Pic of the Moment: Sean Hannity: Hypocritical Partisan Hack

[Skinner]

Sean Hannity On NSA Surveillance, Then And Now (by Media Matters)

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[Berlum]

1. Typical chickenhawk RepubliHack

Hannity = No integrity. No honor. No truth. Degenerate Republican chickenhawk hypocrite 'values' all the way. As usual.

[timdog44]

18. And not a lick of

patriotism in any of his bloodcells. He is all about $$$$$$

[OilemFirchen]

2. Can't find it now...

but I think Greenwald said something about slavishly partisan media Republicans who are being hypocritical about this.

Can someone help an old guy out and point me to a link?

[Flashmann]

3. Sean Hannity

Asshat extrordinaire...

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Shovel face looks foolish, as usual

He just can't help himself.

[onehandle]

5. PPPPPPrick. nt

[think]

6. Jekyll & Hyde

[Just Saying]

7. Good thing for him

He can count on the Faux News crowd to have no short or long term memory.

[grahamhgreen]

8. At least he got it right the second time. The rest of us got it right both times.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Some of us got it right...

both times, lots of us are defending this crap now. It was wrong under Bush, and it is still wrong.

[carolinayellowdog]

10. And some of us are mirror images of Hannity

OK now, but not under Bush

[reusrename]

32. If only it were so.

More like two sides of the same coin.

[a2liberal]

36. Exactly (n/t)

[City Lights]

49. Yup. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Same with all those GOP Senators and Reps that voted for it

[titanicdave]

12. Hannity Thinks

that an idea under a rethug president is great, but under a democratic president, it is tantamount to treason......so once again, Hannity proves the idiocy and hypocrisy of the twits that broadcast on fixed noise.....

[frylock]

13. lotsa hypocritical partisan hackery going on around here too..

hope you were shooting for irony on this one.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. MM also puts their clips on YouTube to share...

[reflection]

25. Devastating.

Too bad his audience could look at it and somehow rationalize it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. I love it when a few give it a shot on YouTube...

Everyone piles on.

[Initech]

15. And that is exactly what's pissing me off about this whole thing.

Under Bush: "We're protecting your safety."

Under Obama: "It's big brother fascism! It is going to destroy the country!"

Where were these morons 10 years ago?

[chuckstevens]

16. He's just saying what they write for him!

Does anyone REALLY think Sean Hannity has the intellectual capacity to have an informed opinion? This guy is a ZERO and wouldn't even understand why anyone would think he's a hypocrite. The only one stupider than Hannity are his viewers.

[cpwm17]

42. Sean Hannity has to be about the stupidest person on TV

I've thought that for a long time.

[AsahinaKimi]

17. Sean Hannity has learned the fine art of

Talking from both sides of his mouth. Of coure he favors the side where he can taste the butter on the bread.

[lupulin]

19. I'm mostly shocked

to find out he's been on tv all this time and is still on. The few times I've heard him he seemed like a random phrase generator.

[Poll_Blind]

20. +1

Thank you for continuing to produce original content for the site!

Good stuff!

PB

[Daemonaquila]

21. Unfortunately, he's right in 2013.

That doesn't keep him from being a hack and a hypocrite, though.

[SlimJimmy]

22. This is my *shocked* face ...

[alp227]

23. K&R - yay! my thread again! n/t

[RevStPatrick]

24. Fuck you, Sean Hannity.

I don't often use language like that, but Hannity brings out the worst in me.
I truly hate that toad.

I don't hate very often either, but like I said, Hannity brings out the worst in me.
There's just something about this smarmy little fuck-wad, that just... well... brings out the worst in me.

And that's the agenda.
That's why he's on TV.
Not to inform, but to obfuscate.
To turn normally reasonable, rational people into haters.
Mission accomplished!

God, I hate that little fuck-face douche-nozzle.

[TRoN33]

29. Haha

That is hilarious!!!!

[Ganja Ninja]

26. Fake outrage over a problem they should have been outrage over 6 or 7 years ago.

That's why I'm having such a problem getting worked up over all of this. While I welcome the idea of regaining some semblance of privacy I can't help but be disgusted buy the blatant disingenuous attempt at partisan framing of this by the right. I'm under no illusion that their new found angst is sincere.

[TRoN33]

28. Too predictable "correspondent" I've ever seen.

I already expected Hannity to talk like that very momentarily after the revelation of PRISM and NSA programs. Even I never really like watch Hannity's show but his reputation sure are too predictable for well thinking people.

[panzerfaust]

30. As far as hypocrites: Many on the DU who attacked Bush's unconstitutional programs are now defending

Obama's even more deeply intrusive, more widespread, and even less constitutional surveillance police state.

