State. They are on the ballot here right under the Dems and GOP.

Not that they're any different from the Repugs...in fact they often just endorse the GOP candidate, or the GOP candidate runs in both parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State
http://cpnys.org/

[DFW]

17. I even met New York's last Senator from that party

Bill Buckley's brother, Jim. Had the same smarmy accent, too, although he wasn't the smug superior type his brother was. I had just spent a year in Franco's Spain, and when Agnew (as Nixon's VP) made it a point to visit Franco on July 18th (the anniversary of the 1936 Fascist uprising that put Franco in power three incredibly bloody years later), I asked him if he found the timing of the visit just a little inappropriate, seeing as how Franco had backed Hitler and Mussolini in World War II. True to form, Buckley didn't find anything wrong with the date at all, although I later wondered if he even knew what the date meant to the people of Spain.

[Jamaal510]

26. Didn't know that. Thx for the insight.

[freshwest]

55. It's who they have always been.

[Madmiddle]

25. It's because

republitards know we didn't have a president from 200 to 2008. Not by official defintion anyway. "W" didn't win either election he was in and they know it. It goes unsaid.

[Permanut]

7. Hannity is the schoolyard bully..

thanks, Rep Ellison, for calling him out as a liar. Only way to deal with bullies.

[Skittles]

8. it's amusing to see Keith doing to Hannity what Hannity does to everyone

[Zoeisright]

9. Hannity has all the class of a snail.

The brains of a walnut, and the morals of Satan. Plus he's a fucking whiny little pissypants coward.

[Jumpin Jack Fletch]

22. Is it really necessary to insult snails and walnuts?

As for your third comparison, well, I'll let Dick Cheney speak for himself!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

29. Snails are intricately more classy and walnuts would be offended by your insult! eom

[Lobo27]

10. Oh, you know they're going to smear him...

Crazy black guy... Crazy muslim... I see it already...

[Scootaloo]

11. Already been done. Didn't seem to phase his electorate

Maybe we need some more "crazy black guys," a few more "crazy Muslims." Who knows, it looks like it's cathartic

[MindMover]

14. Hannity is just another bully who doesn;t like to be put down ...

[pacalo]

15. Once Keith Ellison was able to finally begin naming his sensible cost-cutting ideas,

Hannity jumps in to eat up the remaining time with more ad hominem attitude.

Bob Woodward lost his credibility during the boy king's reign of horrors.

[homegirl]

27. Sean & Joe

Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough-two of a kind. Always cuttiing off when their guests are speaking. Someone should clock them with a stop watch, count of how many seconds before they interupt and how often. I am waiting for a guest to rip off the mike and clock one of them. They deserve it for rudeness, never mind their constant bullying, same goes for Bill O'Reilly.

[pacalo]

40. Democrats shouldn't waste their time going on those shows.

[BigD_95]

18. On this clip I actually think Hannity is right

should have shown the whole clip. Im sure the congressman was over talking him because of something that happen earlier but from this point of clip the congressman looked disrespectful. I know Hannity is a piece of shit and Im not defending him. But let him ask the question.



And can I ask why does no one one say part of that 6 trillion is paying for the 2 wars that Bush started. No one ever says that

[trumad]

19. OK---what was he right about?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

30. Bullshit! If you had watched what happened before this clip you wouldn't be saying

what you're saying. Unless you have other motives besides supporting our president and believe in respect for the office of president.

Oh, and BTW, the entire clip is available in one of the other threads on this exchange. So it's not like you don't have access to it.

[BigD_95]

47. Hello?????

Thats what I said. Im sure something happen before the clip but where the clip starts it makes it look like the congresses man is just over talking the host. I know Hannity is scum of the earth. Im not sticking up for him.

[mtasselin]

20. Jerk

How does anyone with half a brain watch this jerk, again another assholes that gets paid millions of dollars to divide our country.

[dorksied]

21. Being combative weakens the argument.

Making the case in a calm fashion, and dismantling the talking points in a controlled and calm manner will win you more debates than being on the attack. Let Hannity ask his question, then dismantle it with facts, calmly. I was not impressed with the congressmans argument.

[Martin Eden]

28. Agreed

If it's possible to change the mind of a Faux News viewer or to even make them think, that wasn't the way to do it.

[PotatoChip]

34. I couldn't hear much of it, with Hannity constantly interrupting.

Also, I don't know if it's just me, but it seems as if the congressman's mike was not as loud as Hannity's.

I guess I'll just have to listen again, but from what I saw, it looked and sounded as if Hannity was the one being combative.

[stonecutter357]

24. K&R

I love it when republicans play victim

[angry citizen]

32. Fox News

I think Fox News is a terrorist organization plotting to destroy the President and his supporters

[Joey Liberal]

33. Thank you Rep. Ellison

That was fun to watch. Hannity is such a jerk.

