Keith Ellison vs Sean Hannity: Islamophobia And Racial And Ethnic Animosity

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Run time: 15:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgF0t48O8Y   Posted on YouTube: April 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: MoxNewsDotCom Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: April 22, 2011 By DU Member: democracy1st Views on DU: 1132

 
Last night, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) appeared on Fox News’s The Sean Hannity Show. While Ellison was prepared to debate a variety of issues from current affairs, Hannity used the opportunity to confront the congressman about comments he had previously made accusing the network of inciting racial and ethnic animosity and Islamophobia. Ellison at first tried to say that he didn’t want to get into an argument about Fox News, but eventually said that the station tries to always associate terrorism with Muslims, failing to appease Hannity, who said it was “offensive” to say Fox incites religious or ethnic animosity:

HANNITY: Well, you actually called out Fox News. You said in a BBC interview, you said that I think that if you listen to Fox News, the station 24/7 is trying to incite and divide Americans along religious lines, scapegoating the Muslim community, and this is a sort of a well-worn, right-wing tactic. Can you give me a specific example?

ELLISON: Well you know Sean, I tell ya, you know you do this show, you know what you guys broadcast all the time, I mean, I stand by the statement. <...>

HANNITY: This is an incredible charge, this is a charge of bigotry! <...> I’m offended by what you say, and if that’s an accusation of religious intolerance, we’re scapegoating the Muslim community, nothing is further from the truth, and I’d like one example. <...>

ELLISON: I’ll give you one example. One example is that after the King hearings, the hearings that Peter King did, you referred to, you talk about, every time you talk about terrorists and radicalization, you always attached the word Muslim to it, or Islamic.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/21/hannity-fox-news-islamophobia/





http://ellison.house.gov/

More bs from Fox!

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Fucking Hannity

Piece of shit. How can anyone watch that turd?

I just wanna smack that smirk right off his fucking face.

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Wow , Pork chop comb ...........

went absolutely nowhere , and Ellison smacked fox noise like the crappy
news source they have become for quite some time.

[HankyDubs]

3. you see the strategy here right?

bring Ellison on, ostensibly to talk about a variety of issues, and then make the entire interview about the fact that he is a muslim american. He's not a person with ideas on the budget that might be discussed, just a muslim guy. The Fox audience gets the message from Hannity: LOOK HE'S A MUUUZLUM! OMG he's defending scary Louis Farakhan! Remember foxbots----> Ellison = muuuuuuuzlum. Whatever he might say, you WILL think muuuuuuuuuzlum. Hannity commands you.

[underpants]

4. Kick for later

clearly and unfair fight. Hannity is a joke.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. hannity

is an right wing ass.