It is not about Bush or Obama, Republican or Democrat - it is about those who support a constitutional government and those who support some form of totalitarianism.

The Guardian (who else?) has an interesting article by the Chinese artist and thinker Ai Weiwei discussing the destructive power that curtailment of individual privacy by an out-of-control government has on those who live in such a society.

NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China

Both governments think they are doing what is best for the state and people. But, as I know, such abuse of power can ruin lives
...

In the Soviet Union before, in China today, and even in the US, officials always think what they do is necessary, and firmly believe they do what is best for the state and the people. But the lesson that people should learn from history is the need to limit state power.

More ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/nsa-surveillance-us-behaving-like-china

Orwell wrote that "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." It is disheartening to me to see so many people anxious to place that boot on their own faces. Perhaps Mussolini was right - see my sig line.



How sad that even the Neo NAZI's can see the danger (note link to Obama image) in a surveillance state when many progressives seem blind to the power they wish to give the state over all people. To quote again from Nineteen Eighty-Four: "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."

Is this really the future that you want?

Please recall the words and heed the warning of President Woodrow Wilson: "The history of freedom is a history of limiting governmental power." Our last two presidents have done more to undermine American constitutional freedoms than any two presidents in history.

[progressoid]

33. But it's different now because we changed the law and made it legal.

See??

[panzerfaust]

34. Durn. Never thunk 'o that. But I did find Obama's statment from 2006 I was looking for

when he, as Senator Obama, voted against confirming Hayden as CIA director in protest of the Bush administration's illegal and unconstitutional abrogation of the right of Americans to be free of unwarranted intrusion into their lives by NSA's illegal (and quite limited by this administration's standards) information gathering.

"I have no doubt that General Hayden will be confirmed. But I am going to reluctantly vote against him to send a signal to this administration that even in these circumstances, even in these trying times, President Bush is not above the law. No President is above the law. I am voting against Mr. Hayden in the hope that he will be more humble before the great weight of responsibility that he has not only to protect our lives but to protect our democracy.

Americans fought a Revolution in part over the right to be free from unreasonable searches–to ensure that our Government could not come knocking in the middle of the night for no reason. We need to find a way forward to make sure we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy and liberty of innocent Americans. We have to find a way to give the President the power he needs to protect us, while making sure he does not abuse that power. It is possible to do that. We have done it before. We could do it again."

Senator Obama

Given the relative positions of power and responsibility of Obama and Hannity, I must say that, of the two hypocrites, Obama is the bigger, and certainly the more dangerous.

Time, Mr President, to get to working on that great IngSoc invention: The memory hole. Or, perhaps better, time to try and recall that you were once a principled man, and to re-embrace those principles which protect a free society.

[sdrake]

38. agree

been lurking at the du since the bush admin. started posting because you've adopted the ideology i oppose.

bush was evil incarnate and anyone who supports his beliefs deserves the same fate.

[adieu]

31. Difference between a democrat and a republican

Democrats (for the most part) didn't like it when Bush surveilled people, and don't like it now when Obama is doing the same thing.

Republicans: they're all right when it's a Republican doing it, but not all right when it's a Democrat doing it.

[a2liberal]

43. I wish that were true.

Unfortunately, a lot of Democrats (here!) feel that it's alright when Obama does it but not when Bush did it. Just look at all the threads making fun of those against the spying that make it to the front page. Also, some Republicans are consistent and are going after Snowden for the leak for "endangering national security" just like they would've under Bush.

[demwing]

35. its not fun to hate on Hannity

The guy has just too much of a sphincter to face ratio. Even the mention of his name would make Ghandi want to punch the Buddha.

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. A perfect example. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

39. forgive me, but the guy looks like a butt head.

He looks like he has two dark, shellacked buttocks on top of his head.

Then I got to thinking, and you know what that head reminds me of?

[Thinkingabout]

40. At one time this information was gathered without oversight and without warrants.

Yes it was made legal in 2006 and Obama continued the program. It is supposed to be done with the oversight of the FISA court and other agencies. Shame barks to any tune they tell him to do, FAUX puppet.

[indepat]

41. Hannity's odiousness cannot be covered up

[Nanjing to Seoul]

44. Goofus and Doofus. No Gallant here! Just Goofus and Doofus

[Rosa Luxemburg]

45. He should be fired!

[Mnemosyne]

46. So nothing has changed. He's still a hypocritical POS. nt

[tanyev]

47. Dueling blockheads.

[markiv]

50. Sean Hannity is a partisan hack? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

tell me it isnt sooooo!


you gotta at least give him credit for truth in labeling, you know what you are listeneing to

[DainBramaged]

51. Sean Hannity simply sucks ellephant balls.......

all the way to the bank......