[benld74]

35. IF his audience deserves better, Hannity would quit!

[me b zola]

37. It slays me that these same conservative butt-wipes who scream about the deficit

...have never had a problem with bush* engaging in an illegal war on the American people's credit card. The war costs were never added to the budget until President Obama took office and began to clean up the books.

Love Congressman Ellison, but Hannity is a shill to more than the republican party. Hannity shills for the corporate fascists over-lords that have bought our government.

[LiberalLovinLug]

38. I think every Democrat guest should adopt this tactic

Don't be afraid of the bullies at Fox News. Don't play by the traditional polite rules of news interviews. Why? Because they don't....ever. I like how Hannity (and he's not the only one on that farce of a network) always pre-couches a question with a lie, then "..and thats a fact" before quickly asking his main question. I applaud that Ellison refused to let him get away with that.

If those hacks at Fox want to cut off and bully their guests, then the guests should do the same. What would happen is that viewers would get turned off because you wouldn't hear either one. Of course that would only work for the 5% of Democratic guests they have on.

[mostlyconfused]

39. A couple of idiots incapable of having a conversation

That's all I can take from watching that clip. No reason to be impressed with either one of them in that exchange. If either one of them has aspirations of making an effective, principled argument for their position such that they might persuade others, they didn't show it. Kabuki theater anyway...and today they are both getting a lot of attention for it. Mission accomplished I guess.

[drm604]

43. You really believe that the two were equivalent?

Seriously? You can't see what's going on in that video?

Ellison was trying to discuss facts and Hannity either called it ranting, laughed at him, talked over him, or asked misleading questions.

[mostlyconfused]

44. In that video, yes.

If either one of them was trying to persuade others toward their point of view, they were equivalent in their failure. I could see people on each end of the spectrum cheering for "their guy" in that argument. I cannot see anyone looking for facts or reasoned analysis being impressed in the slightest by either one of them. They both came off as clowns.

[drm604]

45. Sure they were equivalent in their failure to persuade each other,

but that's a rather strange criteria to judge this by. If a holocaust survivor and a holocaust denier failed to convince each other would you categorize them as equivalent?

Ellison was trying to state facts and Hannity was trying to obscure facts. That's not equivalence. Your username is apt.

[mostlyconfused]

46. We're talking about cuts that aren't really cuts

Spending will still go up, just by less than it would have without the sequester. Comparing it to a debate between a holocaust survivor and a holocaust denier...that's not equivalence. But I don't think you meant to suggest this is a debate about as weighty a topic as the holocaust.

That said, if the survivor and denier engaged in a conversation that was simply a bunch of insults and interruptions, I'm not going to be interested in listening to either of them.

I doubt that Hannity and Ellison could ever convince each other of anything. I'm just saying that the type of "discussion" they had is also unlikely to convince anyone but those who are already big fans of one of those guys. If a viewer came to watch that conversation with an open mind, looking for well reasoned arguments on both sides of the issues, I suspect they'd be equally disappointed with both Hannity and Ellison.

[IrishAyes]

54. GOP Interview Questions

.... always remind me of Groucho Marx, whose favorite question was "Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or no?"

[tonybgood]

41. Why would anyone go on his show or any Fox News show in the first place?

[drm604]

42. Everything Ellison tried to say, Hannity either laughed at or called "ranting".

This isn't dialog. It's nothing but belittling and talking over your opponent because you can since it's your show.

Why would anyone want to watch this? There's little or no informational content. Hannity actively tries to prevent anything resembling information from getting out.

We need some sort of strategy for dealing with the childish "debate" tactics used by people like Hannity.

Part of me feels like Democrats shouldn't even bother to go on these shows, but that doesn't seem like a good answer. We need a way to get on and actually present some real information to people.

Then again, with Faux's ratings going down, maybe it would be best just to ignore them.

[Coyotl]

48. Boycott Fox Noise means don't agree to talk to them, FCS!!

If every Dem refused to talk to them, they would be irrelevant overnight!

[libdude]

49. Need more straight talk

Those groups opposed to the extreme right wing Republicans and their supporters should take a lesson from Rep. Ellison and his rebuke of Hannity. No name calling just a pure statement of fact. This is what upsets people of Hannitys position, plainly state what they are, if Fox and crew are not fair and balance, say so. Contradict their false objectivity, but of course you may not be invited to be on Morning Joe.

[El Shaman]

50. Odd:

the press infringing on someone’s freedom of speech!!
Guess that’s the way, old big boy, Roger wants it.

[savebigbird]

51. Rude! n/t

[Thinkingabout]

52. Shame Insanity is going to investigate Keith Ellison, bet this will make Ellison shake in his drawer

Please proceed Shame, it will be more of your lies which will be disproven on MSNBC. Shame has always overtalked his guest ic they don't say what he wants hear, what a goofball.