Was this senate memo planted by Dems in an effort to bring down Hannity?

[jenk]

I remember a while ago there was a report about how "Hannity was next" this after Limbaugh entered rehab

So we have a couple of repugs digging through garbage or hacking computers, looking through the Dems stuff. Somebody sees this and sends out this memo as a joke. Repug finds goldmine memo, since Rush isn't here Hannity is the next best thing.

Hannity gets the memo, goes apeshit. Then he has major egg on his face when it's discovered that the memo was just a joke sent out by a staffer trying to out the republicans who are trying to dig up dirt...

[xultar]

1. If so...SMART MOVE MY BRUVAS SMART MOVE!

Hannutty...how was it you found some one who looked like Chuckie that you could say was a liberal who really isn't. That is a one in a gazillion find. For that u just deserve to be fired and not jailed for leaking something from a senators office.

Oh, and you aren't a journalist. At the most you are a mutant spawn in service to the adminstration at the expense of fair and balanced news coverage.

[ChompySnack]

2. It was a joke?

Can you provide a link to where that was stated? I've been out of the loop for a couple of days.

[bearfartinthewoods]

16. since Rockefeller has responded in the way he has it seems obvious

that your theory holds no water. hannity is revelling in this. he's just dying to get his street creds via this affair.

[armadafalls]

3. Hannity is great

I really think that we are misunderstanding Hannity. He is brilliant. I think that Hannity and Ann Coulter are actually doing a brilliant bit of satire. They are imitating comic book versions of the sterotypical conservative right wing nut ball. They can't be taken seriously. They are doing a Saturday Night Live type satirical run up of Right Wing thought beliefs....
Unfortunately thats not true. Unfortunately they really do believe the nonsense they spew out. Worse yet the general public hears it so often they start to believe the lies. We need a bigger voice. IE America and the DU are great...for us, but are we reaching the masses? We all need to reach out and talk to our moderate friends relatives and co-workers about the important issues. We can't let FOX news shape the issue. We need a bigger voice. I love this BLOG but we are all preaching to the choir here. Lets share our message with John Q Public. It may be the only exposure they have to the truth.

[Hippo_Tron]

12. The problem is...

There really is no stereotypical liberal, wingnuts are much easier to make fun of.

[StClone]

4. Stratagem to Counter Plame affair.

This little nothing was turned into a major ant hill as a diversion from and as revenge for the Plame treason.

Notice that this piece of hype spilled from Bill Frist's lips and Sham Handjobbies microphone. Notice they even call it treason!

These halfwits are pretty scared about being pegged as REALLY treasonous.

[salinen]

5. no voice

we have no fucking voice. and now I know that free speech and a free press are the power behind a democracy, because they are gone. this is a dead republic. the experiment of freedom for all citizens is over. this is the beginning of what will become a horrible period. no consequences for this admin whatever is perped. no way in hell are they relinqueshing power to socialist. why not corrupt the voting process. campaign financed by enrontypes is corrupting the voting process. government became a clearing house for corporations. voices of dissent are whispers soon to be a memory. it is almost that awful future of science fiction facism where the earth won't be enough to satisfy the dark side (star wars)!

[Old and In the Way]

6. Cheer up!

When the pendulum swings (and it will), there will be a backlash by the citizens the likes we have never experienced in our lifetime.

Think of it this way. DUer's are about 1 years ahead of the curve....as more and more become exposed to the criminal, anti-democratic actions that this administration is undertaking, there will be a seachange in the political landscape. And we will extract our vengence in the appropriatic democratic fashion....

The harder they come, the harder they fall........

[salinen]

7. dear old

interesting you should mention the pendulum. what guarantee is there that this neofascism isn't in it's initial stage? we have lost almost everything. to my amazement, people in this country haven't lost their democracy, they willfully gave it up. I wish I had the optimism you have. what have we lost: free speech, free press, free elections, freedom to assemble, protection from corporate greed, environmental safeguards.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I guess we haven't suffered enough yet.

I think the shit is being held in a saturated solution. One day, when one more criminal act is exposed, all the shit is going to dump out all at once.

Eventually, the 60% who don't vote are going to realize that their lack of participating in their civic obligation has delivered them the government they deservve....I'm hoping that the majority of these apolitical people will wake up and realize that they really don't like the Republican Criminal Party destroying the country...I can only hope, I guess.

[DrBB]

9. I don't see the big deal

So Dems are trying to figure out the optimum moment at which, as the minority party, they may have the leverage to compel an investigation into the politicization of intel leading up to IraqNam/

So????

I mean, obviously the Replicants aren't going to do it. And it is something EMINENTLY DESERVING OF INVESTIGATION. So how else is the minority party going to bring about this outcome? Does anyone who isn't already a hard-right android doubt that we are in a situation that doesn't match what the *admin claimed would be the case in the lead up to the war? Of course not. Well, how did we get here? And do investigations, however worthy, ever occur in Congress simply on the merits, with no political leverage being applied? Earth to planet Hannity: Congress is a political body. Ever notice that?

The only mistake here is to accept the premise that this is something to be embarrassed about. If our side has half a brain, they will go on the offensive: they are the ones who politicized the intel and are stonewalling any investigation; we are simply trying to make a genuine investigation happen.

[tlb]

10. Rockefeller has in effect admitted it's genuine

This is similar to the California democratic legislators who several months ago had a secret meeting to discuss a plan to aggrevate the state budget crisis and make political capital from the situation. Unfortunatley for them they had their meeting in a room with live microphones broadcasting into the crowded press room.

It's not Hannity with egg on his face here. ANYTHING the democrat side of the Intelligence Committee does now that has political repercussions will now be disregarded as part of an ongoing partisan attack on Bush. They screwed up as badly as one may do.

Hannity personally and the republicans generally come out smelling like a rose.

[grasswire]

15. tlb hmmmmm

Would that be the infamous "TLB" who was thrown out of freerepublic.com and then welcomed back recently?

[Cat Atomic]

11. Unrelated piece of trivia on Hannity: Super Secret Hand Signals! :P

I heard a guy on the radio this evening who'd been interviewed on Hannity and Colmes via satellite. He said that Hannity has a little hand signal he does that's a cue to cut the speaker off.

Anyway, this guy who was being interviewed is a moderate Democrat, and he said that, as he was calmly explaining his position on some issue, his connection was cut off. Though Hannity said they'd "lost the signal" and would "try to get him back", the interviewee claimed that the studio men walked in immediately when the connection was cut and said the time was up because the Fox hadn't paid for the Satellite connection and he'd have to leave.

ANYWAY, according to this guy, when Hannity rubs underneath his right eye, the guest is silenced.

No big shock, but might be fun for any of you masochistic Hannity watchers to look for. I can't stomach him for more than 10 minutes, myself.

[elperromagico]

14. You can watch Hannity for ten minutes?

If I watched him for ten minutes, there would be a massive crater where my house once stood from my head exploding.

[funkyflathead]

13. I hope so!

Hannity is pompus smarmy no good.....I won't finish.

I don't see how he even has ONE LISTENER.

What a jerk.